MADAME HANAU DEAD
, FRENCHWOMAN'S STRANGE CAREER Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright PARIS, July 19. (Received July 20, at noon.) Following attempted suicide, Madame Hanau, who was involved in the famous Gazette du Franc scandal of 1930, ruining thousands, died in the infirmary of Fresnes gaol, aged 50, after serving successive terms of imprisonment. She had occupied a carpeted, book-lined cell like a lawyer’s office in the State prison, whence a lady’s maid, bluffing two warders, assisted her to escape through the window by means of knotted blankets. Later she gave herself up. The Governor dismissed the warders and placed Madame Hanau in Mata Hari’s former cell.
Though hunger strikes and a motor accident impaired _ her health, she founded two financial papers while on bail. Her last sentence was three years, imposed in 1934. Her divorced husband and ex-partner, Bloch, died last year.
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Evening Star, Issue 22086, 20 July 1935, Page 15
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