IN PEAR OF HER LIFE

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 12751, 6 January 1936, Page 3

IN PEAR OF HER LIFE

nn.ETAT: MIPS BETRAYER

JIAS GONE RACK TO ROT'MANIA

LONDON. Nov. 30

In a small village in the heart ol the Carpathian Mountain-;, Anna R.-t----gen. a young Roumanian woman, known to the world a- tin* “woman iti red.” who betrayed her lover, Joint Dillinger, once America's public enemy No. 1, is living in consiant fear of death. To a correspondent of the Paris “Soil ” who di-covered her refuge, she appeared to he a nervous wreck.

"Now 1 am. trying to forget,” Mie declared. "But wherever 1 go 1 fee] that I am being followed and betray (•<!. I have receive!; countless menaces from Dillingor's obi friends. You must not think Diliingev was always bad. When I firs-, met him he was as straight as a. die. and a perleci gentleman. Wo were about- to he married, hut Dillinger gdl into trouble with the police. He was accused of theft, and although entirely innocent sentenced tc prison. This was the beginning ol all-his t rouble. From that day Dillinger became the worst enemy oi' the police* and waged a war of hatred against them." When asked why -he betrayed Dillinger. since she ptofessed to love him. Anna Sagen is reported to have replied: “It is he who betrayed me. When he last- left prison he had a small fortune with which he was negotiating for a- small farm so that he could retire and live tin honest life. But he did not want- me there. .He loved another woman.”

“1 longed for revenge.” site continued. “At last my chance came. It was arranged that I should meet Dtllitiger in a cinema. I put on my red frock as I knew he liked it best, and he fell for it, I have no remorse. After his death I received a reward of

£SOOO. For weeks I tried to get work, hut as soon ns I mentioned my

name II was told there were no vacancies. 1 received daily throats of death through the post, am] telephone, and finally I decided to take refuge in Roumania, my mother country. Buteven now Tam not salt. They will got mo in the end.”