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DEATH IN GAOL HOSPITAL MADAME HANAU’S ADVENTURES. EXTRAORDINARY STORY. ‘ THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE RUINED. (Received 11.30 a.m.) PARIS, July 19. Following on attempted suicide, Madame Hanau, who was involved in the “Gazette du Franc” scandal in 1930, which ruined thousands of people, died in the infirmary of Fresnes Gaol. She was 50 years of age. After serving successive terms of imprisonment, she had occupied a carpeted, book-lined cell like a lawyer's office in Sante Prison, from which a: lady’s maid, by duping two warders, assisted her to escape by a window by means of knotted blankets. Later she gave herself up. The governor dismissed the warders, and placed Madame Hanau in the cell once occupied by Mata Hari, who was executed as a spy. Though hunger strikes and a motor accident impaired her health, Madame Hanau founded two financial newspapers while on bail. Her last sentence was one of three years, imposed in 1934. Her divorced husband and ex-part-ner, M. Bloch, died last year.
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Northern Advocate, 20 July 1935, Page 9
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