DEATH OF MADAME HANAU
■FRENCH FINANCE WRITER
NOTORIOUS GAZETTE
ATTEMPT TO SUICIDE (I’lnc. Tol. Copyright —United Press Assn.) (Received July 20. 1.15 p.m.) PARIS, July 19. I'oilov. in-_r attempted suicide, .Madame Hawaii, uiio was involved in the iniimii.it:; Gazette du Prance scandal in iy2u. ruining thousands, died ill the infirniurv ui (lie F resiles gaol. She was aged 50. After serving successive terms of imprisonment she had occupied a carpeted ami hook-lined cell like a lawyer's otlice in a State prison, whence a lady’s maid. hUuTiii'.' two warders, assisted her to escape through a window by means of knotted blankets. Later she gave herself up. ■ - i The governor dismissed the warderfc and placed Madame Llanau in Mat|. llari's former cell.
Though hunger strikes and a motor accident impaired her health she founded two financial papers while on had Her last sentence, which was for three years, was imposed in 1934. Her divorced husband and ex-partner. M. Minch, died last year.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18763, 20 July 1935, Page 6
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