SCANDAL RECALLED
WOMAN’S DEATH IN PRISON.
GAZETTE DU FRANC CASE.
(United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright.) Paris, July 19.
Following an attempt to commit suicide, Madame Hanau, who was involved in the infamous Gazette du Franc scandal in 1930, ruining thousands, died in the infirmary of Fresnes Gaol, aged 50, after serving successive terms of imprisonment. She had occupied a carpeted and book-lined cell, like a lawyer’s office, in the State prison, , b whence a lady’s maid, bluffing two warders, assisted her to escape through a 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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Southland Times, Issue 25342, 22 July 1935, Page 7
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