NOTORIOUS WOMAN
DEATH IN PRISON. (Received Saturdav, 11.0 a.m.) PARIS, Friday. Following an attempt at suicide, Madame Hanau, who was involved in the infamous ‘ ‘ Gazette du France ’ ’ scandal of 1930, which ruined thousands, died in the infirmary of Fresncs 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, from 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 of the gaol dismissed the warders and placed Madame Hanau in Mata Harris former cell. Though- hunger and a serious motor accident impaired her health, she founded two financial papers while on bail. The last sentence was for three years, imposed in 1934. Her divorced husband and ex-partner, Bloch, died last yean
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 20 July 1935, Page 5
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