Margaret Lily Hill (1898 – 1949) was an English career criminal, linked to organised shoplifting.
[1] During the interwar years she received notoriety as one of the leaders of an all female gang of criminals known as the Forty Elephants who specialised in shoplifting.
Hill was a close friend of Eddie Guerin, famous for being the lover of Chicago May.
According to Brian McDonald, Maggie Hill married career criminal Alfred Hughes in 1915, and they were sometimes convicted together.
[citation needed] Her last known prison sentence was in 1939 when she received three years for attacking two women with broken bottles, causing one of them to lose an eye.