MONTE CARLO SENSATION
CAPTURE OF MRS. GORDON LOWE.
(Rec. April G, 5.5 p.m.) London, April 5.
Mrs. Gordon Lowe, wife of Gordon Lowe, the tennis champion, was fined five hundred francs on a charge of thefts from members’ clothing hanging in the tennis pavilion at Monte Carlo. She was also sentenced to a year’s imprisonment, but was given the benefit of the First Offenders Act. The case is the sensation of the year on the Riviera, as the Lowes moved in the most exclusive circles at Cannes. There have been complaints for a considerable time that money was disappearing from the tennis clubs at Cannes. Disguised detectives kept a constant watch, and finally caught the woman taking .£2OO in notes which the detectives left about. The woman confessed she had taken the money to hide her gambling losses from her husband. She was taken to prison at Grasse, twelve miles from Cannes, and two days later the revelation of her name caused universal stupMaotion.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn, j
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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 164, 7 April 1921, Page 5
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167MONTE CARLO SENSATION Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 164, 7 April 1921, Page 5
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