THE AIR TRAGEDY

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 5, 6 July 1928, Page 10

THE AIR TRAGEDY

LOEWENSTEIN'S DEATH EVIDENCE OP SUICIDE FINANCIAL LOSSES United Press Association—By . Electric. Tel*-. graph—Copyright Australian Press Association. (Eeceivcd 6th July, 2 p.m.) LONDON, sth July. . Captain Locwenstcin's death has caused a sensation. It is stated that exceptional force would be needed to open tho fatal door. The deceased's valet, Baxter, says that ho found the door had been opened, and the catch hanging down. The door was only held against the sides by the- rush of tho wind 4000 feet up in the air. Gaptain Locwenstein was in the habit of opening door and gazing, at the sea when crossing the Channel.' The Belgian authorities are expressing the belief that the evidence points to suicide rather than accident, a high financial authority stating that Ijoewenstein had lately been embarrassed, and had been refused credit for two hundred million francs in England. This left him unable to cover important obligations in Brussels. .Secondly, ther» was his failure to float a 25 million .-dollar loan'in America. It is further rumoured that he had lost five millioni sterling on the Brussels Bourse. ;