THE MAN WHO BROKE
TP BANK AT MQNTE CARLO DIES ,LN POVERTY By Telegraph—Press A ssn - -Copy right (Aust. and N.Z. Gable). (Received .Jan fi, 10 a 4 .in.) London, Jan. 5. Known throughout the world as "•the -man who broke the bn.nk at Minita - Carlo,’-’ the one t.ime -millionaire, .Captain' D. E, Gourcey Bower, died in penury at Hampstead. .Latterly lie occupied a single room in an apartment house. Captain.' .Bower amassed a. fortune of C 1.500,000 from .Chilean nitrate mines and other South American ventures, lie returned to London, where he-lavishly- tiped barmaids and waiters with £ LOO notes. He soon spent bis fortune in addition to his wife’s legacy of .£1.000.01)0 received from the Hungarian sportsman, Prince Batthyaui.
With his last £27,000 Bower wentto Monte Carlo, in 1911, -prepared to stake the lot. He broke the bank three times in one day, > winning £243,000. This, however, he quickly dissipated. - '
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Feilding Star, Volume 4, Issue 675, 6 January 1926, Page 5
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