GAMBLER FOUND DEAD AFTER LOSING £27,000

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22808, 1 December 1948, Page 10

GAMBLER FOUND DEAD AFTER LOSING £27,000

RENO (Nevada). Nov. 1. Leonard Wolff, wealthy socialite, lost £27.000 in gambling at a Reno night club. He was found dead later. Mrs. Gwyn Steinbeck, estranged wife of the novelist, John Steinbeck, will be called to give evidence at the inquest, as it is believed that she was the last person to see Wolff alive. She was with Wolff when he lost the money, but she says that she was “blacked out” during the session. Wolff was found dead about 45 minutes after he had escorted her home. The police think that he first tried to wreck his car and then shot himself. His father, a Denver investment counsellor, said that he believed it was suicide, but he could not understand what motive his son had. Schoolboy’s Feat An outstanding batting performance was given by a boy named Griffiths, from the Mangateretere School, in the primary schools’ cricket competition in Hastings on Saturday, his total reaching 180. The team was playing against Centra] B and scored 272, to which Griffiths contributed 180 by forceful batting. This total took him an hour and a half to compile, and included a six and 34 fours. Royal Tour Cara To Bo Bought The Government will buy some of the cars which were to have been used in connection with the Royal tour next year and later purchased by the Crown. This information was given in the House of Representatives by. the Acting Prime Minister, Mr. W. Nash, in answer In a question nut to him by Mr. W. J, Broadfoot (National. Waitomo). Trooping the Colour All the pomp and circumstance of the impressive ceremony of the Trooping of the Colour was re-created in a colourful spectacle presented in brilliant sunshine before a crowd estimated at between 50(10 and GOOO at the Pall merston North Showgrounds on Sunday. The occasion was sponsored by the Palmerston North Commercial Travellers’ Association as part of its appeal for charity. One hundred pupils of St. Joseph’s Maori College, Greenmeadows, participated. MajorGeneral Sir Howard Kippenberger took the salute at the march past.