LOWENSTEIN TRAGEDY

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 6 July 1928, Page 9

LOWENSTEIN TRAGEDY

SENSATION IN ENGLAND \ HIS FINANCIAL OPERATIONS. SINISTER RUMOURS. (United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph Copyright.) (Australian Press Association.) Received 1.50 p.m. to-day. LONDON, July 5. Lowenstein’s death caused a sensation. It was stated that exceptional force was needed to open the fatal door. Deceased’s valet, Baxter, sax’s that he found the door had been opened, and the catch was hangingdown. The doiqr was only held against the sides by the rush, of wind. The plane was 4.000 feet in the air. Lowenstein was in the habit of opening the door and gazing at the sea when crossing the Channel. Belgian authorities expressed the belief that, the evidence points to suicide rather than to an accident. A high financial authority stated that Lowenstein had lately been embarrassed, and had' been refused credit for 200.000,000 francs in England. This loft him un-, able to cover important obligations in Brussels. It was also stated that he failed to float a 25,000,000 dollar loan in America, and it was further rumoured that he had lost £5.000,000 on the Brussels Bourse.

OTHER POSSIBILITIES

A MOST ABSENT-MINDED' MAN. Received 12.20 p.m. to-day. BARIS, July 5. The police at Calais, after an investigation into the Lowenstein tragedy, draws attention to other possibilities than an accident. The London Financial Association declared that Lo wen-stein merely had ordinary worries. He was the’ most absent-minded man in the world, and when planning schemes never looked What lie was doing or where he was going.