RIVIERA SENSATION
SOCIETY LADY STEALS WIFE OF LAWN TENNIS CHAM. PION CONVICTED. HIDfNG GAMBLING DEBTS. By Telegraph—Press Assn.— Copyrigh* Australian and KX Cable Assocnataon LONDON, April 0. Mrs Gordon Lowe, wife of Gordon Lowe, the champion tennis player, war fined five hundred francs on a charge of thefts from members’ clothing hanging in the tennis pavilion at Monte Carlo. (Received April 6, 5.5 p.m.) PARIS, April 5. Mrs Lowe was also sentenced to a veer’s imprisonment, but was given the benefit of the First OffendersAct. The case is the sensation of the year on the Riviera, as the Lowes moved in the most exclusive circles a* Chimes. There had been complaints for a considerable time that money was disappearing from tennis clubs at (Mimes. Disguised detectives kept constant watch, and finally caught the woman taking £2OO in cotes which the detectives had left about. The woman confessed that she had taken money to hide her gambling losses from her husband. She was taken to prison at Grasse, twelve milea from Cannes, and two nays later tbs revelation of her name caused universal stupefaction.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLVII, Issue 10868, 7 April 1921, Page 5
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183RIVIERA SENSATION New Zealand Times, Volume XLVII, Issue 10868, 7 April 1921, Page 5
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