EASY MONEY, EASY SPEND.
MONTE CARLO BANK BREAKER DIES IN PENURY. £lOO TIPS TO BARMAIDS. LONDON, Jan. 5. —A man who broke the bank at Monte Carlo and was at one time a millionaire, Captain de Courcey Bower died in penury at Hampstead. Bower amassed a fortune of £1,500,000 in Chilean nitrate and other South American ventures, and returned to London. Lavishly tipping barmaids and waiters with £IOO notes, he soon spent his fortune, and in addition his wife’s legacy of a million from the Hungarian sportsman, Prince Batthyani. With his last £27,000 .Bower went to Monte Carlo in 1911 prepared to stake the lot. He broke the bank three times in one day, winning £24,000, which was quickly dissipated. 1 —(Reuter.)
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Wairarapa Age, 7 January 1926, Page 4
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