Los Angeles herald., 1906-05-24
PUBLISHER LOWE
SEEKS BONDSMEN
JAIL LIFE NOT TO THE PASA-
DENAN'S LIKING
Stockholders with Literary Axes to
Grind Threaten More Trouble.
Accused Says Aequlttsl
Is Certain


company, Theodore Lowe, posing as
a. dapper little light Of the Crown
City's social world. was yesterday ar
raigned before Justice Young in the
township court and in default of $1,000
bail was sent to the county Jail.
Lowe appeared i'm Pasadena about
the first Of the year and started a
publication known as the Raven. The
Raven was to be published for the
express purpose of showing forth the
literary lights of Pasadena and any
woman who thought she was an author
was eligible to enter the partnership.
From that time on Lowe had easy
sailing and the applications for mem
bership came thick and fast. Lowe
was beseiged on all sides by women
who wanted to show how they could
WELD the pencil
The plan was, according to charges,
to allow each member of the concern
to write articles and sign her name to
them and each was required to buy a
block of stock in the concern.
Grudaes Breed Discord
The membership grew and the ar
ticles began to hurry in. Whenever a
member of the board of, directors had
a grudge against some society woman
of Pasadena, according to the allega-
tions of Lowe. she wanted to get even
by writing little editorial saying
things" about her enemy
Some of the literary articles handed
in, ,-,according to Lowe, were not the
right thing for publication and then
the balloon exploded and all the MEM
bers of the board of directors had GER
tain policies under which the sheet
must be managed.
The final windup of the affair oc-
CURED days ago when Mrs. Anna F.
Martin, who had bought stock in the
concern, appeared before Deputy Dis
trict Attorney Mccartney and swore
out q warrant for loves arrest, al
leging that he had taken the funds of
the publishing concern and used them
for personal adornment and hotel bills
at the Maryland.
From Hotel to Jail
AS many reports from the north
wherein Lowe was alleged to have ex
perimented along the same lines were
presented by the complaining witness
Mccartney was not slow in issuing the
complaint and warrant of arrest, and
from q nice bed at the Maryland Lowe
was led by deputy constable to
bed of boards at the county Jail.
| The hospitable food at cents per
| meal offered by Sheriff White did not
appeal to loves taste and yesterday,
following his arrangement, he began
| to make hurried calls for bondsmen.
| The complaining witnesses state
that they will probably file other
charges against Lowe.
| Lowe says nothing criminal can be
proven against him and has retained
counsel who has assured him that he
will be readily acquitted.
Career in San Jose
Lowe had a career in San Jose.
He opened a small Office on Santa
| Clara street and advertised for a busi-
ness manager and editorial assistants.
He opened accounts at the Garden City
bank and Bank of San Jose.
| For a time Lowe lived at the st.
| James hotel and always dressed fash
! ionabIy.
| Several young women who worked for
him as stenographers left without re-
| ceiving their pay. they claimed, and
| the irate father of one girl threatened
| to thrash the debonair editor if he did
| not pay his daughter. Lowe was sued
by several of his creditors and the
printers who got out his first edition
of the Raven tried to tie up his busi-
ness, it is alleged.
| lnrOuBn MS advertisements LONe
secured several literary people who
wished light and congenial employment.
Most of them invested several hundred
dollars in the stock of the company,
they said, but claimed that they never
received any dividends or got their
money back.
The name of the corporation was the
California Monthly Publishing COM
pany.
Santa Clara Exploitation
Lowe made certain promises to the
San Jose merchants, it was said, and
tried to interest the chamber of COM
merce in his scheme for exploiting the
Santa Clara valley. But owing to his
alleged failure to live up to certain
agreements he fell into disfaVor.
Lowe finally came south and in
terested the Pasadena merchants in
his magazine. Lowe claimed to have
been newspaper man in South Africa
and wrote several magazine articles
about life among the Beers.
A convincing llker and apparently
much in earnest in his schemes, Theo
Lowe has worked hard for years to put
his magazine. on a paying basis. and so
far as is known never made any money
for himself. Although always living at
the best hotels and dressing well, Lowe
has not reaped any profit by his liter
ary ventures, and often told the dis
| satisfied stockholders that he stood to
lose ali his money as well as theirs.
Some friends still cling to him and
assert that the man Is simply a victim
of the game of business chance.
Isaac Binghams Loyalty
An incident to illustrate the quality
of the man came to light yesterday. A
middle-aged prune rancher. Isaac Bing-
ham, living near San Jose was in
fluenced by Lowe in such way that
the farmer invested nearly $1,000 in the
magazine and more than once paid
bills in order to keep the Raven from
utter plueking.
Absolutely lacking in literary sense
himself, Bingham evinced an intense
interest in the fate of the Raven and
was fairy godfather on more than one
odoasioh
Once when the Raven was about to
utter its last croak, Mr.. Bingham sold
several loads of hay and gave Lowe
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