Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-17
EMBEzzLER IS SUICIDE
Fortune Squandered by Paris
Agent of LIoyds.
BAD LUCK AT GAMBLING
Wife's Money and Stepdaughter's
Dowry Gone in Crash.
POPULATION WAS CONFESSED
Then Offender Took Course Usually
Adopted by Dishonored
Germans
POPULATION WAS CONFESSED

BERLIN. November 17.-H is now
known definitely that Bothas Pawlowsky.
general agent in Paris of the North Ger
man Lloyd line of steamships, whose
death was announced to have taken place
i'm Bremen the night Of November 2, COM
mitted suicide
He was hopelessly entangled financially
and shot himself in his apartments at the
Hillman Hotel, Bremen.
Herr Pawlowsky, well known to thou
sands OF American tourists who booked
over the Lloyd via Cherbourg, not only
flched from the treasury of the lines
Paris office sums aggregating many thou
sands of dollars. but squandered the for
tune Of wealthy American divorce
whom he had married few months pre-
viously.
lnveterate gambling and relentless bad
luck caused PawlOwsky to sink deeper
and deeper into the mire of financial dis
tress
He played high stakes at the swageer
Paris Automobile Club. Place Concorde.
hoping his luck would change The cards
were sullen. however. and the harder he
played the more he lost. When his wife's
money was gone he continued to gamble
with prCmissOry notes.
Checks Out for 100000.
Members of the Automobile Club are
understood to hold his checks for total
Of upward Of 10000. Exactly how much
he stole from Lloyds and his family has
not been stated.
Lloyds' losses are said to be fully cover
ed by an insurance bonding company.
Mrs. Pawlowsky. however, is said to be
financially ruined.
The suicide had the title of general
agent of the Lloyds. but had no authority
to bind the company by his signature
Any debts he contracted in the lines
name are, therefore. worthless.
Many acceptances however are under
stood TO be afloat in Paris signed by him
in the company's name and negotiated
under the belief that he had a power of
attorney.
1t is said that Pawlowsky was several
times caught embeZzling heavy sums in
the Paris Office. but the losses were al
ways made good by certain high officials
Of the line. There are rumors here that
one of these officials may resign on &C.
count of the scandal
Last July Pawlowskys stepdaughter
Gladys Parry of Philadelphia, married.
! The mother demanded Pawlowsky should
turn over at least the amount of the
daughters dowry.
He was worse than bankrupt and could
uOt COHply. LUCK al the AutOmQDlie
Club still ran against him. and gambling
creditors were pressing payment Of over
due obligations.
Confesses to Superiors.
Meantime. the Lloyd management in
Bremen had discovered a deficit in the &C.
counts of the Paris office. Confronted
with this desperate combination of cir
cumstances, Pawlowsky late in October
went to Bremen and made full confess
sion to his superiors.
Realizing exposure and Imprisonment
to be his certain fate, Pawlowsky decided
to end matters in accordance with the way
Germans resort to when on the brink of
ruin. and put bullet through his BRAIN
Pawlowsky who was of Polish extrac-
ton and an intelligent and courteous Off
cjal, enjoyed the full confidence OF the
line and the popularity of the interna-
tional travelling public.