Norwich bulletin., 1911-04-01
LOWE SENT TO JAIL
AT BROOKLYN FOR FRAUD.
Turns Out to Be Providence Baptist
Minister With Checksred Career a.
Forger and Wife Qesertsr.

Gilbert I. Lowe was arraigned in
police court Friday morning before
Judge William A. Arnold on the charge
Of attempt to obtain money upon false
pretenses. which in this state Is termed
fraud. Lowe entered a plea of guilty
and was sentenced to 80 days in
Brooklyn Jail with COSTS which will
comprise a sentence of some 45 or As
days unless the costs are paid. Lieut..
Daniel I<illourey escorted the prisoner
to Brooklyn via trolley.
Just before he was taken over to
Brooklyn new chapter in his life was
opened, when Capt. e. H. Richmond
resolved a telephone message asking
about Lowe. A Boston newspaper rep
resentative told the captain that Loves
description published in the morning
papers and his name tailed with those
of a former Baptist minister In Proyi-
dence, r. l., and other New England
cities. Lowe was interviewed in the
cell room and admitted that he had
been Baptist minister in Providence
about five years ago. When asked If
he had not absconded with church
funds and jumped out with a woman
other than his wife, he replied NO, ]
resigned Just after. he was taken
over the road a letter arrived at police
headquarters addressed to Lowe from
Haverhifl, Mass, where his parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry r. Lowe, reside at
36 Judson street. 1t is thought that
his wife and children are also in that
city. Captain Richmond also had tele-
phone inquiries from the Hav erhill
Gazette and some of the New Haven
papers.
A Boston paper published Friday
evening what was supposed to be
Loves photograph, although the fellow
was smooth shaver while in this city
together with the following account of
his conviction in the local court and
some OF the incidents of his past life:
Minister Sent to Jail.
Rev. Gilbert I. Lowe, for many years
well known New England clergyman,
today pleaded guilty in the police court
at Willimantie, CT, of passing bogus
check, and was sent to Jail for thirty
days.
This is the latest chapter in one of
the most amazing careers ever record
ed in New England. The man was
pastor of churches in Maine and New
Hampshire and was for three years the
head of a big church in Providence.
There he deserted his wife and three
children, as he told her, because he
loved another woman. He was expelled
from the church for his desertion of
his wife and for swindling the church
out of money given to pay the church
bills. He disappeared.
Other Charges Pending.
Within the past few months checks
signed by him have begun to come into
the Chaplin National bank of Spring
field. They came from Concord, N. H,
Chicopee, Haverhill and other New
England cities. 1t was for cashing one
of these checks for the sum of 80 cents
that Lowe today pleaded guilty and
was sent to Jail. Other charges will
be awaiting him when he is released,
based on the other checks.
The postoffice inspectors office in
Boston today began an investigation
of the case.
Charges that he has also cashed
Chicopee. Concord, n. H., and other
New England cities have been made to
the poStOffice authorities.
In court today Lowe admitted that
he is the minister who was expelled
from the ministry after deserving his
wife and three daughters when pastor
of the Park street Free Baptist church
in Providence.
Bogus Check for 80 Cents.
loves trouble in Providence was in
1906. and he went to Baltimore A
year ago he reappeared in New Eng
land and was the manager in Spring
field of a land company. The checks
signed by Lowe received by the Chaplin
National bank at Springfield were all
for small sums, from 80 cents to SIS.
Lowe had no account at the bank
When the check for 30 cents was aues-
toned at Willimantic yesterday Lowe
was held till the bank could be called
on the phone. He was then arrested.
1t is expected that when he has served
out his Jail sentence in Connecticut
charges based on other checks will be
brought against him.
Lowe was born in Machias, Me, As