Evening star., 1923-08-05
INJURED CLUbMAN
HAS MYSTERY SIDE
Associate of MiIlionaIres Is
Taken to Hospital After
Burglary Affair.

Special Dispatch to The Star
LOS ANGELES, August 4-N nat
r,.rt of a man is Frank Lowry? For
. number of years he has been known
to a large world as wealthy patron
nf sports, member of good cluoS
nd an associate of men prominent
in social and business life, with X.
cliff Durant, millionaire manutac-
turer and racer of automobiles as
lis closest friend and constant COM
ranion.
Frank Lowry is now lying in the
hospital with ii broken leg. a pris-
oner on charge of attempted
burglary. and must soon face court
with whatever defense he mas 10
offer.
There is another side to this
STORY" repeats Lowry, and rests con-
tent with that statement.
The one side that has just become
'.noWn Is a most amazing one. Nhat
the other side can be is beyond con-
lecture by his friends and is known
.'nly to Lowry, and 1t must be
stranger still as a revelation of dual
personality. Thus far the case in
dicates the first actual police record
"f the raffieS Of fiction translated
into real life.
Reputation Well Earned.
Lowry's national reputation as a
patron Of sports has been well earn
II. He was interested in all marne"
IT sports. but with strong favor for
.utomobile racing. He has been
aithful in his attendance of all
lcetS devoted to the exhibition OF
.peed and daring in it's widest
flights and of late years has fire.
uuently been chosen as an official of
I,a - a n
peared TO be a true love of sport
and no one ever thought of queS-
tioning his honor and standing as
an official and man: or the source
Of his income, accepted as a generous
one. because he always held up his
end in liberal fashion and was never
known TO ask financial favor of
any one.
What his associates, men like Du-
rant and other millionaires. accepted
without question. was. however. so
much of an enigma to his wife as II
wreck what had otherwise every
promise of a happy married life The
writer learns that Mrs Lowry OBJ
tained a divorce in Chicago September
12. 1921. principally on the grounds
that she did not know how her hus-
band obtained the money with which
he supported her in luxury in n fash
ionable home near Lake Shore drive.
No word of this strange allegation in
the divorce suit came back to Los An
"eles. where Lowry has made his
home at his clubs. 1t was not even
known that he had been divorced.
Leap Brings Disclosure.
\ few night ago George r. Gri1-
fifth. returning TO his office on the
second floor of a downtown Office
building. surprised a man before his
open safe. The intruder leaped from
the window and was found helpless
on the sidewalk Frank Lowry was
the man
His friends would not believe it.
Durant, to satisfy his own mind,
started an investigation; he alone
knows the results. But just before he
left Los Angeles as a member of the
committee to meet the late President
Harding at San Francisco he visited
Lowry and said:
Frank. you had better make a
clean breast of it all"
There is another side to the story,
replied Lowry.
Durant says he will spend any
amount of money necessary if science
can aid his friend.
Lowry's brother. a prominent pub
Usher of Portland, is here to aid him
and like Durant believes the accused
man to be the victim of dual per-
sonality.