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CHARLES C. LOWTHER Detroit...
...George VI and Elizabeth II, charged that in 1955, while he was recovering in an iron lung from an attack of polio, his dark-haired wife had had an affair with their children's tutor, a young man (23), fresh down from Cambridge, named Gerald Anthony ("Tonykins") Lowther. For 17 days the court listened to excerpts from letters describing "nights of passion and ecstasy," heard two butlers, a secretary, a nanny and a governess tell of warm embraces on the Blue Landing of the great staircase of Ingestre Hall and meetings in the White Room and the Bird Room...
...years, there were a few Londoners who had a right to feel uneasy. Davidson had been sent up for a murder he did not commit, and two witnesses who might have established his innocence had remained inexplicably silent. So the police kept an eye on Philip Davidson. Commander Lowther, detective in charge, had a special interest in the case. His wife had once been Davidson's mistress, and one of the two witnesses who failed...
...criminal, had taken his last lumps on a shabby barge moored in the Thames. Davidson, a riverman's son and an innocent bystander, happened to be there because his girl Fay lived on the boat. Fay was a big, handsome girl, and when the trial was over, Policeman Lowther courted and married her. Lowther is a decent man, rather long on conscience. He wants to protect his wife, who has never told him what really happened, but he also knows that Davidson has been wronged. The real kick for the reader comes not from the smooth, credible unraveling...
Divorced. By Eileen Herrick Lowther, 26, 1940 "Juliet" of the tabloids: George Lowther III, 36, publicity-minded "Romeo," who brought along a reporter and two cameramen on their elopement; after six years of marriage, no children; in Los Angeles...