SUICIDE OF A PRINCELY GAMBLER

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1408, 16 November 1886, Page 3

SUICIDE OF A PRINCELY GAMBLER

Pri- oa Meliss.v" o, a member of orm of the b-A.-t No ifioluau fumilioa, comm'ttad suicide ia Paris on returning from i" Club, where he had seen Iv’s nsma post d as a defaulter. Prince Meliesano had tost at tin same C>ub mere f’ftu £2O 000 within two or th-eo years, auu h>ui often applied for thus for payment '<n a date promised. His cr (liters on this as on previous <icc-sicna had placed the debt cn carte c.s it ia called, that is to say, had di.poritnd in har.ds of the proper officer a card mating th. t he Pri c« wsa t ■ pay £CO The time having without the amount, being paid the (ftl ial published the fact. When the Pi ince ente . d the club he noticed Ids name stuck up against a ni’rrnr. lie went close to ‘he glass, coked at it, and. then without spying a word took up his h it and went home. There he plarcd a h aled revolver against his right tam pie, disohargud it, and fo'l dea*-. Mno than six yearn azo (ho Prince had spent hi: last f;o thing, ;• et sino then he h-cl lived in Paris like a mm worth £ls OT) or £2O COO a year without doing anything rei daring hlmv If am inablo to" the tribunes. He m»do vhe business of into debt a science, and most of his cxdrcra allowed their claims to it etease in order not to have to confess (hat the nvwioy was sunk, and that so charmi: g a nobieman was hopelessly insolvent. To such a length did he onry ‘he art that ho cicstoj fresh resources Impartially paying < ft a fraction of the army of old creditors at the expense of new ones. The Prince was only a little over forty years of age.