CASINO TRAGEDY
DEAD MAN’S WINNINGS. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright). (Received this day at 9. a.m.) PARIS, March 7. Ail extraordinary tragedy at the gaming tables at Riviera is shortly coming up in the law courts. An elegantly dressed man entered the casino and put a thousand franc counter on a certain number, which won. The gambler did not withdraw his winnings, hut remained with his head buried in his hands, motionless. Play continued and the same number won several times successively, tlie coupler each time adding the gambler’s winnings till niey readied £4OOO. As lie was still motionless, a woman touched the man in order to wake him and found to her horror that she was addressing in corpse, due to heart failure following a heavy meal. Gaining was stopped, and the body removed. The widow is now claiming the winnings and ithe Casino is disputing tin l claim, arguing that ii the deceased had played while he lived, it is doubtful whether he would have left the repeated winnings on tlie same table.
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Hokitika Guardian, 7 March 1929, Page 6
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175CASINO TRAGEDY Hokitika Guardian, 7 March 1929, Page 6
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