A FASHIONABLE GAMBLER.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 146, 21 June 1881, Page 1

A FASHIONABLE GAMBLER.

[London> Truth."] Goaot Jaraczewaki, wbo died bo saddenly recebtly, was a curious ipßtaood 6t a foreigner, reepectißg whose family as little wae known as that of Melchise* dek, becoming one of the elect of Loodon fushiooable society*. I knew him well DQBny .years I: befora he qeme to EDglfiD.d. He wao the bou^ of » Mon| sieur Jarczevyski, polish geotlemao^ who had long resided in Paris, where! he died. Hid mother, 'on the' death of her huobaDd, had taken up her, abode! in Milan, but whether she is etill alive I do; not know. Jaraozeweki, when I firftt knew him, used to pass his time »t German watering-placee, a here he lost whatever money he had inheriied fromi Lia (alher, for be was exceedingly foud of play. Then he\ went to Nice] Wishing to see England, be came over! here on, a visit, with an elderly JPole as! a companion, and being introduced to, one or two clubs, be won £20,000 at whist and ecarte. The companion returned from whence he canoe, and since then, wilh short intervals, Jaraczewski , reiuiedvin England until hia; death. He w ,B a most intrepid gambler, and; fljemed equally cool under good and bad, fortune. Sometimes he won; largely, uod sometimes he loet largely ; in tbe latter case he used sometimes to inform' his friends that he most pay u visit, to his mother in her Polish; cbateau, and obtain Irom ber : a supply! 0 money. . Wi»h the exceptionof the; Lbrmleßß myth of the cbateau, aud an| I equally hafmlesß my tli as \ to ! bis re|a-! I lionsbip with the Couateea Kieselief, he never alluded to his family. Howl and- where be obtained money. Was hisi ; own secret and' It died with. him. My I own impression always: wae <: . that ini I iealiiy^hse: winning* were always^largeri th(«n ! his losses, and that 1 ;, thus the! form^/! provided for the, l^uVr.V Bej ' tUat V^B it may r he waa a mopt fairi player^ and^ unlike a Considerable num-, ber.ot English gentlemen addicted' to I the sime pursuit; whether he Ibtftj money, pn the turf or at larde, be| always paid it. i