Scandal at Monte Carlo.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 211, 16 July 1887, Page 2 (Supplement)

Scandal at Monte Carlo.

A j'autv of adventurers leeently Gained, admission to the rooms at Monte Carlo, non] (position being offered to tlicir entrance i>y the inspectors, although these officials <r > fiequ.'ntly blamed for their incivility to Mitt Mi.-'i y pu/i'lei-.. The swindlers took up l portion at one of the Trante et Quarante tabled At a given .signal fi om accomplices theicwa . i sudden alaim and fume confusion oeui led, a pile of gold having fallen under f ii' 1 table. While people ucie stooping doMn lo pick up the money one of the lilaH. !"'.•- icpl.iecd the oilicial packet of caid- i-> ,'. p.epaied one .so dexterously and m> q.r'ckly that no one .saw the tuck perfumed. In {.'to meantime the attention of the oiiioMl, and of the punter i was further ilivutcd hum the doings of the gang by idli.w , ,\ liowoio going aiound the tables a-kiiJi, !oi information or for change for bank note-. When play recommenced, the ->wiiMUoi.', -me of their ailair. staked the maximum of 1 2.1)00 francs and lepeated the coti)> v>\eial time-, over. The 1 ank paid at ih->t, though with some astonishment, but finally suspicion* A\eie aiou.-ed and the play A\a- stopped The greatest divider then endued, and the s\\ indlei s made a-.\ ay during the (onhiMon with 300,000 hancs, the Fi ui(h equivalent otj£l2,oUo. Ihe cioupier Lo have acted an an accomplice a\ a.ai i csU'd. This is not the first time that Midi ! old de\ices ha\e been put in practice to lob the bank, as .some two year- since a pait/ot luduini exploded home bombs^ in the eiov (led looms A\ith the ho])e of getting a\s ay wit ii the S 100,000 so temptingly (liftpla.ucl upon the tables, but thiough the bia\ti\ and cool behaviour of the employe's the d.iskudly attem})t A\as foiled and the miscn auU weie In ought to ju-tice. Tiuno ill.i 1 1. Quarante w the fascinating; game a b which foi tunes aie won and lost at iMonte C-'ailo and the othei gambling hell-? oi Euio/)l\ It is a game of mere chance and it-, i ides are easily mastered. At the cent io of an oblong table that will -,eat f miii) twenty placer.-, is the bank, protected by foui cioupieis and a head in--jicctor. At the commencement of the 4ukg -,i\ packs of new cards aie counted, -hullkd l)y any of the players, then the entue pack i^ cut by one of the punters, and the deal commences in the following mannei : The coiut cards count ten each and the otTiei - aeeoiding to their respec(i\e Aaluo. The cauls aie tlr.own on the hi-t line in quick .sucee.-f-itn until the numbei :»1 i'- i cached or pa-«ed, never exceedmo .jo, and that line is for the black ;. a M'uond hn.' for the red is then thrown,, and the number nearest to 'AQ wins the s-lake. Thus with a king, ten, eight and {.In cc on the ilrst line black must win un-le-s :>1 is also thrown for the second line, a\ hen the l)f«nk takes half of the -stakes from both side.s of the table, but nothing in case of other ties. This gives a percentage of about 3 per cent in favour of the bank,, but sometimes this allowance is reduced onehalf by making it nece-sary for a black card Lo complete the 31 in the second line. The game is conducted a\ ith the greatest fairue-, and it a\us the boast of the Bi others Blanc, a\ ho founded the establishments of Hombuig and Monaco, that it w as impossible to cheat an the game, even a\ ith the connix ance of Hio croupiers, as their such ,i -hk-t sur\cill.uice of the game at every stage of the proceedings ; but those entcrpri?ino- gamblers counted without the dea ice.- ot a set of blacklegs who aie attracted fiom.iU paits of Europe to the gambling tables in tin- hope of pioHLLug by the. vices and giLed oi the playei's.