Another Monte Carlo Tragedy.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 246, 14 March 1888, Page 7

Another Monte Carlo Tragedy.

A couuKsroNDKNT write? : —Another shocking 1 suicide took place at Monto Carlo, and was made public, lfc is necessary fco add those words, us the majority of such sad occurrences are hushod up by the authorities of the Casino. The victim in this case was a young, handsome, and, until sho became a frequenter oil ho gambling tables, a respectable woman. Sho came to Monto Carlo borne years ago. Sho was tempted to try her luck at the roulette tables. She lost, nnd sho won. The dreadful passion lor gambling was developed quickly in her. bho ficquontcd the tables daily. She played heavier nnd heavier stakes, and at the same time pl.ivcd more excitedly and rashly. J-JL-r gold diminished rapidly. Like almost every woman who frequents the Casino and the tables, she began to lead a life ot vice. What she earned in one way she lost in anotlu-r, and so she went on for many a day. On Tuesday last bhe went to the Casino as usual, but without her glitteiing jewels. She had them in her pocket. Sho was then seen in earnest eonvei>o with one of tnoso hangers-on of the place, "stuwgleis," they aie called, who make their Ihing in the gambling-room themselves, by aduuicing to the ])laycis who aie l% cleared out," nioney on their jewellery, watches and other valuables. For a few thousand francs this unhappy woman gave up her jewels. At once she took a piaco at the roulette table. By nightfall she was a beggar. Sho was seen to enter her hotel about midnight. She vent «^raighfc to her bcdioom. What she did there was known the next day. About nine in the morning tho ehambcimaid took hot water to her door. She knocked, but no 1 espouse came, so she &ct it down outside and went away. A little later the porter came with letteis. He, too, got no an&wcr to his knock. At once suspicion ■wars moused. Those in the hotels at Monte Carlo are not unused to awful Uagedieß. The door was burst upon. A light form was seen hanging from the pole to which the window currainsj weie attached. It was tho body of the wretched young woman. It was stiff and cold, showing that she had been dead some boms, but the awful explosion and contoitions of tho face told that A\q had suffered ten iblc agonies, whilst slowly dying by sti.mgulation. The coid she used was cuL from the window-blind, and sho had carefully soaped it to cause it to run more easily before adjusting it around her neck. Immediately on the discovery of tho tragedy the authorities of the Casino weie sent for. That iact itself shows who accepts the responsibility for ouch awful deeds. It was the fruit of their doings, and they ac knowJedged it, for at once they came, cut down the body, cleaned up the hotel room, m ranged things for the proprietor, bore off the body, buried it in tho beautiful garden of the Casino, where so many suicides from all lands and of all languages He— a garden that is, as no other spot in the wide world is, "Aceldama," " the liold of blood." In tin's bloody principality there are > no coroners' inquests, no judicial investigations, no communiaation with the friends or relatives of the deceased, no public indignation at such tragedies — the whole piincipality, irom prince to scavenger, lives by them. They suck the life's blood of their victims, they consign their bodies to unlettered graves, and who they were or what they were they cover up in mystery and oblivion.