DEATH AT CARLO. Sixteen Men Driven to Suicide by Their Losses.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 378, 19 June 1889, Page 6

D EA TH AT CARLO. Sixteen Men Driven to Suicide by Their Losses.

Fij-then duels and sixteen suicides thus far this year is the record of Monte Carlo, according to a Genoa newspaper. The duels, : judging by the ordinary duels on the , other - side otthe water, were /possibly* bloodless,, bub siA'teon suicides means sixteen 1 human"' lives sacrificed at the grand gambling beli r of Europe, aud that in less than three months. The suicides were men — and. , women, too, perhaps, for the record which comes to us briefly makes no classification ' —who had' staked and lost; ati the gambling taoles of this world-famous resort, and while they were expiating their folly with their lives, the game went merrily on, and other victims were treading the path which the .suicides had followed" to then graves. , It is not -very long ago, that the stock-, : holders in the great gambling establish- . mcnts were complaining because their dividends had shrunk. Decent people feel like rejoicing: at this, but the three months' hatvest which death has gathered in Monte Carlo would seem to indicate that the tide has a^ain turned and that the coin of the players is flowing freely into the coffers of the bank. The suicide record of the first quarter of the year no doubt has its compeiieations for the directors of the great palace of gambling. Monaco, the little principality in which this den of vice ie maintained, is practically under the control of France, though nominally under the rule of an independent; prince or Governor-General, as he is officially known. The Baron de Farincourt is the Governor-General and the population of < the principality was figured last year at 13,304, of which Monte Carlo, where the famous Casino is placed, contained 3,794. It has an area of but six square miles, and although the inhabitants speak Italian and the traditions of *he principality are all Italian, it is surrouhded on all sides, except to the south, by the French Department of Alpes-Mairbimes and is virtually under the control of tbe French Government. The local government of the Baron de Farincourt is supported principally by the revenue received from the gamblingtables of Monte Carlo, and withoWtbis blood money the principality would naturally fall into the hands of France, where itbelongs.