RESULTS OF GAMBLING.
Here are a few recent catastrophes from Monte Carlo: An Englishman allows a train to run over his neck; a Russian blows his brains out j a young Bavarian fires two bullets into his chest; a Pole shot himself in the stomach in the middle of. the gaming saloon at Monte Carlo, and a welldressed stranger sho|. himself in-the Hotel des Embereurs 'at Nice j a merchant poisoned himself a the Hotel de •la Gare at Cannes; an,- Austrian of ' distinguished family, at Vienna, blew out his brains in a shed in the Reu Segurane, Nice; a lawyer threw him- - self from the top of the Rauba Capen into the sea at Nice; a German shot himself in the ear; a Hollander took laudanum, and another Dutch nobleman put an end to his life with his pigeon-match gun, in the garden ofhis villa at Monaco; a widow, aged '55, poisoned herself with laudanum at the Hotel des Deux Monde, Nice-she had sold her last jewel to endeavor to goW back her losses at Monaco; a.GermanV shot himself in the chest on a scat, a few steps from the Casino, and an Englishman hung himself on a fig tree, on the St Pons road; a.gentleman shot himself before the Caf6 de Paris, close to the Casino, and a young' Russian shot himself close to the Casino,— N.Y.Hour. ...
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1598, 1 February 1884, Page 2
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229RESULTS OF GAMBLING. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1598, 1 February 1884, Page 2
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