A FAMOUS GAMBLER CONVERTED.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1619, 26 February 1884, Page 3

A FAMOUS GAMBLER CONVERTED.

It ia announced in the Paris press that Garcia, who enjoys the reputation of being tho moat notorious gambler of modern days, has resolved to renounce the world and all its vanities, and to ond his life amongst i hat atistoro religious brotherhood, the Trapfu'sts. Ho haa grown weary of nil the uj'S mid downß, the feverish excitement and emotions of the professed gambler's existence, and sononsty means to forswear henceforth et iioir" or "roulette," The heavy liu<m a:d eit-.-i nioua gains of tho man who Inn just been admitted as a noviuo in tho monastery of La I'rnppo .have been legendary. On a celebrated occasion ho 13 taid to have won over in ft couple of hoars at the Homburg gambling tables, and to hive, lost in the same afternoon double that amount, without his countenance betraying the slightest emotion. So admirable, indeod was his self-possession and coolness, that Duke do Morny, who was present, openly con»nilulniiMl'him on his power of self-control. The latest exploit recorded of Garcia was the breaking of a roulotie biik in Spain. What ho won one day, however, lie invariably lost tho next, and lie has ainassod no fortune during his long career as a player, ''Brotlior" Garcia, as lie is now called, is is to pass a probationary noviciate of a year to allow [lio Abbot '0 determine'wild her he can be received 113 a cloistered monk by the Trappist.'. Possibly, after experiencing the austerny of monasiic life fur twelve months, tiie invoierate "unihler may hesitate to j relinquish the pleasures and freedom of j the outer world, |