SUICIDE AT MONTE CARLO.
On the 27th December, another shockiug suicide took place at Monte Carlo, and was made public. It is necessary to add these last words, as the majority of such sad occurrences are hushed up by the authorites of the Casino. The victim in this case was a young, handsome, and until she became a frequenter of the gaming tables, a respectable woman. She came to Monte Carlo some years ago. She was tempted to try her luck at the roulette tables. She lost, and she won. The dreadful passion for gambling was developed quickly in her. She frequented the tables daily. She played for heavier aud heavier stakes, and at the time played more excitedly and rashly. Her gold diminished rapidly. Like almost every woman who frequents the Casino and "tables, she began to lead a life of vice. What she earned in one bad way she lost in another, and so she went on for many a day. On Tuesday last she went to the Casino as usual, but without her glittering jewels. She had them in her pocket. She was then seen in earnest converse with one of those hangers-on of the place, "stranglers" they are called, who make their living in the gambling rooms themselves advancing to the players who are "cleaned out" money on their jewellery, watches, and other valuables, for a few thousand francs this unhappy woman gave up her jewels. At once she took a place at the roulette table. By nightfall she was a beggar. She was seen to enter her hotel about midnight. She went straight to her bedroom. What she did there was known next day. About nine in the morning the chambermaid took hot water to her door. She knocked, but no response came, so she set it down outside and went away. A little later the porter came with letters. He, too,got no answer to his knock, and at once suspicion was aroused. Those in hotels at Monte Carlo are not unused to awful tragedies. The door was burst open. A light form was seen hanging from a pole to which the window was attached. It was the body of the wretched young woman. It was stiff and cold, showing that she had been dead some hours, but the awful expression and contortions of the face told that she had suffered terrible agonies whilst slowly dying by strangulation. The cord she used was cut from the window blind, and she had carefully soaped it to cause it to run more easily before adjusting it around her neck. Immediately on the discovery of the tragedy the authorities of the Casino were sent for. That fact itself whows who accepts responsibility for such awful deeds. It was the fruit of their doings and they acknowledged it, for at once they came, cut down the body, cleaned up the hotel room, arranged things for the proprietor, l;ore off the body, buried it in the beautiful garden of the Casino, where so many suicides from all lancU aud all languages lie—a garden that is, as no other spot in the wfdo world is, " Aceldama," " the field of blood" In this principality there are no coroner's inquests, no judicial investigations, no communication with the friends or relatives of the deceased, no public indignation at such tragedies—the whole principality, from 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.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXX, Issue 2450, 24 March 1888, Page 2 (Supplement)
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595SUICIDE AT MONTE CARLO. Waikato Times, Volume XXX, Issue 2450, 24 March 1888, Page 2 (Supplement)
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