The weekly echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1868-1876, 1869-07-22
Man Fails Deaa "a q Keno
Roma.

night, an unknown man fell dead
in gambling house at No. 66 sc,
Charles street. AS usual on Sat
urday night, the house was crowd.
ed 10 sufocation. The young and
the old, the rich and the poor, bad
gathered in to spend the eafnings
Of the week. The light Of many
q brilliant gas Jet flashed over a
crowd Of men, earnest and eager
IN the passionate excitement Of
the game. Suddenly d tall, dark
looking man from one of the cen-
tire tables rose from his seat, and
walking d few steps lnsteadily,
fell back upon the floor, One CON
vulsiye shudder passed through
body and limbs, and the man was
dead died from heart disease or
the excitement Of gambling. For
Ia single moment a stiffness like
death fell upon the crowd, and
then some one said he only faint
ed, and the game went on. But
life was extinct 20 2a1IUoy aa| |.
He's dead" some one cried,
and then men rose hastily from
their seats and left the room
The game was stopped, and a lit
tie circle gathered around the dead
man on the floor. The face had
grown waxen the death look had
settled darby around him. IL was |
. foreign looking face4an Italian |
Or Spaniard and in life had been !
handsome, but now it's rigid Inca
nents wore a scared expression, |
IS if the heart had Struggled vainly
% but hive to get out Of that bad |,
)lace. '''' 1''i"I'" 2'L.hE49 99I9h |.
Suddenly, all unprepared, the |
nan was hurried into the presence
# his Maker, dead, With the game
ter's passion fierce in his heart,
nth all his evil thoughts, and |.
-uilt about him. The lights were
irned low in the darkened room, II
nd the Cor6ner's Jury gathered
round the namel6ss dead. 0 lBe-
w, in the halls, the fattles of dice, 4
he noise and strife Of gambling e
roke sadly on the ear IdW{hat Q =
ontrast.,' None seemed to- heed e
he spectacle above them, OF take !
'arning, Of the awful judglnentspi =
1ddenty pronopnced. The games II
ent on, and the low voices Of the IL
ny and thewitnesses, were scarce q
: heard in the qproar beneath. t
len could not pause in that eagerl .
rife of hazard. What. If, d dead I
an lay above 20 They were ha- b
riding the earnings that should a
, devoted to d family's neeessi- p
bread maybe, of their y
lildren. What need they care. "
be Insanity Of gaining ran riot 81
their VEINS. The pale wife's r.
arsthe children's WaiI-Lwere bt
rider far to meet, and yet meet to
en- they must, for they had put WI
Dir all upon the hazard Of the ey
%. al 80 13js&au3 Fgal Ind 4 H
One can reconcile IL to his feel Ed
g to see death upon the battle- Y,
ID; death by food and pesti- =
&C.; but death in a. gambling lie
use seems out of place. Who Fa
es for the dead man ? some one d ,
say. Take the fellow OUT j.
on with the game ngojo bag 2s
u last the inquest was over the Il
q man removed, and the bril-
fly lighted halls again resumed g
excitement Of the game !; and AT
entering there an hour after NJ,
dis would never suspect that ilfl
ia had so recently snatched q M
i'm from among them. nj y. IN
1yttae. 9alffl olisoiunol Iliw tbo
4 WoMAB's SERMA Dear the
Ids there are three things I ahC
much wonder at, The first tidi
bat children should be 50 fool par
"a a. hhrnvy nm htnyths and was