St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-05-10
MONTE CARLOS VICTIMS.
The English Baronet and His Mysterious
Household.
A Lucky Ex-New Yorker--Royalty
Pelts Flowers at the People.
The Prince of Wales Enjoying Him.
SELF Adfeus to a Harem.

Paris Letter.
No less than three suicides are
reported within the last few days from
Monte Carlo to say nothing of the several
StructiOn.
The causes?
The same old ones. Roulette--rouge ct
noir-the gambling tables. What other
than madman-gambler would wish to de-
Sert this world when surrounded by such
beauty as that OF Monte Carlo?
The last victim is an English baronet
He had come TO Monte Carlo accompanied
by somewhat singular household. This
household consisted of very pretty young
English woman, nominally a servant, very
1.-the, very plump, very blue-eyed; and an
aged housekeeper, very fancy, very yellow,
very shrivelled, very grabbed. Mary Bur-
ton was the name of the young girl, Sarah
Dolly was the name of the old one.
For some days after his arrival the baro-
net occupied himself in breathing the balmy
air OF Monaco; in rambling amid the irises
and the lupins, the viOletS and. the roses
hemmlng in the winding gravel walks, and
III looking out seward at the white sails of
the little vessels dotting here and there the
broad, blue eXpanse of water.
But it was not long before he drifted into
the Casino. A couple of days later he was
spending hour after hour at the tables gamb-
ling heavily. At first he was successful, and
must have Melted quite an appreciate sum-
Then his luck turned and he made several
heavy losings. The more he lost the
quicker and heavier he played.
An extraordinary man!
Not bit of it. That's the way with
nine-tenths of the players at Monte Carlo.
They play slowly and cautiously when WIN
ming; quickly, heavily, recKlessly, when
losing. The game counts upon the circum-
stances. 1t calculates it as one of its per-
centages. 1t is known as the percentage
upon human nature.
But to return to the baronet. After sew
eral quite unlucky sessions he sat down to
the table one evening and began playing for
very heavy stakes. By the time the even
ing was well advanced he had lost the neat
little sum of 100, 900 francs. His last bet was
one Of 16, 600 francs. He placed it upon
black. The wheel spun around; the little
ivory ball whirled and whirled in the
roulette and-stopped on red.
AS the croupier's rake drew in the crisp.
the table and walked out from the Casino
into the beautiful gardens.
Half an hour later a Greek merchant
wandering through the gardens enjoying his
cigar ran full against limp and swaying
object hanging from tree. 1t was the
body of the British baronet,
He was quite dead when cut down. The
body presented CHASTITY appearance. In
his death agony he had ruptured blood
vessel in the head. ''Ventre blueI' eX-
claimed a croupier, looking down at the
inanimate and blood-stained form. HE
always had a passion for black; but now,
pardi, he seems to run as much to rouge as
noir.''
When the body was borne to the hotel
the pretty, blue-eyed. golden-haired ''ser-
vant-girl" went in for a violent fit of hys-
terIcs. A few hours later or she went in
for strong dose of laudanum. She was
found before she was quite dead, but all
efforts to save her life proved futile.
Thus the aged keeper is the only one of
the trio left alive. She is raging with ex-
element against the keepers Of the bank at
Monte Carlo. and has with difficulty been
restrained from rushing off to execute sum-
mary vengeance upon them with her own
hands.
The day after the baronet's suicide a
Hungarian gentlemen stabbed himself to
death in his room in the hotel. The man.
agement at Monte Carlo is in despair.
On account of these tragic occurrences?
Well, not exactly on account of the ira
gedies, but more by reason of the wide pub
licity which they have obtained.
At Monte Carlo the form is gone through
of demanding card. but it is a mere form,
after all. Any ones card answers the pur-
pose. No espectably-dressed persons are
refused, even though they be the most dis
reputable in Europe. Every day scores of
demi-mesdames may be seen lowering
around the tables. They flock by hundreds
every winter from the various capitals of
Europe to allure and entangle well-to-dO
young men who are always present at
Monte Carlo in large numbers.
Strange to say, one of the successful play
ers at Monte Carlo this year is the Hon.
Mrs. Spencer COWper, nee Miss Jessie Nc
Clean. daughter of Capt. MCLEAN, who
was man of fashion about New York
some forty years ago. In her early days
with remarkably fine figure.
She has good contralto voice. Pc
cuniary misfOrtuneS coming upon her. she
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romantic adventures she was lucky enough
to win the admiration of Spencer Cowper.
the stepson of Lord Palmerston. He was
possessed of ample means, and since that
lucky marriage the lady's walk in life has
been rose garlanded one.
Mrs. COwper is still beautiful woman.
with good deal of midsummer bloom still
lingering about her. Her buxom beauty
and her remarkable good luck, which, if
she played heavily. would have now made
her the winner of enormous sums, have
caused her TO be the observed of all OBJ
servers at Monte Carlo.
A precious freight has just left MAJ
settles on board the good ship Vile de st.
NaZaire. 1t was nothing less than the
harem of Mustapha Ben Ismail, the favor
lite of the ex-bey of TuniS, who has been Wis
iting Paris in company with few of his
favorite wives. There were sixteen of
them.
A few! Well, yes; relatively speaking,
they can only be regarded as few, in view
of the fact that 1 am assured on high au-
thority that the pasta has more than three
times that number at home
Nine Moorish women, occupying lower
grade in Mustapha's affections were in
cluded in the party. These latter were not
so carefully secluded from the vulgar gaze
as the higher ladies. They were in Europ-
can dress, and appeared ill at ease in con-
sequence.
Their beauty may be regarded as very Sc
ductive from an Oriental point of view, but
it was certainly not of a sort to provoke any
European into attempting to elude the vigil
lance of the stout Soudanese eunuch who
has charge of the harem and who faces his
duties with uncompromising sternness. AS
soon as the steamer weighed anchor this
faithful guardian of Mustapha's honor mar
shaded the ladies into the state-rooms re-
served for them and personally mounted
guard before the doors.
The cotilion, 1 learn, is likely to go out of
fashion in Paris. There is much complaint
that it lasts too long generally over three
hours-and that, as it usually begins at 3
o'clock in the morning, a nights amuse-
ment is turned into most laborious and
fatiguing occupation. The cotiIion is in
need of modification. In these latter DAYS
if has become q COSTLY affair and n vuluar-