The Arizona sentinel., 1886-05-22
MONTE CARLO.
A Swiss Guides Description of the Suicides
 Among the Gamblers.

A Swiss Guides Description of the Suicides
 Among the Gamblers.
 "My impressions of Monte Carlo?" said Prof. Joseph Bauer yesterday. '1 have but one-it is dream. On enter ing, one is delighted, surprised, amazed, astounded and stunned Seria- tim. Flowers and music, coin and notes, despair and success, beauty, fash ion, wealth-all combine to impress the beholder, and it is some time before he can begin to study systematically his surroundings. It is only when he emerges again into the cool air that one :an appreciate his own identity.
 'Do not credit the recent denails of suicides at Monte Carlo" continued the professor. "They are inspired. Ihave visited the gambling hall there fifteen times professionally, in addition to a number of trips made for my own pleasure. was born in French Swift zerland, two hundred miles from Monte Carlo, and am familiar with its ghastly history during the past twelve years. You may take my word for it that the number of suicides caused directly by the Monte Carlo gaming tables aver ages at least one for every day in the year. The real total probably exceeds this estimate.
 Prof. Bauer is one of the youngest, handsomest and most popular guides in central Europe. He speaks English, German, French, Spanish and Italian, and every hotel-keeper and hack-driver on the route is his sworn enemy. As so much has been written and so little ac curately told concerning Monte Carlo, he was requested to describe the world's most famous gambling hall.
 q can close my eyes and mentally see everything in and about Monte Carlo" he continued, "but it is not so easy to reproduce such a picture in words at short notice."
 Prof. Bauer talked interestingly of what he had seen of the tragedies of the gaming tables. He said: Il have spent many months there altogether, and it was a rare day when no ruined and despairing man killed himself. On some days we had as high as three or four such casualties. If a stranger kills himself, his body is dragged away, the blood cleansed from the floor, and the game goes on. have heard players mutter curses at a corpse for having in- terrupted their 'series,' or confused their system. If the victim be a stranger, nobody knows what becomes of the body, except the special police, whose duty it is to conduct such funerals in their own mysterious way. If the ruined player goes out into the grounds before fore shooting or stabbing himself, or drowns himself in one of the beautiful ! fountains, even the players who sat be- ! side him moment before never learn |! of his death. These things are known to the habitues of the tables, but they ] never speak of them outside. The newspapers of Monaco and Nice are heavily subsidized, and those of Paris, Lyons and Marseilles pay no attention l to such trifles. Letters to the editors on this forbidden subject are quickly thrown into the great international waste basket. With large and well-trained police force constantly at hand, with an indifferent set of patrons, and a will fully blind press, these little episodes are much more easily screened than you would imagine. If the suicide be % powerful noble or celebrity in any way, the affair is mentioned briefly in the French and English newspapers and the announcement cabled to this coun- try. Everybody knows why the man made away with himself, and the only question is: 'Who will be neXt"
 .It is almost impossible to prevent these self-murders, as the act is usually committed under sudden powerful i'm pulse Everybody's mind and eyes are, of course, intent on the game, and so many haggard men get up from the tables that the sight is too common to engage the attention of the ever-present detectives. It is but just, however, to say that the managers do everything in their power to prevent suicides, except closing their doors. Mechanics and artisans are not per mitted to live either in Monaco or Monte Carlo: