The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-03-13
SUICIDES AT MONTE CARLO.
Recent Cases Wherein Losses Result in
SeIf-Murder.

Monte Carlo Letter in London Tele-
graph.
The suicide season here may be con-
sidered as fully started. Two success
full attempts and one abortive one have
occurred during the last week. The
gambling rooms are more crowded than
at any time since the visitors COM
menced arriving in November last. and
it is now almost impossible to reach the
tables: players and lookers-on stand
five or six deep around them. and hun
dreds of impatient people promenade
the salons, awaiting anxiously an OPP
portunity to try their luck.
fashionahly dressed French woman
last Saturday night was sitting at one
of the roulette tables, flushed and ner-
Nous having several thousand franc
notes before her and a few napoleons.
To a player beside her she remarked
I have had terrible luck, for | have
lost 5000 francs. | must get 1t back. ;"
Advised to save what was left and de-
post ii at the bank, she declined. her
mind being set on recovering her losses.
The napoleons disappeared the notes
were changed, and the proceeds quickly
followed the other losses. The woman
rose from the table, staggered from the
building on to the terrace overlooking
the sea. Drawing a pistol from her
pocket-a diminutive pistol a plaything
of the smallest caliber-the next mo-
ment there was loud report. and the
woman sank to the ground. shot
through the temple. In moment she
was surrounded by the guardians. whose
duty 1t is TO conceal incidents of this
narrowing description. and she was
hurriedly, but tenderly, raised and
borne into the Casino dead
Another woman, whose play had not
been noticed-she had lost. that was all
sufiicient-walked down to the sea, di-
rectly beneath the esplanade of the
Hotel Metropolis She did not hesitate
a moment. She had resolved what to
do long before she reached the water.
She waded in-rushed in as though
fearing the chill of the sea would force
her to forget her purpose. When she
reached her depth she plunged, and
that was the end of IT, A shrek went
up from the shore. where there were
witnesses of the desperate act: excited
men ran frantically up and down the
rocks calling loudly for someone to save
her. and, after a time a boat was
pushed out and the body was towed
ashore. She was dead also.
| asked one of the attaches if they
had learned her name.
Whose name?" he demanded.
The woman who committed suicide
] replied
''Pshaw, No woman committed sui
eide he answered theoretically;
every accident here lis a suicide. There
was a woman sitting there on a rock
reading and she fell in. She lost her
balance of course. Instead of jumping
in after her and saving her they took
time To get a boat. and when they
reached her she was dead A person
cant live forever in the water"
Too many saw the body to deny the
death, so IL was charged to accident
That is the policy at Monte Carlo
On Wednesday afternoon, a few min
utes before O'Clock, an aged man, with
a long white beard. a desperate look in
his face, leaned against the ratings at
the corner of one of the hotels. He was
struggling with an officer and clinging
to the iron paiings, shouting mean
while. in agonized tones: 4 have lost
ALL everything: | will kill myself" over
and over again The crowd began TO
gather. Two other officers in plain
clothes elbowed their way through the
people; they called a carriage tore the
old mans hands free from the railing
and pitched him into the vehicle, so
that he fell doubled up on its floor As
he struggled they handeuffed him and
called to the driver, To the poste, and
were off. The crowd Kissed and cried
shame" but perhaps ii saved the old
mans life; at any rate, II insured his
leaving town before he committed the
fatal act