The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-05-30
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ner, and was presented to the husband
 In him I found my man. I needed my lhandcuffs and revolver before l got through with them both, for she also was an expert He has a good chance now of living long term out in prison; for it was he who had passed both forged drafts-f1rst as the dude, then as the widow.
 A man and woman playing villains together under the sacred name of man and wife, are the worst to track down. Just as women are the noblest creatures in the world, they can be the slyest and trickiest, and when guided by a man of low principles it takes some sharp work from detective.
 I remember another instance, where 8 man and wopan posed as rich mo- bles They sent an agent to rent a villa from a dear old lady who wished to leave Monte Carlo for the season. She was pleased to put her home in such notable hands and the bargain was concluded with the agent. The couple came, and the agent told the old lady she must not Insult them by asking rent money in advance.
 He suggested that little something was due to him. They compromised on 100 francs. She was dear, simple old soul and handed him a 500-francs piece, saying she had no change. He said he would go out to change it-I was passing by the veranda. She knew
 me, for I had carried jewels to and fro for her, and she asked me to change the money. I said couldn't, but sug- gested to the agent that he call the next day. I wanted to examine him in the next twelve hours, for I didn't like his face.
 I found his career quickly, as well as the bogus nobles' who were occupying
 the villa, They were speedily got out
 of town That plan of renting fine
 villa and ensnaring victims for private
 tables by two villains is one of the
 Monte Carlo traps for the unwary.
 No one but the detective can imagine
 how almost next to impossible it is for
 one to realize to whom one is actually
 talking. Names are naught; disguises are so marvellous that one could make
 dozen friends out of the same man
 or woman. These disguises are easy to
 cover the amateur crook at Monaco,
 while the expert changes his sex as
 easily as his name. Before even went
 as private detective I had visited
 there several times and thought I knew
 Nice thoroughly. People seemed polite,
 well-dressed, leisurely. I thought them
 all pleasure seekers.
 The low crook with vulgarities never
 goes there; the adventuresses who is fagrantly immoral remains away. Monte Carlo is the rendezvous of the well-mannered scoundrels of the world those who have a positive genius for artistic ill-doing. It is none the less de- prayed because 1t Is behind a charming exterior, and it is a thousand times more deceiving.
 In Monaco a detective takes no ones word for anything unless he knows the
 person. I have dined with a real count
 and bogus baron on either side of me and found the latter far more po- lite, suave and attractive than the former. One is constantly on the trig- ger, as it were. All the detectives de-
 veIop such keen excitement in the peo-
 pie about them that the game of the table is as child's play to the more in-
  face that appears at the door may be a link in a chain of depravity that the detective is hunting. Each detective is following several clews at one time, for l here congregate the world of gentle | men thieves.
 With all the vice it brings about it, | the game as a game is square. I say | that on the word of a detective who
 knows. Every sharper in Monaco knows that it is he, and not the croupier, who 1 is the real vice of the place. If the company is making millions, it is not l due to loaded roulettes or double zeros or prepared cards. Every player has as much chance to win as the banker, and the reason the individual | does not get as wealthy as the bank would willingly let him is because he
 returns again and again to the table until every cent is gone. The bank knows this full we'll, that all comes | back again into its safe.
 The success is also partly due to the fact that the owners of the casino do not play in person against the gam | blers if on their side the gamblers | wanted to do the same as the company and engage agents to play for them | the chances would then be equal. | Remember, these bankers or croupiers | do not receive one franc more if they win, neither is a franc deducted if they . lose. Their salary is an established and l unvarying affair; therefore they are in | different. That indifference breeds | coolness, does away with all feverish excitement. If any one tries to break l the bank they do not oppose; if he suc-