The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-03-06
SUICIDES AT MONTE CARLO.
Recent Cases wherein Losses Result
In SeIf-Murder.


in SeIf-Murder.
Monte Carlo Letter IN London Telegraph.
The suicide season here may be consid-
cred as fully started. Two successful at
tempts and one abortive one have occur
red during the last week The gambling
rooms are more crowded than at any
time since the Visitors commenced arriV-
ing in November last, and it is now al
most impossible to reach the tables; play
ers and lookers-on stand five or six deep
round them, and hundreds of impatient
people promenade the Salons awaiting
anxiously an opportunity TO try their luck
A fashionably dressed Frcnchwoman last
Saturday night was sitting at one Oh the
roulette tables, flushed and nervous, hav-
ing several thousand franc notes before
her and a few napoleons. To player be-
side her she remarked: 81 have had ter
rible luck, for l have lost 5000 francs.
must get it back" Advised to save what
was left and deposit 1t at the bank, she
declined, her mind berg 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 over
looking the sea. Drawing a pistol from
thing of the smallest caliber-the next mo-
ment there was a loud report, and the
woman sank to the ground, shot through
the temple. In a moment she was sur
rounded 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
cha cd hat al IL
suficlent-walked down to the sea, d.
rectly beneath the esplanade of the Hotel
Metropole. She did not hesitate a mo-
ment 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 had 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 frantlcally up and down
| the rocks calling loudly for some one to
save her, and, after a time boat was
pushed out and the body was towed ashore
| She was dead also.
1 asked one of the attaches If they had
| learned her name.
Whose name?" he demanded
1.-THE woman who committed suicide" I
replied.
"Pshaw! No woman committed suicide"
he answered energehcally; every acci-
| dent here Is a suicide. There was a wo-
man 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 can't live forever in the
water"
Too many saw the body to deny the
death, so 1t was charged to accident. That
| is the policy at Monte Carlo
| On Wednesday afternoon, a few min
utes before oclock, an aged man. with a
! long white beard desperate look on his
| face, leant against the ratings at the cor
ner of one of the hotels. He was strug-
! Cling with an officer and clinging to the
iron palings, shouting, meanwhile, in ag-
| onized tones: II have lost all, every
thing; I 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 handcuffed
him and called to the driver, ITO the
! poste," and were off The crowd Kissed
and Dried SHAME" but perhaps it saved
the old mans life; at any rate it insured
his leaving town before he committed the
fatal act.