The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-02-27
d MONTE CARLO SUICIDE.
SKILL SHOWS BY THE MANAGERS
IN HUsHING UP TRAGEDIES.

TmDIOyees and Inhabitants In "a
conspiracy of SiIence--The Sui
cide's Cemetery.
Mamie Carlo letter in New York Sun.
A man committed suicide in the gam
hing rooms here last Saturday afternoon.
,ltbough a Sun reporter was at the Cast
no within half an hour after the tragedy
occurred. two days passed before he
heard of it. 1t is now two days later, and
IN spite of persistent efforts the reporter
mas been unable to discover the identity
of the unfortunate man.
II you want to ma Ike quiet exit fro m
This vale of tears you cannot 90 bet ter
tn1n commit suicide at Monte Carlo. The
number of persons interested in hus hing
ND the manner OF your death, and even
your death itself, win insure you a veil
# secrecy surprising your widest
cams. In the Monte Carlo voc abulary
mere is no such word as suicide. &" Occa-
sonally it is hreathed by newcop lers, but
among the entire population OF tlAe princi-
rality of Monaco, from the rAler who
draws his income from the con session, to
the washerwoman who profits by the
crowds of visitors. there is appaa entity no.
body who will admit that despair, insan-
itv. death and other horrors haunt the
place.
Don't think that you are going to get
the facts from the employees of the Casino.
order is heavens first law and Monte
Carlos, too. Whatever happens, a scene
must be prevented. And above ALL nobody
must be allowed to go away with a hor
ror of the place. Therefore, although per-
no, Twin G M nf he wiz
tues, it is practised at Monte Carlo by
great and small alike. Your hotel proprie-
tor has, perhaps, had several inoonven-
iently desperate guests who have un-
obi gingly committed suicide in his rooms.
but he not only denies ever having had a
suicide in his house. he further assures
you that he has never known of a sui
eide in Monte Carlo. He likes so much
better to Tell you of somebody who has
won a hundred thousand francs, and of
the men who make good living from
the tables.
P.easanter tales, truly, but what about
the man who died at the tables last Sat
urday? He is only one more victim slowed
hastily away behind the veil of secrecy.
For, though the officials of the Casino
may shrug their shoulders as one man
and say that it is not true, there re-
mains the testimony of various eye-wit-
nesses tor the suicide. One of them is an
American physician, who was sitting at
the same table. He says that young
man, apparently about 25 years old, after
having lost several thousand francs, sud
denly took out a small vial and drank the
contents. He fell forward ON the table
and the American physician stepped inn
mediately to his side, took hold of his
wrist to count his pulse, and found that
he was dead
The croupiers did not move from their
places and did not stop the play. There is
a small army of attendants in livery and
in plain clothes distributed about the
rooms and four or five of them picked up
the young man and carried him through
side door into one of the private rooms
which are scattered all over the place
The American physician offered his serv-
ices, but was not allowed to enter the
room into which they had carried what
ne declared was corpse. In few mo-
ments some of the attendants came out
and said that it was nothing; the young
nan had merely tainted, and was all right
gain
A woman who had seen the affair and
may have known the young man was
found TO have fed to the dressing room
where she soon became unmanageable
and she was taken in her turn, to another
of the private rooms. Just as the Sun re-
porter entered the lobby of the Casino
eries of piercing screams came from the
corner where the woman was IN the
hands of a physician belonging to the
IstaH OF the eSIdUllSlllheit- IASAC was u
rush in that direction, but the way was
barred by a dozen imperturbable attend
ants who repeated the inevitable Casino
formula in similar cases:
at is nothing! Nothing at all!'
AS the screams were not repeated the
crowd broke up again and the reporter,
after vainly questioning several attend
ANTS, went into the gambling rooms Near
one of the tables there was strong odor
of drugs which the inevitable attendant
inevitably declared was nothing The
reporter, not knowing of the suicide,
thought the woman responsible for the
drugs and, like everybody except the few
seye-witnesses of the suicide, was COIN
pietely hoodwinked by the attendants.
IIay was going on apparently as II MOTH
ng had happened At one table therv
was some evidence of tension, but as new
players ignorant of the tragedy had taken
he places OF those who had witnessed 1t,
everything was almost normal again. 1t
is more than likely that the very person
sitting in the chair which the dead man
had occupied did not know that he was,
SO to speak, in a dead mans shoes.
What became of the dead man? Well
nobody knows, except his friends, if he
had any, and the Casino authorities, who
deny the existence of dead men where
sley are concerned. AS for the friends,
I is said that the admins tration of the
casino does not wear itself out trying TO
+and to the right addresses any corpses
hat happen to be left on its hands. There
ire even gruesome tales of bodies sewed
Up in weighted sacks and carried out to
tea to be dumped overheard. You can
)uy postal cards at Nice with a pictorial
} representation of this tale which is proO-
'lbly untrue. But it is hard to know
what is true at Monte Carlo Anybody
VINO has not tried it here would think
would be the easiest kind of task
ind out the identity of a man who had
committed suicide in a public building
before the very eyes or dozens of men ana
women But it is hard to conceive of
inythng more battling than such an at
empt 1t simply results in your gaining
possession of absolutely contradictory
Hatements; the assurance from disnter-
s'ted eye-witnesses that the suicide did
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