The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-03-08
MONTE CARLO WAS SCARED
ONLY TIME 4 SYSTEM PLAY EYER
 CAFE TIE BANK
Any Umeasiness--Caused by a Woman's
 Discovery.

Lord Rosslyn's recent vain attemp
 to break the bank at Monte Carlo ha
 brought out a number of old stories re
 garding similar attempts in the past
 Perhaps the best of the lot was told by
 an official of Monte Carlo to a Londor
 writer. This official declares that never
 but once did system play" give the
 bank any uneasiness
 You remember" said he, what is
 generally known as the suicides table
 the second on the right on entering the
 roulette-room? It was at that table a
 few years ago that I saw one afternoon
 an old lady who, like many others here
 makes her living by obtaining good
 places at the table on the opening of
 play and selling them to eager players an hour or two later This old lady, whom you must know as Mime. K, was well known to me, and I was surprised to notice that she had young Italian with her, They were playing occasion ally with five-franc pieces and winning. But so small Were the stakes that took very little notice save to congratulate madam when she rose to go home to dinner. Then the old woman turned to me with an air of surprising defiance and asked; How much will m'sieur give me for the secret of an infallible system at roulette?' Nothing, I re- sponded, laughing; we are not buying secrets to-day. To this she responded An. but m'sieur will be glad to pur- chase it some day. Bon soir!' And she was gone.
 For several days I did not see her. and the matter passed completely from my mind. One afternoon, week later however, l saw her at the same table in company with three men. The chef de partie' whispered to me that they were winning heavily, and I told the surveil- lants to watch and report. An hour later one of the men came to me and stated that madam and her party had won seventy thousand francs, and that, strangest of all, they only played for the maximum and scarcely ever lost
 That evening I myself looked on at their play several times and certainly they seemed to win each time they staked. The curious point, however. was that in twenty coups or so they would never play more than twice, first l one of the partners and then the others. | but on each occasion they won the max l mum. Indeed, the system certainly | seemed to bear out the prophecy of | madam, and was actually infallible
 "A week passed and their winnings | amotrhted to a very respectable sum- all of which had been safely lodged in the Credit Lyonnais and transmitted to a bank at Milan. The matter was now 1 ,;,,rr pax, | had broken the bank at the table where they played, and at length I telegraphed to M. Blanc in Paris He asked for fur ther reports, and these being still unsat- sfactory, he came to Monte Carlo to see for himself, What he saw greatly dis him. The gang was winning most assuredly, but by what system we were utterly unable to discover We'll ] 10 cut a long story short, M. Blanc had I m interview with madame, and, after l long haggling, he purchased the secret | 'or seventy thousand francs-and it was cheap at the price. "The money being paid after play had ended and the rooms closed, madame 1 ed us to the table and astounded us by Ter statement. She told us that after some years at the table she knew quite 1 we'll that no system was infallible un- l Il of sudden. when registering the 1 she noticed that certain of hem always followed each other l [ Thus, if the croupier spun with the { lumber nine opposite him, twenty six s vas certain to be the next and if zero fl vas in the same position, thrty-two | would surely follow. For says she | watched this, then played and won [ 'he quickly got together her little syn s icate of Italians, and upon her obser- ations they profited nearly three hun red thousand francs.
 And why was it that these numbers urned up in sequence? Well, it was ufte simple when madame told us r, he roulette wheel had become warned il y the heat. and was not quite round ln Lence it turned from a certain point, it " lvariably stuck at certain other oint, therefore the players never hesi- z. ated to risk maximum. That is the C nly system which has ever been infal- n' Ible,' added the courtly official "and f.