River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-03-27
WOMAN SCARED MONTE CARLO
Large Winnings Made Through q
Simple System of Her own
Discovering.

to break the bank at Monte carlo
has brought out a number of old
stories regarding similar attempts
in the past. Perhaps the best of tie
lot was told by an official of Nome
Carlo to London writer. This Oil
cial declares that never but once
did System play" give the bank
any uneasiness.
You remember" said he, what is
generally known as the suicides Ia
ble-the second on the right on en-
tering the roulette room? 1t was at
that table few years ago that
saw one afternoon an old lady who,
like many others here, makes her llv-
ing 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 Nine. x,
was well known to me and | was sur
prised to notice that she had young
Italian with her. They were playing
occasionally with five-franc pieces
and winning. But so small were the
stakes that / took very little notice
save to congratulate madame 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, l responded,
laughing; we are not buying secrets
to-day To this she responded: 'Ah,
but m'sieur will be glad to purchase
it some day. Bon sior!' And she
was gone.
''For several days did not see her
and the matter passed completely
from my mind. One afternoon a
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 / told the sur
veillants to watch and report. An
hour later one of the men came to
me and stated that madame and her
party had won 10000 francs and that,
strangest of all, they only played
for the maximum and scarcely ever
lost.
"That evening L myself looked on
at their play several times and GER
tainly they seemed to win each time
they staked. The curious point, how
ever, was that in 20 coups or so they
would never play more than twice,
first one of the partners and then
the others, but on each occasion
they won the maximum. Indeed,
the system certainly seemed to bear
out the prophecy of madame, and
was actually infallible.
"a week passed and their win
nings amounted to very respectable
sum, all of which had been safely
lodged in the Credit Lyonnais and
transmitted to bank at Milan. The
matter was now growing serious, for
three times they had broken the
bank at the table where they played,
and at length 1 telegraphed to M
Blanc in Paris. He asked for fur
ther reports, and these being still
unsatisfactory he came to Monte
Carlo to see for himself. What he
saw greatly disconnected him. The
gang was winning most assuredly,
but by what system we were utter
ly unable to discover. Well, to cut a
long story short, M. Blanc had an
interview with madame and, after
long haggling, he purchased the Sc
cret for 10000 francs-and it was
cheap at the price.
"The money being paid after play
had ended and the rooms closed,
madame led us to the table and as
founded us by her statement. She
told us that after some years at the
table she knew quite well that no
system was infallible until of sud
den, when registering the numbers,
she noticed that certain of them al
ways followed each other. Thus, if
the croupier spun with the number
9 opposite him SO was certain to be
the next, and if zero was in the same
position 80 would surely follow.
For days she watched this, then
played and won. She quickly got to-
gether her little syndicate of Italians
and upon her observations they prof
tied nearly 100000 francs.
"And why was it that these num-
bers turned up in sequence? Well,
it was quite simple when madame
told us. The roulette wheel had be-
come warped by the heat and was
not quite round. Hence if turned
from certain point it invariably
stuck at certain other point, there
fore the players never hesitated to
risk a maximum. That is the only
system which has ever been infal-
lible," added the courtly official, land
L need hardly tell you that since we
have been careful to test the wheels