Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1904-07-07
SCARED MONTE CARLO
Woman Won Heavily Through a
System Of Her Own.
Discovered n Peculiarly in the Run
of Numbers I'm the Roulette
wheel which Was Caused
by Defect In same.

Lord Rosslyn's recent vain attempt
20 break the bank at Monte Carlo
| has brought out "a number of old
stories regarding similar attempt,
in the past. Perhaps the best of the
lot was told by an official OF Monte
Carlo TO a London writer. This Off.
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 80 the right on en-.
tering the roulette room? II was At
that table a few years ago that !
iaw one afternoon an old lady who.
ike many others here, makes her liy-
ng by obtaining good places at the
able on the opening Of play and
cling them to eager players an
iour or two later This old lady,
whom you must know as Nine. x,
vas well known to me and / was sur.
jrisul to notice that she had a young
Italian with her. They were playing
occasionally with fve-franc pieces
md winning. But so small were the
stakes that ! took very little notice
save 60 congratulate madame when
she rose 20 20 home TO dinner. Then
the old woman turned 10 me with an
air Of surprising defiance and asked:
How much will In'sieur give me for
the secret Of an infalliblc system at
rouletteY Nothing, ! responded,
laughing; we are not buying secrets
to-day 70 this she responded: 'Ah.
out msieur will be glad to purchase
~ some day. Bon siorl' And she
Sns gone.
For several days did not see her
nd the matter passed completely
rom my mind. One afternoon
geek later, however, | saw her at
he same table in company with
hree men. The chef de partie'
whispered to me that they were
Winning heavily and / told the sur
eillants to watch and report. An
luur later one Of the men came to
ne and stated that madame and her
Darty had won 10000 francs and that.
trangest Of all, they only played
or the maximum and scarcely ever
ost.
That evening | myself looked on
4 their play several times and GER
ninly they seemed to win each time
hey staked. The curious point, how
iver, was that in 20 coups or 81 they
you'd never play more than twice.
irst one Of the partners and then
he others, but ON each occasion !
hey won the maximum. Indeed, |
he system certainly seemed to bear
mt the prophecy Of madame, and |
vas actually infnllible.
"a week passed and their win. |
lings amounted to very respectable
um, all OF which had been safely
edged In the Credit Lyonnais and
to bank at Milan. The
lntter was now growing serious, for
hree times they had broken the
anl' at the table where they played.
nd at length telegraphed to NJ
'lanc in Paris. He asked for fur
her reports. and these being still
nsntisfactory he came to Monte
nrlo tu see for himself What he
nw greatly disconnected him. The
nng was winning most assuredly.
ut hy what system we were utter
7 unable to discover. Well, to cut "A
ing story short, NJ Blanc had an
iteryicw with madame and. after
ing hnggling, he purchased the Sc
ret Tor 10000 francs Il was
heap AZ the price.
"Ihe money being paid after play
nd ended and the rooms closed.
.ndame led us to the table and As.
bundled uF by her statement. She
'ld ms that after some years at the
ible she knew quite well that no
stem was infnlNhle until of a sud
in, when registering the numbers.
ne noticed that certain of them al
nys followed each other. Thus. IL
.e croupier spun with the number
opposite him 20 was certain To be
.e next, and IL zero was In the same
'sition 12 would surely follow.
'r days she watched this. then
nycd and won She quickly got to-
'thcr her little syndicate of Italians
ld upon her observations they prof.
'd nearly 100000 francs.
"And why was it that these mum
ms turned up In sequence? Well.
was quite simple when madame
ID us. The roulette wheel had he.
me warped 10y the heat and was
u quite round Hence n turned
ON u certain point il invariably
uck at "a certain other point. there.
re- the players never hcsitnted To
'k % maximum That is the only ,
stem which has ever been infal-
.lr.' added the courtly official. "and
need hardly tell you that since we
We been careful to test the wheels
cry day"