Los Angeles herald., 1907-09-15
APPEAL TO
ROOSEVELT
LONDON PRESS ASKS HIM TO GET
AFTER MONTE CARLO
WOULD "BIe STICK" WORLDS
GAMBLING HE'LL
Suggestion Is Made That President Of
the United States Head lnterns-
I tlonal Crusade Against
Notorious Resort

LONDON, Sept. 14.Awin Theodore
Roosevelt as president of the United
States take the initiative in Kidding the
world of its greatest. gambling resort.
Monte Carlo?
This is the question which is just now
interesting the public in England and,
| mayhap too, the chancellories of all
| Europe. President Roosevelt has been
publicly invited to head an international
| crusade against the Monte Carlo casino.
1or letters In the London Times and other
pubic prints can be called an Invitation if
not oincial nevertheless public. Judging
from such requests Mr. Roosevelt is
| looked upon as the strong man of the
world--a man who is not afraid to mix up
| in European affairs of moment because of
any danger that he might be offending
some near relative among the rulers of the
various great countries.
Gambling He'll Must Go
| Monte Carlos gambling hell must go.
That is the cry of the moment. 1t was
the cry fifteen years ago when great in
| ternational petition was drawn up and
presented to France. But then there was
no result. The present peace conference
at The Hague is due to Mr.. Roosevelts
initiative, and now he is again being
| looked to as leader In another movement
of intense international Importance.
Monaco at the present day stinks in
the nostris of the world. It's red record
Of dire tragedy has been emphasized with
brutal force within the last few weeks.
The atrocious murder of Nine. Levin by
Sir We're and Lady Goold followed
close on the heels of the ptiful suicide
of an American girl bride and her young
English husband. And these are but two
in an appalling list of suicides, of mur-
ders, of robberies and of other heart.
! breaking agones for which the cry of
rein ne va plus echoing in the marble
| halls of the Monte Carlo gambling palace,
| is responsible,
Is Forcing Bed of Crime
| Monte Carlo since its establishment on
All Fools day forty-four years ago has
been the forcing be- of crime. Swindlers.
thieves, murderers, demi-mondaines from
| all the cut-throat haunts of the universe
gather there and wax fat on the spoils
of their trade. Men and women, respec-
table in the past, have there been ruined
morally and socially, for in the mad lust
for gold they stop at nothing.
| There are innumerable books written
about Monte Carlo. From none of them
| is omitted the terrible tale of blood. In
| two of these books, written only a short
| time ago, are records of suicides and
murders. One of these is called His
toire des Crimes ct Suicides" a nice
| title certainly. And in that book is an
appalling list of 5000 known suicides and
murders committed in Monte Carlo in
| the space of fifteen years. The known
lsuicides average fully 200 year and some
weeks there have been as many as three
| q day.
| The Casino authorities do everything
to hush up scandals and news of trage-
dies. A large force of plain clothes men
| ro1 80 fAtt ctria ~ 4
hurry the body of the dead unfortuna4Y
out of the way. 1t is estimated that
more than one-half of the tragedies or
Monte Carlo are never heard of except
by the Casino staff.
Bodies Dumped Into Sea
The corpse is rushed quietly to the
morgue-a secret morgue. Here 1T is kept
| some time to see whether relatives or
| friends are going to interfere or kick UP a
| row. Every once in while steamer
| slips out of the harbor at dead OF night.
It's cargo is secured at the secret morgue
| At sea the bodies are thrown overheard
| duly weighted without toll Oh Dell OF NUT
| tered prayer
| There are countless graves of unknown
dead in Monte Carlo cemetery But these
| are only those whose death has De-
| come known to the public.
| The Casino authorities have a special
| bureau whose duties are to relieve per-
sons ruined at the tables. The ruined
gambler, can get from this bureau enough
money to take him to his home or 10
some spot far away from Monaco rev
| know OF this perhaps or there would not
| be so many deaths.
l. The dead broke gambler is taken
| through many inner chambers and be-
fore stern-faced men to whom he mas
| to tell his story in detail. He is also con-
fronted with the different croupiers VINO
| testify as to whether he really lost as
| much as he may claim, Then the wretcned
man has to sign a doc;ment banishing
| himself forever from Monaco. His name
and particulars are written in the oiack
! book" his photograph is taken and given
to the doorkeepers and other officials 10
| study and then the man is taken TO tno
railway station, a ticket bought, few
dollars given him and al official escorts
him as far as the frontier. Should ne
return 1t would not avail him. The ponce
would turn him back again into france
American Gets Aid
/ 1t is related that an American who was
.sbroke" and anxious to get back to tne
United States heard of this feature OF
| Monte Carlo He had not gamoled there
because he had no money but he managed
TO make his way to l-onaco ana oe-
! manded to see the authorities. He tcooiy
asked for a steamer ticket back TO rev
| York. Inquiries revealed that ne nae
| only lust arrived in Monaco ana nau
/ nuever nut a foot inside the Casino. out
despite this the authorities gave MN "
steerage ticket to New YORK anu sd" 'A''-'
on his way.