The Monmouth inquirer., 1926-05-06


or three dants spring forward and bear you
away into oom behind one of the many mirror
doors SO quickly and quietly is it done that
scarcely anyone realizes what is going
season br two age Ia shot rang out III the large
gambling rooms Attendants rushed forward and
whskar0ut of sight limp form. DO not be dis
turbe8D croupler urged the startled crowd. TT
is Rifing Incident" And, as is the custom, the
affaiM was passed over courteously Later the
story I62ked out. "A young italian banker had
come De resort with his beautiful bride, still
in here ties. For several days he staked small
sums % e wheel Then the fever gripped him,
and I'll hing caution to the winds he plunged,
losing 100000 lire belonging to his bank. The
shot e Id the old story again.
An Ter tragedy concerns German who had
entrl I'd to his bride a large sum of money be-
longi# to his firm which he had collected on his
hone boon. student of human nature, he
realiz the temptation likely to confront him If
he caN ied the money with him his visits to
the I'd inns But without his knowledge, his wife
had sgccunbed to the wheels lure and day after
day Id another room she had been plunging wildly
WhenI she had lost the entire $4,000 entrusted
to heA keeping she threw herself to death over
the sen wall.
The Fwheel was the cause of these tragedies and
although the endings are grim and terrible their
plots Hre simple Here, however, is tale as
banning and mysterious any taken from fiction
Early%one morning strikingly beautiful woman
arrived at the Hotel De Paris She had the air of
princess travelling ncognto. Her hat was extremely
expensive looking and most unsuitable to travel in
Largel diamond solitaires screwed into her
ears A string of perfectly matched pearls
adorned her throat. Everything else she may have
worn excepting a pair of smart-looking shoes
was covered by an unusually long coat of price
less Russian sabIes From a gold mesh bag packed
with bank notes she paid for her room Through
mo day fhQ yr0m in her
room without even ringing for food Towards
evening however, she ordered place reserved
for her in the dining room. and asked also that
ticket for the evenings opera be obtained for her
During dinner attention was focused on her, not
only because of her beauty, but because, despite
the warmth of the room, where all other women
were In fmsy evening dress, she wore the sable
coat closed from throat to feet.
Her dinner was short A waiter reported later
that he thought he had her pour into her hand
a number of small tablets from a bottle and
crunch them down as She drank glass of cham
pagne At the opera she removed her hat but
the coat she retained. After the performance she
returned TO her room. About two or three O'clock
in the morning young man, coming in late
noticed the door next to his own standing slightly
aiar There was no light within the ROOM but
as he passed he heard stifed groans and strange
sounds of difficult breathing. He called maid
who entered the room and switched on the light
On the bed lay young woman CHASTITY pale and
unconscious but still strangely beautiful She was
wearing ilmy undergarment, pair of silk stock
ings. and-nothng else. Search of the room re-
vealed no other clothes except her shoes and the
sable coat Why she wore the coat in the hot
restaurant and in the theater was now easily I'M
derstood. All else concerning this Inflated crea-
ture remains. to this day mystery. Inquiries
of the secret police avaed nothing. No one
claimed the body. No knows where she came
from, why she had to make railroad journey In
such tragic haste, or why she chose Monte Carlo
opera for her funeral music.
Casino attendants for years have made prac-
tce thrustng into the pocket of any suicide they
find roll of bills by way of establishing proof
that it was not losses at the tables that accounted
for the tragedy. Because OF the general publicity
afforded this tradition, there is a story told Of
gambler who, after losing his last sou. wandered
ont into the grounds, discharged pistol and fell
fat, but watchful, with empty billfold beside
him. In moment stealthy figure crept up and
slipped a package of notes into the wallet Two
or three minutes later this suicide" thus cleverly
resupplied with funds, was back at the tables
plungng with the best Of them.