Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1891-01-10 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

SUICIDES AT MONTE CARLO.  The large increase in the number of persons who have this season committed suicide or attempted to Put an end to their lives in consequence of losses at the gambling tab!si a Monte Carlo has, says the Times Nice correspondent, created a very marked impression upon visitors to the Riviera. Many influential English people have expressed their determination never to enter the rooms again, in consequence of the action of the Casino management with regard to one or two recent cases. The British Consul in Nice is making a thorough investigation of the case of the late Mr. Bour, an English subject. He has asked the authorities of Monaco to explain the doings of a person, now proved to be in the employment of the Casino, in corning over to Nice to search the rooms of Mr. Bour for papers, taking an inventory of the contents of his boxes, and reporting what he saw to the police of the Principality. The same individual, continues the correspondent, also took possession of my card, which was left upon the table of Mr. flour's rooms on the occasion of my interview with his mistress. After obtaining my address he came, in company with another person, to demand whether I was the author of the accounts of the suicide appearing in the Times and other papers. They said they were friends of Mr. Bour, and wished me to correct the statement that he had committed suicide through losses at the tables, and to state that he had suicidal mania. Being in possession of the exact fact, I reported thin prooc.eding to the Di Dish l,On. SW, and, after the necessary inquiries he has camel to the conclusion that this individual was acting in behalf of the Casino of Monte Carlo. The Monaco police, in their reply to the Consul's letter upon the subject, deny that this man has any connection with them, and an effort is made to draw a distinction between the police of the Prince of Monaco and the agents of the Casino. The report, however, admits that Mr. Bour's rooms were searched, and, as no other person except the agent referred to visit€ 4 them for that purpose, the British Consul is satisfied that he supplied the Monaco police with the details, and he intends to make Mr. flour's lamentable case the subject of a report to the Foreign Office. The mysterious death at Mentone of Count Alfred von Quadtisny, and the secret removal of the remains to Bavaria by his relatives, has caused inquiries to be made, and as the result it is affirmed that the Count died from the effects of an overdose of morphia. The night previous to his death he stated that he had lost all that he possessed at the Monte Carlo gaming tables. This statement is confirmed by several guests stopping at the Hael Mentoue, where the Count's death took place.  . A man named Johann Diebele has just neen arrested at Vienna for robbing his employer. Herr Joseph Lobraeyer, of 150,060fiorins. Four years ago Diebele was the latter's cashier, and getting into the habit of buying lottery tickets, he robbed his master in order to induig a vicious propensity for lotteries. In this way he spent every penny of the money he took from his employer, and his own into the bargain. The only time he won anything was after he had been compelled to take flight. Since then the criminal has tramped through the country begging pennies with which to buy lottery PAets.