The Warwickshire Herald. — 1888-01-12 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

CARLO.  Another shocking suicide has taken gace at Monte Carlo, and has been made public. It is necessary to add these last words, as the majority of such sad occurrences are hushed up b,y the authorities of the Casino. The victim in this case was a young, handsome, and until she became a frequenter of the gambling tables, a respectable woman. She came to Monte Carlo some years ago. She was tempted to try her luck at the roulette tables. She lost, and she won. The dreadful passion for gambling waateveloped quickly in her. She frequented the tables daily. She played heavier• and heavier rtakes, and at the same time played more excitedly and rashly. Her gold diminished rapidly. Like almost every woman who frequents the Casino and the tables, *he began to lead a life of vice. What she earned in one bad way she lost in another, and so she went on for many a day. On Tuesday last she went to the Casino as usual, but without her glittering jewels She had them in her pocket. She was then seen in earnest converse with one of those hangers. on of the plan, " stranglers " they are called, who make their living in the gambling-rooms themselves by advancing to the players who are "cleaned out" money on their jewellery, watches, and other valuable.. For a few thousand francs this unhappy woman gave up her jewels. At once she took a place eat the roulette table. By nightfall she was a r. She was seen to enter her hotel about midnight. She went straight to her bedroom. What she did there was known the next day. About nine in the morning the chambermaid took hot water to he door. She knocked, but no response came, so she set it down outside and went away. A little later the porter came with letters. He, too, got no answer to his knock. At ones suspicion was aroused. Those in the hotels at Monte Carlo are not unused to awful tragedies. The door was burst open. A light form was seen hanging from the pole to which the window curtains were attached. It was the body of this wretched young woman. It was stiff and cold, showing that she had been dead some hours, but the awful expression and oontortions of the lace told that she bad suffered terrible agonies whilst slowly dying by strangulation. The cord she used was out from the window blind, and she had carefully soaped it to cause it to run more easily before adjusting it round her neck. Immediately on the discovery of the tragedy, the authorities of the Casino were sent for. That fact itself shows who acoepte responsibility for such awful deeds. It was the fruit of their doings, and they acknowledged it, for at one they came, out down the body, cleaned up the hotel room, arranged things for the proprietor, bore off the body, buried it in the beautiful garden of the Casino, where so many suicides from all lands and of all language. lie—a garden that is, as no other spot in the wide world is, " Aoeldama," "the field of blood."  Tai Princess Louise and the Marquis of Lorne, have left on a visit to Malta and Algiers. A BALLAD anions has been sentenced at Dromore (Ireland) to one mouth's imprisonment for singing a ballad having reference to the proclaimed meeting.  "What great events from trivial causes spring !" A cow is generally credited with burning down Chicago by kicking over a paraffin lamp. A monkey, kept in the Vaudeville Theatre at Wakefield, Winoonsin Territory, has just caused a series of disasters. It covered itself with kerosene and set itself on fire. Then the theatre caught, and finally the whole town was destroyed. Roughs seized the opportunity to loot the stores, and there was a good deal of promiscuous shooting, during which one man was mortally wounded.