Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1888-01-07 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

TRAGEDY. A correspondent writes :—Assotber shocking suicide took place at Monte Carlo, mad was inails public. It is necessary to add these last words, as the majority of such sad occurrences are bushed up by the authorities of the Casino. The victim in this case was a young, handsome, and, until ahe became a freaueuter of the gambling tables, a respectable woman. She came to Monte Carle some years ago. She was tempted to try her luck at the roulette tables. She lost and she won. The dreadful passion for gambling was developed quickly in her. She frequented the tables daily. I She played heavier and heavier stakes. 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, she 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 wee then seen in earnest converse with one of these " hangers-on of the place, "stranglers they are called, who make their living in the gambling rooms themselves by advani.i.,g to the players who are "cleaned out" money on their jewellery, watches, and other valuables. For a few thou! sand francs this unhappy woman gave up her jewels. At once she took a place at the roulette table. By nightfall she was a beggar. She was seen to enter her hotel about midnight. She went straight to her bed! roohl. What she did there was known the • next day. About nine in the morning the chambermaid took hot water to her door. She knocked, but no response came, so she set it • down outside, and went away. A little later the porter cause with letters. He. too, got no answer to hie knock. At once suspicion was aroused. Those in the hotels at Monte Carlo are not en. used 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 sense hours, but the awful expression and coutorLions of the lace told that she had suffered terrible agonies whilst slowly dying by strangulation. The cord she used was cot from the window - blind, and she- had carefully soaped it to cause it to run users easily before adjusting it around her neck. Immediately on the discovery of the tragedy the authorities of the Casino were sent for. That fact itself shows who accepts theresponsibility for such awful deeds. It was the fruit of their doinga, and they ackeowledged it, for at once they came, cot down the body, cleaned up the hotel room, arranged tinny' for the proprietor, bore off the body, buried it in the beautiful garden of the Casino, where so many suicides from all hands and of all languages lie—a garaen that is, as no other spot in the wide world is, " Aceldanm," " the field of blood." In this bloody principality there are no coroner's inquests, no judicial investigee tions, no communication with the friends or relatives of the deceased, no public indignaticn ii such tragedies—the whole pnucipality,from prince to scavenger, lives by them. They suck the life', blood of their victims, they consign their bodies to unlettered graves, and who they were or what they were they cover up in mystery and oblivion.  Ehivard Ridley, shoemaker, street, South Stockton, has filed ibis bankruptcy. THROAT AYFRoTIONS