Charles Wells (mai caca)

Charles De Ville Wells (20 Afrilu 1841 - Yuli 1922) ɗan wasan ƙwallon ƙafa ne kuma mai zamba. A cikin jerin wasannin caca masu nasara a shekara ta 1891 ya "kashe bankin a Monte Carlo" (ya rage kudaden teburin caca inda yake wasa), wanda aka yi bikin da waƙar "Mutumin da ya Kashe Bankin a Monte Carlo". Daga baya, ana kiransa sau da yawa, musamman a cikin wallafe-wallafen, a matsayin "Monte Carlo Wells".

 Iyali da rayuwar farko 
An haifi Charles De Ville Wells a Broxbourne, Hertfordshire, a ranar 20 ga Afrilu 1841. Yorkshire Evening Post, 31 March 1892. Mahaifinsa shine Charles Jeremiah Wells (1799-1879), mawaki kuma lauya, wanda John Keats ya taɓa yin jawabi ga sonnet (Ga Aboki wanda ya aiko ni da wasu Roses)  Mahaifiyarsa ita ce Emily Jane Hill, 'yar malamin makarantar Hertfordshire.  Lokacin da yake da 'yan makonni, iyalin suka koma daga gidansu a Broxbourne, Hertfordshire, zuwa Faransa, inda suka zauna da farko a Quimper,  kuma daga baya a Marseille. 

 Ayyuka 
Wells ya sami aiki a matsayin injiniya a tashar jiragen ruwa da tashar jiragen mmiri na Marseille a cikin shekarun 1860. A shekara ta 1868, ya kirkiro na'urar don daidaita saurin jirage kuma ya sayar da takardar shaidar don 5,000 francs (kimanin sau biyar albashin shekara-shekara). A cikin kimanin 1879, ya koma Paris, inda ya shawo kan jama'a su saka hannun jari a cikin wani makirci na zamba don gina hanyar jirgin kasa a Berck-sur-Mer a Pas-de-Calais .  Ya ɓace tare da kuɗin abokan cinikinsa kuma kotun Paris ta same shi a lokacin da ba ya nan. Ya koma Burtaniya, inda, daga 1885 zuwa gaba, ya shawo kan jama'a su saka hannun jari a cikin abin da ya yi iƙirarin cewa abubuwa ne masu mahimmanci na kansa. Kodayake ya yi alkawarin riba mai yawa, babu wata shaida da ta nuna cewa duk wani daga cikin magoya bayansa ya taɓa samun dawowa akan kuɗin da suka kashe. Ɗaya ya rasa kusan £ 19,000 (daidai da £ 1.9m a halin yanzu, yana ba da izinin hauhawar farashi). 

 Kashe bankin 

Wells ya ziyarci Gidan caca na Monte Carlo a ƙarshen Yuli zuwa farkon Agusta 1891, kuma a lokacin Nuwamba na wannan shekarar.

A farkon kowace rana, kowane teburin caca a cikin gidan caca an tallafa masa tare da ajiyar kuɗi na 100,000 francs - wanda aka sani da "banki". Idan mai caca ya lashe adadi mai yawa, kuma wannan ajiyar ba ta isa ta biya nasarar ba, an dakatar da wasa a wannan tebur yayin da aka kawo karin kudade daga ajiyar gidan caca. François Blanc, tsohon mai gidan caca ne ya shirya bikin: an sanya baƙar fata a kan teburin da ake tambaya, kuma an ce mai kunnawa ya ci nasara ya karya bankin. Bayan wani lokaci, an sake buɗe teburin kuma wasan ya ci gaba.Yorkshire Evening Post, 31 March 1892.  (François Blanc ya mutu a shekara ta 1877 kuma dansa, Camille Blanc, shine shugaban gidan caca a lokacin ziyarar Charles Wells ta 1891).
Rukuni:Haifaffun 1841

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