INVALID WOMAN’S LUCK

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 11548, 27 January 1932, Page 5

INVALID WOMAN’S LUCK

BREAKS BANK AT MONTI CARLO.

CHALLENGES FATE WITH £2

Mrs. Celia- Gauld, a London invalid woman condemned by her doctors to spend a winter in the south of France, found herself suddenly short of money, went for the first time to the gaming tables —and broken the bank at Monte Carlo!

The fall in the value of the pound in Franco had left her with only £2 and her ticket home. To return to England meant grave illness, perhaps death. She stayed and won £SOOO. Hero is her own story of the. great win :

“I packed my clothes ready to catch the night train home,” she said. “As it was my last evening I made up my mind to do something l had never done before. “I went to stake my health and hope of recovery on a game of cards. There were not many people in the casino when I sat down to ehomin-de-fer.

“Luck came into my life. In threequarters of an hour I had won more than £IOOO in 20 consecutive rounds. “The croupier then suggested I should stake the limit on the next round. 1 did this and won, 1 repeated the limit stakes five time, and .won each time. “At this stage, after 25 unbroken wins, my brother, who was standing behind me, seized me by the shoulders and bundled me out of the room. “Next morning 1 caught a train to Vienna to consult the best specialist in the world about my health.”