Tragedy through Gambling.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 147, 27 May 1885, Page 2

Tragedy through Gambling.

The death of another vi.-.tim of Monte Carlo m recorded. A. clerk m a large counting houve m Germauy war spending hi* hpneymoon m Italy and received 40,000f. m payment of a bill due to his employers," On his waj back he stopped at Monte Carlo, ami, fearing its temptations, entrusted the money to his wife's custody. He was called away for a time, and found oa his return tlj.it his wife was missing. He inquired to no purpose. At laafc he learned that a young woman, after loosing 40,000 at the gambling table*, had thrown herself into thu sea. The bride, it appears, had entered the Casiuo fiom. curiosity, had staked some small sums, and then, egged on by a woman bulirved to have bemi stationed there for the purpose, had lost everything. Tho Casino authorities had (the- Paris correspondent of th e London Times say s ) ordered the affair to be k<>pt secret, and but for oue of the officials beiag touched by the Jhu?biinii*.-< anguish, the young man might never have known what had become of his wife. As it is, theT "~ interested advocates of Moute Carlo 4 will probably deny the whole sboc^tf