AN AVERAGE OF 200 SUICIDES A YEAR AT MONTE CARLO--MANY BODIES ARE
SECRETLY THROWN INTO SEA BY AUTHORITIES OF THIS, THE WORLD'S GREATEST
GAMBLING HOUSE.
PARIS, Nov. 20.--Three thousand known suicides and murders have been
committed in Monte Carlo in the space of fifteen years. The known
suicides average fully 200 a year, and some weeks there have been as
many as three a day. The Casino authorities do everything to hush up
scandals and news of tragedies. A large force of plain-clothes men are
engaged to either prevent suicides or to hurry the body of the dead
unfortunate out of the way. It is estimated that more than one-half of
the tragedies of Monte Carlo are never heard of except by the Casino
staff. The corpse is rushed quietly to the morgue--a secret morgue.
Here it is kept some time to see whether relatives or friends are
going to interfere or kick up a row.
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