Show I METEORIC RISE CRASH SUICIDES IN FINE HOTEL Story of Yon YOung Tig Napoleon o of Finance Reads Like Novel By ny 11 5 L London Feb 21 Behind l. Behind the an announcement an- an of ot the discovery ery in a room in a fashionable hotel In Cannes Canne of ot tho the body of ot a youns- youns young Englishman who ho h had d killed himself by taking prussic acid Is a remarkable stor story o oa of ofa a clerks clerk's rise to wealth and of or a L tur turn of ot fortunes fortune's wheel The young Englishman Georgo Miller Mil un- ler began his llis career in London as a clerk in ln the tho office of ot an insurance company com corn pan pany and after a n like meteoric success he lie lost his fortune In spite of desperate desper- desper I desper-I ato ate efforts to retain it it I tins stor story was told b by Henry I Nathan athan his Jn law who is In business hero here I first met George Miller when he came to know kno my daughter He was then In the early t twenties a clerk in inan inan inan an insurance cUke Ho ITo asked my consent to his engagement to m mj my daughter and ho said to B Tic Be- Wealthy A I 1 I am only young young- now but I mean to suc succeed e I am going going- to rise In life lIfo and will 11 before long long- be a wealthy HaIth man George combined real ability with ambition and was able noble to rise riso to an Important position in tho company compan which employed him But his progress progress I r ress ss while It was as satisfactory in a wa way was as not quick enough for him lie He married and deci decided led to establish himself himself him him- self D. D as a financier in tho the West Yest End an and with the tho capital ho had sa saved he be tool took an office lie Ho had become a real rell financier But nut Buthe he ho began to think fortune was not coming coming- for tor him quickly enough or in him bim largo enough measure to to satisfy Ho lie w wanted more l First t TUft run Appears He lIe un undertook new speculations an and lost His los losses es at this stage staSe had al already already al- al ready run into thousands of or pounds lie Ho began benn to back horses heavily putting potting up Ul- thousands of oC pounds But ho continued to lose steadily When Whon I saw san him I began botn to understand b by his haJ haggard look how things were and andI I tried to per persuade him to give Sho up gambling on horses But I could never extract an any promIse promise prom prom- ise Iso from him Ho would woul say too much was ns at stake love fortune ambition ambition- everything Soon it bc became a regular thing thing- for Cor him to send scud a n. telegram to ll l If A pl rw th ik o am r f n ti tn CO 1113 nuu u. u he was tas detained detainee in town on business until late Into at night I r afterward discovered ered that this business was gambling gambling- with cards carda That represented tho the final stage stag in his desperate gamble with life Ute to win back baek somehow the somehow tho monc money he lie had loot He lie had made malle a fortune fortuno and had lost It l Finally he ho flung down his last hand handor of or cards cuds Ho lie was penniless tile Itlo came I home homo to his wife feeling he ho was a t hunt hunted man No 0 ni m money ney No business Ho lie was brol broken cn arid and ruined That was vas was was' only last Jast month Then ho decided he lie must get set away way from the scene of his successes and failures A forel foreign n countr country might not only offer refuge but perhaps better luck o He lie went to Marseilles and tho the Riviera ro- ro sorts sort Once abroad he lie wrote and asked his wi wife to go so out and Join him an and to bring bring- tho the boy Mrs Miller obtained tho the passports for the Journey and on 0 the tho eve evo of her departure she received another letter from rom her husband askinS asking ask ask- lag inS her to postpone the visit 4 In tho the meantime George stayed a et atho Io the tho best hotels and presented che checKa Rs which wore valueless These were dishonored and subsequently a a. J. J warrant war ivar- rant for fop his Ms arrest was issued issue The rue LAt Last Stage c When ho he came ome to know of ot th this this lie h he wa was at Nice at ie he he left len and ami went to Cannes It was Vias an ionic circumstance circumstance cir cir- cir cir- I of or which he was doubtless conscious when ho he selected tho the m most t fashionable hotel in Cannes to put jin nn end to tho the whole holo business It wasia surroundings like those ho should kayo have lived with his bis wife and son SOD But ho was alone and it was his last fling fling- of ot defiance against fate which has been hunting hunting- him remorse remorselessly lessly that ho should choose a richly appointed room in which to di diHe die He Ho left a a. note asking that liI his bod body should not bo be sent back to En England but that it should be bo cremated That wa was the end of ot tho the tragic chapter |