Show rl AT v Clever Fellows who have managed to win thousands of dollars from the games of chance Lon donJan 10 once again the monte carlo season Is in full swing and we biear daily jalcs of huge sums won and lost on the green like the giant gooseberry and our now almost defunct friend the sea serpent the breaking the bank story turns up periodically as fresh as though it had not done duty ever since M blanc genius of logrolling log rolling first utilized it for drawing attention to his pleasure palace by the tid eesa fea but old and stale though the story is soffe people must believe it or it surely would have died a natural death and that these credulous talk not infrequently pack up their traps und book to the in the honea of emulating the imaginary success is a fact which merely reflects credit on the casino companas comp anys astute paragraphing the bank it may be said at once never lias been broken since M bips reign and never will be it nylly happens that a lucky game e working with maximum temporarily deans out a table for lack of ready cash the gama is sus f tended the suspension rarely lasts ten minutes not more than five A supply of gold and silver is in forthcoming from the casino companas comp anys safa almost before the room has had time to realize that a historical incident is talking placer the game is restarted and the croupiers voices abc sing longing their formula of baites vos beux dejeu tt fait kien ne va plus there are one or two famous authenticated examples of fortunes mada in the des none of these relate to what may be termed straight frayard fri yard gambling they are each and nil of yi of extreme dar iny and ingenuity one jimcy jI icy cieli wa fabein bein and r wi huun half an hour resulted hi a 1089 by tho bank bof great Ar dision whose dianie d among a certain clam of to th day journeyed pd to monte carlo the deliberate intention of devising a fols sal coup to this end he visited the rooms daily for some time stud the methods of play the game of roulette with its mechanical and almoite ball heat once pronounced malesa for liis anac which ii worked with ard deemed to offer an opening however in due Aidis sona trained faculties discovered that opening and having ladd hia plans he quitted the principality to raise capital and train A few later he reappeared accompanied compa nied by two ladies both in the height of fashion on a certain afternoon the diio entered ohp and approached one of the et quaranta tc tables ardisson and one of the two ladies tood up a position side of the table and the lady stood on the other A series of g had concluded and tho of cards were being gathered out of the well in the centre of the table and shuffled at this juncture one of the ladica asked hc presiding croupier to explain the her he was doing BO when the lady requested alie mccond cheato her with for como notes on receiving tho coins clumsily let them slip and they hither and thither over the floor there was a momentary confusion the coins were soon retrieved by the attendants tend ants and the new series of games began ardion ardi on and his fair accomplices staked liea vily they did not all three place their money on a single combination that would have been inartistic bu whatever they did the result vas th same again and again the bank ha to apay out gigantic sums for the part of worded to play with less tha the maximum jn a few minutes ardisson and hi friends picked up ahai been said mats of francs equivalent to batisti sTi pounds coolly they strolled to tl door A carriage was in waiting ii them across the frontier and the vanished from the casino company 1 ken how was alie tiling done by a trick as old as conjuring in hie excitement over the dropped coin the licad attention was di for a fraction of a second the croupier who was cutting the cards had cicen heavily bribed by ardisson at the moment when the confusion was at its height he placed an extra pack on top of the others ardisson biad procured a pack exactly similar to those used by the bank and had arranged arran gei them in a certain order which he an hiji accomplices memorized he conic knew beforehand the results c a run of games the rest was easy it may be added that the chef not icing the extraordinary sequence 0 losses investigated the matter and dia covered that there wore eighty jour more cards in the well than had beai first placed on the table the bribed croupier was caught and put in prison since the pattern of alie casim playing cards is changed every twenty four hours large hauls were made by swindler aly eay of Monte carlo gam ing M blanc at first did not al w cash upon the cloth counters purchasable from the casino authorities A etere the only recognized fa f gambling these counter could bo redeemed at the guichot ct every night after the close of play often they were not redeemed and thus in time they filtered into circulation cu in yie neighborhood and were accepted everywhere at their face value M blanas blancs counters were as good as government notes but in seem to have crossed the philanthropic blanas blancs mind for he announced eliat all liis counters were to be recalled two hundred thousand of them according to alie companas comp anys books had been issued M blanas blancs feelings may be imagined when he found that claimed 0 o be redeemed the society acs bains de mer has to hard cash ever since A similar example of shady astuteness is ic corded of the period when the dor were used aa their name implies these were rolls of gold coins filc louis pieces locally nicknamed nick named plaques done up in paper each paper packet which was scaled and stamped contained ten coins its value being therefore 1000 francs players very frequently betted by placing these packets unopened on the cloth one bland frenchman alio gambled alius lost ills packet twice but each alne bought it back from the bank cx aunins apologetically that lie had an impression that this special rouleau was lucky biach time he bought it back lie retired to fry his luck at a froah table he won at the third table and the croupier duly paid him his winnings of 1000 francs but lie protested 1 I put twelve fracus alie maximum on the cloth and you arc only riving roe six thousand and with an aggrieved air lie tore ohp paper on his lucky rouleau revealing instead of a row of gold co insa brass tube stuffed tight with bank lie had skillfully unsealed the roll substituted a tube exactly the circumference of the coins and then re seated it the croupier i of course contested thu point nevertheless the banks umpire ruled in the players favor stating that the stake had been accepted and therefore must be paid were opened after that though the history of the Yorka who netted it is raid pounds after somo months work at montc carlo is one which like those cited above can never now repeat itself this mr jagger engaged a staff of clerks who noted hour in and hour out day in and day out week in and week out the result of every game at roulette table the figures were tabulated and jaggers found as lie had hoped that each roulette cheol possessed a bias certain number came up and certain combinations occurred more frequently on wheels than would be alio case it the mechanism ran true and IDA staff staked accordingly and with the aid ot a largo capital soon cleared pounds profit their plan wag discovered and the altered BO aa to bo interchangeable from table to table not knotting th a t aheda now shifted nightly continued playing on his system and promptly dropped 40 pounds like a alte man lie stopped and set hini elf to the task of discovering what was wrong ho soon did so discovered too that each wheel had shinh mark so that lio could it wherever it waa in ue tracing his beaded whdeh aiila from table tp table faggera ana rewarded ty his lost pounds finally alio ina chanita dev nel A flan by which not the f but alie of the wacel could be interchanged movable parti tiona were hy indich for Jas gera irr paid off bif clerk and returned to yorkshire to en joy the rii iti of liia ob faculties y ii auay abay of br raking alo bank oi thero is t you aro an ardison or ft it i t not iu hp man who is ax br aina aa roii ddn and Ja at well fel himself lo 10 bui nem in london onn H fortunes will 1 far anore likely to cometo him here thana fronto carlo t WABD mugil |