AMMERT BROS.
AUCTIONEERS, ÅFPRAISERS
AND SURVEYORS, Public Auctions-
HE Undersigned have received in- structions to sell by Public Auction
FRIDAY, October 29, 1920,
commencing at 230 pm. their Sales Rooms, Daddell Street, Collection of Valuable Chigose Curios...
Comprising:- -coloured, 3 tokared, and Blue and tite vases, plates, bowls and figures
Kaught to Tokwang periods, oques with porcelain panels, Agale, jatal and Jade nenaments, etc.
- Also
Bang Celadon vase, One pair Large ack vases with 5-coloured decoration, owkwang).
And
A few pieces Canton Blackwood-ware On view from Thursday, the 28th
Catalognes will be issued. Temap---Cash on delivery.
LAMMERT BROS,
Auctioneers.
Hongkong, October 23, 1922
-PUBLIC AUCTION
of the
WALUABLE LEASEHOLD
PROPERTY
Situated at
Hollywood Road, Hongkong, and istered in the Land Office as maining Portion of Inland Lot No. 12 and the Building thereon--known No. 233 Hollywood 'Road to be bid by order of the Mortgagee by
blic Auction,'
.on
TUESDAY,
-the 9th November, 1920, at 3 p... by
-MESSRS, LAMMERT BROS.,
Auctioneers,
at their Auction Rooms in Duddell Street.
The property consists of :-
LAI that equal undivided half share
f and in all that piece or parcel of round registered in the Land Office
the RP. of Inland Lot No. 7024 ogether with the building thereon known as 233, Hollywood Road held or the term of 999 years from the 9th June, 1861 under a Crown Lease tated the 25th January, 1863 and Bade between Queen Victoria of the ne part and Chan A Kum of the ther part.
Ares-1402 sq. feet or thereabouts. Crown Rent $15.50.
Particulars and conditions of sale may be had from
Or from
The Mortgagee's Solicitors,
MESSES. LO & LO..
Alexandra Buildings,
Des Voeux Road,
MESSES. LAMMERT BROS.,
The Auctioneers.
FOR SALE
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MONTE CARLO.
FACT OR FICTION 2
TRAGIC MYSTERIES.
Curse this house of perdition
It is stained with the blood of a thou- sand gamblers:"
Cable: Panicoexpo, New York,
TRAGEDIES THAT ARE HUSHED UP.
Another instance comes to my mind. A man suddenly rushed from the tables, exclaiming. I have lost t There is nothing for me but death i
Power, an American, £70.000; and Mr. Izggers, £80,000.
70,000 FRANCS FOR A SECRET. "There never has been a system,
a director of the Casino told me not
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I have lost £8,000." He shot him-long ago, "which has given us a sell on the steps of the Casino. Two moment's anxiety-save one. That of three attendants hastily removed was the accidental discovery of an old the body and the play continued lady who had frequented the tables She had noticed that at Could the full secrer history of the for years. Casino be published, it would reveal roulette certain numbers always fol- A detective friend in Paris had appalling tragedies and stories. Every towed each other. Thus, if the croU- handed me a photograph which had effort, however, is made to hush up pier spun with the number nine op- been found clenched in a suicide's suicides, elopements, assaults, and posite him, 26 was certain to be the robberies, large sums being disbursed next; and if zero was in the same hard. It depicted a magnificent to keep secret such grim advertise- position, thirty-two would surely fol white building in a gorgeous setting ments. Many a ruined gambler who 10. After checking her observations 1,500 Feet above Sea Level of gardens, Fountains, terraces, palm has taken his life has been buried at day after day, she began to play, and and mimosa groves. Across it the the Casino's expense.
suicide-a beautiful, well-dressed woman of 30-had written these words."
won in all some 300,000 francs, Some time ago a book, entitled breaking the bank three times. The
officials were in despair." "Histoire des Crimes et Suicides."
M. Blanc, the man who establish- which throws a lurid- light on the ed the Casino, was sumtioned from secrets of the Casino, came into my Paris, and he persuaded the old lady "Evidently another, Monte Carlo bands. It tells, among others, the
francs. victim," I remarked, recognizing the story of a young Italian count, who part with her secret for 70,000 photograph as a picture of the Casino. walked out of the Casino a tragic
The secret was absurdly simple figure of dejection. For a while be alter s Who was she?"
The roulette wheel had "Don't know," was the reply. sat in the gardens talking to a womans become wrapped by the hear and was She came from Monte Carlo two then, pulling out a revolver, he shot not quite round, so that when spun days ago, engaged a room at a first himself. Few persons were aware of from a certain point it invariably class hotel, and then shot hersell what had happened, and traces of the stuck at a certain other point. because, apparently, she was penni- tragedy were quickly removed.
less."
And so was added another to the tragedies of Europe's beautiful and alluring plague spot.
CEMETERY OF SUICIDES.
41
The
news was cooveyed to the Count's mother, who was so grief-stricken that she lost her reason.
THE IRONY OF FATE.
fi
Mr. Jaggers also owed his lock to defect in the wheel. With the assistance of half-a-dozen clerks he kept a close watch over the roulette; wheels at the various tables, and dis-
covered that each had a small defect, which resulted in one number winning
One imaginative American journal And such was the irony of fate, ist tried to make the public believe that the gambler who occupied the that every morning at sunrise the gar Count's seat unmediately he had left more frequently than any other. deas round the Casino at Monte Carlo the table von £10,000 at a sitting. These winning numbers he backed are strewn with the dead bodies of Needless to say, when this fact be with such success that at one time men and women who have ruined came known there was a scramble for he had won £120,000. The bank. themselves at the tables the night the chair by superstitious players; for however, discovered his secret, new before. It requires no such fiction no one believes in luck more than the wheels were substituted, and Mr. Jaggers began to lose heavily, until, to emphasize the tragic mysteries. of gambler. Monte Carlo.
recognizing that the "game was up,' Which recalls a horrible incident.tecessed playing and Jeit Monte A good-looking young man, who Carlo with £80,000. High up, on a barren hinside, is a proved to be the son of a well-known spot which not vne person in 50 who actress, shot himself in one of the visits the Riviera has seen. It is the rooms of the Casino after losing all, cemetery of suicides. No moninrents his money. Two Russian women im- or mounds mark the graves in which mediately rushed to the body of the have been secretly buried the gammisguided youth, and applied their blers who have found ruin at the rou-dainty pocket-bandkerchie is to the lette tables, and destroyed themselves wound for Inck "The blood-stain- without leaving any trace of their ed cambric became their ralisman identity.
Many a honeymoon couple have Callously the gamblers: continue cursed the day they were tempted to their game in the face of tragedy, add excitement to their happiness at Let me visualize a scene. For a few the roulette tables at Monte Carlo.) days a fashionably dressed young It is usually the same story The woman went regularly to the tables. husband or the wife suggests a "little Her stakes were not heavy-40 or flutter". They win at first, become 50 francs, on a ball. Sometimes she fascinated with the game, and plungė wan; more often she list. The with the inevitable result. Sødder climax came when one morning she and wiser, they return home,” “pro- suddenly rose from the table with the bably at the expense of the Casino's remark, "It's my last coin, drew ́s relieving department which makes revolver from her dress, and shot her advances to ruined players who might self through the head. Quickly the otherwise commit suicide; or, like a attendants removed the body and young English couple who lost then the games went on as belore: £8,000 in a week, they seek reliet Inquiries Failed to and any clue to the in death pres -identity of the victim, who had been one occasionally reads of fortunes staying in Monte Carlo under an as being made at the tables Monte sumed name, and she found a resting-Carlo Vells, the first man to break place in the suicides", cemetery.” the bank,- von £60,000; Colonel
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