At the start of each and every day, the roulette tables were funded with reserves of 100,000 francs in cash.
It was in July of 1891 that Wells visited the Monte Carlo casino, returning again in November of the same year. However, no evidence suggests that his backers received any kind of pay-off on their outlay. Wells and his family moved from their home in Broxbourne, Hertfordshire to France when he was just a few weeks old, setting up a life for themselves in Marseille.Īfter returning to Britain by himself in 1885, he persuaded numerous members of the public to invest in what he explained was a set of valuable inventions of his. He managed to break the bank at the Monte Carlo casino in Monaco.
Charles de Ville Wells, born in 1841, was an English gambler and fraudster.
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