Halifax Today Local News - Here lies the man who broke the bank at Monte Carlo: "He was an engineer employed locally at Henry Bottomley's mill.
It was in 1875 that he literally struck gold, winning more than two million francs in eight days, which at that time was about �400,000.
Jagger had gone to Monte Carlo on holiday and the roulette tables aroused his interest because he believed the wheel cylinders could be faulty."
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