a winning method for the gambling tables. They took with them her niece Isabelle Giraudin. They also used the titles of "Sir" Vere and "Lady" Goold, which they claimed they were entitled to use. According to a book by Charles Kingston, their system did not work, but Leonard Gribble's account suggests that it worked for at least a couple of days or a week. However, the Goolds soon were without funds. At the casino, they met a wealthy Swedish woman, Emma Levin, the widow of a Stockholm broker. Mrs Levin already had a friend named Madame Castellazi accompanying her, but soon the widow had Mrs. Goold as well. The two "hangers-on" detested each other, and finally had a public dispute in the casino. This got into the social columns at Monte Carlo, and Madame Levin decided she had to leave the city because of the publicity. At this point, the sources on the case vary again. Either Marie Goold or her husband Vere Goold borrowed £40 from Madame Levin, and she wanted it repaid. Kingston makes it seem that, when confronting Marie Goold, the widow saw what a dangerous person the latter was. Gribble suggests that the demand to Vere Goold for repayment played into Marie Goold's scheme to murder the widow for the purposes of theft (of her cash and jewels). On 4 August 1907, Madame Levin went to their hotel to collect the debt before she left Monte Carlo. Madame Castellazi was waiting for her at Madame Levin's hotel, and when she did not come by midnight, she went to the police. They went to the hotel of the Goolds. Vere and Marie Goold had left for Marseille, but they left Isabelle behind (explaining that Mr Goold had to see a doctor there). Blood-stains were found in the suite as well as some items, such as a saw and a hammer, with blood on them. Also Madame Castellazi recognised Madame Levin's parasol. The Goolds were in Marseille in a hotel (they were going to head for London). They had left a large trunk at the railway station at Marseille, and one of the clerks at the station named Pons noted it smelled of blood that was leaking out of the bottom. The trunk was traced to the Goolds, and Pons confronted them. Again the details of the sources vary: Kingston says he wanted them to explain why it