Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1910-12-25
COMES
TO UNEXPECTED
TERMINATION
BRIDE or SIX DAYS
DESERTED BY HER LOVER
Lon {. Gamble, Who Wooed
and Won Pretty Texas Girl,
Leaves Her Stranded in Albu-
qUerque.


AIbuQuerqne without eve as much
as a ten cent piece Of money, with
loves young dream shattered into
fragments. ard the hopes and amei-
tons for a happy married life dis
PEELED. probably for ever. was the fate
which befsIl Mrs Lou 4 Gamble,
formerly Miss Cecil Clark. Of Abilene,
Texas. all within e few short hours
yesterday.
The story i a long m 2 many
are the thrilling details. The eulmin-
alton Of the affair, however. occurred
last night when Gamble was arrest
ed at Grants. ninefx-eight miles west
0K AibuquerHeu by Special Santa Re
Detective Green. The prisoner VIII
be brought to Albuquerque on train
No 10 this morning. DeSerEion IS
the charge against him. but a charge
81 stealing xT99 would also be made
| against him. II it were not for the
fact that the money was stolen from
his wife. hat IS il the story Mrs.
Gamble tells Is correct
To begin at the beginning. Miss
| Clark. who Is eighteen and pretty. -
the daughter II John L Clark q pros
! porous business man OF Abilene. Tex
as. Gamble IS about twenty-five. and
according - his bride. Is handsome,
[ with such BEAUTIFUL curly hair. Gam
bile is By profession a railway freight
| clerk In the course Of mis- travels
he arrived in Abilene, Texas some
two years ago. Miss Clark. now Mrs
Gamble. vas at that time sweet six
teen. Gamble made oye 10 the girl
and 10 avoid anything that looked
Ike maframony- she was sent 20
I ~ Ea~aa 49, - Fu~6 ma n
| attend Z female seminary Broken
! hearted at the separation from his
/ loved one. Gamble could no longer
| remain II Abilene IA went 10 Henri
eta. Okla The United States mail car
/ ried numerous letters twse Shsr-
man. Texas and Henrietta Okla.
The separation Of the overs being
no longer possible nor desirable. Il
vas proposed. by either the young
man or me girl M one knows' that
an elop@ment would be eminsntly
/ proper. Warned that marriage not
/ approved by her papa would be unfor-
vfvmhla Mss CLARK nevertheless decid-
90 10 take the leap for life. regard
less 81 tne consequences
the telegraph wire WHs called into
reauisifi1n and Miss Clark met MF.
| Gamble lib Trinidad SATURDAY. a week
ago. Tne ceremony was quiet and
Simple aud the bride and groom LETT
| IN 4 honeymoon for Denver X rnighf
be stated here THAT before Miss Clark
left Sherman she took She ~preeaNtion
10 asaH from r sherman bank one
thousand dollars which her papa had
placed at her disposal for incidental
SCHOOL expenses during the year Part
az this money weut 70 defray the ex-
peaxes Of The honeymoon trip TO
Denver.
II vas rather Geld in Colorado and
the surf bathing and gay hotel life
Of southern California appealed 70
ne rawlv married couple Tickets
were purchased from Denver To Al
buoueraue. Bride and groom arrived
in Albuquerque on Santa Re train NO
: Friday night And before y ar
rival Of the train. according 70 the
bride her dear husband ~eleverly eS-
t-cteS from her purse seven hundred
dollars IN crisp one hundred dollar
bills.
Arrived in Albuquerque, Gamble
carried his wife'z suit case TO the Al
varado hotel
Wait here a moment dear. while
20 10 the ticket office and buy tick
cts to California. Is the substance
Of what Gamble IS alleged 10 have
said as ne started in the direction OF
the ticket ONCE
IKE a dear. the bride waited a min
uta. she waited several minutes IN
fact and still Lon was buying the ttck-
ets. Train Nc. : whistled u Of Al
buquerque and was gone Frantic
because she believed her hubby had
forgotten that he had 2 wife and had
gone 10 California without her. MIS-
Gamble rushed out on the platform
and jumped aboard a southbound
train
ductor revealed that Lon wasn't
abozrd The conductor. hardened by
many years experience. and always
~ tn lookout Tor q new cOn game,
didn't believe everything Mrs Gam
be said. without money 10 pay her
fare she was obliged TO leave the
train. Protestingly. she left the Puu-
man car az Isleta. thirteen miles south
OF Albuquerque
me telegraph operator az Isleia-
wise with the years spent listening 10
the messages Of the copper wires 81"
through what he believed 70 De a
seheme on the part Of Gamble 20 de-
aert his wife and decamD with me
seven hundred
E~xpisining the situation 70 the con-
I fucto- Of an e~astbuun1 train the
OPERATOR sent Mrs Gamble back 10
! a-ihuoueraue Then tbs telegraph
man got busy and communicated b.
telegraph With the operators along
the line. telling them about Gamble
and his probable game The AID 81
I the secret service men Was also inFok-
ed
When Mrs Gamble reached Aibu-
I ~ouarque in the cold nay dawn cf the
morning after. she told her story q
tha desk clerk AZ the Alfarano hotel
she was provided with accommoea-
tons. Bright and early yesterday
morning the deserted bride told nei
story q District Attorney r a Mann
land 10 chief o. Police AcAiiiin- Eor
arerai hours yesterday chief McAh-
lin sat beside 8 telegraphsr In , io-
tcai telegraph office. and descupuam
lof Candle Rere sent broadcast along
Ifhe Albuquerque DIVISION
FINALLY the operator 81 AcCart1s
1 flashed a messaee that q man nsWe
INK Candies description vas l1lter-
ina about the station there. waiting
for a train The operator. not being
ain officer. could not arrest Gamble on
suspicion He Kept trace 81 his move
mentz however. and when Gamble
haariei a wezttound freight trstn-
.r-n N.4.-asraa Go AZ EmIfwn