The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-30
MilIiOnaire's Estranged Bride
Has Her Say in Court.
Bankers Reply Accuses Her of
Lack of Affection.
MOTHER A WARNING
Mrs. Gambler Says, eff He Was
a Half Man"
Couple Had an European Honey
moon Following Wedding.

New York, Dec. 30.-The air of
studied indifference" which Edward
Victor Gambler, millionaire cashier of
the Merchants National bank, No. 257
Broadway, declares caused him to
leave his pretty young bride Edith
Russell Gambler. after few weeks,
had it's origin in the bridegroom
snores.
Papers fled in the supreme court in
connection with an appeal which the
banker has taken from the order
granting his wife $3.50 month all
mony, show that.
''The snoring of my husband she
says in her affidavit, fled in her action
for separation. added to my nervous
ness, and 1 got up and sat in chair,
hoping to quiet my nerves"
Mrs Lee w. Russell, mother of the
bride, writing to Mr.. Gambler from
Atlanta, Ca, her home, says: Il in
fer from your mentioning the fact that
you have trained Edo to the extent
that she had to make up her mind to
endure your snoring. The silly little
thing!''
The Gamblers were welded last
spring and after a honeymoon at At
lantic City and in Europe went to the
Clnoe Brook Country club. There,
Mr.. Gambler charges. Mrs. Gambler
flirted SO openly that he had to bring
her to New York, where he was fitting
up apartments at No. 101 West Seven
ty-eighth street.
She Lacked Caresses.
But Gambler insists that his wife
didn't show affection for him. She
answers:
''Phe defendant has been Indifferent
and has failed to demonstrate any af-
lection for the plaintiff, except to kiss
her occasionally. He never made any
attempt to caress or show any real af-
fection for her.
The Gamblers finally went to the
Prince George hotel, and, while there,
Mr.. Gambler alleges, they agreed to
disagree, shook hands and parted for
ever He sent his bride this letter a
few days later:
Dear Edo-Your letter of the 5th
inst received. ,- -e.--s---4---- .,s .s-e.-
fAs you entered into our marriage
your part of the contract and since
the marriage ceremony have persfs-
tently failed in all the obligations and
duties incumbent upon YOU, it is, from
my standpoint, as If there never had
been any marriage.
'I am therefore, returning the bill
you enclosed unpaid, as l do not feel
called upon to provide for you fur
arate it was understood you were to
leave the Prince George hotel at the
end of the week, going out of town.
'I trust this will be sufficient ex-
DlanaIlOn
further demands from you.
"E. v. GAMBLER"
Bride Is "Astounded."
Mrs Gambler replied:
ttDear EdWard-Yours of the 7th
inst has been received and contents
astounded me. I am surprised that
you would knowingly make such state
ments The suggestion that there was
an agreement to separate is without
foundation. I have always treated you
in a Wifely manner, and I certainly ex-
pect YOU will support me and provide
me with a suitable home I shall ex-
pect you to pay my bills without de-
lay. Yours truly,
AS Gambler did not respond financial
ly Immediately Mrs Gambler started
her action for separation on the ground
of abandonment. She has since lived
at the Great Northern hotel in Fifty
Mr. Gambler submitted to the court
a letter from Mrs. Russell, the mother
of the bride, that complains of Edith S
failure to write while on her honey
moon. '.ro think that she could have
stopped in New York without sending
me a wire when all she has to do was
to write it out without the slightest
inconvenience to herself is stab be-
yond human Endurance. 1t is the most
despicable treatment l have ever re-
ceived at her hands, and 1 have re-
ceived much"
A Warning Postscript.
Mrs. Russell also speaks of her daugh-
ter's failure promptly to acknowledge
the receipts of her wedding gifts.
Daddy (Mr. RusselD has been afraic
to ask his business friends whether
they ever had note from her." she
writes. because for SO long a time we
knew they had not
A postscript reads:
M K was in your town from Satur-
day through this this week. He told one
of the girls he was going to look III
Edo. I wish he would let her alone
He belongs to the set of woman chas
ers.' Some of the others are -----
and -. Impress their names or
your mind and have Edo lunch will
YOU when you think they are in town
They only serve to stir up the devil il
her"
Mrs Gambler declares that ner moth
er has since repented of writing this
uetter and told her she wishes she haC
left her remarks unwritten. To MI
Gamblers charge that she has been Al
Indifferent wife, the plaintiff replies
''If the defendant was half of a mai
instead of an old lady all of this trou
t1a would never have occurred -