The Washington times., 1918-07-29
Kathlsen Rurgess 8 seventeen.

Kathleen Burgess Is seventeen.
This girl is about to become
mother. AT such time most women
are being tenderly cared for at home
by n husband. a mother, nurse, or a
friend in preparation for the great
event K
But this girl has none OF these lit
tie attentions. She is in the Alexan-
dria county jail. locked in cell. A
charge OF first degree murder is hang
ing over her.
A hundred yards from the jail the
man she loved, Charles E. Gamble, a
soldier, was on trial for his life in the
Alexandra county courthouse at Fort
Myer Heights. He was found guilty
Saturday by a Virginia jury and to-
day will be sentenced to the electric
chair.
Gamble is charged with having
brutaIly murdered a man on May 3
last by beating him on the head with
beer bottle and a bar of iron
Saw Driver Killed.
This girl looked on while, on a
lonely Alexandria county country
roadside, Gamble and Robert L. New
man, another soldier, did John p.
w CITCoP luC w lOh
employe, to death
A grand jury returned an indict-
ment charging the girl with first de-
gree murder.
The father OF the unborn child,
Harry Burgess, is in uniform either
at a training camp or in France. He
is said to have recently gone to
France for service at the front.
After the child-wife had eloped
with Gamble and started with him
on q wild Joyride toward Texas, the
husband of the girl appealed to the
Government to withdraw the monthly
allotment of his salary that had pre-
Viously been remitted to her.
For several months she had received
$45 each month-$15 for her child,
SIS from her husbands income, and
SIS from the Government The death
Of the first child reduced her income
to $50 a month.
Recently the Government suspended
payment to the child wife, pending
the fling of the husbands bill of
complaint
Now Left PennIIess.
She has been left penniless. Should
she be held In jail for considerable
period, her child would become a
inclined persons.
II she is convicted
Gamble. a miner from a small west
I'ennsylvania mining town, enlisted
last winter. He was sent to a Mary
land training camp last spring. A
few months ago he met Kathleen
Burgess. Her husband was already
N the service of his country. She be-
came fascinated by the big, easy
gring miner. She says she loved him
Together they came to Washington.
She says her love for him was graa ;.r
than the love she had for he= child,
whom she left behind The child has
since died.
To protect him, she carried with
her the marriage license of her hus-
band. They registered at Washing
ton hotel as Harry Burgess and wife
name of her husband and to exhibit
her as his wife. The license was en-
ployed to carry out the deception,
even after they were arrested in Rich
mond, Va, some days after the kill
ing of werres, whose automobile they
had hired
After the arrest of Gamble and New
man in Richmond, the girl was taken
to the office OF the United States
marshal, and the two soldiers were
sent to Camp Lee. Nothing OF the
killing was known at that time.
Touched oniciaIs' Hearts.
the girl. stranded, ignorant OF the city,
unknown to anyone there. touched the
hearts Of the officials. They raised a
sum Of money among themselves and
sent the girl back to Laurel, where she
was later arrested
shortly after her arrest her nrst born