Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-03-01

! Ter is 4 wealthy man and has given
| much to charity, and he ought to provide
| well for ne L would rather talk to
! him direct. If / have to make this sac
! rifice l am going to be mercenary My
husband gets salary OF $500 month
and has other sources of income. AL
! most all of his income is spent on me,
and [ am well provided for
The upshot of her talk was that she
/ wanted bonds or other securities suf-
J ficient to provide her with an income
/ OF $4,000 n year, She then left my Of
! flee to go. she said. TO a card party.
! Insisted on Securities
In the course OF our conversation /
! asked her to tell me what had trans
! pired in Mayer. Gamblers office in the
! Gambler buildings She said he had fon-
! died her and she took off part of her
clothing and lay down or the lounge
/ and was in a compromising attitude
when Cock unexpectedly came in.
THAT same afternoon, February :,
| which was Thursday. she came back
after the card party was over She
| said she had been thinking the matter
over and would agree to the conditions
! imposed by Cook. She said she would
/ leave the city if securities sufficient To
| furnish her an income of $4,000 year
were turned over to he. | asked her
! if she wanted an annuity OF $3.50 per
! month paid to her. but she said she
! wanted 20 cut all ties when she left At
/ lanta. and Mayor Gambler might die and
/ the annuity would stop. She insisted
! on having securities or cash turned over
! to her.
| 'She had been noticing Mayor Cand-
! ler's career and admired him for his
/ achievements. approaching what he had
| done for the city and the state. She
| said if anything should be exposed con-
| corning the present situation 1T would
/ hurt Mayor Gambler. and for that rea-
| son he should be willing to treat liber-
| ally with her She said her husband
| would be home that night, though she
| had previously said he would arrive on
/ Wednesday night. He did come home
| Friday night. s=... ...
ct tried to see Cook on Friday, but
| did not get to see him until Saturday
afternoon. We walked down on West
Alabama street and sat on ledge IN
/ front of store. We talked the matter
| over. Cook said he was very much wor-
ried He went on to tell me what
bad man he had been, saying he had
committed every crime except murder.
He said that six months ago he was In
the habit of drinking two quarts OF
liuuor every day. Finally he said he
became interested in the Billy Sunday
meeting and since then had been trying
to do right as he saw it. He told me
his conscience commanded him to pro-
tect Mr.. Hirsch, and in doing so he con-
sidered his first duty TO prevent Mr.
Hirsch from living with his wife.
Message for Gambler
~ told the old man what he must
do Cook said to me, and if he don't
60 it I will go to my friend, Heinie
Hirsch, and tell him
Just before l left him Cook put his
arm on my shoulder and said: Tell old
man Gambler to do what l say and then
20 home and eat a good supper, go TO
bed and not worry any more about this
thing
81 prolonged my conferences with
Cook and Mrs Hirsch until Mr. Hirsch
had arrived in the city. I wanted to
see what the developments would be.
Mrs. Hirsch told me on Saturday that
her husband was leaving for Pittsburg
at noon the next day Sunday and IT
| o'clock Sunday afternoon she called
me up and said he had left. /
"'While he was here she said to
me. L stuck to him like Grant around
Richmond
"On the next morning, Monday, l
again talked with Cook on Walton
street He again tried to impress upon
me the fact that he had been bad man.
He said he had provided for a woman
when he was fifteen years old, had been
arrested on a charge Of assault but
was acquitted, and also told about an
experience in Tennessee when he was
surprised by the husband of a woman
with whom he was intimate Finally
he became irritable and said T don't
want any more arguments about this
damn case. saw Hirsch and his wife
Saturday night and / had all L could
do to keep my mouth shut l have
been more than reasonable, and if old
man Gambler dodn't do what 1 want
I'm going to Hirsch the minute he gets
back to town.
Wanted Money for Charity
81 arranged another conference with
Mrs. Hirsch on Tuesday, February -,
at $50 o'clock in the morning, in my
office. Asa G. Gambler, Jr., was there,
and Mrs. HirSch expressed surprise
when she saw him. She said she didn't
want so many people finding out about
her predicament. She talked about how
hard it was for A woman to give up
her husband and home, and about a
woman being made the goat, but she
said she liked Mayor Gambler and would
be willing TO do anything to please
him if he would do what was generous
and right.
Il said, What is it you want? She
had clippings from newspapers and be-
gan talking about what great work
Mayor Gambler had done, about how
charitable he was, and about a desire
she had always cherished to do charity
work. She said she had done a great
deal of personal work but had never
been in a position where she could
furnish money to charity.
"She said in view of these facts she
thought Mayor Gambler could afford to
be extremelye liberal with her, he being
so liberal and so prominent She said
in running through the clippings she
saw where Mayor Gambler had given ST.
600, 900 to Emory university, and she
thought he could afford to be half as lib
eral with her and give her $4,000 i
was silent for quite while. The silence
was broken by her speaking of her hus-
bands debts, which she had mentioned
previously without stating the amount.
She said she wanted sum of money
sufficient to make her husband easy and
not leave him like a piker. Then she said
she wanted $1,000 placed in the bank for
her husband"
Wanted SIS 900 for Hirsch
In response to a question by Attorney
Arnold. Mr.. Adair explained that this
$4,000 was to be in addition to the $780,
900 she wanted for herself,
'T asked her how she arrived at that
figure, speaking of the $1,000" went on
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