Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-10-12
SLANDEROUS RUMOR
ENDED ENGAGEMENT,
SHE SAYS IN CARD
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the time so fortunately for me
that I can prove my innocence
against all the perjurers and
hired assassins they can bring.
81 was chaperon general at
the reunion of Confederate vet
Grams, in a suite of rooms with
other women of unimpeachable
character, never alone, and un-
der conditions so highly honor
able to me that none but des-
perate, stupid doltS, or people
recklessly certain of their power
in Atlanta, would ever conceive
the idea Of making me out
common, degraded woman in the
very hour that I was crowned
with the highest and most sa-
cred honor that can come to a
southern woman.
when 1 received Mr.. Can
dler's letter containing this
abominable charge, and saying
1 could not come to Atlanta with
out insult, Immediately left for
the south and came to Chatta-
nooga, for I was ioath to come
to Atlanta.
From there T asked Mr.. Can
dler for the names Of my ac-
cusers and who were his in
formants. He declined to give
the information and made the
astonishing statement that it
was best for me not to know.
"a woman's reputation to be
stolen, and she to accept it and
to be dismissed with a goody,
goody pat on the shoulder! -
Sent an Attorney
II sent an attorney to repre-
sent to Mr.. Gambler my right
to defend myself from these
slanderers, if there were any
such persons, which I had then
begun to doubt.
1T is unbelievable, but he
still refused to divulge the
names, and seemed to expect me
to go quietly off into some re-
mote corner of the world to hide,
and leave him and his family
triumphant here to snare more
unsuspecting women.
1.-The only satisfaction given
the attorney was that these So
licited visits were to be under
stood, not as mere social calls,
but for improper purposes; and
that, one Of the visitors was a
travelling salesman.
II do not believe any men, or
man, has made any such state
ments, but if there are such they
have been bought to this vile
ness and 1 call on the respect
able and honorable class of the
travelling statesmen to investi-
gate him or them and protect a
defenseless woman against con-
spiracy and perjury.
why was this brought against
me in Atlanta, distant from my
home and friends, where the
Gamblers are so powerful that
people call the city Candlerville?
ALREADY investigators and de-
tectives had com5ed my life in
New Orleans in vain.
Judge Gambler had gone
there early in the summer.
Immediately after that, a
stream of ugly letters began to
flow into Atlanta, it is said.
81 know he employed detec.
tives. My colored chauffeur,
who had been with me nine
years, was so bounded by re-
peated visits Of detectives to his
home in the country, forty miles
from New Orleans, that the poor
boy was brought into suspicion
with his wife and neighbors and
had to leave home and hunt
work elsewhere.
at is an honor to this negro
boy that he resisted the in
ducements' offered him and went
away to the heavy labor of the
rice fields rather than sell his
employer, who had never been
otherwise than kind to him.
with all this nothing was
found against me, ard the we'd
ding was to take place on Sep
TENDER 20.
Has No Relatives
will any just human being
believe that the transfer CT these
Infamous attempts against me to
Atlanta at the last minute, just
in time to prevent Mr.. Gambler
from stepping on the train, was
other than a last desperate at
tempt to break up the marriage
at the expense of the destruc-
ton Of a woman who had never
done them any harm and who
would have released Mr.. Can
dler at any time he would have
asked it in an honorable way?
II have humbled myself again
and again to entreat, to implore
Mr.. Gambler to place me where
can protect myself.
II never believed till now that
he was, that he could be, par
ty to this dishonorable transac-
ton
I'll never submit.
"If the laws of Georgia will
punish these conspirators for