Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-08-17

Succumbed to his persuasion
and agreed to go.
Money from Bank
"I was a customer of his bank,
and as an inducement for us to
make the trip he agreed that he
or his bank would lend me what
money I might lack to take the
trip. Acting upon that agree
ment, l did not take all the
money necessary to meet eX-
penses. That fact was under
stood and acquiesced in by Can
dler.
1--WE took ship at New York
on July II, the two girls having
staterooms near that of my wife.
On the trip my wife gave the
girls that care and attention that
any good woman would have
given two motherless girls. On
the night Of the 18th, the night
of the tragedy, she aided in Civ
ing medical treatment to one Of
the girls and aided both Of them
in retiring for the night.
1.-THE 10th was our last night
ON the boat, and the usual jolly
spirit was among all the passen-
gers. A married couple (emi-
nently respectable, as we then
believed and as now believe)
invited my wife, myself, Gambler
and his two girls to a final din
ner, which we all attended and of
which all partook and enjoyed.
At the dinner champagne was
served, of which we all, except
the girls, partook in modera-
ton.
after the dinner the Gambler
girls, with the aid of Mrs. By
field, were put to bed. The bal
ance of the party went on deck
and began taking part in the
gaiety that usually occurs the
last night on ship. Neither N.Y.
self, my wife nor Gambler be-
came intoxicated - each Of us
was happy and in good humor,
but all of us were in full posses
sion Of our faculties.
Heard Wife Cry
Finally my wife left the party,
going to her stateroom, and I
Immediately followed her. After
staying a while I returned to
the party on deck, feeling that
we had left rather abruptly and,
the party might think, rudely. I
stayed with the party a few min
utes and then started for my
stateroom. When near the state
room I was startled by the out
cry of my wife. I sprang to the
stateroom and opened the door.
1 saw Gambler in a struggle with
my wife; the bed covering was
stripped from her and her night
clothes were diSheveled.
II was unarmed; did not have
even Il pocketkrife, but with my
naked hands I did my host to
kill him.: l lost all reason, all
sense of right and justice and,
to my shame, forgetting that
my wife's cries had called me
to the room, 1 assaulted my wife
as well as Gambler.
"The charge that when I en-
tered the room I said: Now,
have got you and 1 have been
Suspecting this 70 six months;
you must pay me $25 000,' is
UNANIMOUSLY false and one which
no man, except such as Gambler,
would make. 1 never had the
least suspicion of Gambler. 1
thought him a clean man. 1t
never occurred to me that he
would seek to 1bauch the wife
of his friend and TIN intimate
companion of his wife and help
less, motherless female chill
dren.
Asked '.or Nothing
"The turmoil, in the hearing Of
his girls, brought som eof the
ship people and they stopped
the fight, and my wife locked
the stateroom against every
body. No one can apprehend
my mental condition. felt
that my whole life had been de-
stroyed. My wife, outraged at
my assault, would not see me;
did not have a frier, upon the
ship or in France, where we
were to land.
81 asked nothing of Gambler. I
was dazen, crushed and hope
less. I did not have enough
money to meet the expense of
the short, necessary delay in
France before the journey home.
I had expected to borrow from
the man whose perfdy had just
come to light. I was unused
to foreign travel and did not
even know how to get money
from home, and, as it appeared
to he, my wife and myself were
about to be homeless and hun
cry in a strange city.
"In this dazed and helpless