The Washington times., 1922-10-11
GIRL SAYS
HI: MUST
CLEAR HER
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common. degraded woman in the
very hour that I was crowned with
the very highest and most sacred
honor that can come to q Southern
woman.
Refused Her Plea.
"When I received Mr.. Gamblers
letter containing this abominable
charge and saying I could not come
to Atlanta without insult, I immedi-
ately came to Atlanta.
From there ! asked Mr.. Gambler
for the names of my accusers and
who were his informants. He de-
clined to give the information and
made the astonishing statement that
II was best for me not to know.
"A woman's reputation to be
stolen and she to accept 1t and to be
dismissed with a goody-goody pat on
the shoulder!
"It is unbelievable. but he seemed
to expect me to go quietly OFT In
some remote corner Of the world and
hide, and leave him and his family
triumphant here to snare more up-
suspecting women.
why was this brought against
me in Atlanta, distant from my
home and friends, where the Cand.
1ers are so powerful that people call
the city Candlerville?
Already investigators and detec-
Orleans in vain.
Judge Candier had gone there
early in the summer.
Immediately after that a stream
of ugly letters began to flow into
Atlanta, 1t is said.
Il know he employed detectives.
My colored chauffeur, who had been
with me nine years, was so bounded
by repeated visits Of the detectives
to his home in the country, forty
miles from New Orleans. that the
poor boy was brought into suspicion
with his wife and neighhors, and
had to leave home and hunt work
elsewhere.
Hounded by Detectives.
1T is an honor to this negro boy
that he resisted the Inducements
offered him and went away to the
heavy labor on the rice field rather
than sell his employer. who had
never been otherwise than kind to
him.
with all this nothing was found
against me. and the wedding was to
take place on September 20,
"Wtll any just human being be-
feve that the transfer OF these in
famous attempts against me to At
lanta at the last minute. just in time
to prevent Mr.. Gambler from step.
ping on the train, was other than a
last desperate attempt to break up
the marriage at the expense Of the
destruction of a woman who had
never done them any harm and who
would have released Mr.. Gambler at
any time he would have asked it in
an honorable way?
"1f the laws of Georgia will punish
these conspirators for their crime
against me. they shall be Jailed"
Mrs. De Bouchel asserted that she
demanded of Mr.. Gambler ito know
the name Of this travelling sales.
man."
He refused to tell me, she said
tells me. when he and his son came
here to see me. that he did not
talk to the man himself-that the
man talked to his son, Asa, jr.;
that there is not one man, but
two"
Explanation by Gambler.
Asa G. Gambler. sr.. issued
statement late last night through
his attorney, saying he would not
disclose the names of certain
nation in confidence which made
1t impossible" for marriage between
him and Mrs. Onezima De Bou.
chelle, of New Orleans, ..'to have
been happy one"
The statement, made public by
w. d. Thompson, Mr.. Candler's at.
torney, said:
,"Mr. Gambler sincerely regrets
that Mrs. De Bouchelle should have
given such publicity to an unfortu.
nate private affair. Certain friends
brought him information. in conf
denCe. which made IT impossible for
marriage between them to have
been happy one. He communi.
Gated this to Mrs. De Bouchelle.
"He has not and would not dis.
close II to any one else. He feels
It would be unfair for him to disclose
the names of his friends and thereby
shift to them a responsibility which
he alone will bear. unless these
friends at the proper time and place,
volunteer to repeat what they told
him."
Her Attorneys Statement.
NEW ORLEANS, La, Oct. Ii
That Asa G.. Gambler sr., Atlanta
capitalist, refused to give him the
names of two men in Atlanta, de.
clared by Mr.. Gambler to have made
statements derogatory to the char
acter Of Mrs. Onezima DeBouchellc,
and that he doubted the existence Of
these men, was the substance Of q
statement made here by Harry
Gamble, attorney for Mrs. DeBou-
chelle. Mr.. CANDLES statement fol-
lows:
AT the request Of Mrs. DeBou.
chelle I called on Mr.. Gambler to die.
close the names Of the two men in
Atlanta, who, he declared, were
traducing her character by claiming
to have visited her for improper