The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-10-11
Family Combined to Wreck
Reputation, Is Charge.
Action Against Gambler Awaits
Arrival of Lawyer.
NOT LOVE MATCH, She SAYS
Deep Sympathy and Loneliness
Inspired Engagement.
Gambler Won't Expose Friends
Who "Tipped Him Or"

Atlanta Ga. Oct 11.-Comparing
the alleged attack on the character
and reputation of Mrs. Onezima de
Bouchelle, who yesterday announced
the breaking of her engagement to
Asa G. Gambler, with the persecution
of Queen Caroline, Harry Gamble, per-
sonal attorney for Mrs. de BoucheIle,
arrived here today from New Orleans
and began preparations for a bitter
fight against the Gambler millions. He
intimated that charges might be made
that the Gambler family also had
striven to assail the character of the
founder of its fortunes.
(By the Associated Press)
Atlanta. Ca, Oct. IA deep
sympathy for a lonely old man, whose
children had grown away from him.
and companionShip l craVed, rather
than love, inspired my engagement to
Asa G. Gambler. Sr.''
Mrs. Onezima de Bouchel, beautiful
New Orleans divorcee, whose engage
ment to the Atlanta capitalist had
statement here today while awaiting
the arrival of her attorney from the
Louisiana city for conference rela-
tive to charges of indiscretion brought
against her by Gambler.
Il do not want single penny of
asserted, "but they will have to pay
and pay dearly for their combine to
wreck my reputation with insults
In a public statement yesterday
Mrs. de Bouchel said Gambler had in
formed her it would be impossible
for him to marry her as he had re-
ceived information that she had in
vited two men to visit her rooms in
a local hotel during the Confederate
reunion here in 1919.
Mr.. Gambler shall tell to the world
that the SANDER of unprincipled men
| is not the reason he has cast off the
woman whom he asked to be his
wife" she reiterated today. HE must
| disclose the slanderers of my char
acter, tell me and the world that
women are not always fortune hunt
ers-that heritage of pride does not
i sdccumb to material desires. This
shall be done"
Woman Is Wealthy.
| Mrs. de Bouche1, whose announce
ment of her engagement to Gambler
several months ago attracted national
/ attention, is of the French type. Her
| eyes are grayish blue and her hair
auburn. She is wealthy and is said
| to have descended on both sides of
her family from the French aristoc-
racy.
When Mrs. de BoucheI attended the
Confederate reunion in Atlanta as
chaperon- general she related, Gambler
entertained the ladies of her court
sent them candy and flowers, placed
his automobile at their disposal and
otherwise "acted as any gentleman
would"
After she had returned to her home
IN New Orleans, a correspondence de-
ve1oped, she continued. The capitalist
told her "how his daughter before her
marriage had always met him at tbs
door and placed her arms around his
neck; but that now it was hello
father as she passed him to embrace
her husband"
| Found "Companionship Ideal"
Herself lonely and susceptible te
the idea of a union based not on love
but on a "companionsnip idear' their
ideas grew gradually together she
said The Louisiana woman took d
trip to Switzerland and on her return
i Gambler met her at the pier in New
York. she said.
"Those rugged elements of his char
acter which enabled him to rise from
a comparatively low station in life te
the heights of financial standing at"
tracted and fascinated me.
while he did not have back
ground of generations of courtiy re-
finement he possessed all the ele.
ments of a gentleman. He was,
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