Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-08-19
NEW YORK LAWYER
DENIES DEMANDING
$4,000 OF GAMBLER.
Gambler in Conference An
Moraj:3g With Attorney Ar
noId-ByfieId Could Not
Be Located

NAL of the charge that he had ate
tempted to extract $4,000 from W..
T. Gambler on a threat that, unless
the money was paid, he would tex.
pose certain features of the Gamblers
Byfield incident on the Berengarias
was made today by Attorney August
Dreyer
What told Gambler by telephone
was that he was embarrassing and
was not playing fair, and that what,
had been done in Paris had been
done only upon my request" the
lawyer declared. What somebody
ought to ask Gambler is why did he
want the written statement Of an
eye witness as to his actions in con-
nection with Mrs. Byfield destroyed"
-Dreyer claims that Byfield had in
his possession a letter from some
person on board the boat, attesting
to having heard Gambler admit Inn
proper conduct in Mrs. Byfields
presence. ~This letter Gambler wish
ed destroyed, he says, and ByfieldA
carried out the wish when the at
torney attempted to patch UP the
affair, and destroyed the note in
Dreyer's presence two days later in
Paris, Dreyer said.
The trouble took place in the cabin
at a. m, and it was not until II
a. m. that he knew of 1t, he said. A
friend suggested him as an attorney
who might be able to adjust the mat.
ter, Dreyer said. Dreyer asked them
to wait until the boat had locked
at Chebourg.
Gambler had called me aside and
said there had been a little trouble
and he had given the ether man a
$25 900. check" said Dreyer. "He
wanted it back"
Letter Torn Up
IT went to the hotel with them
and got the two men together" he
said. "Byfield had no money. He had
come on $4,000 loaned him by Canti-
Ter for the trip. Gambler declared he
wanted Byffeld to get out of Atlanta
and he wanted his check back. By
field wanted TO get home, but he
wanted the check, not because of the
money it represented, but because
he wanted evidence. The difficulties
were apparently patched UP, Byfield
tearing up the damaging letter he
had in his possession. did not
know the case would go any
further.
81 heard the story from both men
and drew my own conclusions. ] am
not a paid attorney for either. The
two friends had lived here in the
same suite in the same hotel, appar.
entity on the best of terms and went
to the same hotel in Paris. Byfield
said he had never suspected any
thing wrong until just before sailing
for Europe, when Gambler suggested
that he go to Detroit to look up an
automobile agency and that Mrs.
Byfield go on to Europe with Cam
dler'S two children"
GAMBLER SILENT ON
LATEST DREYER STATEMENT .
Dispatches from New York, quot
ing August Dreyer, in a fiat denial
of Mr.. Gamblers charge that Dreyer
had told him over long distance tele-
phone Wednesday that he would
show him up unless Mr.. Gambler
paid the New York lawyer $1,000,
drew no further statement from Mr..
Gambler Friday.
Mr.. Gambler will stand on his
statement made yesterday" stated
Attorney Reuben Arnold, his counl
sci. 1--WE don't think. Dreyer's state.
ments are worthy of any attention.
Mr.. Gambler, who was in confer.
ence for some time Tuesday morn
ing with Mr.. Arnold and several
friends, told a Journal reporter that
others "listened-in" on his conversa-
ton with Dreyer. Attorney Arnold
said no criminal prosecution OF
Dreyer on charges of attempted
blackmail was being considered.
. ROsser Quoted
Mr.. Byfeld was silent Friday in Z
regard to the interview of Dreyer,
it being reported both at the Byfield
apartment and at the Apperson-By-
neld company that he was mot in"
Although Attorney Luther u. Ros-
ser, his counsel, was reported out
of the city on a vacation, he was
quoted as follows concerning the
Dreyer version sof the Candler-By.
field controversy:
Dreyer'S story comedies in all
important particulars with the stale
ments made to me by Mr.. and Mrs.
Byfeld, which statements 1 believe
to be true.
"That part Of the interview with
Dreyer which deals with the hap
penings in the Byfeld stateroom is,
of course, hearsay. Dreyer says he
was not present at the time of the
fight and says he is telling what
was told to him by other witnesses.
However, this version is Identical
with the facts as told to me by my
client She says that when Gambler
first entered the room she thought
he was her husband and she was
under that impression until after
Gambler had begun his attack, and
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