The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-08-22
GAMBLER CASE
is SENSATION
OF SOUTHLAND
Tvo More Damage
Suits Result From
Wine Party.'
BY ANGUS FERGUSON.

Copyright, 1922. by The Argus.)
Atlanta, Ca, Aug. %. = "The
Gambler affair" Is becoming a veri-
table legal maze as we'll as con-
tinuing social sensation. Walter T.
Gambler, banker and bulti-million-
Gambler, banker and multi-million-
inventor of coca cola, was pre-
pared today to receive notification
that two more suits for damages
had been filed against him as re-
suit of the famous wine party"
the night Of July Is last on board
the Cunarder Berengaria, enroute
to Liverpool.
One of the suits, it is said, will
be filed by Clyde X. Byfield. the au-
tomobile agent, whose wife already
has sued for 100000, alleging that
Gambler broke into her state room
aboard the Berengaria and struck
her.
Lawyer Is Complainant.
The second suit, it was learned
here today is in contemplation by
August Dryer, of New York, the
lawyer who was a passenger on
board the Berengaria and who al
ready has appeared. in the case.
Dryer is to sue because Gambler
has charged in a statement that the
attorney tried to hold him up" in
Paris as a result of the stateroom
incident on the liner. Just what
charges Byfield will make in his
suit have not been disclosed. He
and Dryer with Attorney Luther
Rosser of this city, have been in
consultation in New York and the
suits are said to be the outgrowth
Of this pow-wow. Attorney Rosser
representing Byfield, was chiel
counsel for Leo Frank during the
famous trial which resulted in the
conviction of the pencil factory
manager for murder a few years
ago. -
Frank was lynched outside Ma.
rietta. Ca, after his death sentence
had been commuted by Governor
Jack Slayton.
Wife to Seek Divorce.
On top Of all these suits it is ex
pected that Mrs. Walter Candlel
shortly will enter plea for di
vorce from the banker. They hav'
been separated for months. Mrs
Gambler is in Honolulu.
She has been cabled all the de
tails Of the Berengaria affair bu
even before that episode it was tn,
understanding in Atlanta societ.
that divorce was only matter o
time. Mrs. Gambler is taking up |
residence in California and will
prosecute her action from there.
The suits and counter suits il
which Walter Gambler has becom
involved recall the blackmail cas-
in which his father, Asa G. Cand
Ter, Sr., was complainant tw
years ago. The senior Gambler i
known as the wealthiest man il
the south. He charged Mrs. Mar
lgaret Hirsch and Handsome Joe
Cook of Atlanta with an attempt t
extort money from him and bot
lwere convicted and sentenced to
year in Jail. The defendant
claimed they were "railroaded" q
a result of the wide Gambler influ
ence in this city.
Elder Gambler Won Case.
| Mrs. Hirsch asserted in he
statement to the jury that the coo
cola king often sought to have he
visit him in his office and that on
day she complied. While she wa
seated in Mr.. Candler's lap, Hand
some Joe" broke into the room
mrs. Hirsch's shirtwaist was badl
ltorn. Gambler claimed that sh
ltore it. Cook told the same stor
| as Mrs. Hirsch but Gambler entere
a sweeping denial and declare
that the man and woman had COZ
nived to blackmail him. The jur
, upheld. his contention by convic1
ing both the defendants. Coo
served a year in prison but Mr.
Hirsch was released on the pa,
ment of a $1,000 fine by her hu!
band.
Gambler, ST., today reiterated tt
statement that he had no inter
| ton of an immediate marriag
with Mrs. Onezma de Bouchelle {
New Orleans to whom he al
nounced his engagement a fe
weeks ago, and who at present
residing in Reno where she hs
Just obtained a divorce. If tn
wedding does not take place,
now rumored, the Gamblers al
likely to be involved in further l.
gal complications.