Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-10-11
have faith that God will give me cour-
age to defend myself.

II have come here against all my
training. against all my instincts, but
a good name is all that a woman has,
and / mean to put the dastards who
have contrived this despicable scheme
to destroy me behind the bars If there
Is any justice in Georgia.
81 have always known that the
Gamblers opposed my marriage to Mr..
Gambler and he will not deny that twice
after our engagement, long after, L Of
fered to release him.
"He vehemently refused and cried
that / was cruel to suggest it.
who is cruel now?
1T was never necessary on that
count to put this foul dishonor on me.
But they have blundered.
"This clumsy conspiracy fixes the
time so fortunately for me that I can
prove my innocence against all the per-
~jurers and hired assassins they can
bring.
II was chaperon general at the re-
union of confederate veterans in a
suite Of rooms with other women of
unimpeachable character and under
conditions SO highly honorable to me
that none but desperate, stupid dolts
or people recklessly certain of their
power in Atlanta would ever conceive
the idea of making me out O common,
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| was crowned with the very highest
and most sacred honor that can come
to a southern woman
when I received Mr.. Gamblers let
ter containing this abominable charge
and saying / could not come to At
lanta without insult, / Immediately left
for the south and came to Chatta-
nooga, for / was loath to come to At
lanta.
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for the names of my ccusers and who
were his informants. He declined to
I give the information and made the
astonishing statement that it was best
for me not to know.
"a woman's reputation is all she has
and such accusations are not to be
dismissed with a goody goody pat on
the shoulder.
81 sent an attorney to represent to
Mr.. Gambler the right to defend my
self from these slanderers, if there
were any such persons, which l had
then begun to doubt.
But he still refused to divulge the
names and seemed to expect me to go
quietly off in some remote corner of
the world to hide and leave him and
his family triumphant here to snare
some unsuspecting women.
She Employs Attorney
The only satisfaction given the at
torney was that these solicited visits
were to be understood, not as mere
social calls, but for improper purposes;
that one of the visitors was a travel
ing salesman.
Il do not believe any men, or man,
has made any such statements but if
there are such they have been bought
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spectacle and honorable class of the
travelling statesmen to investigate him
and protect a defenseless woman
against conspiracy and perjury.
why was this brought against me
in Atlanta, distant from my home and
friends, where the Gamblers are so
powerful that people call the city Cand-
~lerville.
Already investigators and detectives
have had combed my life in New Or
leans in vain.
Judge Gambler had gone there early
In the summer.
Immediately after that, a stream of
ugly letters began to flow into At
lanta, 1t is said.
II know they hired many detectives.
My colored chauffeur, who had been
with me nine years, was 80 bounded
by visits of the detectives to his home
In the country, 40 miles from New
Orleans, that the poor boy was brought
into suspicion with his wife and neigh
bors and had to leave home and hunt
work elsewhere.
Negro "Resists" Offer
ut is an honor to this negro boy that
he resisted the Inducements offered
him and went away to the heavy labor
of the rice field, rather than sell his
employer, who had never been other
wise than kind to him.
with all this, nothing was found
against me and the wedding was to
take place on September 20.
"Wil any just human being believe
that the transfer of these infamous at
tempts against me to Atlanta at the
last minute, Just in time to prevent Mr..
Gambler from stepping on the train for
our wedding, was anything but a last
desperate attempt to break up the mar
riage at the expense of the destruction
of a woman who had never done any !
man harm and who would have releas-
ed Mr.. Gambler at any time he would
have asked it in an honorable way?
II have humbled myself again and
again to entreat, to implore Mr.. Cand-
Ter to place me where / Tan protect
myself.
L never DeLeVed Gu now tndC ne
was, that he would be a party to this
dishonorable transaction.
"TH never submit.
eff the laws of Georgia will punish
these conspirators for their crime
against me-they shall be just.
"Only as a last resort have | given
m consent to make this disclosure.
Silence and inaction only expose me
more at future periods of my life.
To Be an Open Fight
IAN open fight against these under
ground borrowers is my only safety.
l have no other course. I have not a
Living male relative"
Mrs. de Bouchel asserted that she
demanded Of Mr.. Gambler "to know
the name Of this travelling salesman.
He refused to tell her. He still refuses.
But now he tells me, when he and his
SON came here to see me that he did I
not talk to the man himself-that the
man talked to his son, Asa, Jr.; that
there is not one man, but two"
Declaring that she was In Chatta-
noOga about 10 days prior to coming
to Atlanta, Mrs. de Bouchel said she
registered there under the name of
Mrs. G. D.. Roger" for the purpose
."of escaping those nasty detectives.
who are following me-"
Mrs. de Bouchel denied that she was
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