Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-02-20
ASA c. GAMBLER, ST.,
SUED FOR 100000
BY MRS. DE BOUCHEL
Petition Is Based on Ground
That Atlanta Capitalist
Preached His Promise to
Marry Her

Mrs. Onezima DeBouchel, of New
Orleans. on Saturday filed suit for
100000 against Asa G.. Gambler, OF
Atlanta. in the United States district
court to the northern district of
Georgia.
The suit is based upon the ground
that Mr.. Gambler preached his prom
Use to marry her and that his reason
as stated by him for preaching the
promise constituted a SANDER against
he: character.
She is represented in the suit by
Attorney Harry Gamble, of New
Orleans, by the New Orleans la"
firm OF. Noise, Hammond & Howell
and by the Atlanta law firm of Dor
sey, Brewster, Howell & Heyman.
No comment was forthcoming
from the legal representatives of
Mr.. Gambler. 1t was announced that
". D. Thomson, of the firm of
Gambler, Thomson & Hirsch, per-
sonal attorney for. Mr.. Gambler, is
out of the city. and that during his
absence no statement from Mr..
Gambler will be given out.
The papers in the suit will be
served Monday. as the petition was
filed about 2:3O o'clock Saturday
afternoon.
1t was stated Saturday by Attor-
ney Albert Howell, Jr., that Mrs.
DeBouchel is now in a sanitarium in
the city of Chicago, where she has
been for several months, undergoing
treatment for a nervous breakdown
brought on by the strain of the
events through which she has
passed.
The petition filed in the federal
court was signed by Mrs. DeBouchel
in the city Of Chicago, county of
Cook, state of Illinois, and witnessed
by notary of that jurisdiction.
In this petition Mrs. DeBouchel re-
cites in the form of a court docu-
ment substantially the same account
of her relations with Mr.. Gambler
as she gave the newspapers in per.
sonal interviews when she came to
Atlanta last September.
She met Mr. Gambler, she states,
during the Confederate reunion in
Atlanta in the fall of 1919, when
she came here as chaperon general OF
the United Confederate Veterans, in
which position it devolved upon her
to assist in entertaining the spon
sors and other ladies attending the
reunion.
History of Friendship
Mr.. Gambler, she states, very cour-
teously and Hospitality proffered his
assistance in these entertainments,
and from his high reputation she felt
quite warranted in accepting them,
and in the course of the reunion at
tended Il reception he gave in honor
of a number of ladies, and was
thrown with him often.
In 1920, she states, she had occa-
sion to attend u world convention of
women in Switzerland, and Mr.. Can
dler went to New York to accompany
her to the dock when she sailed, and
wished her bon voyage, and on her
return some months later was wait
ing at the dock to welcome her ar
rival.
Their acquaintance, she states,
ripened into a warm friendship, and
an intimate correspondence ensued, "
in the course of which Mr.. Gambler
expressed affection for her and asked
her to marry him, describing his
lonely home life as u widower whose
children had married and gone to
their own homes, and describing the
many vicisstudes through which he
had passed.
She was an orphan, she states,
without brother or sister or near
blood kin. and her own life had not
been entirely free of sorrow, and she
admired Mr.. Gambler and grew to
have an affection for him, and be-
Heved she could make him happier
than he had ever been before" and
agreed to marry him.
At this stage, she states, Mr.. Can
dler frequently made her offers OF
financial assistance, which she firm
ly declined, having ample means OF
her own.
He told her in letters and on per
;ci4 Ioa cfa "a
of his family objected to the mar
rage, whereupon she urged a braak-
ing of the engagement by mutua
consent, but he refused to entertain
the suggestion for a moment, anC
professed to be wounded in his feel
ingS.
Had Helped Family
He reminded her, she states, G.
what he had done financially ant
otherwise for all of his family, ant
assured her that their objection
would subSide when the marriage
was over, and would welcome he
into the Gambler family circle, anC
she believed his influence with hi:
family and their gratitude to hin
WOULD prevail, and again agreed t
marry him.
Then, she states. members OF hi:
family sent emissaries to New Or
leans to search for evidence deroga
tory to her character" but after thu
investigation Mr.. Gambler wrote he
that everything they found was {
confirmation OF his high regard 70
her, and urged her to name the dat
OF the marriage.
She allowed him to name the date
she states, and he named Septempe
20, 1922, and named Reno, Nevada
where she was residing, and wher
her citizenship is located, as tn
place. At his suggestion, she states
she sent her furniture to Atlant
to be placed in his home. She state
that he had announcement cards Ell
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