Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-03-13
GAMBLERS ANSWER
ADMITS BETROTHAL
TO MRS. DEBOUCHEL
Continued from Page u

neither admitted nor denied for want
of sufficient information.
II. Paragraphs 40 and IS, both In
elusive, are severally admitted.
IL. Paragraph SO is denied.
10. Paragraphs 80 and 81 are adj
mitted.
Misguided, He Says
IA. In answer to paragraph 62, de-
PENDANT admits having written a
letter, as stated therein, the exact
language of which letter is not, how
ever, quoted in said aragraph.
Is. In answer to paragraph SO, de-
PENDANT says that in said letters, as
will be shown by reference thereto,
he made no charges whatsoever
against petitioner, but merely stated
to her the information he had re-
ceived.
16. Paragraphs "a and s. are
neither admitted nor denied for want
of sufficient information.
II. In answer to paragraph sc,
defendant admits the statement
therein contained in the first three
lines thereof, but can neither admit
nor deny the remainder of said
paragraph for want of sufficient in
formation.
Further answering this paragraph,
this defendant says that when the
statement contained in said letter
was first made to him, he was mex
preSSibly shocked and confused and
did not know what course to pur-
sue; and that at the time he wrote
the letter, frankly telling plaintiff of
the statement made to him and of
his confusion and mental distress;
that he did not communicate said
statements to any one except plain
tiff alone, nor would they have be-
come publicly known through him.
Defendant felt that the statements
were made out of a spirit of friend
ship for him and for no benefit Or
hope of benefit of any sort to the
man making them, and that having
been made, plaintiff and defendant
could in no event thereafter be hap
PLY married and that he should not,
therefore, involve anyone who had
been actuated by friendship for him
in a fruitless controversy with plain
tiff.
IS. Paragraph 81 is neither ad-
mitted nor denied for want of suffi-
cient information.
10. Paragraph IS is admitted.
20. Paragraph 60 is neither admit
ted nor denied for want of sufficient
information.
y. Paragraph 70 is denied.
%. Paragraph II is denied as
stated, defendant in his said letter
having made no charges against
plaintiff.
Admits Writing Letter
%. In answer to paragraph ~,
defendant admits writing the letter
therein referred to but denies that
the paragraph correctly quotes said
letter, the letter itself showing exact
ly what defendant wrote.
"a. Paragraph 70 is admitted, but
defendant says that the matter was
not made public through him but
that the plaintn caused publicity to
be given thereto.
%. Paragraph "A and rs can
neither be admitted nor denied for
want of sufficient information.
%. Paragraph rs is admitted.
~. Paragraph II, 70 and IS can
neither be admitted nor denied for
want of sufficient information.
%. Paragraphs 50 and 81 are
SGNefdlly dullllIleu
20. Paragraph 50 is neither =. l.
mitted nor denied for want of suffi-
cient information.
so. Paragraphs So and 81 are
seVerally denied.
Admits Investigation
81. In ans or to Paragraph IS,
defendant admits that he made no
invest, rration other than to establish
the fact that the statements referred
to were actually made by a gentle
man in Atlanta, and defendant felt
that in any event, a marriage there
after cOnsun.mated could not be a
happy one, as he stated in his let
ter.
80. Paragraphs Sc and ST are de-
I MED.
33. Paragraph SO is admitted.
"a. Paragraph SO is neither ad-
mitted nor denied for want If sufi-
cient information.
IS. Paragraphs 80 and 81 are
severally admitted.
SO. Paragraph 80 is denied.
Wherefore, having fully answered,
defendant prays to be hence dismiss
ed.
GAMBLER, THOMPSON &
HIRSCH
Attorneys for Defendant.