Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-02-20
ASA G. GAMBLER, ST.,
> SUED FOR $500,000
4 BY MRS. DE BOUCHEL
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graved, that he planact' q reception
at his home on their return from the
honeymoon and submitted the plans
to her, that he arranged the timer
airy and sent her a transcript of it
(Which she gives in the petition),
that he engaged a clergyman to per-
form the ceremony, and that she
purchased an elaborate and expen
sive trousseau and announced the
engagement to her friends in Reno,
and invited some of them to witness
the ceremny.
She states that Mr.. Gamblers
schedule was to leave Atlanta Sep
TENDER 16, but he did not leave, and
she received a letter from him dated
September is, informing her that it
''was reported to him from sources
he was bound to- believe" that two
men visited her in her room in the
Piedmont hotel during the Confeder-
ate reunion. for improper purposes,
and that these visits were subject
of gossip in Atlanta.
Stunned BY Letter
Because of this, she states he
told her in the letter, 1t would be
impossible for them to be happy,
and the gossip would follow her if
she came here as his wife, and
wreck her reputation
She was stunned by this letter,
she states, and the more so because
she had previously offered to dis
solve the engagement by mutual
consent for the sake of his har-
monious relations with his family,
and to put the dissolution on any
ground consistent with her honor,
and he had "impatiently rejected
all such suggestions.
The charges contained IN MI.
Gamblers letter, she states, are
sfalse and vile She states that she
is "a pure, chaste, and virtuous
woman. worthy to become the wife
of any man who might seek her
hand in marriage" and she asserts
that the ground on which Mr.. Cam
der broke the engagement con
stituted a charge that she is not a.
pure. chaste and virtuous woman.
She states that the engagement
had been heralded everywhere in
the press: that she found herself
deserted on the eve of the cere-
mony: that she had no near male
relative to defend her; that If she
submitted to abandonment on the
ground he gave in his letter, her
reputation as respectable woman
would be destroyed.
Therefore, she states, she de-.
monded of Mr.. Gambler the names
of the men alleged by him to have
DETAINED her, and he refused TO
give her their names, but LETT her
to suffer these shameful SANDERS.
There is no man worthy of bellef
.ebv anv court or jury" she states
"who ever told him these things;
and she asserts, further, that she
does not believe he ever received
such information.
Refused to Give Names
IF in reality he had such infor'
nation. she asserts, he acted on II
without making the investigation
(which he was bound in honor to
make" and which, if he had made,
would have clearly disclosed to him
that the persons giving inforna-
tion against her C'if such persons IN
fact existed'0, were paid to give II
and "exacted concealment of their
identity as part of the price OF their
perfidy." 4,,,
Her purpose in demanding their
names. and insisting upon them, she
states. was to force them to ac-
Knowledge to Mr.. Gambler that they
chad lied out Of the whole cloth, or
else had been bought by persons
for selfish purposes" to defame her;
Mr.. Gambler, shc states, refused
then, and continued Thereafter TO
refuse, to open to her this simple
means of vindicating her charac-
ter
wherefore, she asks compensa-
ton for the expenses she says she
incurred in consequence OF her eX-
pected marriage, and further asks
compensation for the aggravated
damages she has sustained by Mr..
Candlre's conduct. =,
The text of the petition in tull
follows:
Onezin1a De Bouchel VS.. Asa G..
Candler-State of Georgia, County
of Fulton-No. -, March Term.
1928. United States District Court.
Northern District of Georgia, North
ern Division.
The petition of Onezina De Bou-
chel respectfully shows:
THAT she is a citizen and resi-
dent Of the state of Nevada
2-That Asa G. Gambler. defend.
ant herein, is a citizen and resident
of DeKalb county, Georgia, and a
citizen and resident Of the northern
division of the northern district OF
said court.
3-That the amount involved in
this action, exclusive. of costs, ex-
ceeds the amount Of three thousand
dollars. r..
I'm the year 1922, plaintiff, upon
the earnest and repeated solicitation
of defendant, entered into a natr1-
monial engagement with the said
Asa G. Gambler.