Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-02-20

| by the bridegroom upon SUCH occa-
sions.
56. Plaintiff at her own expense.
ordered an elaborate trousseau be-
fitting her circumstances and the
circumstances of the man who was
| to be come her husband.
Wedding Announced
| 57-She announced the date of the
wedding to her friends, and invited
some of her intimate friends to be
present at the ceremony.
5S--In the meantime, defendant
had announced to the members of
his family the fact that the date
for the wedding had been definitely
fixed, and that the wedding would
take place on the date assigned.
59-Thereupon, said members of
defendants family, actuated by their
own personal motives, renewed and
desperately redoubled their ruthless
and determined efforts to interfere
with and prevent the express pur-
pose of the said Asa G. Gambler to
marry plaintiff.
60-Defendant had planned, to
leave Atlanta early in the morning
of September 16, 1922, to be married
on September 20.
| 61-While plaintiff was happily
engaged in perfecting her personal
arrangements for her marriage to
defendant, and after the time fixed
| for the departure of defendant from
| Atlanta to attend said wedding, your
petitioner received a letter from de-
| PENDANT, dated September Is, 1922,
announcing a. change of his plans
and purposes in the premises.
62-In said letter, defendant wrote
your petitioner that it had just been
reported to him from sources he was
| bound to believe, that there were
| two men in Atlanta who declared
that they had visited her at her
room in a hotel in Atlanta, at night,
on her solicitation, and defendant,
| in said letter., declared that on such
account the engagement should be
broken off.
63-From statements made by de-
PENDANT, plaintiff discovered and
charges that defendant thereby
meant that the alleged two men re-
| ferred to in said letter had visited
plaintiff, at night, on her solicita-
ton, at the Piedmont hotel, in Oc-
| tober. 1919, during. said Confederate
reunion, and for improper purposes.
| 64-Said charges are false.
Inexpressibly Shocked
65-No man has ever been solic-
tied by plaintiff to visit her at the
| Piedmont hotel, or at any other
place, in October, 1919, or at any
other time, for any purpose which
would not be in thorough harmony
with the recognized character and
practices of every chaste, pure and
| yirtuous woman.
66-Your petitioner had more than
once expressed her willingness that
her engagement to marry defend
ant should be cancelled by mutual
consent when she had discovered the
opposition to defendants marriage,
as expressed to him by members of
defendants family, and, conscious
| of her innocence of the base and
groundless charges upon which de-
PENDANT, at the eleventh hour, had
broken his engagement on the eve
of the wedding, she was inexpress-
IDLY shocked and Inundated by the
unworthy grounds upon which de-
PENDANT SO abruptly announced his
purpose to abandon the wedding
which he had arranged.
ST.. During defendants long and
entire courtship, there had been no
single moment in which plaintiff,
in her respect for the said Asa G..
| Gambler and in her purpose to 10y
ally consider his ultimate peace and
happiness, would not have prompt
/ ly and voluntarily released him
from the engagement upon the
mere statement by him that/he con-
sidered himself too old to consum-
mate happy marriage; that the
violent objection of his brothers and
his children to his marriage would
precipitate a bitter and endless fric-
ton within his family circle that
would wreck the natural happiness
\ of his marriage state upon the reefs
of family strife, or upon any other
ground consistent with her honor,
or. that would have been accepted
by the world as natural and rea-
sonable basis for the cancellation
! of defendants engagement without
entailing diShonor upon the woman
| he had protested to love and had
promised to wed.
SO. Defendant never at any time
offered or suggested cancellation
of the engagement upon any such
! ground, and had impatiently reject
ed the suggestions of plaintiff that
he should be released from the
bond Of their marriage engagement
on account Of the opposition of his
| family to his marriage.
SO. Your petitioner is pure,
chaste and virtuous woman, and,
as such, her character is worthy to
entitle her to become the wife of
any man who might seek her hand
in marriage.
Blow to Her Reputation
| 20. The plain and legal purport
of the ground upon which defend
ant based his breach of promise to
make plaintiff his wife, constitutes
q charge that plaintiff is not a
pure, chaSte and virtuous woman.
| II. The purport of said express
ground is that plaintiff has solicited
men to visit her, at night, in her
room at the Piedmont hotel, for
| improper purposes.
~. In the aforesaid letter of Sep
TENDER Is, breaking the engage
ment, the defendant further declar-
ed that, on account Of the scan
dalous talk then being circulated in
| Atlanta against her, she could not
come there without slight and in
suit, and that this ill usage would
follow her wherever she might 60
Is. That. owing to the prominence
of defendant, their proposed mar
riage had been discussed and her
aided conspicuously in many of the
| newspapers of the country, and in
all of the press at Atlanta, New Or
leans, Reno and other places where
plaintiff is well known.
"a. Petitioner felt that if she al
lowed the engagement to be broken,
and herself to be discarded and
abandoned under these circum-
stances and on the grounds and for
the reasons given by defendant as
current in Atlanta, her character as
respectable woman would be for
ever destroyed, and her future life
ruined.