Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-02-02

promises to match such conduct.
rhey both will welcome you as my
wife and accord you every kind con-
sideration in their power Tonight
I will dine with Lucy Bell. I hope
for Respectful, considerate confer
ence. My trip Is fully arranged for
now. Scheduled to leave Atlanta
I6:15 a. M, Saturday, sixteenth.
Reach Reno via Southern Pacific IL
a. m. Wednesday,, twentieth. Leave
Reno-train two - Southern Pacific,
$3.50 .. m. Please arrange accord
ingIy. 1 have written Mr., Howe full
details Only spend three and half
hours in Chicago. Have written for
hotel reservations in New York at
Waldorf or Vanderbilt. Hope you
will be pleased. With whole heart
and soul. Affectionately,
ASA G. GAMBLER"
Hotel RumOr Heard
Atlanta, Ga, Sept. Is, 1922.
(There was no Salutation)
1T almost killed me to have t.
wire you this morning, 'Circum-
stances such impossible for me &c
leave Saturday. Wiring full 1nfor-
nation 1 am in state Of great per-
plaXity.
Information has just been
brought to me from sources entitled
to belief that there are two men hv-
ing in Atlanta who claim to have in
time gone by visited you by your
invitation at night in your room at
a hotel in this city. To marry you
with these reports in force could not
in any case be right or fair to Ell
- Il
untrue.
Your reception in Atlanta would
| be so painfully affected thereby as to
make me unwilling to bring you here
and have you subjected to Sights by
people you will have to meet. To
carry you elsewhere would not avoid
this treatment. The situation is hOr-
rible and difficult to handle. / must
and will be kind and fair to you. We
must and will not do that which
when done cannot be undone. No
man should marry any lady if he
has doubts that such marriage could
not be happy for both parties. 1t is
far better to realize that fact before
than after marriage. [ know you
so well and esteem you so highly
| that till I hear from you, am sure
you will agree that we should not,
in justice to you and myself, go fur
Their now. [ hope you will promptly
| reply to this in the same spirit, as
it is written. Nothing has ever so
disheartened me as this.
Il wooed aid won you because I
loved you. My heart is yet pure and
true. L will not subject you I'm.
justly to indignant undeserved af.
front. Please think kindly of me as
L now and ever more will Of you.
Sincerely,
CASA G.. GAMBLER,
Mailed Atlanta, Sept. Is, $3.50 p. H."
Seeks Notification
Atlanta, Sept. so, 1922.
There was no saIutation)
GAS promised I am doing my best
TO get the actual truth of the state
ments made to me that reference
was n ade to in my letter of Sept.
18th, 1922. I have been told by a
citizen of Atlanta that while you
were a guest Of the Piedmont Hotel
during the reunion Convention OF the
u. c.. V. he saw you in room, at
least two other ladies being also in
the room. That afterward he said
he saw you alone in the corridor or
hall of the hotel, when he gave you
his telephone number, later you tele-
phoned him that you were alone in
your room asking him to call. He
declined saying that the hotel was
very carefully policed, that he did
not visit ladies at their rooms in
hotels. You assured him it would
be perfectly safe that he visit you.
He did not go. You gave him your
home telephone, invited him to visit
you when in New Orleans. He prom
ised to do so. When in New Or
leans he telephoned to the number,
but was informed you were not then
in New Orleans.
II got the above statement by
agreeing not to divulge his name
until such time as he will consent.
L am pursuing the investigation, so
privately that no publicity will re-
suit.
CASA G. GAMBLER"
Mrs. DeBOucheFs Letter
A letter said to have been written
by Mrs. DeBouchel to Mr.. Gambler
on September %, two days prior to
Mr.. Gamblers last letter, was next
introduced in evidence. There was
no salutation on the letter. The sta
tionery carried the DeBouchel coat
of arms with the inscription, "Deo
Juvante Florebunt Lila"
Following is the letter:
September IS.
My attorney informs me that yes
terday you refused to divulge the
names of the men in Atlanta who
you say claim to have visited me
there in my rooms for improper pur-
poses. DO you expect me to let this
hideous SANDER go unpublished? I'll
publish it to the whole world and
we will see if the world is as credu-
louS as you seem to be, and as you
expect me to be. If there are any
such men, and I certainly do not
believe there are, who make such
statements, they have been paid to
do it and they shall so to the peni-
tertiary along with those who hired
them. This is a clumsy conspiracy
that imposes on nobody but you.
Why did it come up in Atlanta right
at the time, in fact just in time to
stop you from coming to Reno for
our wedding on the twentieth?
why does it come up in Atlanta
at all, except that it is distant from
my home and friends, and where it
VIII be harder for me to meet perjury
and punish hired assassinS-
Appeals to Him as Man
My attorney stated you said the
man was a travelling salesman. That
is respectable class. I will call
on the travelling statesmen of the
south to protect an innocent, de.
fenseless woman from a dog, a cur,
who is a tool of my enemy. You
must divulge the name of this per-
son. Unless you do I'll act on the
assumption that there is no such
person, and that you have been too
willing to be imposed on. Besides,
you are Christian gentleman. AS
Christian gentleman, as a Chris.
tan, as a man of honor, can you
treat a helpless woman this way?