Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-02-07
VERDICT BROUGHT
FOR ASA CANDL.E Err
AFTER 40 MINUTES
New Orleans Woman Frankly
Expresses Surprise at Out
) come of Her Suit Against
Mr., Gambler


Preparatory to leaving for his
home in. New Orleans, Attorney
Harry Gamble issued a statement
4 Wednesday in which he declared
Bouchel, won clear moral vic
tory in her 100000 suit against
Asa G. Gambler, Sr., of Atlanta. al
: though a jury in the United States
court Tuesday had denied her any
damages.
Mrs. DeBouchel and the friends
who attended her during the trial
OF the case left Tuesday night for
New Orleans. soon after Mrs. De
Bouchel had given out a statement
in which she expressed surprise and
disappointment over the verdict Of
the jury, which was returned Tues
day afternoon at o'clock.
THE irresistible necessity for
leaving Reno and defending herself
against the scandal said by Mr.. Can
der to be circulated in Atlanta WAS
clearly perceived by Mrs. Ge-
Bouchel" Mr. Gamble said, in his
statement. Under grievous dlsad'
yantages, she did so and gave her
enemies their day in court. She has
the deep satisfaction of a clear moral
victory.
Character INDICATED
eff she feels some disappointment
that her enemies have not been
punished for the injury and expense
they have caused her, it is natural.
That is a human, but a fleetin5 feel
ING. and weighs little in the balance
with the complete vindlcatlon OIL hei
Z character as a good woman
Except for such legal steps as
we NAV take, we do not compia m
On the other hand, we owe much
to the people of this fine city; they
have been uniformly kind and over
whelmingly sympathetic, with a
woman whose hands were tied ana
whose tongue was dumb. IN the
trial of the case"
Mr.. Gamble would not say Wheth'
er any appeal would be taken TO the
federal circuit court, ana Attorney
Albert Howell, Jr., leading Atlanta
counsel for Mrs. DeBoucheb sald
NO announcement could be made
until counsel had conferred
2 The Jury was absent from the
court room less than 45 minutes pc
fore returning the verdict IoF lle
defendant, and the actual delloefa-
tions occupied about 80 minutes
Five minutes before it returned TO
the court room, the jury sent ou'
and inquired how to write the YER
dict, indicating that an agreement
had been reached.
Surprised, She Says
"While [ freely confess SURPRISE
and disappointment that the Na!C'
ity of my divorce decree WINCH
was rendered in Nevada and recoS'
nized by the courts of that slatt'
NAV he affected by the verdict IN
this case. nevertheless / am con
soled by the fact that this detense
was first made by Mr.. Gambler as
a technical defense twelve months
after he had filed his answer III
court, admitting, under oath, SID
stantially every assertion OF my
petition sustaining my characte",
Mrs, DE Bouchel said in her state
ment
1.-THE jury in this case. for teen,
> meal legal reasons, was atIofdSo
no opportunity to condemn MI
= Gambler and punish him for his ~
excusable attack upon my char
acter. An attack so ineXcusable that
upon the trial of this case he Of
fered no witnesssto sustain his re'l-
sons Cor breaking our engagement,
and his counsel openly admitted
that no attack of any kind could
be made on me.
while 1 have had no opportunity
to consider further plans with ref
erenCe to my decree, Will, 81
course, give this matter such
prompt consideration as may be
necessary for my own protection.
I'm bringing the form of sun
which 1 brought, L was advised ny
my counsel that it was my only re
source and hope to develop tn.
source of the rumors upon which
Mr.. Gambler had broken his engage
ment; and it is my chief regre
that the nature OF the defense was
such that [ was cut off then, anC
I suppose forever, from TXposlns
the utter want of foundation foi
them
Text of Verdict
1--WE, the jury, find a verdict foI
the defendant" was the verdict writ
ten across the back of the origina
petition and read by Deputy CLERK
John ID. Stewart.
Neither Mrs. DeBouchel nor Mr.
Gambler was in the courtroom, anC
Asa Warren Gambler, of the firm o
Gambler, Thomson & Hirsch, was The
only member of counsel preSen
when the jury, headed by Foreman
w. Il. Prescott, filed into the cham
Der and aligned themselves before
Judge Samuel H. Sbley
A few minutes after the verde
was returned Journal reporte
found Mr. Gambler in the lobby of TIT
Gambler building. surrounded b,
friends who were congratulating hin
on the verdict.
81 have no statement to max
other than that [ was very happy,
said MIR. Gambler. Il didn't eXpec
anything else"
Mrs. DeBouchel and Il group o
friends were eating lunch at tn
Piedmont hotel when n Journal re
porter brought news of the verdict
Her attorney. Harry Gamble. of New
Orleans. who left the table to receiv
the news. said Mrs. DeBouChel ha
no statement TO make at present, an
that de >snse's, counsel in the cas-
would hot make [ statement jus
now.
Judge Sibley's Charge
The jury began consideration Of tn
case at 2:15 o'clock Tuesday after
noon, following competition of argu
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