The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-03-11
MILLIONAIRE HUSBAND
BEHIND W|FE'S ARREST
.ADAIR SAID TO HAVE ACTED
FOR COCA-COLA KING IN
SENSATIONAL AFFAIR.
ExONERATED BY THE JUDGE
Chief Beavers Told When to Make
Raid and Woman Was Taken to
Police Station Upon Demand of
Adair's Employe.

ATLANTA.-Mrs. Asa G. Gambler,
ST.. wife of the Atlanta millionaire soft
drink manufacturer, was eXonerated
at a police court hearing OF having
been an occupant. OF a dive which
charge grew out OF raid made by
the police on an apartment in a fash
ionable residential section here in
which Mrs. Gambler, w. ]. Stoddard
and G. w. Keeling, business men,
were arrested.
The identical charge against Keeling
and Stoddard was also dismissed.
Stoddard, however, was held under
bond OF $500 for violation OF the state
prohibition law when he assumed re
sponsibility for a small quantity OF
| whisky that the police found in bot
tie ON table around which the three
persons had been seated when the po-
| lice made the raid.
Il can't see that the result of the
public trial has left me anything to
saw in addition" Stoddard said in a
statement after the trial The evil
dence OF Chief Beavers himself dis
closed the details of the miserable con-
spiracy, which is back OF this whole
prosecution. The courts judgment
completely cleared Mrs. Gambler Mr.
Keeling and myself OF even any suspi-
cion OF misconduct OF any kind what
ever"
Complaint From Husband.
The police chief testified that less
than a month" before the raid a COM
plant came from the aged millionaire
| husband, Asa c. Gambler, ST. On cross
examination he testified that Forrest
Adair, we'll known realtOr asked him
to take personal charge OF the raid.
The chief has testified" defense
counsel told the court that Mr.. Cand-
Ter made this complaint to him. We
have let that go III as evidence, al
though it was hearsay. And, now, we
have the right to know who asked the
chief to make this arrest in person.
| Well" Chief Beavers replied, 1t
was Mr.. Forrest Adair whom | knew
to be confidential adviser OF Mr.
Gambler | will tell it all Mr. Adair
called me and said that | would get
a telephone call and | would hear the
name Howell and that when | heard
that name | would know that they
were in an apartment together and |
was to investigate and make the ar
rest
| The chief also testified that Mrs
Gambler had been "shadowed" by
f! Thomas H. Pitt an employee OF Adair
Realty Company.
1t was also brought out that Mrs.
Gambler was taken to the police sta
ton after she had been identified by
Pitt in the apartment and after he
had demanded that she be treated
like the rest of them"
None OF the defendants testified and
no witnesses were put up III their be-
half.
Accedes to Pitts Demands.
MIR. Beavers said that he had started
not to bring her to the police station
until Pitt made the demand that all
be treated alike
The court room was crowded Tor
the trial, the spectators standing in
the aisles
!
the court room by her sister, Mrs. J.
iB. Brown. She was not required to
stand on the platform facing the re-
corder, but sat on piano stool i'll a
remote corner OF the room beside her
sister. She wore blue coat suit and
large black hat, and heavy grey
fur neck piece.
Immediately after her exoneration
she and her sister walked from the
court room and entered Mrs. Cand-
! lers automobile and whirled away.
Mrs. Gambler before her marriage
last June was Mrs. Mary Little Re
gan, a public stenographer. She and
her two young daughters by her for
mer marriage are residing with her
mother.