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'VOLUME XII.
ATLANTA. GA.. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1913.
NO. 46.
-—Juan Vargas.
Huerta's Rurales Capture a
Small Band of Zapatistas
Near Mexican Capital and
Put Them to Death
(By Associated Press.)
MEXICO CITY, Feb. 27.—Seventeen
Zapatistas, who carried their vocation
of looting and murder to the edge of the
federal district, eight miles from the
capital, were captured today and execu
ted. '
The rurales encountered the rebels at
early dawn* today and defeated them.
Later Juan Vargas, commander of the
rurales, sent a terse message to Presi
dent Huerta, in which he s&id:
“I have the honor to report the execu
tion of seventeen bandits taken in out
lawry and rebellion."
Confidence in the Huerta ad
ministration appear to wax strong
er daily. if faith is .to be
placed in the government reports as to
the raports as to the rapid vanishing of
the rebel spirit throughout th republic.
Conspiracies against the provisional
president are* still whispered of in the
capital, but there is at least an outward
appearance of harmony between the
leaders of the new regime.
Provisional President Huerta and Felix
Diaz seem to be working together to
bring a^out general peace, which both
express themselveg. as ardently desiring.
Collapse of the revolutionary move
ments both north and south appears to
be imminent. The latest adherent to the
government is General Orozso, who has
sent a telegram declaring his allegiance.
ZAPATA OBDURATE.
Emiliano Zapata, on, the other hand,
remdins obdurate, although many of hjs
chief supporters have come into line wifh
the new xfrder.
• Venustiano Carfanzo, former governor
of Coahuila, according to dispatches re
ceived here, has not succeeded in gather
ing general support for his attitude
against Huerta.
A further adhesion to the government
was registered last night when Rafael
‘^api&r a former chief of rural guards in
the state of Tlaxcala with 600 of his men
signified his desire to surrender. Tapia
conferred with the federal minister* of
war yesterday and was told to return
for another conference, bringing with
him Antonio Hidalgo, a candidate for the
governorship of Tlaxeala, who is in re
bellion. *
ANOTHER MADERO SLAIN.
To the report that Emilio Madero,
bt other of the slain president, has been
executed, is added a rumor that his
brother Raoul, has met the same fate
at Torreon. Both these young men
were actively allied with Carranza and,
if true, their taking off doubtless will
have a deterrent effect on rebel ac
tivity in that district. ^
Two hundred million pesos is’ the
amount the minister of finance prob
ably will ask congress to authorize the
governments to raise by m-*ans cf
bonds for the pacification and the re
habilitation of Mexico.
At tfie time of the fall of the Ma
dero regime a bill for a bond issue of
100,000,000 pesos for the same purpose
was under discussion in congress.
Ottoman Government Signifies
a Willingness to Treat for
Peace With Bulgaria and
Offers Prized Citadel
(By Associated Press.)
SOFIA, Bulgaria, Feb. 27.—Turkey
has at last signified her readiness to
negotiate for peace with Bulgaria on
the basis of the cession of Adrianople.
The Turkish government has solic
ited the good offices of Russia. The
Russian government today transmitted
to the Bulgarian government a mess
age received from Constantinople, con
taining the Turkish proposals for fresh
negotiations.
The Bulgarian council met today to
discuss the subject.
Russia Will Not Support
Bulgaria for Indemnity
(By Associated Press-)
ST. PETERSBURG, Feb. 27.—Dis
patches received here today confirm
the report that the Turkish govern
ment has expressed willingness to sur
render the fortress of Adrianople.
Russia will not support Bulgarians
demand for a war indemnity from Tur
key.
IKE SMITH
Senate. Adjourned at 4 o’Clock
Thursday Morning After an
All Night Session on Public
Buildings Bill
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DEATH AND RUIN LEFT
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Fifty Buildings Are Demolish
ed and Loss Is .Estimated
at $100,000
FLORIDA WEST COAST TO
HAVE NEW TRUNK LINE
G, ■& W, C, and F, & W. Will
-Combine and Join the
Tampa Northern
(Special Dispatch to The Journal.)
QUITMAN, Ga., Feb. 27,—Much in
terest is occasioned in local business
circles by the repeated rumors that the
Middendorf-William’s company, bankers,
of Baltimore, are about to purchase the
South Georgia and West Coast Railway.
It is kifown they have an option on the
road which will expire March 2, but so
far nothing of their ultimate intentions
In regard to the property has been made
known. i
It is said these people are interested
in the Florida and Western road and
the idea is that the two roads will be
combined, and with the Tampa-North
ern will be eventually developed into a
trunk line along the Florida west
coast.
‘>.ne road is owned almost entirely
bv jocal people, prominent among them
being J. W. Oglesby, president, and
C. T. Tillman, treasurer.
It is rumored that if -the sale is
effected Mr. Oglesby will continue with
the new company in some official capac
ity. The general offices and shops of
the road are located in Quitman and
naturally much interest is felt as to the
outcome of the matter.
POSING AS OFFICER,
* SMITH IS ARRESTED
(Special Dispatch to The Journal.)
KBWNAN, Ga., Feb. 27.—Will Smith,
alias Pink Blue, wanted at Griffin for
bigamy and also for cheating and swin-
11 i ng, has been arrested here.
When taken up by the arresting of
ficer he was wearing a detective’s badge,
and said he belonged to the city detec
tive force of Atlanta. He was surren
dered today to the Spalding county au-
(By Associated Press.)
MONTGOMERY, Ala., Feb. 27.—Ac
cording to long distance telephone mes
sages received by The Journal today
damage, aggregating more than $100,000
has been done by a Cyclone of marked
intensity which passed over Butler,
Crenshaw and adjoining counties early
this morning. In the neighborhood of
fifty buildings are known to have been
partially or wholly destroyed while at
least one is known to have been killed
and one is believed to be dying.
Rufus Summerlin, living between
Pattsburg and Petrey, in Crenshaw
county, was killed in a collapse of the
building in which he was in at the time
of the cyclone, while Miss Lena Patter
son, of the -same section of Crenshaw
county, was seriously hurt. She is be
lieved to be dying.
Greatest property damage, according
to these reports, was done at Green
ville, in Butler county, though later re
ports received ate to th e effect that
much of central Alabama has been laid
waste by the storm.
Long distance telephone messages
with Greenville established the fact that
the cyclone was at its greatest intensity
at 6:30 o’clock, when house^ were un
roofed and uprooted and when trees
were blown about in the country’s waste
spaces. At least twenty-five buildings
in Greenville were partly or wholly
demolished, including churches, office
structures and cottages.
Two negro churches at Greenville
were totally wrecked. While the ma
jority of the buildings in the western
and southwestern parts of the county
were badly shaken by the storm.
The Greenville pest house was de
molished, while the Lomax-Hannon In
dustrial institute was damaged to the
extent of about $1,000.
It is reported that the plan* of the
Purity Fertilizer company at Greenville,
was almost totally wrecked.
(By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, Feb. 27.—The sen
ate, after a long and turbulent session,
passed the public buildings bill at
3:50 o’clock this morning and ad
journed until 10 o'clock today.
Passage of the bill was ’threatened
when a stubborn contest arose after
midnight over the proposed $5,000,000
memorfal bridge across the Potomac
river, in course of which the senate
twice refused to adjourn.
Senator Hoke Smith, of Georgia, then
took the floor and frankly admitted he
proposed to filibuster against the ap
propriation.
A compromise eventually was reach
ed by which the $5,000,000 appropria
tion for the memorial bridge was re
duced to $1,500,000 and agreed to.
Provision for a home for the Ameri
can Red Cross was made in the bill.
The building would 'cost $700,000, of
which the United States government
would provide $400,000 and the Loyal
Legion thej remainder. The site would
be here and the structure would be ded
icated to "the loyal women of the Civil
war."
SOUTH WINS VICTORY.
The amendment to the bill was adopt
ed after a bitter fight, in which south
ern senators insisted that the dedica
tion should not’be partisan but should
include the women of the Confederacy
as well as those whose fathers, hus
bands, brothers and sons fought for
the union.
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Senators who supported the amend
ment insisted there was no sectional
ism in the proposal, but it was only
after a lengthy debate v that it was car
ried by a narrow margin.
The bill carried an increase of
nearly $16,000,000 over the $25,000,000
bill as passed by the house. One
sweeping amendment inserted just be
fore i&tssage at the suggestion of Sen
ator Kern, of Indiana, prohibiting the
erection of a building or the purchase
of sites for postoffices exclusively in
any ^ity where th e / postal receipts
were less than *$10,000 a year. This
change would hold up indefinitely the
erection of sixty or seventy buildings
authorized in the bill.
The all-night session was replete
with factional argument, arising over
appropriations made for memorial
buildings at Washington and over al
leged preference given to “loyal wom
en” of the Civil war, in control of the
affairs of the American Red Cross.
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WILL THE LAST LID STAY ON?
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ILDING FALLS
KILLING FIREMAN
SECRETARY OF LABOR
SENATE COMMITTEE HITS
COURT’S HOLE OF REASON
Report Recommends Amend
ments to Sherman Anti-
Trust Law
(By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, Feb. 27.—The su
preme court s so-called modification of
the Sherman anti-trust law to invoice
the rule of reason” in decisions upon
restraints of trade, is attacked in vigor
ous terms in a report presented to the
senate by the interstate commerce com
mittee today, which points' out the dan
gers of “uncontrolled and unguided ju
dicial discretion," and makes emphatic
demand for amendments to the Sherman
law to remove from the courts the pow
er to determine what are “reasonable”
restraints of trade.
The report is the result of the com
mittee’s long investigation into opera
tion of anti-trust law. The commit
tee recommends new laws to define ex
actly what combinations are unlawful,
so that bpth the business interests and
the courts will have a standard upon
which to proceed. It recommends a
federal interstate corporation commit
tee, with power to subserve corpora
tions. pass on and approve combinations
and agreements, and take over the work
of dissolving illegal corporations, such
as the Standard Oil company or the
American Tobacco comjjanr,
Cabinet Gossip Draws in Sev
eral New Names on
Thursday
(By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, Feb. 27.—The pleas
of union labor for representation at the
council table of the president of the
United States may be recognized in the
selection of Representative William B.
Wilson, of Pennsylvania, to be secretary
of the newly-created department of la
bor. This information, along with other
reliable advices, came to the political
leaders at the capitol today, /direct from
Trenton.
Representative Wilson has been in
dorsed by the American Federation of
Labor and was at one time secretary of
the United Mine Workers of America.
From the same sources it was learn
ed that William # C. Redfield, of Brook
lyn, might be a member of the cabinet.
Just what portfolio he is being consid
ered for was not divulged, but it Is
knowrt that th e president-elect holds the
highest regard for Mr. Redfield’s views
on the tariff and has for some time
hoped to have him as one of his close
advisers.
THREE PLACES—MANY PROSPteCTS.
About three portfolios—agriculture,
interior and war—little information is
known and it is hinted that they will
be filled by men whose names have not
been generally mentioned heretofore.
Though William A. Glasgow, a Phila
delphia lawyer, and Edgar Farrar, of
New Orleans, former president of the
American Bar association, are report
ed still to be under the consideration
of the president-elect, th e most reliable
information obtainable today is that
James C. McReynolds, of New York,
will be the new attorney general.
Confirmation comes from every side
that the president-elect has picked Wil
liam J. Bryan for secretary of state;
William G. McAdoo for secretary of the
treasury; Josephus Daniels for secre
tary of the navy, and Representative
Albert Burleson, of Texas, for post
master general.
MAY- NAME A MOOSE.
The name of Louis D. Biandeis is still
known to be uppermost in Mr. Wilson’s
mind for the secretaryship of com
merce, as the post now held by Mr. Na
gel probably will be called hereafter.
It is said that Mr. Wilson from the
first was anxious to place a Progressive
Republican in his cabinet and the se
lection of Mn Brandeis is believed to be
a result of that desire.
• Though information as yet with re
spect to diplomatic posts is meager, it
became known here today that Freder
ick C. Penfield, of Philadelphia, and
Henry N. Morganthau, of New York,
very likely would be chosen for ambas
sadorships, the former to Rome and the
latter to Berlin.
J. I. Gillespie Is Killed While
Rescuing Tenants-Others
Were Hurt
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James I. Gillespie, a fireman of en
gine hous^ No. 1, was killed and a doz
en of his comrades narrowly escaped
death, when the buildings at 140-142
Whitehall street, corner of Trinity ave-
nu6, collapsed shortly after 4 o’clock
"Wednesday morning. / /
Patrolman James Chapman saw the
dust arising from the first collapse
of a portion of the building, and think
ing it was smoke, he turned in an
alarm on the nearest, fire box. All of
the companies responded because the
box i£ one of the downtown stations
which cause a general alarm.
The six occupants of the buildings
had found refuge on the roof of an
adjoining building or had been res
cued by firemen when the building
fell, after four distinct shocks.
Firemen from three engine houses
had been at the scene only a minute
or two when the* building collapsed,
and most of the drivers were on the
ground, blanketing their horses, when
***e resounding crash came.
Th,» startled fire horses broke and
ran in many directions, one truck
wagon striking and injuring Patrol
man James Chapman. A horse from
the truck of engine house No. 4 fell to
the ground and was dragged to the
corner of Mitchell street by his team
mate, and was so badly injured that
h e was immediately shot. The horses
of the hose wagon of engine house No.
5 ran out Whitehall and were found
uninjured in West View cemetery.
All gas pipes in the house had been
broken when the walls collapsed, and
the firerqen near the scene were almost
overpowered by the fumes of the gas
after the crash. To add fo the horror of
the scene a fire broke out at once in
the debris, and this was not fully ex
tinguished at 8:30 o’clock, although
there was never any* danger of its
spreading.
Gillespie was on a long ladder, which
was leaning at an angle from the street
corner to the building at 136 Whitehall.
He had formed one of a crew, which had
assisted people through the windows
and up the ladder a minute before, and
was returning to search the house and
make certain that there were no more
lives to be saved, when the crash came.
Tumbling brick broke the ladder and
hurled him to the pavement, many brick
falling on top of him. He died in
stantly.
C. T. Lemons, of the same engine
house, was standing by the truck when
a brick crashed intg his forehead and
knocked him to the pavement. . He
jerked himself under the truck, and
saved his life,. The vehicle above hirp
was badly injured, the falling house do
ing damage to the extent of $1,000, ac
cording to Chief W. B. Cummings, but
Lemons was not hurt further. This
truck had been braced, the firemen ex
pecting to raise a ladder from it, and
so it did not budge, when the frantic
horses tried to run.
Several other firemen were struck by
the falling brick, but none was serious
ly injured.
Policeman G. C. Watson was among
those hurt by the brick, but his . in
jury is not serious. Both he and
Chapman returned to the scene of the
catastrophe when their wounds had
been dressed.
Th e building at 142 Whitehall, for
merly owned by I. S. Mitchell, is now
said to be the property of S. A. Aiider-
son, of Marietta, and the structures
on it were being remodeled for stores.
“Several apartments upstairs were not
occupied. It was this building which
first gave way, and the upper portion
of 140 Whitehall, where a number of
people were living, followed. The
stores on the ground floor of 140
Whitehall were not occupied, but on
the two upper stories Mr. and lire. J.
P. Ramsey conducted a lodging house.
They, with Peter Lavasuer, a Frencn-
man, occupiej the top story. At out 4
o’clock they were awakened by the
falling of mortar and an occ£*sional
brick.
WILSON TO PAY DAILY
VISITS TO THE CAPITOL
To Use President's Room in
National Capitol to Watch
Congress
(By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, Feb. 27.—Lively dis
cussion was precipitated in congression
al circles today by a published state
ment credited to President-elect Wilson
that he intended to spend part of each
working day in the president’s room at
the capitol, to keep in closer touch with
legislative affairs.
Such action on the part of the presi
dent would overturn a precedent which
has restricted the president’s visits to
the capitol to the last hours of a ses
sion in congress.
Democratic leaders today discussed
'the reported plan of Mr. Wilson with
reluctance, though many seemed to favor
it.
“If President Wilson wishes to come
to the capitol and advise with congress,
he will be welcome,’’ said Senator
O’Gorman.
"The closer the president and con-
egress can get in the transaction of pub
lic business the better it will be," said
Senator Pomerene, or^Ohio. His expres
sion was concurred in by Senator John
son, of Maine.
"PRESIDENTIAL ENCROACHMENT."
The chief reason tor the long estab
lished precedent keeping the president
in the White House a mile away from
the capitol is said to be a sentiment
in the house and senate to what has
been interpreted as “presidential en
croachment’’ upon the freedom of action
of congress.
Sortie Democratic leaders of the sen
ate said they believed Mr. Wilson would
find it impossible to leave his executive
duties and visit the capitol from day
to day, and that he would not find it
so easy to confer over the progress of
legislation at the capitol as at the
White House.
Some Democrats expressed the opin
ion that such visits of a president
might not be received with favor if
he came to take a hand in shaping leg
islation.
WHAT TILLMAN SAYS.
"Much will depend on what he comes
for," said Senator Tillman. “If he comes
to advise with us. we shall be glad to
have him; if he comes to dictate to us,
as I do not believe he would, we should
not want him here. When he has an
opportunity to study conditions at a
closer range, I think we will change
his mind about coming."
Senator Fletcher. Democrat, and Bur
ton, Republican, spoke approvingly of
the plan.
“We shall be glad to have him; it
will give us an opportunity to get ac
quainted,” said Mr. Burton.
“It is a good thing to do if the presi
dent can spare the time. To have the
president in his room at the capitol
would greatly facilitate business,” said
Senator Fletcher."
MORGAN'S GO. DENIES
MONEY TRUST EXISTS
Says Evil Hands Would Spoi
Congress a3 Well as
Banks
BILLS GAUSE BIG SUIT
Baltimore Hotel Sues Bank-
head for Board of the
"Marching Club"
(By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, Feb. 27.—Senator J.
H. Bankhead, of Alabama, manager of
the recent campaign of House Leader
Oscar W. Underwood for the pregidency,
is defendant in a suit filed here .by the
proprietor of a Baltimore hotel to re
cover t $1,273, which is alleged to be
due on a contract for quarters for “the'
Oscar W. Underwod Marching club.”
The hotel proprietor declared that on
June 6, Senator Bankhead, acting for
the marching club, contracted for sleep
ing accommodations for 400 members
of the organiaztion from June 24 to
WASHINGTON, Feb. 27.—A general
denial of the existence or possibility of
a “money trust" was presented to the
house money trust committee today In a
long letter from J. P. Morgan & Co,,
at the invitation of the committee.
Upon the receipt of the Morgan let
ter today, Chairman Pujo gave out a
letter written to Morgan & Co., saying
that the invitation to Morgan & Co.
had been extended on January 27, and
that the committee had been at work on
its report for a month.
“Your iyemorandum," the reply con
cluded, “manifestly comes too late to
be of value."
The Morgan letter laid at the door of
the present banking and. currency laws
the responsibility for any “concentra
tion” of money and credit that may
exist. *
” I# its conclusions as to the commit
tee’s activities the letter said:
“We venture to submit the consider
ation! that in a strong public opinion;
such as exists in this country, there
lies the greatest safeguard of the com
munity—always assuming that congress
will evolve a basic system of banking
which is scientific and su^iid—as at
the present time, ours admittedly is not.
“The public, that is the depositors,
are the ones who entrust bankers with
such influence and power as they today
have in every civilized ldnd and the
public is unlikely to entrust that power
to weak or evil hands.
“Your counsel asked more than one
witness whether the present power held
by bankers in this country would not
become a menace if it lay in evfl hands.
“Such inquiry answers itself. All
power, physical, intellectual, financial
or political is dangerous in evil hands.
If congress were to fall into evil hands,
the results might be deplorable.
“But to us, it seems as little likely
that the citizens of this country will
fill congress w]th rascals, as it is that
they will entrust the leadership of
their business and financial affairs to
a set of clever rogues."
The letter says that such concen
tration of money in New York as hrts
occurred is due to the “antiquated bank
ing system" and the natural law, which
“in every country, creates some one
city as the great financial center."
That pan of the money trust resolu
tion declaring that it ^is “generally be
lieved" that groups of financiers
“create, avert, and compose compa
nies," was particularly attacked by the
letter.
Morgan & Co., set forth that any
withholding of money or credit by one
man in any market, would be “prompt
ly relieved by the automatic flow of
credit from some altogether foreign
source.”
“We regret,” said the letter, “that a
belief so incredible, so abhorent and
so harmful to th e country should for a
moment have found lodgement any
where. And we welcome your invita
tion as an opportunity for us to state
that to the extent of our observations
and experience, there is not even a ves
tige of t^uth in the idea that in whole
or in part the financial convulsion of
1907 was brought through the design
of any man or men."
Bainbridge Carnival
(Special Dispatch to The Journal.)
BAINBRIDGE, Ga., Feb. 27.—There is
a carnival being held in Bainbridge this
week, the first that has been here in
over two years.
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June 2t>, inclusive, at a rate of $1,200
a clay.
The $1,273 represents the amount, ac
cording to the hotel man, that is still
due upon the contract. Senator Bankhead
has not yet made reply.
IT POLICE cum
TRIED MOT SELF
New Light Thrown on Mrs,
Appelbaum's Spectacular
Montgomery Career by Lat
est Dispatches
Mrs. J. A. Appelbaum has been men
tally abnormal for several weeks, ac
cording to her physician, Dr. J.' S.
Liebman, and now verges upon a men
tal and a physical breakdown.
She fell upon the floor of her cell In
convulsions at midnight on Wednesday,
and an hour of heroic treatment was
all that brought her back to con
sciousness. Dr. Liebman attended her
then.
“If she suffers another fit of convul
sions,” announced Dr. Liebman Thurs
day morning, “she probably will die.
And if the police put her through the
third degree, I doubt that a trial will
be necessary. No one will be left to
try.
“Since I first saw her three weeks
ago, when she attempted suicide by
drinking laudanum, she has not been
mentally normal.
“She is now on the brink of collapse,
and another day like that of yesterday
could very easily end in her complete
breakdown—possibly her death.”
That this is not the first occasion on
which her alleged manipulation of a re
volver has caused Mrs. Callie Scott-Hen-
derson-Keller-Appelbaum to find herself
In difficulties with the police, Is the
statement made' in special dispatches to
The Journal from Montgomery, the for
mer home of the woman, who is charged
with the shooting of Jerry A. Appel
baum, who was killed in his room at the
Dakota hotel Monday morning.
According to these dispatches. Mrs.
Appelbaum onc e fired on ex-Captain
Martin, of the Montgomery police force,
and once she came to the attention of
the authorities, when she attempted to
shoot herseV to death.
In additio^Mt is said that she appeared
in the Montgomery police court more
than once as the result of strenuous dif
ficulties with J. M. Keller, heti jjecoui—
husband.
On the morning of her arrest, when she
was being queetioned about her knowl
edge of firearms, according to Chief of
Detectives N. A. Lanford, the woman
told him that'she was an expert with a
revolver and rifle, agd that often she had
shot birds with a rifle from horseback.
This was one of the many semi-hys
terical statements made by the woman
directly after her arrest, according to the
official, and he was unabje to get her to
tell about her practice with firearms.
Interesting among the dispatches dealing
with the checkered past of the woman, I
who is a principal figure in the latest
sensational murder mastery, is that stat
ing that she was an excellent business
woman, and Is believed to have a small
fortune of her own, despite her state
ments that Appelbaum ran through $8,000,
all she jmd, during the few months she
lived with him.
Friends of the woman in Montgomery
deny the statement by her second hus
band (Keller) that she did not give him
money to start hi s flourishing automobile
business in the Alabama capital. On the
contrary, they say, she was an excellent
business woman and not only supplied
the capital for the venture, but assisted
In conducting the enterprise.'
LEFT INSURANCE.
The latest development with refer
ence to the dead man Is that he car
ried an accident insurance policy in the ,
United Commercial Travelers’ for $6,300,
made payable to Mrs. Callie Scott Ap-
petbaum.
This, however, is probably not collect- i
able in the event ltl is proven that she i
killed him, or that he killed himself, !
although should it be decided by the
jury (as in the Grace case) that she j
shot him accidentally In a sctiffle over i
a revolver, she might b e able to collect
the policy.
body Unclaimed.
Manager Brown, of the Dakota hotel.
Is In receipt of a letter Thursday morn-I
ing from the Charlotte, N. C., council I
of the United Commercial Travelers' as-1
sedation in reply to his wire of re
cent date seeking Information regard
ing relatives of Appelbaum.
The letter states that the dead man i
who lies unclaimed in the undertak
ing parlors of Greenberg & Bond was
a member of the Charlotte council. They
had no information of his relatives.
Montgomery Dispatches
Tells of Troubles There
MONTGOMERY, Ala., Feb. 26.—Callie
Scott’s arrest in Atlanta on a charge
of killing her supposed husband. J. A.
Appelbaum, created little surprise in
Montgomery. Several times she has been
in serious trouble here, having shot at
one man, attemtped suicide by the pis
tol route, and fired at Mr. Martin, for
mer captain of police.
She came to Montgomery ten or fif
teen years ago, and became a seam
stress. She rented a house and placed a
sign, "Plain sewing" at the entrance.
Persons who know her denied her for
mer husband’s (I*. H. Keller’s) state
ment that she did not furnish him the
money to begin the automobile busi
ness. It was said that the woman sold
her property and started Keller in the
automobile business, and that she mort
gaged his automobile later. P'-'i*.-
Practically every attorney in Mortt-*
gomery lias been consulted by the wprri-
an in one case or. another. She and her "
husband, Keller, were in difitapltiea
often, and they were aired in recorder's
court.
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