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VOLUME XII.
ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, APRIL 25, 1913.
NO. 62.
WILSON REMOVES NEGRO
EROM FLORIDA OEEIGE
"The Voice Is the Voice of
Jacob but the Hand Is the
Hand of Esau’-FormerPres-
t
ident Guides Gov, Johnson
BY RALPH SMITH.
WASHINGTON, April 24.—“The voice
is Jacob’s voice, but the hand is the
hand of Esau,” asserted the administra
tion men as they realizze the cordially,
non-committal telegrams received by
President Wilson from Governor John
son and the two houses of the legisla
ture of California regarding the visit of
Secretary Bryan to Sacramento. That
is to say, they believe Colonel Theo
dore Roosevelt is directing the governor
California and the Progressive majority
in the legislature in their negotiations
with the federal administration in the
proposed land legislation.
That Colonel Roosevelt has taken a
hand in the matter is correct. The news
has direct confirmation of that from the
best authority. The country, therefore,
is to see a battle of wits between two
distinguished leaders of the Democratic
and Progressive parties. Each is direct
ing his side of the peculiar contest from
his proper place on the Atlantic coast,
and action is deferred until Secretary
Bryan reaches the capftal of California.
Each big chief will be working through
his ablest lieutenant.
While president, Colonel Roosevelt
came to understand the Japanese prob
lem in the Pacific coast and Rocky
mountain states. Moreover, he is thor
oughly informed as to the attitude of
the Japanese government, the temper of
the Japanese people and the limitations
of the treaty between the Japanese gov
ernment and the United States.
It is doubtless correct that he has
informed Governor Johnson how far he
can go in anti-alien land legislation
without giving the Japanese ground for
protest. And at the same time he has
scored in a political sense by forcing
the Democrats to assume an attitude, or
apparently assume it, which is repug
nant to the generally accepted demo
cratic doctrine of states rights. Also
he has compelled the Democrats in the
California legislature to join the in-
bad club, as far as the people of their
state are concerned, and this has made
a noise that has Reverberated clear
across the continent and echoed in the
White House. •
The colonel appears to be having a
good time, but the affair is not con
cluded, and it sways to the immediate
futute to reveal the victor in the duel
of wits.
If Governor Johnson and his legisla
ture hold matters in abeyance until
Secretary Bryan reaches Sacramento,
and the secretary succeeds in getting the
e^r of the' California public with a pop
ular compromise, the result eventually
may not be all to the good for the Pro
gressives and all to the fritz for the
Democrats.
HOUSE MEETS HOUR
EARLIER EOR TARIFF
Discussion of Underwood Bill
Is Under Way in Both
House and Senate
(By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, April 24.—Tariff dis
cussion was under way again today on
both the senate and. house sides of the
capitol. There were informal confer
ences among senators and the house met
an hour earlier than usual. The house
Republicans conferred regarding their
caucus tonight when they purposed to
settle upon their policy as to the cot
ton schedule.
The caucus already has voted in favor
of the wool schedule, prepared by Rep
resentative Payne, but the cotton sched
ule has been delayed through what Rep
resentative Gardner, of Massachusetts,
has explained as inability of the sub
committee of the ways and means minori
ty to agree. Representative Gardner
expected to be ready with the plan
tonight.
Representative Peters, of Massachu
setts, a member of the ways and means
committee majority which framed the
Democratic bill, was among the speak
ers of the Democratic side, presenting
an elaborate argument in defense of
the committee measure.
Leaders of all three parties have
been confronted with a disposition of
their colleagues to delay speeches until
the latter part of the time allotted to
general debate, which will expire Mon
day night.
Joe Lee at Last Loses Scalp.
Lewis Made Revenue Col
lector for Florida
B’ RALPH SMITH.
WASHINGTON. April 24.—The head
of another negro office holder in the
south fell in the basket today when
President Wilson sent to the senate the
nomination of Hayes B. Lewis to be in
ternal revenue collector for the state of
Florida. I^ewis is a prominent Demo
crat of Marianna, and succeeds Joe Lee,
•a negro politician, who has been a big
factor in Republican politics of the
south for many years.
G. O. P. CAUCUS.
By unanimous vote, the Republican
senate caucus today agreed there should
be no general reprisal upon President
Wilson for the Democratic holdup of
the Taft nominations, during the last
session of congress. But that Repub
lican opposition would be shown in the
following cases:
In appointments to the consular ser
vice or to minor departments, diplo
matic posts such as secretaries of em
bassies or legations, where the merit
system resorted to by former Presi
dents Roosevelt and Taft was not fol
lowed.
Where vacancies were created by re
movals of office which carry a fixed
tenure, unless made for cause, and
particularly where removals are made
from* offices which require technical
or specail knowledge.
A statement issued after the caucus
declared that .removals from offices of
indeterminate tenure, “should ge made
only for cause.”
OTHER NOMINATIONS.
President Wilson 'today nominated
these postmasters .among others:
B. M. .Burgher, Dallas, Tex.; John D.
Kilbourne. Pine teluff. Ark.; H. P.
Brewer, Muskogee, Okla.; Norman H.
Martin, Weatherford, Tex.
Among the other nominations today
were: Secretary of legation at Copen
hagen, Alexander R. Magruder, of
Maryland.
Assistant attorney general. Samuel J.
Graham, of Pittsburg, Pa.; United
States judge fourth circuit, Charles J.
Wood, of South Carolina.
Commissioner of labor statistics,
Charles P. Neill, Washington, D. C.
Collector of internal revenue for Flor
ida, Hayes H. Lewis; commissioner of
fish and fisheries, Hugh M. Smith, of
Washington. D. C.
Auditor/or the navy department, Ed
win Luckow, of Winsconsin.
Auditor for state and other depart
ments, Ed D. Hearne, Delaware.
Political influences directing at the
war department for promotion of army
officers will react against the men in
whose behalf it is brought if they have
any part in it. Secretary Garrison,
through the general staff, today issued,
an odrer renewing former President
Roosevelt’s prohibition of the practice
and announced that in each case he
would call upon the officer in question
to explain hie part in it. The order
will affect many influential government
officials.
IE LEAD
ANOTHER TORNADO COMING
By H. T. Webster
Census Bureau Bulletin Show
ing Number of Bales Ginned
in Each Georgia County for
the Last Three Years
100 KIEEED IN MINE
AT FINLEYVILLE, PA.
Fire Damp Causes Explosion
Which Wrecks Mine Near-
Pittsburg
Russian Princess
Falls With Airship;
German. Pilot Killed
BERLIN, April 24.—The German avi
ator, Dunetz, was killed this morning
at the Johannisthal aerodrome by fall
ing from a Considerable height while
flying in his aeroplane.
Princess Eugenie Shakoffskoya. a cer
tificated Russian air pilot; Vsevolod
Abramovitcli, a Russian airman, also
fell while flying in a biplane at Johan
nisthal to^ay. Both were injured,
Abramo'vitch very severely and the
princess slightly.
Their machine collapsed at a height
of thirty feet and dashed to the
ground.
Abramovitch made a flight from Ber
lin to St. Petersburg last August.
YOUNG WOMAN KILLED
' BY CHARLOTTE AUTO
(By Associated Press.)
CHARLOTTE, N. C.. April 24.—Miss
Annie King, a young “woman aged twen
ty-three, was run over by an automobile
driven by J. L. Houston, in front of
the Dilworth power station Wednesday
afternoon, and died on the operating ta
ble at a local hospital, where she was
taken immediately after the accident.
Her skull w.as fractured, arm broken
mnA aha vui iniurad intarnallv.
By Associated Press.)
PITTSBURG, April 24.—With the com
ing of dawn, fresh crews took the places
of tired workers who had toiled unceas
ingly throughout the night in an effort to
penetrate the recesses of the Cincinnati
mine of the Pittsburg Coal company at
Finleyvilie, Pa., where an explosion of
fire damp yesterday killed, it is estimat
ed, 100 men and wrecked the mine.
Eighteen bodies had been removed
from the mine to a morgue this morn
ing, and it was reported that about
seventy-five bodies in all had been
found.
That the mine contains many more
dead, even officers of the company ad
mit, while leaders of the rescure parties
and some of the men who escaped from
the workings are of the opinion that
the fatalities will number close to 100.
However, it will be impossible to deter
mine the exact extent of the catastrophe
until the mines of main and cross entries
have been explored.
Many men working with feverish haste
are building brattices to carry the fresh
air through the gas filled galleries.
Crews from the Pittsburg station of
the United States bureau of mines were
hurried to the mining town to recover
the bodies of the dead and rescue such
as might have survived the explosion
and the dreaded "after damp.”
Child’s Expression
Of Horror at Trial
Acquits His Mother
MEMPHIS, Tenn., April 24.—Her lit
tle son’s expression of horror and fear
at the Sslght of the pistol with which
she shot and killed her husband, was
the prime factor in the acquittal late
yesterday of Mrs. Ora. D. Cargill, on
trial for the murder of Bailey Cargill
a few months ago.
Mrs. Cargill claimed she shot in self-
defense and tnat her husband had oft
en threatened herself and children with
the pistol. One of the theories of the
prosecution was that Cargill was mur
dered while he was asleep.
William, the six-year-old son of the
couple, was not put on the stand, but
when the pistol was displayed as evi
dence his cry of horror, while not a
portion of the written record of the
case, did not pass unnoticed by the jury.
A verdict of acquittal was returned
within a half hour after the case was
given to the jury.
DICKENS’ LITTLE DORRIT
DIES AT AGE OF 100
LONDON. April 24.—Mrs. Mary Ann
Cooper, of Southgate, the original of
Dickens’ “Little Dorrit,” died yesterday
in her hundredth year.
She and Dickens,were boy and girl to
gether when they lived in the same
jit raat in Somerstown.
BY BALPK SMITH.
WASHINGTON, April 24.—the good
old county of Burke^ for many years
the banner cotton county of Georgia,
is gradually losing its place .accord
ing to a bulletin Issued by the census
bureau today, showing the number of
bales of cotton ginned in every county
in Georgia in the years 1910, 1911 and
1912.
Laurens county heads the list, Sum
ter is second and Burke a close third.
Four years ago Burke ranked first, and
until last year was firmly fixed in sec
ond place. Local climatic conditions are
believed to be in large part responsi
ble for the face that Burke county
slipped back a notch last year. The
chances are that with her unrivaled
soil she may win her proud place once
more.
Here are the figures for the three
counties for the past three years:
1912 1911. 1910.
Laurens 37,921 60.920 38,400
Sumter 34,453 48.207 26,827
Burke 34,282 57,086 38,948
The bulletin shows that last year—
1912—Georgia’s total crop amounted to
1,812,107 bales, counting round bales as
half bales and excluding ltnters.
The counties of the state are ar
ranged alphabetically in the appended
list, and the crop for the past three
years is shown:
County 1012 1011 1010
The State 1,812,107 2,704,2^5 1,812,178
Appling 5,668 0,178 5,373
Baker 6,080 1 0,303 6,470
Baldwin 11,175 16,322 10,843
Banka 0,122 15,204 11,300
Bartow ., .. .. 38,043 27.413 18,833
Ben Hill .. .. 8,177 12,555 7,351
Berrien 13,283 20,291 12,652
Bibb .J .. .. 0,357 17,161 11,076
Bleckley (1) .... 8,007 .... ....
Brooks 10,325 15,877 0,843
Bryan 2,472 4,670 2,973
Bullocr .J .. .. 22,506 40,279 31,153
Bprke .... 34,283 57,086 38,949
Butts 12,540 18,367 12,064
Calhoun 14,408 20,592 13,683
Campbell 10,722 16.490 11,777
Carroll .... .. 32,364 44,421 32,781
Catoosa 3,421 3,353 993
Chattahoochee .. 6,339 8.987 6.600
Chattooga . . .. 10,710 x f4,442 9.092
Cherokee .... 10,150 14.864 9,588
Clarke ..... .. 10,095 15,646 11,108
Clay .... .... 10,049 15,063 10,307
Clayton 30,040 16.256 11,532
Clinch 1,051 1,607 930
Cobb 16,733 25.668 18,418
Coffee *..18,400 20.389 12,315
Colquitt .. .. .. 17,414 Sll'tJfaf 13,458
Columbia 10,470 20,633 1 2,474
Coweta 28,699 44,985 32,357
Crawford 5,801 10,268 5,066
Crisp 22,093 26,730 14,834
Dawson 1,645 2,757 1,641
Decatur 11.677 18,321 11,978
DeKalb 0,563 16,463 10,087
Dodge 22,617 37,622 23,059
Dooly 29,953 46,502 27,066
Dougherty 15,536 22,587 13,050
Douglas 8,114 11,734 8,302
Early*. 36,316 21,778 14,717
Echols 224 530 417
Effingham .. .. 3,291 4.930 3,566
Elbert 16,047 27,797 18,417
Emanuel 22,934 39,690 27,729
Payette 12.104 10,718 13,470
Floyd 17.415 23.042 16,018
Forsyth 9.528 14,827 10,1S6
Franklin 20,726 30,563 22,270
Fulton ...< 1,768 3.518 2.612
Glascock 3456 5,253 2,744
Gordon 13.819 15,456 10,637
Grady 5,822 9.039 6,002
Greene .... ..... 14.52S 25,379 14,204
Gwinnett .... 21.658 34.463 21,763
Habersham .. *. 1,438 2,074 1,206
Hall . 14,395 23.207 15.233
Hancock 15,766 25,636 14.063
Haralson ... 10,176 15,302 10,040
Harris 22,890 30.015 22,990
Hart .*. 15,223 25.648 18,211
Heard 12.525 21.000 14,760
Henry 21,026 34.660 25,113
Houston 15,841 31,795 17.T37
Irwin 13,794 22,990 13,099
Jackson 34.070 53,335 37,752
Jasper -. 22,108 31.460 20,997
Jeff Davis ...... 3,288 5,277 2,797
Jefferson .. .... 20,546 33,454 21.575
Jenkins 12,171 23.085 16,643
Johnson 14.579 21,755 14,406
•Tones ... * 13.537 21.263 14.J04
Laurens 37.921 60.920 38,400
Lee 12,370 21,508 11.972
Liberty .. .. 1.265 3.145 1.679
Lincoln 8.470 11,785 7,736
Lowndes 6.908 12,723 8,650
Lumpkin ...... 615 060 550
McDuffie 7.404 13.802 8.138
Macon 14,002 20,446 11,873
Madison 20,203 30,852 20.798
Marion 8.467 11,031 7.129
Meriwether .. .. 31.056 43.S5J 33,1S6
Miller 5,178 4,000 3,505
Milton 7.065 10,766 7,058
Mitchell 24.708 37.040 21,664
Monroe 21,500 31.332 22.031
Montgomery , ..(2) 11,139 27,447 17,187
Morgan 23.238 37.974 23,230
Murray 3,280 3.500 1,710
Muscogee .. { . ;■ 7.591 8,857 6,916
Newton 10,751 30,083 10.793
Oconee ... .. 12,845 20.367 13.017
Oglethorpe .. 21,080 31,713 18,723
Paulding .. 0,505 13,244 0.573
thickens 2,768 3.790 2,338
Pierce 3,183 7,340 3,538
Pike ... 20,783 28,023 21,282
Polk 13,400 10,875 13,341
Pulaski (1) 12,040 35,024 21.100
Putnam 11.029 20,077 11,770
Quitman .. 5,105 6,753 4,684
Randolph 24,084 *?,799 10,338
Richmond 7.573 18,473 7,115
Rockdale . ..... 7,375 11,505 6,819
Schley .. ..... 6.006 0,064 • 5,907
Screven 21,408 34.049 24,703
Spalding 17,386 24.812 10.339
Stephens • 5,558 8,276 5,480
Stewart 15,295 20.955 13.125
Sumter 34,453 48,207 26,827
Talbot 11.070 14,247 10,615
Taliaferro .. .. 7,577 12,981 7.512
Tattnall 10,386 21.338 14,366
Taylor 10,784 14,938 10,012
Telfair 12,007 18,340 12.429
Terrell 33,360 44,970 27.290
Thomas ., , .. ,, 16,908 25,233 16,202 TVashington
Tift 9,885 14,970 8,194 Wayne
Toombs 7,702 . 14,167 10,330 Webster
Troup 24,084 33.654 24.940 Wheeler
Turner 16,373 22.411 12,858 White
Twiggs 9,035 17,208 10,610 Whitfield
Upson 13,375 18.653 13.237 Wilcox
Walker 6.191 8.752 4,351 Wilkes
Walton 32,200 50,662 32,113 Wilkinson
Ware ... 1,012 1.497 1,002 Worth
W&ruon _ S-4QQ 16-3X1 a.ftflp All pihcf, .
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AUSTRIA DEMANDS THAT
MONTENEGRO EVACUATE
Government Wires European
Nations Demanding Others
to Send Ultimatum
BERLIN, April 24.—Austria-Hungary
telegraphed to all the other, powers yes
terday, demanding that they send an
ultimati m to Montenegro to evacuate
Scutari within forty-eight hours, ac
cording to an unconfirmed dispatch
from Vienna to the Zeitung-Am-Mittag.
Otherwise, Austria declares, she and
her allies will take steps to protect her
political interests.
There are many indications here to
day that the German government offi
cials regard the European situation as
critical. A high diplomatic official
said today:
“Europe has entered another crisis as
grave as that which preceded the Aus-
tro-Russian demobilization.”
The press bureau of the German for
eign office, contrary to its usual cus
tom. was not prepared today with a
statement either in regard to the ulti
matum to Montenegro or to the general
situation. An official, however, be
lieved it probable that fbree would be
employed to expel the Montenegrins
from Scutari.
The’ official view here is that all the
European powers will work together
until the problem has been solved.
A feeling of consternation and "help
lessness was displayed at yesterday’s
conference of the ambassadors in Lon
don.
The imperial chancellor and the for
eign minister visited the budget com
mittee of the imperial parliament today
in order to make a considerable com
munication to its members in regard to
the international situation.
The abandonment of the trip by Em
peror William of his proposed journey
on the steamship Imperator, and his de
termination to return to Berlin from
Hamburg on April 28, are attributed in
well informed quarters to the crisis
brought about by the fall of Scutari.
The stock market was demoralized
today by the fears of grave political
complications.
BARTOW BEGINS WORK
FOR COUNTY FAIR
CARTERSVILLE, Ga., April 24.—
Work on the fair grounds is proceeding
rapidly and will be vigorously pushed
to completion. A large force of labor
is at work and the race track which
is to be one Of the best and fastest in
the state is beginning to look as if ev
erything will be ready on time. The
directors of the Fair association are the
county’s best business men, and they
have ample funds to make the Bartow
County fair in October next the most
extensive and important ever attempt
ed in the state, and that’s what they
say they propose to. do.
A large and important list of prizes
has already been offered, and the man
agement proposes to bring here next fall
some of the best race horses in the bus
iness. Mr. George Stiles and H. E. F.
Jones, two prominent race horse men,
are going to see to it that the best
racing meet ever held at a county fair
in Georgia will be secured for this fair.
WILSON CONFERS WITH SENATORS
BEFORE OPEN DOOR AT CAPITOL
President Makes Third Trip to Capitol Building and Hutts
Conferences in President’s Room With the Door Stand
ing Open-Holds One Conference in Auto on Way to Capitol
22.957
2.442
4.380
(2) 5.817
686
5.012
18,361
22,634
0,684
17,367
37.C86
5,603
7,161
1,112
6.032
25,074
*4,990
10,179
31.469
2*253
BY BALFH SMITH.
WASHINGTON, April 24.—One hour
in his office before an open efuor at the
capitol this afternoon afforded Presi
dent Wilson an oportunity to receive
and confer with thirteen representatives
and sixteen senators concerning the bus-
iess of the public. Senators Bacon and
Smith and three Georgia congressmen.
Bell of the Ninth, Hughes of the
Twelfth and Howard of the Fifth, were
among those who saw Mr. Wilsun, the
congressmen urged him to consider
with favor the name of W. V. Turley
of Chattanuoga, for public printer. The
senators called simply to pay their re
spects.
Congressman Bell explained that th*
interest of the Georgia congressmen in
the appointment of Turley was due to
the fact that he was a practical printer
qualified in every essential for the du
ties of the office and comes from the
south.
President Wilson.s visit to the capitol
today—the third in his eight weeks of
office—was a precedent-breaking trip
so far as the capitol historian could say.
Other presidents had gone to the cap
itol to read their addresses or mes
sages as President Wilson did on April
8, but there was no Record of any other
jires.'dent going there to have time in
talking about appointments.
President Wilson arranged his visit so
he would reach the president’s room in
ample time for conferences before the
senate convened at 2 o’clock. The talk,
it was announced, was to be about ap
pointments in which the president want
ed to make the usual inquiries of court
esy from the senators concerned.
The president told friends that the
arrangement of waiting for the sena
tors to come to the White House involv
ed a great loss of time, so he proposed
to go to his room in the capitol, where
he might confer with senators quickly.
President Wilson had a long list of
engagements for today but nevertheless
planned to attend the Boston-Washing
ton baseball game.
Democratic National Chairman Mc
Combs was the first caller, followed by
Senator Newlands, chief among the
senators opposing free wool.
The British ambasasdor, James
Bryce, the American minister to Co
lombia, James Dubois, and .the Amer
ican commission which will go abroad
to study agricultural credit, were to
see the president early «in the after
noon.
CONFERENCE IN AUTO
The president closed up his morning
engagements just before noon and start
ed for*the capitol with Secretary Tu
multy in one of the White House mo
tors. Representative Jones, of Virgin
ia, one of the leading advocates of
Independence for the Philippines, had a
short engagement with the president and
so that he might arrive at the capitol
promptly, Mr. Wilson invited M. Jones
into the car to talk on the way. At
the capitol the president went directly
to his room and began his conferences
with senators.
Senator Gore was the president’s first
caller. Senators Sheppard and Fletcher
followed.
Representatives Oldfield and Goodwin
of Arkansas, Hughes, Howard and Bell
of Georgia, and Sisson, Collier and Stev
ens of Mississippi asked the president to
appoint William L. Turley, of Chatta
nooga, Tenn., as public printer.
“What did the president say?” they
were asked.
“He listened very politely and smil
ed,” said the spokesman.
HOKE SMITH CALLS.
The door to the president's room was
left wide open and the small group
which gathered in the corridor could
see the president in conversation with
those who came to call upon him.
Senator Hoke Smith and Senator
Shields conferred briefly. Senator La-
Follette came for a short talk and had
an earnest conversation with the pres
ident. He said it concerned appoint
ments only.
Senator Tillman was the president’s
last caller, and after having been at
the capitol an hour to the minute and
after having conferred with sixteen sen
ators and thirteen representatives, the
president rode back to the White House.
He shook hands with several admirers
as he passed out of the senate corridor.
APPELUM CASE 10
DEFENSE
‘‘SUICIDE’’
Trial Resumed at 1:45 p, m.
Tuesday - State Finished
Evidence Early in oMrning
Session of Trial
STRINGER BREAKS DOWN
AS HE GOES TO PRISON
Confessed Thief of $5,000
Express Package Gets
18 Months
(Special Dispatch to The Journal.)
JESUP, Ga., April 24.—J. Dillard
Stringer, the young messenger who con
fessed on Saturday to the theft of $5,000
from the express company on Wednes
day of last week, pleaded guilty in the
superior court of Wayne county Wednes
day. He was sentenced to the peniten
tiary for eighteen months.
Stringer, who came into court with
his father, was much affected, as were
others in the court room by his recital.
His father accompanied him back to
jail after his sentence and the boy
broke down again at the door of the
jail, where his parent left him.
The case has been very speedily dis
posed of. It was only one week ago
that the money was stolen.
DIES IN CELL;
FOUND DRUNK ON STREET
Mrs, Dougherty, of Macon,
Found Dead Several Hours
After Her Arrest
(Special Dispatch to The Journal.)
MACON, Ga., April 24—Mrs. Margaret
Dougherty, arrested late Tuesday on the
streets for drunkenness, was found dead
in her cell Tuesday night just before
midnight, when a call officer entered the
barracks to attend to the wants of sev
eral prisoners. From appearances, she
had been dead several hours.
A coroner’s jury investigated her death
Wednesday morning and found that she
died from acute alcoholism.
Mrs. Dougherty was from Ireland and
was without a living relative here. Since
the death of her husband two years ago
she became addicted to drink.
She was frequently seen on the streets
partly intoxicated. The body will be
buried by friends here.
With Indication that the trial will be
continued without further intermission
to Its conclusion, and that perhaps it
will be some time Thursday evening or
night before the case goes to the jury,
the hearing of the murder charge
against Mrs. Callie Scott Appelbaum,
charged with the death of her supposed
husband, Jerome A. Appelbaum, in the
Dakota hotel in v Atlanta on February
25, was resumed at 1:45 o’clock Thurs
day afternoon following a forty-five*»
min- recess for lunch.
During the day’s session that far, the
state h a d finished its evidence and the
defense had advanced considerably
upon its own testimony. The state
concluded twenty-five minutes after
court convened Thursday morning*
T.iat was unexpected. The state had
attempted to show a motive—jealousy
-•by introducing the letters which Ap
pelbaum had received from other wom
en and which the accused woman had
in her possession; and had endeavored
to establish that Appelbaum could not
have killed himself, and that no one
else than she could have killed him.
The defense, on the other hand, had
attempted to show that Appelbaum waa
of the type of men from whom suicides
come most frequently, and that he
could have killed himself, and that very
probably he did kill himself; and that
Mrs. Appelbaum was under the influ
ence of a narcotic, administered the pre
vious evening by a physician, and that
the influence held her in a sub-con
scious state until hotel attendants threw
cold water on her face to revive her
when she fainted at the foot of the ho
tel stairs, immediately after the trag
edy.
DEFENSE BEGINS EVIDENCE.
E. F. Bond, undertaker who prepared
Appelbaum’s body for burial, adminis
trator of the dead man’s estate, W’as
the first witness of the defense. He
swore that he found powder burns
around the wound in the arm also. As
administrator, said he, he had not been
able to find anything considerable that
belonged to the dead man. He has had
much opportunity to observe the effect
of shot wounds upon people, said he.
G. Cohen, tarveling salesman for the
Celluloid Starch company, occupied the
room immediately adjoining that of the
Appelbaums in the hotel. Only a thin
door intervened, he swore. His bed was 1
nearly against that door. He had left
a call for 7 o’clock a. m., and was awake
and had just commenced to dress when
he heard a shot in the Appelbuums’
room. He obeyed his first impulse to,
dive back into the bed and pull the
covers over his head, said he. Then he
thought better of it, and started to call
the clerk by telephone. As he took
down the earpiece, said he. he heard an
other shot; then the sound of feet run
ning past his door in the hall; then
another shot, muffled. A few moments
later he entered the room with the clerk.
He described the position in which they
found Appelbaum dying.
As he detailed this, Mrs. Appelbaum
cried, showing the first emotion that
she manifested during the trial.
THAT THIRD SHOT.
Under cross examination by the state,
Cohen admitted that at the coroner’s
inquest he had not been certain that
the third sound he heard was a shot;
but later he pondered the matter, said
he; and his present conclusion is that
it was certainly a shot. Solicitor Dor
sey spent some time endeavoring to
make the witness admit he was badly
frightened and was very much excited.
Cohen declared he vfas excited when
he heard the first shot, but that then
he calmed down.
Harry Silverman, whose delicatessen
store and restaurant are on the ground
floor of .the Dakota hotel, swore that
he heard three shots. There was an
Interval of five seconds between the
first and second shots, said 1 he. The
third followed immediately after the
second. Simultaneously with the third
shot he heard some one run past his
room. He heard that person bump
against the wall of his room.
It seemed as if his room was near
the stairway, inasmuch as he had
sworn already that it was on the floor
below the Appelbaums room.
The person ran with a light tread,
said he. This detail corroborated
Cohen’s description. Mr. Silverman
could not swear that Appelbaum was
left-handed but he did remember, he
said, that Appelbaum once lifted a plats
with his left hand. He knew the couple,!
said the witness. They had been cus
tomers in his shop.
DR. LIEBMAN TESTIFIES.
Dr. J. S. Liebman, called by the de- .
fense, said he had a subpena from the j
state. He had known Appelbaum for
about three weeks prior to the targedy,
he swore. Appelbaum had described
himself as a French Jew by birth. The
physician described Appelbaum as being
about five feet eight inches high, of
slight build, with a narrow chest.
Dr. Liebman testified that he found
powder marks around the wound in Ap
pelbaum’s chest. He found other marks
near the wound on the arm. said he.
Appelbaum could have inflicted both
wounds, swore the physician.
Dr. Liebman broached the theory of
the defense that Mrs. Appelbaum waa
subconscious from the effect of a drug,
at the time of the tragedy. At 4:30
o’clock on the afternoon before the
tragedy, said the physician, he attended
Mrs. Appelbaum. She was very nerv
ous.
Dr. Liebman’s testimony was inter
rupted to allow Dr. E. H Waggoner to
go upon the stand, Dr. Waggoner re
porting that he had a hurry call. But
Solicitor Dorsey objected, and Dr. Wag
goner was excused, to testify later.
ALLEGED FORGER IS HELD
UNDER $6,000 BOND
B7 RALPH SMITH.
WASHINGTON. April 24.—H. M.
Thornton, the "slick duck," -who waa
trapped yesterday by Congressman
Schley Howard, when he endeavored to
palm off a forged cashier check on the
Lowry National bank, of Atlanta, waa
bound over this morning under a $6,000
Vend. The police declare that he is one
of the shrewdest operators in the coun
try, and they rejoice over his arrest.