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TTlE ATLANTA lib.OKGl \.\ AND NEWS, WEDNESDAY. APRTL 23. 1013
JURY SELECTED
CASE: TRIAL ON
Continued from Page One
lawyer? and the Solicitor. Unless
something entirely unlooked for de-
v el ope. Solicitor Dorsey expects the
case to be in the hand* of a Jury to
morrow.
Accused in Good Spirits.
Mrs. Appel ha urn arose early at the
'Power this morning and long before
the hour for her departure for the
court room she was anxiouslv await
ing t he arrival of attendants. She was
dre-sed as she was yesterday—bla< k
broadcloth ^kirt. black silk waist and
black oxfords. If anything, she was
in better spirits and more confident of
acquittal than she has been since she
was confined in ihe Tower, three
months ago.
Solicitor Dorsey will attempt to
break down the theory advanced by
Mrs. Appelbaum’s lawyers that Appel-
bnum shot himself. Whether he had
any witness, or witnesses, that would
throw any additional light on the
mystery he would make no statement,
but lie was equally as confident of
< onvicted, he said, as Mrs. Appel-
bauni and her attorneys were of ac
quittal.
Ii is understood that Applcbaum do-
fense will in- based on »h<* testimony
of two witnesses, the men who testi-
flcd at the < 'oronor’s inquest that in
ilie interval between the first and
second shot they heard In the App^t-
hauni room, they distinctly heard
footfalls, ns if some one were running
in the hall past their door.
if the jury believes it was Mrs.
Appelbaum that ran past G. Uohen's
door before the last, or second, shot
was fil' d, the suicide theory will bo
established, for it was only a few
•seconds after the last shot was fired
that Mis. Appelbaum, hysterical, ran
in in i in hotel lobby. *
Some one did run by Cohen's door
toward the staircase, say her lawyers,
and they will attempt to show It
was tin woman or trial for her life,
running from the sight of her hus
band shooting himself, or possibly go
ing for medical aid.
With the exception of a heightened
pallor caused by the long confine-
Vuout arid ;i slightt inge of gray in
her hair, Mrs. Api*‘lbaum looked but
lit tie different from the pictures of
her printed at the time of the shoot
ing. She was, however, an entirely
i. th »• in woman from the almost hys
terical witness at the coroner’s in
quest. She. was pei*fectly composed
and took a lively Interest in the
proceedings in the court room
Black Sheep of Rich Family.
Dispatches from New York say that
Appelbaum was the “black sheep” of
;i wealthy family there and that a
horror of becoming identified as rela
tives of the slain man led the mem
bers to permit his burial in a lot in
Atlanta which Mrs. Appelbaum pur
chased.
Heartbroken by the years of worry
which she had endured because of
his escapades which had their tragic
ending in the Dakota Hotel, his moth
cr, Mrs. Isador Appelbaum. is said
to he dying at her home, 1987 Daly
Avenue. Brbnx Borough. She had
been acquainted with the wild life of
her son, his many loves and the
homes that he was reported to have
ruined
Three years ago, abandoning hope
of his reformation, the family ostra
cised him utterly and heard nothing
from him until t lie news went abroad
that he had been shot down in his
room in an Atlanta hotel, either by
liis.own hand or that of his wife.
A brother of the dead man lives at
3tw West Ninety-ninth Street. New
York, and has offices at 55 liberty
Street.
Disowned After Disclosures.
Appelbaum’s career began in New
York about fourteen years ago when
be was named as defendant in a sen
sational separation suit filed by a wife
whoi^vhe married several months he-
Caruso Sketches
Mayor Woodward
And Colonel Peel
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T YRUS RAYMOND COBB,
the famous Georgia
baseball player, whose trouble
wit hthe Detroit Club has
threatened congressional in
tervention.
Wilson’s Plea That Secretary of (
State Be Allowed to Pass on
Measure Ignored.
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COLONEL W. L. PEEL.
Signor C’aruso. whe could make a
first-rate livelihood as cartoonist if
hi» golden voice were to fail, to-day
made these sketches of two of At
lanta’s leading citizens
Cohen, a traveling salesman, who had
room next to that of the Appel-
baums, was startled by the sound of
shots following angry words and
sounds like that of a sniffle.
lie t ailed I*. T. Thomason, the clerk,
on tiie r oin telephone, telling him to
hurry upstairs, as the people in the
next room were “shooting each other
up.”
Barely had Thomason started up
stairs, without waiting for the ele
vator, before Mrs. Appelbaum, dis
traught and hysterical, and clad only
in a night robe and kimono, stag
gered down the stairs land foil faint
ing into his arms.
Attracted by the shots and excite
ment, a crowd quickly gathered and
followed the hotel clerk up to room
211. Appelbaum. with a bullet wound
below his heirt and two wounds in
his right arm. ltu on the lloor dead.
Wife’s Story Was Incoherent.
Mrs. Appelbaum was incoherent. She
could give no satisfactory explanation
of the shooting. Her only statements
were the most disjointed and illogical
sentences.
In one breath she declared she could
not have killed her husband and in
the next she exclaimed that if she did
it was God’s work. Out of tier hys
terical ravings the listeners were able
to gather that there had been a quar-
rol; that she was acc using her hus
band. now dead, of having threatened
her at the pistol’s point if she did not
give her diamonds over into his pos
session.
"lb 1 was mean; he was had,” she
muttered. "If 1 shot him it was in
self-defense*."
She was placed in the Towel, where
she expressed the
WASHINGTON, April 23.—
Word reached the White House
this afternoon that the Califor
nia Senate and Aaeembly will
pass a joint resolution inviting
the Secretary of State to visit
California, following out Presi
dent Wilson’s suggestion made
earlier in the day. The Secretary
of State will leave for Sacramen
to either to-night or early to
morrow.
WASHING iON. April :3.—Presi
dent Wilson, alarmed at the develop
ments in the (’alifornia-Japanese
situation, to-day wired Governor
Johnson and the Legislature of Cali
fornia to inquire whether it would be
agreeable to them to have Secretary
of State Bryan visit Sacramento o
o-operate with the California au
thorities in framing an alien land
bill which would not trespass on the
treaty obligations of the United
States.
The President's message to John
son read:
Thank you for your patriotic
telegram. We find it so difficult
from this distance to understand
tuiiy the situation with regard to
the sentiment or the circum
stances lying back of the pend
ing proposal concerning the
ownership of land in the State
that I venture to inquire whether
it would be agreeable to you and
the Legislature to have the Sec
retary of State visit Sacramento
for the purpose of counseling
with you and the members of the
Legislature and co-operating
with you and them in the fram
ing of a law which would meet
with the views of the State and
yet leave untouched the interna
tional obligations of the United
States.
WOODROW WILSON.
The same telegram, with the ex
ception of the opening sentence, was
sent to the President of the Seryite
and the Speaker of the Assembly of
California.
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pelbaum asserted among other things
that her husband had threatened to
kill her. The separation was granted
and as a result of the disclosures Ap-
pelbaum's family practically disown
ed him. although they kept in touch
w ith him until three years ago.
Since that time he was compelled to
fiee many times from the vengeance
of the fathers and husbands of the
women over whom he appeared to
exercise a hypnotic influence As the
; roprietor of a drug store in Brook
lyn. a number of women fell in love
with him in his early adys, and he is
well remembered there yet.
Shots Followed Angry Words.
.Jerome A. Appelbaum was shot
while in his room at the Dakota Ho
tel the morning of February 25. G.
Hood’s
iarsaparilla
mindreds of homes is the fav-
fJTrsng Medicine
Made from Roots Barks. Herbs
and other ingredients, including
just those prescribed by the best
ph^icians for ailments of the
-bljrd, stomach, kidneys and liver.
CjLueg an appetite, •
iesiro to have de
fend her the same lawyers that suc
cessfully had defended Daisy Grace.
Moore A- Branch, whose case so close
ly paralleled her own and for whom
she was said to have exposed the
warmest admiration.
Trail of Conquests Bared.
In the discovery of a number of
love letters to Appelbaum from oili
er women, the detectives the follow
ing day thought they had discovered
a possible motive for the murder, if
murder it was. Dispatches from
Kansas City told of a wife from whom
he had been divorced only a few days.
If the dispatches were correct, be had*
been living bigamously with Call!*
Scott Appelbaum.
Letters disclosed a sweetheart in
Saginaw. Mich., identified only as
“Girlie.” Reports from Charlotte. N
C. wher* the Appel bail ms had lived
before coming to Atlanta, described a
trail of broken hearts that the Lotha
rio had !» ft across half the continent.
Callie Scott Appelbaum’s heart af
fairs had been no less tangled or im
petuous As an unsophisticated coun
try girl she had married C. D. Hen
derson of Brew ton. Ala. Later she
became the wife of J. H. Keller, of
Montgomery, Ala., and it was while
she was in Atlanta after divorcing
Keller that she met Appelbaum. .
Son Stands With Her.
The da\ after the shooting Mrs.
Vppelbaum collapsed, and It was
feared that she would have to be
xaken to the hospital. At her own re
quest she w as permitted to look upon
tlie body of her « ead husband, and
the experience unnerved her.
Her son. Claude Henderson, came
to Atlanta from Montgomery .soon
after she was imprisoned and dec lared
j he would stand by her to the end.
J He expres-ed his firm belief in her
I innocence.
' A dramatic scene was enacted at
tHe funeral of Appelbaum when the
widow was carried on a stretcher
from the Tower to witness the last
brief ceremonies. Three days later
the Fulton County Grand Jury in
dicted her for murder.
To The Georgian she gave >ester-
day the first statement she liad made
since entering the county jail after
the killing. Remarkably recovered
from the breakdown which followed
the tragedy, she voiced her calm as
surance that she would be acquitted
and the declaration that she had a
conscience perfectly clear and un
troubtd.
Declare Johnson Act^
On Roosevelt’s Advice.
SACRAMENTO, UAL.. April 23.—
News that President Wilson had sug
gested to Governor Hiram Johnson in
a telegram to-day that Secretary of
State William J. Bryan visit Califor
nia and confer over the anti-alien
land legislation created Intense in
terest here as regards its political
effect on national- and State politics.
Sume legislators to-day asserted
that Governor Johnson is acting on
advice secretly received from Roose
velt. Governor Johnson refused to
say whether he had heard from
Roosevelt.
That the fate of the anti-alien bill
was purely a matter of sharp party
politics was admitted by Senate lead
ers. The party line between the Dem
oerats and the Republicans and Pro
gressives, it was asserted, would be
sharply drawn when voting on the
bill came up. It is expected that the
vote will he taken to-morrow.
Many politicians here asserted that
the fact that partisan politics had
been injected into tin* issue was
shrewd move on the part of Wilson.
They asserted this meant the bill
would fall of passage in any form
and the administration would be
saved embarrassing complications.
guards, rifles across knees, eyes on
lhe men before them.
Hawthorne Affected.
In a corner near the little stage !
s.ii an old man, who has been much I
in the public prints of late, Julian!
Haw'thorne, himself a writer of not*.*, j
the giundson of the famous Xc - j
thaniel Hawthorne, master of litera j
ture. Jt had been only a day since j
the news had come to him that, li:-
plea for a parole had been refused.
II** is m*arce!v 60. but he seemed
years more than that to-day.
In a ( luster not far from the stage
0
waited the most appreciative mus;
lovers of the day, their swarthy faces
lighted with anticipation, their white
teeth shining as they smiled. Here
were Lupo the Wolf, once king of
the Black Handers*, and a little band
of his brother Italians captured with
him. C’aruso was no novelty to them,
though they had never expected to
hear -the golden tenor in such sur
roundings as this.
The Auditorium was deathly quiet
when the accompanist struck the keys
and C’aruso stepped to the little plat
form Behind him was the garish
scenery of tlie prison theater, rudely
painted by a convict with artistic ten
dencies. Before him sat the members
of the prison orchestra, musicians
drawn from the rank-** of the convicts.
Caruso Falters.
The tenor swept his dark eyes over
his strange audience, past the guards
and their rifles, up to the high barred
windows cut in the solid wall. Then
he began the opening bars of the “Oh.
Paradiso,” aria from Meyerbeer’s
“L’Africaine ’
If Caruso faltered a moment at the
beginning it must not be thought he
was in "bad voice.” It would not re
quire the temperament of an opera
singer to be touched out of one’s calm
by a scene like this. Bm the tenor
found himself, and the great aria of
Vasco di Gama, rich, s»onorous, boom
ed through the hall and echoed from
the wa'ls, Chose walls which shut in
everything that enters, upon which
there is inscribed no “Exit.”
The singer ceased. There was a
moment of silence, then a long, sibi
lant sigh, the expression of relief
from profound tension. Then a little
patter of applause, timid at first,
which swelled into a perfect peal of
hand-clapping. The prisoners stirred
in their seats, looked at one another
in Wonder, and waited for the next.
The next was Tosti’s ballad.
Idealla." a simple work sung with ail
the expression the master of all sing-
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Deluge Sweeping
Over Mississippi!
Break in Rolling Fork LeVee One
Mile Wide—Thousands Home
less— Fifty Towns Suffer.
American Embassy
Declines Jap Guard.
Spec'al Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
TOKIO, April 23.—The Japanese
Government to-day volunteered to*
place a guard over the United States
Embassy on account of the inflamed
condition of the populace, but such
protection was not deemed neces
sary
Keeling over the anti-alien bill
pending in the California Legislature,
aimed at the Japanese, is growing
more intense. Conservatives are at
tempting to calm the public by de-
laring ilie bill probably will be kill
MEMPHIS. TENN., April 23.—A
break more than a mile wide near
Roiling Fork. Miss., to-day permitted
water 30 feet deep to overflow' val
uable lands in Mississippi. Several
lives were reported lost.
Government officers at river points
below r Memphis to-day began dis
tributing 150.000 rations to destitute
"families. Thousands in the flooded
district are homeless.
Heavy damage was done to Grace,
Miss., a town of 1.500 inhabitants.
Mqre than 50 towtps suffered slight
damage. The leVee at Pala A!t<X La.,
was reported caving to-day. A high
wind was sending the waves against
the dikes, making repair work dan
gerous.
More than 200 refugees on board
the steamer Alice Miller reached
ers could Give it. But the best was | Vicksburg to-day. Small boats con-
! tinned patrolling the overflowed ‘sec-
reserved for the last, the greatest
song in all opera, the aria which has
won Caruso his greatest fame, the ef
fort which costs him more in vocal
strain and fatigue than a whole aot
of ordinary opera—the wonderful la-
tions, picking up hundreds.
reverie, surrounds them once more
with cold stone walls, drives them
back to the day s routine. But it has
ment of Canio in "Pagliacci,” known been a day in a thousand, a day
to the world as “The Sob Song.” worth marking with a special cross
Caruso wore a street suit instead ! in those tiny, tragic calendars the
ed. but the Jingoes have so far been
able to overcome the professions of
the peace lovers.
Japanese Ambassador
Scouts Rumors of War.
WASHINGTON. April 23. “Japan
will not declare war upon the United
States eve if though California passes
an alien land law aimed exclusively
at the Japanese.”
'Phis was the confident and em
phatic prediction of Viscount Chindfe,
Japanese Ambassador, represented by
his secretary. Okabe. The Ambassa
dor regrets greatly that there should
be any war scare in this country.
“The better element in Japan." he
declares, “are working with might and
main to quiet the revolutionary talk
of the lower classes."
That these efforts will be success
ful is the confident belief of the Am
bassador as expressed in the press.
Viscount Chinda will visit Secre
tary of State Bryan to-morrow on
the usual diplomatic calling day. He
declined to-day to state the nature of
his proposed conference thf;re.
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of the white flowing blouse and trou
sers of the mountebank; his black
hair was free from the conical cap of
the strolling player. • But when he had
begun the alia those who knew "Pag-
liacci” forgot the bare Auditorium
and its rough-clad audience and saw-
only the mimic stage, the assembled
villagers, the body of the murdered
Nedda with the crijnson stain upon
her breast.
“Vesta la giubba." ihe tenor began.
The notes were a sharp command, "On
with the play.” And then followed
the story of the outcast player, who
must laugh and joke and dance j
though his heart be breaking. The
great chest swelled with emotion, the,
wonderful voice soared out over the (
silent throng. At last, climbing to j
that clear, high note which is Caru-I
so’s and Caruso’s alone, the Canio of
the moment broke into that succession
of sobs w hich give the song its name, (
those sobs which seem to tear the
very heart from ihe singer, which
leave the audience always in tears.
Weep as Children.
And there were tears in plenty this
afternoon. Old men who had not
wept since boyhood, who had faced
arrest with bravado, had endured in
stolid indifference endless days upon
days of captivity, were drying their
cheeks with their sleeves. Far up the
center aisle a man of 50 who once
hafl been a banker was weeping as
freely as a child, unconscious of the
curious eyes which watched him. Al
most at the rear a boyhardly out
of his teens had buried his face in
his hands and was sobbing as though
his heart would break.
“Clang! Clang!"
The concert is over. The prison
bell arouses the thousand from then-
prisoners scratch with their nails
upon the white walls of their cel's.
As the last of the audience files
out Caruso waves a farewell.
"We hope you can come again
some day," the warden says, as he
shakes hands.
“Of a certainty," returned Caruso.
"Whenever \ come to Atlanta again.”
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