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\ >r. i i I. . if 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 —N - /$ §2 % m \ HIS HONOR THE MAYOR. i$ it 'li P %SL V. icv 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. Continued from Page One. 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. K \ fnrA * In hei* suit the first Mrs. Ap 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- % : ... k m 1 Wj j • M ■ '■.:■■■ if -j ■ - If • • ,|i , jf&l. f ■ 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. i 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.” FLOWERS and FLORAL DESIGNS! ATLANTA FLORAL CO. Both Phones Number 4. 41 Peachtree ATLANTA THEATER ALL THIS WEEK Matinees Wednesday and Saturday SUMMER PRICES Matinees 10c and 25c Nights lOc to 5oc Miss BILLY LONG And Company In ‘WILDFIRE” GRAND THIS WEEK Mat Today 2:30 Tonight 8.30 TRUELY SHATTUCK LITTLE bi l r JEftE GRADT—FRANKIE CARPENTER A CC. J AS LEONARD L CO ED MORION MARIO IRtO FRED ST 0K6E A CO IT t- k:ith vaudeville LYRIC THIS WEEK GEORGE SIDNEY And His Fun makers In BUSY IZZY The Merriest Glrfle Show Ever Get Your Seats Now Auditorium Curtain at 8 P. M. Sharp TO-NIGHT Cyrano Grand Opera METROPOLITAN OPERA COMPANY Giulio Gatti Casazza. OF NEW YORK John Brown Gen. Mgr. Business Compt. Full Orchestra—Corps de Ballet—Original Scenario Alda. Mattfeld. Robeson, Van Dyck, Amato, Martin, Reiss. Hardman Piano Used Exclusively The SUNDAYAMER GREAT AH the important leagues of baseball are now in action. So are tens of thousands of fans. So are also the men who write of the doings of the dia mond stars for those same fans to read. It is the newspaper with the STAR TEAM of writers that makes the strongest appeal to baseball enthusiasts. BUT—to be stars, baseball players and writers about the diamond warriors must be fair and square. That is an essential part of KNOWING- TEE GAME., Here is The Hears! Sunday American Team for 1913 CHRISTY MATHEWSON—pS a 7or th th f e a N°ew York Giants. Known everywhere as one of the brainiest players in the business and one of the squarest in whatever he writes about, the game of which he is master. IOF API 17 O The Crackers’sensational first-sacker. He is uKJ JL Li iiu giving local fans all the “inside” news of Bil ly Smith’s aggregation. His comments on plays are immense. W Q PARMWORTH Hisstoriesofthebigleague . O. F v*S\ I il teams are right up to the • minute. Having traveled with the New York Yankees, New York Giants and Boston Red Sox during the past seven years, he is able to tell of the “workings” of the major league clubs. D17O V r U WUITINP For over seven years he has I 1 Ft. W xTi I Iix\-S been writing Southern League baseball. He is the dean of Southern diamond experts and has the larg 63t following this side of the Mason and Dixon line. He is fearless in his writings and always tells the truth. O A, IDJ A |M|7 — ^ big league ball player for years and per- V^lx/Al ilL scnally acquainted with ail tire major leaguers. For the past twenty years he has been writing baseball and is considered the greatest student of the game in the world. He travels with the National League Champion Giants. n A MOW DJ TWVOW The wittiest baseball writer in the D/A1V1UA 1 liUl'i I Gil Fast. He tells of the big league But he never gets games in a manner that has a laugh in every line, away from baseball like most of the humorous followers cf the diamond warriors. W I r*JRf7T*! - ? “i ns ide” stories of big league games • ICO Hi i O. cannot be beaten. He sticks to facte and figures and his predictions are followed by thousands of fans. He has traveled as “war correspondent” with nearly every big league team dur ing the past ten years. pUARI PY FiRYnPN The Mark Twain of baseball. O/"Y axL-.IL I JL*-1\ I i_d i h For years he has traveled with New York, Philadelphia and Chicago teams and his writings are base ball classics. He is personally acquainted with every big league player and probably has the largest following of any baseball expert in the country. A | T MI TP 14171 f Considered the greatest expert . il. V. ivli I in the New England States. His stories of last fall’s world’s series were marvels. He roasts- when a roast is coming and praises when praise is due. He has been writing baseball for twenty years. A I I F N S A Mp DCF He is well known in the South, hav- ^ Jril 1 Vs I\C« Sh j n g fo een ’ nere ^th big league teams on training trips for the past fifteen years. He will travel with the New York Yankees this season, and his stories of Russell Ford and Ed Sweeney, former Crackers, will be of especial interest to local fandom. I W MrfON A I TP 1-8 Y Po F l1ar with Eastern base- J • YV . 1V1CL-' x/i X vJ vJ il I ball fans because of Iris fear less writings. He never gets away from the truth, but tells a straight, readable story. He Iras been writing baseball in St. Louis and New York for twelve years. J Wl UFIQM A N Considered the greatest college coach in . VV . 11 JLilOiVA /"X1X the South. His college stories are copied by every paper in this part of the United States. His predictions are seldom wrong, and his weekly review of Southern college teams cannot be beaten. JOE BEAN If 1 As coach of Marist he has led all the other prep school coaches a merry chase. A few years ago he was the star shortstop of the New York "Giants. His stories are bright and interesting. IMMIC D priili/ NT __ For four years he was considered one of 11 liNlO ID l\KJ Vv the greatest athletes that ever attended Vanderbilt. His baseball stories of college teams are read by every un dergraduate and graduate in the South. In the General Sparling Field As well as in baseball, The Sunday American scores an exceptionally large number of base hits in all other branches of sports. Ben Adams, hero of the Olvmpic games, writes interesting stories about track and field athletics. The boxing world is well covered by Ed W. Smith, W. W. Naughton, H. M. Walker, Ed Curley and Left Hook.” Tick Tich- enor takes care of the golf. He knows every golfer in the South and his stories are real live “bearcats.” Tennis and automobiles are two other branches of sport that are covered thoroughly in The Sunday American. Read The Sunday American For All Live Sporting News