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THE AIL AMI'A GEORGIAN AND NEWS. WEDNESDAY. APRIL 23. 1913.
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Caruso Sketches
Mayor Woodward
•And Colonel Peel
Continued from Pag. One.
t Hotel, on duty the morning of the
whooting, war the flr.«t witness to take
the stand He went up for the prose
cution. but upon rigid cross-examine -
tlon proved a capable aid to the de
fense.
Doctor to Testify.
Under tire from Attorney Moore.
Thomason admitted that he met Mrs.
Appelbaum at the foot of the hotel
stairway not ten seconds after he
had hung up the telephone upon
receiving the call that there had been
a shooting in room 213. He had bare
ly crossed the fifteen feet of the hotel
lobby, he asserted, when Mrs. Appel
baum, garbed in a kimono and hys
terical. fainted in his arms
T. P. Thomason, clerk in the Da
kota Hotel, concluded his testimony
shortly before 4 o’clock. No additional
light was thrown on the mystery'. At
torney Moore, for the defense, at
tempted to prove by Thomason that
there was a bullet hole In ti.? ceiling
of the bathroom directly over the
spot where Appelbaum was found, but
ihe witness was unable to give any
information as to this.
Dr. J. W Hurt, county physlcla
anas next cal eld and told of "his ex
amination of the wounds^I
haum’s body at the time of the cor
oner's inquest.
Dr. S. J. Liebman and the police
officers will follow' Thomason to the
stand at 3:30 o’clock, when the trial
is resumed. G. Cohen an! Alvin Hub
erts, two men who occupied rooms in
the hotel, and ,7. T. Lindsay and ,T.
Lawrence Jones will appear as char
acter witnesses for the woman.
Mrs. Appelbaum, before the trial
began, said she had prayed constant
ly
“But,” she added, ”1 dq not rely
entirely on prayers. The facts, when
they are put before a Jury, will clear
me. 1 am innocent and 1 have no
fear of the outcome.”
No difficulty was expected in finding
i Jury, according to Mrs. Appelbaum'a
lawyers and the Solicitor. Unless
Mmiethlng entirely unlooked for de
velops*, Solicitor Dorsey expects the
case to be in the hands of a jury to
morrow.
Accused in Good Spirits.
Mrs. Appelbaum arose early at the
Tower this morning and long before
the hour for her departure for the
court room she was anxiously await
ing the arrival of attendants. She wAs
dressed as she was yesterday—black
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 the 'Power, three
months ago.
Solicitor Dorsey will attempt to
break down the theory advanced by
Mrs. Appelbaum’a lawyers that Appel
baum shot himself. Whether he had
any witness, or witnesses, that would
throw any additional light on the
mystery he would make no statement,
but he was equally as confident of
convicted, he said, as Mrs. Appel
baum and her attorneys were of ac
quittal.
It is understood that Applebaum de
fense will be based on the testimony
of two witnesses, the men who testi
fied at the Coroner’s inquest that 4n
the interval between the first a:id
second shots they heard in the Appel
baum room, they distinctly heard
footfalls, as if some one were running
in the hall past their doer.
If the jury believes it was Mrs.
Appelbaum that ran past G. Cohen's
door before the last, or second, shot
was fired, the suicide theory will be
established, for it was only a few
seconds after the last shot was fired
that Mrs Appelbaum. hysterical, ran
into the hotel lobby.
Some one did run by -Cohen’s door
toward the staircase, say her lawyers,
and they will attempt to show it
•'as th< woman on 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 tlie long confine
ment and a slightt inge of gray in
Per hair. Mrs. Appelbaum looked but
Pule different from the pictures of
her printed at the time of the shoot-
ng She was, however, an entirely
different woman from the almost hys
terical witness at the coroners in-
M'i - She was perfectly composed
and took a lively interest in the
proceedings in the court room.
Black Sheep of Rich Family,
v-rpitches from New York say That
Appelbaum waa the "black sheep” of
a wealthy family there and tuat a
horror of becoming identified as rela
tives of the slain man led the mem-
COLONEL W. L. PEEL.
Signor Caruso, who could make a
first-rate livelihood as cartoonist if
his golden voice were to fall, to-day
made these sketches of two of At
lanta's leading citizens
ood’s
rsaparilla
In hundreds i.f homes is the fav
orite
Spring Medicine
Made from Roots. Barks. Herbs
and other ingredients. including
lust , those prescribed by the best
"*■ for., allo'enis. of the
U. S. PEN;
bers to permit his burial in a lot in
Atlanta which Mrs. Appelbaum pur
chased.
Heartbroken by the years of w'orry
which she had endured because of
his escapades which had their tragic
ending in the Dakota Hotel, his moth
er, Mrs. Isador Appelbaum, is said
to be dying at her home, 1987 Daly
Avenue, Bronx 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 the news went abroad
that he had been shot down in his
room in an Atlanta hotel, either by
liih own hand or that of his wife.
A brother of the dead man lives at
309 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
he was named as defendant in a sen
sational separation suit filed by a wife
whom he married several months be
fore In her suit the first Mrs. Ap
pelbaum asserted among other things
that her husband had threatened to
kill her. The separation was granted
and ns a result of the disclosures Ap
pelbaum's family practically disown
ed him. although they kept in touch
with him until three years ago.
Since that time he was compelled to
flee many times from the vengeance
of the fathers and husbands of the
women over whom he appeared to
exercise a hypnotic influence. As the
proprietor 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.
Cohen, a traveling salesman, who had
a room next to that of the Appel-
bautns was startled by the sound of
shots following angry words and
sounds like that of a scuffle.
He called P. T. Thomason, tha clerk,
on the r om telephone, telling him to
hurry upstairs, as the people in the
next room were '■'hooting each other
up.”
Barely bad Tl\pmason* 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 and fell faint
ing into his arms.
Attracted by the shots and excite-
ir.'nt, a crowd quickly gathered and
followed the hotel clerk tip to room
211. Appelbaum. with a bullet wound
below his heart and two wounds in
his right arm. la± on the floor 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 her hys
terical ravings the listeners were able
to gather that there had been a quar
rel: that she was accusing 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. j
‘Heywas mean: he was bad,” she
"If i j hot l\im it was in
Golden Voice of Greatest Tenor
Touches Prisoners—Tv Cobb
Also a Visitor.
GRAND OPERA IN
PRISON.
Bv Enrico Caruso.
World's Greatest Tenor.
“O Paradise," L’Africaine- Myerbeer
“Idealle,” a ballad Toati
"Ridi Pagliacci" (aob song),
I Pagliacci—Leoncavallo
This ia the incomparable pro
gram the golden-voiced tenor tang
for the priaonera at the Federal
Penitentiary this afternoon.
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“I have n*ver aung so well in
my life. My heart went out to
those poor, erring man and I had
ail I could do to keeo from falter
ing in the midst of the ‘Sob 8ong,*
The brilliance of a bejeweled the.
star, tha dazzle of the most splen
did audience, has never affected
me ae that silent, somewhat grim
audience of this afternoon. I put
my heert into my tinging, and if !
brought a ray of joy to but one
prisoner I am more than content."
—Enrico C*ruso, after tinging to
the Federal prisoner* this after
noon.
The great bell of the Federal Pris
on tapped sharply at 2 o’clock this
afternoon. The little group Of priv
ileged visitors wafting In the main
corridor heard the rattle of heavy
bolls as .they shot back from the
cells, the sharp, staccato commands
of the guards, the shuffling of two
thousand feet on the concrete floors.
Into the corridors, past the iron grat
ings, marched the strangest audience
the greatest tenor in history ever
has charmed.
For Caruso was to sing to the con
victs.
Tyrus Raymond Cobb, the world's
gMsatest baseball player, heard Ca
ruso sing. Cobb's visit was unher
alded. Because of the fact that the
afternoon was strictly a Caruso af
fair, Cobb was not introduced to the
prisoners, and only those who had
seen him on the diamond knew he
was there.
The prison auditorium was full to
the last seat when the march had
ended. There w*ere beardless young
sters paying the penalty of an hour’s
indiscretion with some other mans
money; wrinkled old offenders who
sat sullenly in their chairs and sneer
ed under their breath—at first—at
the break in the prison routine. There
were old men with the prison pallor
in their faces clad in the rough wool
en of the prison garb, who had one
day driven in their own carriages to
the Metropolitan and listened to Ca
ruso from the diamond horseshoe,
where society finds its greatest dis
play. There w'ere bent and haggard
moonshiners from the mountains,
shut inside four walls, perhaps to find
release by tuberculosis, the great
pardoner -of all prisoners. They sat
and waited, while behind them stood
the warden and his deputies, watch
ing. always watching. Behind these,
in their elevated chairs, sat the
guards, rifles across knees, eyes on
the men before them.
Hawthorn* Affected.
In a corner near the little stage
sat an old man. who has been # much
in the public prints of late. Julian
Hawthorne, himself a writer of note,
the grandson of the famous Na
thaniel Hawthorne, master of litera
ture. It had been only a day since
the news had come to bin* that hia
plea for a parole had been refused.
He is scarcely 60, but fire seem cl
years more than that to-day.
In a cluster not far from the stage
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. Caruso 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 Caruso stepped to the little plat
form. Behind him was the garish
scenerv of the prison theater, rudely
painted by a convict with artistic ten
dencies. Before him sat the members
of the prison orchestra, musicians
drawn from the ranks* 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,
Pa rad iso.” aria from Meyerbeer’s
•L’Africaine.”
If Caruso faltered a moment at the
beginning it must not be thought he
was in ‘baa voice.” It would not re
quire the temperament of an opera
singer to be touched out of one’s calm
by a scene fike this. But the tenor
found himself, and the great aria of
Vasco di Gama, rich, sonorous, boom
ed tfjruugh the hall and echoed from
‘ *v#it« '**''•’.«& #shut in
Julian Hawthorne
Who is Prisoner No. 4435 in
theFederal Prison, wrote the
following tribute for Good
Words, the prison magazine,
and it is first published to-day:
ENRICO CARUSO
We sit in our rows of sodden gray
Up there in the great blank hall;
Through the window-bars the great blue day
And the golden sunshine call.
Call ns, as Christ called Lazarus, dead.
To rise and come forth from his grave.
But Christ cares not to free us, we said.
To give back the life God gave.
Better the dead lhan the living dead
Whom the World shuts out and the bars shut in.
Man-made scapegoats of all men’s sin!
Then, in the hush of the great blank hall.
God wrought a wondrous miracle,
For a voice, like a glorious trumpet-call.
Arose as a soul from the deeps of hell.
And our souls rose with it on wondrous wings,
Rose from their prison of iron and clay.
Forgot the grime and the shame of things!
We were men once again in a sunlit day,
Sin and grief and punishment—all
Were lost in that human trumpet-call.
Not bars nor banishment can abate
The strong swift wings of the deathless soul
Soaring aloft over grief and fate
As the tones of the master of music roll /
Through the gloom and doom of the prison-pen.
Distilling the fragrance of flowering song
Into hearts lhat remember Youth again
And innocent loves that knew no wrong.
How then, if such be music’s spell,
Shall ve doubt that Christ still conquers hell?
The above poem was inspired bp gratitude for Caruso's gracious
act tn singing for the prisoners this afternoon.
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 all
the expression the master of ail sing
ers could give it. But the best was
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 act
of ordinary opera—the wonderful la
ment of Canio in ‘ Pagliacci,” known
to the wt rid as "The Sob Song.”
Caruso wore a street suit instead
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 aria those who knew ‘‘Pag
liacci" forgot the. bare Auditorium
and its rough-clad audience ami saw-
only the mimic stage, the assembled
villagers, the body of the murdered
Nedda with the crimson stain upon
her breast.
“Vesta la giubba." the 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
though his heart be breaking. The
great chest swelled with emotion, the
wonderful voice soared out over the
silent throng. At last, climbing to
that clear, high note which is Caru
so's and Caruso's alone, the Canio of
the moment broke into that succession
of aob* which give the song its name,
those sobs which seem to tear the
very heart from the singer, which
lease 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
had been a banker was weeping as
freely as a child, unconscious of the
curious*eyes which watched him. Al
most at the rear a boy—hardly 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 their
reverie, surrounds them once more
with cold stone walls, drives them
back to the day's routine. But it has
been a day in a thousand, a day
worth marking with a special cross
in those tiny, tragic calendars the
prisoners scratch with their nails
upon the white walls of their cel’s.
As the last <tf 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 I come to Atlanta again.”
The great tenor was introduced
by Warden Moyer, who took note of
the tense eagerness of his wards,
and made his remarks short. At the
conclusion of the eventful program
Chaplain Beeber presented a great
bouquet of flowers from the Italian
prisoners, and the tenor accepted
them with tears in his eyes.
He said afterwards the sobs iV» his
throat choked any; words he might
have said, but the ^prisoners under-
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WIFE; BLAMES
LURE OE OPERA
H. H. Oates, member of a w T ell
known Augusta family, but a resident
of Atlanta for some time, returned
this noon from Marietta with his
young and pretty wife, with whom he
declared he had become entirely rec
onciled.
Mrs. Oates' mysterious flight last
Saturday afternoon from the Peach
tree Inn. where she and her husband
were staying, led to sensational
stories of an elopement, but the hus
band to-day was most positive in his
assertions that no other man was in-
| volved in the case. It was a family
quarrel, ! pure arid simple, he said. His
wife had become angered over a do
mestic difference and had left him to
go to Chicago.
As the police had it, and as an ad
vertisement inserted by Oates him
self read, Mrs. Oates left the city
with a decorator named Quintus De-
lolons, and was traced through Delo-
lon’s Scotch collie, also mentioned in
the police alarm.
Oates bounded oft the 12 o'clock car
from Marietta before It had come to
a stop at the Walton Street Station
of the line. In his hand was a small
suitcase. When he spied the crowd
of curious persons, the questioning
group of reporters and the battery of
cameras confronting him, he jumped
back on the car more quickly than he
had alighted.
One of the reporters, by a sharp
sprint, overtook the reconciled pair.
"It is a lie that any other man
was concerned," the reporter was told
by the breathless husband. “Of that
l am confident. 1 am satisfied that
my wife was on her way to Chicago
to see her brother, who studying
medicine there. She intended to take
up vocal music.
“When she is able we will leave
Atlanta and try to forget the whole
deplorable affair. We will never
come back. It was most unjust that
such a disgraceful construction was
put upon her disappearance.”
Blames Grand Opera.
To grand opera Oates ascribes the
greater part of his domestic trouble
and the flight of his wife. He be
lieves that his wife’s head was turn
ed by the overwhelming desire to
emulate the success of the beautiful
Lucreaia Bori. whose coming to At
lanta was heralded by the most flat
tering press notices and the kindest
words of the critics.
“Her mother sent her a clipping a
week or so ago," he said, “telling of
the scholarship in voice training won
by a girl in Jackson, Miss., and one
in Atlanta
‘ The girl in Jackson was at one
time my wife's schoolmate and at
that time my wife's voice was con
sidered every bit as good as the oth
er girl’s.
Offer Turned Her Head.
“Then came an offer from the book
ing agent of a small opera company,
and I could persuade Mrs. Oates to
talk of nothing else.
“She wanted to go on the stage, but
I objected. I thought she had for
gotten it, but the coming of grand
opera to Atlanta aroused her longings
in this respect with increased force.
“She read every word of the ad
vance notices. She raved over the
success of Lucrezia Bori and w'ept
that she had not had the opportunity
to make a name for herself on the
operatic stage.
“Then came our little quarrel, and
I think she decided then to t start out
for Chicago to study vocal rriusic with
the ultimate idea of supporting her-
Alderman Denies Alleged Official
Corruption and Makes Serious
Counter Charges.
Alderman James W. Maddox re
plied to Alderman John E. McClel
land’s charges of corruption with a
violent attack to-day. The reply was
in the form of a letter to Alderman
McClelland, asking a number of
pointed questions reflecting on Al
derman McClelland’s character ana
official conduct. .
The investigating committ^* of
council met this afternoon, filed the
Maddox letter and adjourned until
next Tuesday on account of McClel
land’s illness.
Alderman Maddox denied that he
was legally or morally guilty of mis
conduct in having sub-contracts with
the city. He said he w’ould not pre
sent counter charges before the
Council investigating committee this
afternoon on account of Alderman
McClelland’s mental and physical
condition, but resorts to McClelland’s
own tactics and invites a suit for
libel.
Maddox Asks Questions.
The questions, introduced by ihe
statement that Alderman McClelland
is being used by designing men for
political purposes, follow:
1. Why were you so viciously op
posed to anything like a contract with
the Georgia Railway and Power Com
pany last year, and so vehement in
denouncing all members of Council
who supported it, as being improperly
influenced, and even charged that cor
ruption existed and insisted that the
city build a competing plant, and then
this year suddenly changed to equally
violent opposition to the same com
peting plant, and even voted at all
times to repudiate the city’s previous
ly made contract, for which you had
voted? Is it possible that you have
accepted ihe “thirty pieces of silver”
so frequently mentioned by you last
year, as well as the hundred pieces
you have recently so brazenly admit
ted receiving?
2. Why did you appear In court as
an attorney at law in a suit against
the city of Atlanta, when you knew
that this appearance W’as in direct
violation of the laws of the city?
Counsel for Pickpockets?
3. Why do you represent, to the
extent of consultation at least, nearly
all of the worst pickpockets who are
arrested in this city? How much
fees do you get for appearing for
them in violation of the law of the
city and your oath of office?
4. Why did you appear in the Su
perior Court of Fulton County this
morning, as counsel for the defend
ant in the case of State vs. E. T.
Darden, charged with murder, and un
der indictment therefor, with the
prosecutor therein set out as W. A.
Chewnlng. a member of the police
force of the city of Atlanta? Why
did you state in your place as such
attorney, that you v/ere his leading
counsel, and ask for a checking of the
case because of your physical disa
bility, and thus delay justice and
violate the laws?
Represents Brewers.
5. Why do brewers appear in your
office and go into your private sanc
tum, behind closed doors, while they
have applications pending before the
Police Committee of Council, of
which you are a member?
6. Why do you give legal advice to
brewing agents touching the validity
and effect of a lease on a place of
business for which an application is
then pending before the Police Com
mittee of which you are a member?
7. How many clubs have paid fees
to your firm to represent them in le
gal matters, while they hud applica
tions pending before the Police Com
mittee of which you were a member;
what services were to be performed
and how much was paid?
.8. How many women of the under
world do you represent in ‘ civil mat
ters” other than Eva Clarke? What
ease of a civil nature did you plead
for her. anyway?
Personal Conduct Questioned.
9. " Why did the officers of the city,
when endeavoring fo round up a
gang of lawbreakers in a certain hotel
of this city, find you in a room there
in. when the said hotel was within
fifteen minutes’ walk, ten minutes by
car and five minutes by automobile
ride from your home?
10. Why did you act in such man
ner as to cause a certain prominent
minister of the gospel of this city to
state from his pulpit that a member
of the General Council of this city
had been guilty of such conduct as
to bring reproach to himself and
shame upon the city?
11. Why are your friends or rep
resentatives engaged now in seeing
men w'ho ^know things concerning
your conduct, and who may be mib-
penaed as witnesses, and asking
these men either to forget that they
know’ anything or to evade the ques
tions when asked?
Pope Again Able to
Sit by His Window
ROME. April 23.—Pope Pius X
again was able to leave his bed to
day and sat for a short time in his
armchair by a window.
The Pontiff was not so depressed
as he was yesterday, his weakened
condition being improved.
Upon leaving the Vatican after his
morning call. Dr. Marchiafava said
that His Holiness was showing satis
factory improvement.
Nearly everybody in Atlanta reacts
The Sunday American. YOU if ad
vertisement in the next issue will sell
eoocis. Trv it!
Deluge Sweeping
Over Mississippi
Break in Rolling Fork Levee One
Mile Wide—Thousands Home
less—Fifty Towns Suffer.
MEMPHIS. TENN.. April 23.—A
break more than a mile wide near
Rolling 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' 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,
Mite., a town of 1,500 inhabitants.
More than 50 towns suffered slight
damage. The levee at Pala Alto. La.,
was reported caving lo-day. A high
wind w r as sending the waves against
the dikes, making repair work dan
gerous.
More than 200 refugees on board
the steamer Alice Miller reached
Vicksburg to-day. Small boats con
tinued patrolling the overflowed sec
tions, picking up hundreds.
Wilson’. Plea That Secretary,
State Paass on the Land
Bill Is Heeded.
Wife’s Plea Frees
’Blind Tiger King’
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Governor Brown Commutes Dan
Shaw's Sentence to Present
Service and $700 Fine.
A heartbroken and almost penniless
wrife succeeded in gaining the clem
ency of Governor Brown to-day for
Dan Shaw, the Atlanta “blind tiger
king,” where scores of his friends,
many of them influential, had failed.
Shaw, who was sentenced to a term
of two years and a fine of $200 for
persistent violation of the liquor
laws, was granted a commutation to
present service on the payment of a
fine of $700.
Friends have had the money for
weeks, but it was not until Governor
Brown received a letter from Mrs.
Shaw that he ’consented to the com
mutation. Mrs. Shaw wrote that she
had obtained a position for her hus
band in Richmond, Va.
Car Company's Tax
Returns Reected
Comptroller General Calls Georgia
Railway and Power Firm’s
Figures Too Low.
Comptroller General William A.
Wright to-day refused to accept the
tax returns of $13,134,685 made by
the Georgia Railway and Pow'er Com
pany of Atlanta, although this figure
is in excess of last year’s returns by
$879,188. It is the belief of the comp
troller that they should be still high
er and will have a conference
within a few days with President
P. S. Arkwright, of the company.
Divided into the separate companies
of the corporation the returns are:
Georgia Railway and Power Com
pany. $1,164,985; Georgia Railway
and Electric Company, $9,865,000; At
lanta Gns Light Company. $1,820,-
000; Atlanta Northern Railway Com
pany, $250,000; Decatur Electric and
Power Company, $15,500; Carrollton
Electric Company, $19,200.
Escaping Soldier
Caught by Accident
Fort McPherson Runaway Bolts
After Hearing Description
of Himself.
The city police, the county police
and a detail of soldiers from Fort
McPherson joined in a man-hunt to
day When the alarm was sounded that
Roy O’Dell, a prisoner at the Fort,
had escaped the sentry and was at
liberty in the open country.
O'Dell did not have his freedom
long, being captured within an hour
and a half on the Cascade road by
M. L. Baker, one of the motorcycle
officers of the county police.
Baker saw O’Dell resting against a
fence by the roadside and took him
for a farmer's helper.
The policeman approached him and
asked if he had seen any one along
the road answering the description
of the escaped soldier. O’Dell thought
the officer was joking him before tak
ing him into custody and leaped the
fence in an effort to escape. The
truth dawned upon Bakfer that he had
been giving O’Dell his own descrip
tion and pursued and overtook him.
James B. Duke Sails
For Home in England
Believed He and Wife, Former Fa
mous Atlanta Beauty, Will
Entertain Extensively.
NEW YORK, April 23.—James B.
Duke, formerly known as the Tobac
co King of America, and his wife
sailed on the Mauretania to-day for
England, where they are to make
their home.
Recently Mr. Duke purchased Dor
chester House, which has been the
scene of many notable gatherings,
and it is believed that he and Mrs.
Duke, w'ho was Mrs. William Inman,
of Atlanta, Ga.. famous throughout
the South for her beauty, will enter
tain extensively.
SACRAMENTO, April 2i „
Boyton resolution inviting Seer,
tary of State Bryan to come t,
Sacramento was carried in tll)
Senate by a vote of 35 to 3.
WASHINGTON, April ; 5 ._p.
dent Wilson, alarmed at the deveri
ments in the Califomia-.lapaJ
situation, to-day wired Govern,
Johnson and Hie Legislature of Ca:
fornia lo inquire whether it would*
agreeable to them to have Secret
of State Bryan visit Sacramento#
co-operate with the California
thorities in framing an alien I u .
bill which would not trespass on tl»
treaty obligations of the rnfe
States.
The President's message to Join,
son read:
Thank you for your patriotic
telegram. We find it so difficult
from this distance to understand
fully the situation with regard ti
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 counsel™
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 a-
ception of the opening sentence, a
sent to the President of the Sem
and the Speaker of the Assembly
California.
Japanese Ambassador
Scouts Rumors of War.
WASHINGTON, April 23.—"Jaw
will not declare war upon the Unite
States even though California pass
an alien land law aimed exclusive!
at the Japanese.”
This tvas the confident and era]
phatic prediction of Viscount Chindi
Japanese Ambassador, represented b|
his secretary, Okabe. The Ambasa
dor regrets greatly that there shoo|
be any war scare in this country.
“The better element in Japan," l
declPA'toS, "3 ve working with might a
main quiet the revolutionary t
of the lower classes.”
That these efforts will be succes
ful is the confident belief of the .
bassador as expressed in the pre
Viscount Chlnda will visit Seed
tary of State Bryan ' to-morrow i
the usual diplomatic calling day.
declined to-day to state the naturpsj
his proposed conference there.
American Embassy
Declines Jap Guard.
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian j
TOKIO. April 23.—The Japai
Government to-day volunteered t
place a guard over the United Staid
Embassy On account of the inflame!
condition of the populace, but suer
protection was not deemed nece
sary.
Feeling over the anti-alien
pending in the California Legislate
aimed at the Japanese, is grown)
more intense. Conservatives are a
tempting to calm the public by''
daring the bill probably will be k
ed. but the jingoes have so far bed
able to overcome the. professions ^
the peace lovers.
FLOWERS and FLORAL DESIGNS
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