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Caruso Sketches
Mayor Woodward
And Colonel Peel
Continued from Page One.
lawyers and the Solicitor. Unit* mm
•something entirely unlooked for de
velop.-. Solicitor Dorsey expects the
rase to be in the hands of a jury to
morrow.
Accused m Good Spirits.
Mrs Appelbaum arose early at the
Tower this morning and long befon
the hour for her departure for ’h
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 Tower, three
months ago.
Solicitor Dorsey will attempt to
break down the theory advanced by
Mrs. Appelbaum’s 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.
b\it he was equally as confident of
onvicted. 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 in
the interval between the first and
second shots they heard In the Appel
baum room, they distinctly heard
footfalls, as if some one were running
Sn the hall past their door.
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
'Stablished, 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
was the 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 the long confine
ment and a slightt inge of gray in
her hair. Mrs. Appelbaum looked but
ittle different from the pictures of
her printed at the time of the shoot
ing. She was, however, an entirely
different woman from the almost hya-
ierics 1 witness at the coroner'R in
quest She was perfectly 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
a 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
er. Mrs. lsador 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 l*e was reported to have
ruined.
Three years ago, abandoning hope
of bis reformation, the family ostra
1 ised him utterly and heard nothing
from him until the news went abroad
that he had been shot down in his
room itt an Atlanta hotel, either by
his 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 as 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 limes from the vengeance
of the fathers and husbands of the
women over whom he appeared to
• xercise 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 H >-
te| the morning of February 25. G.
IN IL S. PEN;
Julian Hawthorne
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 tvro of At
lanta's leading citizens
Golden Voice of Greatest Tenor
Touches Prisoners—Tv Cobb
Also a Visitor.
Cohen, a traveling salesman, who had
« room next to that of tin* Appel-
baums, was startled by the sound of
shots following angry words and
sounds like that of a scuffle.
He called P. T. Thomason, the clerk,
on the r-.om 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 dow'n the stairs and fell 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 heart and tw r o wounds in
ills 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.
“He was mean: he was bad.” she
muttered. ' If I shot him it was in
self-defense.”
She w as placed In the Tower, w here
she expressed the desire to have de
fend her the same lawyers that suc
cessfully had defended Daisy Grace,
Moore & Brunch, whose case so close
ly paralleled her own and for whorr.
she was said to have expressed the
warmest .admiration.
Trail of Conquests Bared.
In the discovery of a number of
love Utters to Appelbaum from oth
er women, the detectives the follow
ing day thought they had discovered
n 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, he had
been living blg&mously with Gallic
Scott Appelbaum.
Letters disclosed a sweetheart in
Saginaw, Mich., identified only ns
“Girlie.** Reports from Charlotte, N.
C.. where the Appelbaum.s had lived
before coming to Atlanta, described a
trail of b.-oken hearts that the Lotha
rio had left across half the continent.
Gallic Scott Appelbaum’s heart af
fairs had been no less tangled or im
petuous. As an unsophisticated coun
try giri she had married G. D. Hen
derson. of Brewton. 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.
\ppelbuum collapsed, and it was
feared that she would have to be
taken to^the hospital. At her own re
hood’s
Sarsaparilla
In hundreds of homes is the fav-
rite
pring Medicine
<3RAND OPERA IN
PRISON.
By Knrico Caruso.
World’s Greatest Tenor.
“O Paradite,” L’Africaine• Meyerbeer
“Idealle,” a ballad Totti
“Ridi Pagliacci" (sob song),
I Pagliacci—Leoncavallo
This is the incomparable pro
gram the golden-voiced tenor sang
for the prisoners at the Federal
Penitentiary this afternoon.
Made from Roots. Barks Herbs
and other ingredients. Including
just those proscribed by the best
physicians for aliments of the
bk>9^ stomach, kidneys and liver
CretJfB an appetite.
quest she was permitted to look upon
the body of her dead husband, and
the experience unnerved her.
Her son. Claude Henderson, came
to Atlanta from Montgomery soon
after she whs imprisoned and declared
he would stand by her to the end.
He expressed his firm belief in her
innocence. •
A dramatic scene was enacted at
the funeral of Appelbaum when the
I widow was carried on a stretcher
I from the Tower to witness the last
brief ceremonies. Three days later
j the Fulton County Grand Jury in
dicted her for murder
To The Georgian she gave yester
day the first statement she had 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 th* declaration that she had a
conscience perfect!? clear and un-
trouble^'*
“I have never sung so well in
my life. My heart went out to
those poor, erring men and I had
all I could do to keep from falter
ing in the midat of the 'Sob Song.’
The brilliance of a bejeweled the
ater, the dazzle of the most splen
did audience, has never affected
me as that »ilent, somewhat grim
audience of this afternoon. I put
my heart into my singing, and if I
brought a ray of joy to but one
prisoner I am more than content.”
—Enrico Caruso, after singing 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 waiting in the main
corridor heard the rattle of heavy
bolts as they shot back from the
cells, the sharp, staccato commands
of the guards, the shuffling of tw’o
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 Gobb. the world's
greatest baseball player, heard Ca
ruso sing. Cobb’s visit was unher
alded. Because of the fact that the
afternoon was strictly a Caruso af-
faii*, Cobb was not introduced to the
prisoners, and only those w’ho had
seen him on tlie diamond knew he
w as there. /
The prison auditorium was full to
the last seat when the march had
ended. There were beardless young
sters paying the penalty of an hour's
indiscretion with some other man's
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, w'hg 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 were 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, rifies across knees, eyes on
the men before them.
Hawthorne Affected.
In a coiner 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 him that ln&
plea for a parole had been refused.
He is scarcely 60, but he seemei
years more than that" to-day. ^
In a (luster not for from the stage
waited the most appreciative musi •
lovers of the day, their swarthy faces
lighted wit'll anticipation, their white
teeth shining as they smiled. Here
were Lupo the Wolf, once king of
the Black Handers, and n little band
of his brother Italians captured with
him Caruso was no novelty to them,
though they had never expected io
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
scenery of the prison theater, rudely
painted by a convict w ith 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,
Paradise.” aria from Meyerbeer’s
“L'Africaino."
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. But the tenor
found himself, and the great aria of
Vasco di Gama, rich, sonorous, boom
ed through the hall and echoed from
the walls, those walls which shut in
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 sil in our rows of sodden gray
I "p thore in the groat blank hall;
Through the window-bars the great blue day
And Nie golden sunshine call, .
Call us, 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 than 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.
Cor 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 that remember Youth again
And innocent loves that knew no wrong.
How then, if such be music’s spell.
Shall we doubt that Christ still conquers hell ?
The above poem wan inspired by gratitude for Caruso's gracious
act in singing for the prisoners this afternoon.
Wilson's Plea That Secretary of
State Paass on the Land
Bill Is Heeded.
WASHINGTON, April 23.—
Word reached the White House
this afternoon that the Califor*
nia Senate and Assembly 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-
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. Th e 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 all sing
ers could give it. But the best was
reserved for W 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 world as "The Sob Song.”
Caruso wore a street suit instead
of the white flowing blouse and trou
sers of the mountebank; his • black
hair w as free from the conical cap of
the strolling player. But when he had
begun the aria those who new "Pag
liacci" forgot the bare . tditorium
and its rough-clad audience and 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 sobs which give the song its name,
those sobs which seem to tear the
very heart from the 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. F'ar 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 stor.e 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 cells.
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 T come to Atlanta again.''
The great tenor was introduced
by Warden Moyer, who took note of
the tense eagerness of his wards,
and ma.de 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 in his
throat choked any words he might
have said, but the prisoners under
stood.
Declare Johnson Acts
On .Roosevelt’s Advice.
SACRAMENTO, CAL.. 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
efjfct on national and State politics.
Some 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
ocrats 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 be taken to-morrow.
Many politicians here asserted that
the fact that partisan politics had
been injected into the issue was a
shrewd move on the part of Wilson.
They asserted this meant the bill
would fail of passage in any form
and tS= administration would be
saved embarrassing complications.
American Embassy
Declines Jap Guard.
Special 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.
Feeling over the anti-alien bill
pending in th^ California Legislature,
aimed at the Japanese, is growing
more intense. Conservatives are at
tempting to calm the public by de
claring the bill probably will be kill
ed. but the jingoes have so far been
able to overcome the professions of
the peace lovers.
Nearly everybody in Atlanta reads
i The Sunday American. YOUR ad
vertisement in the next issue will sell
goods. Try it!
morrow.
WASHINGTON, April 23.—Presi
dent. Wilson, alarmed at the develop
ments in the California-Japanese
situation, to-day wired Governor
Johnson and the Legislature of Cali
fornia to inquire whether it would ho
agreeable to them to have Secretary
of State Bryan visit Sacramento :o
co-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
fully 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 ybu and the members of the
Legislature and co-operating
with you and them in the fram
ing of a law which woujd 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 Senate
and the Speaker of the Assembly of
California.
Japanese Ambassador
Scouts Rumors of War.
WASHINGTON, April 23.—“Japan
will not declare war upon the United
States even though California passes
an alien land law aimed exclusively
at the Japanese.”
This was the confident and em
phatic prediction of Viscount Chinda,
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 befief 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 there.
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