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ATLANTA, GA., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 211. PUT
2 CENTS EVERYWHERE p ^ R e°
Atlanta Woman and Man With
Whom She Fled Her Home at
Peachtree Street Hotel Are
Found Living in Marietta, Ga.
Officers Trace Fugitive Pair by
Collie Which Woman Took With
Her — Trapped, She Breaks
Belgians Celebrate
Vote Strike Victory
Socialists Pred'ct End of Clerical
Control; King Albert Raps
Plural Balloting.
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
BRUSSELS. April 23. There w is
national rejoicing to-day on the part
of the Socialist workmen over their j
victory in the manhood suffrage
strike. The laboring class lias won
a great victory, and it is predicted
that the end of Clerical control of the
Government is in sight.
King Albert is reported to have
played a strong hand in guiding the
Governments policy. The King is
also said to have spoken to Premier
Broqueville against the plural voting
power of rich Belgians, calling !t
“arbitrary and unconstitutional.”
The strike committee, headed by
M. Van Der Velde, met to-day and
adopted a resolution ordering the men
to return to work unless it develops
that a political trick has been at
tempted to break the strike without
giving the men their demands.
Urges World Jaunt
To Punish Militants
22.001 Tl
j Manchester Judge Thinks Trip In
Down and Confesses Identity. Saili "9 Vessel Would Kee P
'I’d Rather Die Than Return to
Husband,” She Declares—Her
Companion in Flight Quits Her
and Successfully Eludes Police.
ng that she would rather
rithan return to her husband in
Atl int i. Mrs. H. H. Oates, who
. oped from the Peachtree Inn with
;, s Delolons. a decorator, last
y, ;,p.la\ afternoon, to-day is a pris-
, . n the home of Bailiff W. A.
Pi^hoj in Marietta, Ga., where she
located early this morning,
i i husband, H. H. Oates, of a
; known Augusta family, left
lot Marietta to persuade his wife to |
return with him.
A country-wide search has been in
stituted for Delolons, who disappeared
from Marietta last night when he
learned that Mrs. Oates had broken 1
down and confessed that she was the
eloping wife.
Bailiff Bishop learned the identity
of the ct viple. through a brown and
while Scotch collie dog.
Breaks Down and Confesses.
The woman and Delolons, according
Bishop, came to his home late
Saturday evening and applied for
hoard, giving a fictitious name. With
them was the dog. Bishop last night
received a circular letter from Chief
of Police Beavers, of Atlanta, asking
t iat a search be made for Mrs. Oates
| R nd Delolons, and mentioning the fact
that they had a dog with them.
The bailiff at once recognised the
'log, from the description given by
[ 1 hief Beavers, and quesitoned Mrs*.
Oates. At first she denied her identity
and insisted that she was the wife of
l>«iolons. At length, however, she
broke down and confessed that she
"as Mrs. Oates and that . c, he had
!>ed with Delolons. The latter, it i-
: nought, overheard the conversation
between Bishop and Mrs. Oates, and
I He has not been seen since last
n - i! about 8 o’clock.
Early this morning Bishop tele
phoned the office of Chief Beavers
nd Mrs. Oates declared over the
phone that she would not return to
Atlanta.
Rather Die Than Return.
‘ I would rather die than come back
to Atlanta,” she sobbed. "1 won’t re
turn to my husband. He didn't sup-
P |,r t me, and I won’t live with him.”
The search for Delolons will be con
tinued. and police departments all
" V ‘T the State will be enlisted in the
u'u The manager of the Peach-
tr; bin has issued a warrant for his
trest on a charge of beating a board
bdi of $10, and another warrant will
be issued to-day in Marietta.
bailiff Bishop alleges that Delolons
; 1 the woman stayed at his house
ro, n Saturday night to this morning.
an, l <hat Delolons failed to pay the
(Oratory Saves Bill
For Flagler Shaft
j Florida House Votes Against Indefi
nite Postponement of $10,000
Monument Measure.
Tallahassee, fla., April 2;l—
n< most eloquent speeches of this
'^lon of the Florida Legislature were
Tecipitated «in the Hou.s*e by a mo-
lon by Representative Hendry, of Lee
ou nty, to indefinitely postpone Rep-
■ ntative Floyd’s bill t.o appropriate
1 ,H 'h to erect a monument to Henry
' agler at Key West.
1 orators of the House came to
h( r feet to nlead against an “insult
n ! '* family of the commercial poet”
' ” now lies at the point of death at
fs! Palm Beach.
■ ffort to kill the bill proved up
'essful and it took the regular
rv, e to the Appropriations Commit-
Them From Mischief.
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
MANCHESTER, April 23.—A new
form of punishment for militant suf
fragettes was suggested here to-day
by Justice Bankes at the trial of
Lillian Forrester and Evelyn Nan-
esta, found guilty of slashing pictures
in the Manchester Art Gallery.
“If the law allowed,” declared the
Justice, "1 would send these women
and others like them around the
world in a sailing ship. That would
take them away from England for a
long period and they would then have
to do real and useful work. They
would not have time to go about
destroying property.”
The Forrester woman was sen
tenced to three months and Evelyn
Nanesta to one month.
Dr. Osier Announces
His New Rules of Life
“Forget the Past and the Future
and Live in the Present,”
Is His Dictum.
NEW HAVEN, Aprii 23.—Sir Wtl-
ITa tn Os-TP'F'firr? OTTH1WR new rules for
practical daily life. They are:
"My method is the freshest, oldest,
simplest and usefullest. Forget the
past, forget the future.
"I'm no genius: my friends have
found that out; but take no thought
for the future nor the past. When
the load of to-morrow is added to the
load of yesterday man: men falter on
the way.
The first two hours of a day de
termines that day. Quit tobacco and
liquor.-. Bright eyes are the thing.''
Mrs. Burleson Wins
Fame as Playwright
Wife fo Cabinet Official Will Be
Stage Manager at. Society
Show.
WASHINGTON, April 22.—Mrs. Al
bert Burleson, wife of the Postmas
ter General, has earned new laurels
by her plays "Her Hour” and "A
Monologue," which wiU be given for
the benefit of the blind at the Play
house on May 9.
These plays will be given by an all-
society cast, and Mrs. Burleson will
personally direct the staging. Mrs.
Wilson, other ladies of the Cabinet
and disitinguished guests will witness
the premiere.
Girls Banish Tango
At Sorority Houses
Vote “Naughty” Dances Out. but Re
fuse to Make Promises About
Dancing Them Elsewhere.
CHICAGO, April 23.—The tango
and kindred dances will be barred
out of Northwestern University so
rority houses permanently as the re
sult of a referendum vote taken by
fourteen girls' societies.
"We shall not dance the tango at
our sorority houses." said Miss
Pauline Pearson, chairman of the
Pan-Hellenic Conference, when she
announced the vote to Miss Irene
Blanchard, dean; “but please under
stand the girls are not pledged not
to dance it elsewhere—at fraternity
houses, for example.”
SUDDEN DISAPPEARANCE
OF GIRL CAUSED BY CUPID
The search for Miss Gussie Harmon,
of LaGrangc, who disappeared from
110 Luckie Street Saturday night,
was abandoned this morning, when
it became known she had married
Jack Mashbum, of Atlanta, a stage
electrician, Saturday afternoon, and
is living in a downtown hotel.
The voting couple planned the se
cret marriage because they feared
parental objection to the match.
MISSING WITNESS HALTS TRIAL
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King Nicholas, at Head of Troops,
Enters Ottoman Stronghold Af
ter Six Months’ Siege.
SERVIANS SHARE IN VICTORY
Atackers Fight With Desperate
Bravery—Two Hundred Go to
Certain Death Unflinchingly.
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
CETTINJE, MONTENEGRO, April
23.—King Nicholas, of Montenegro,
accompanied by Crown Prince Danilo
and the Montenegrin staff, entered
the captured city of Scutari !n
triumph tQ-day. After a long siege,
which began October 20, when Mon
tenegro declared war against Tur
key, the Montenegrin flag finally
flies over Scutari.
Three thousand Montenegrins were
killed in the final assault Tuesday,
and 5.000 Turks fell. Twenty-two
thousand Turkish prisoners were
taken.
Since the siege began 10,000 Monte
negrins have been killed or wounded.
The assault upon the Turkish city
was one of the most remarkable of
modern times. Despite the repeated
demands the European powers made
that the bombardment cease. the
Montenegrins grimly continued their
attacks upon the city, assisted in
the last few weeks by the Servians.
Servians' Shelling Effective.
The final fall of the city chiefly is
due to the Servian artillery. The
Servians moved several batteries of
powerful siege guns to the firing line.
Almost continuously day and night
for three weeks the Servian guns kept
up a terrific fire upon the fortress
surrounding the city.
The Montenegrins fought with des
perate bravery. In the repeated at
tacks upon the citadel of Tarabosch,
the Montenegrin soldiers aacrifled
their lives with a recklessness which
commanded the admiration of all Eu
rope. A corps of 200 Montenegrins
climbed the steps of Tarabosch o
cut the wire fences which the Turks
had erected to impede charges. Each
soldier knew he was going to his
death, and not a man of the 200 sur
vived.
Scutari fell before a grand assault,
made by the Montenegrins and their
Servian allies after a final general
bombardment of forty-eight hours,
during which the city was set on fire.
The flames were communicated to an
immense powder magazine, which ex
ploded.
War Minister Leads Victors.
General Martinovitch, the Monte
negrin Minister of War, who has been
in the field at the head of the west
ern division of the Montenegrin army
since the Balkan war broke out, led
the first column which entered the
fallen city. Famine, disease and vio
lent death was seen on every hand.
The chief fortress was that on the
summit of Tarabosch. After this fell,
the city was doomed. Esed Pasha,
the Turkish commander whose stub
born resistance had balked the Mon
tenegrins for six months, sent word
that he would surrender.
It was feared that a terrible mas
sacre would follow the downfall of
the city, because of the desperate de
fense made by the Turks, but this
did not prove the case. The Monte
negrin and Servian troops immediate
ly after their entry placed' the city
under martial law.
News of the victory caused great
rejoicing here. Scutari was the last
city in Europe held by the Turks,
with the exception of Constantinople,
and its fall means that peace will be
concluded without further delay.
Early Resumption of
Peace Plans Expected.
SOFIA, April 23.—Dr. Daneff. who
was the chief of the Bulgarian peace
envoys at the Bondon conference, will
leave here for London on Monday.
This is taken to mean that the peace
negotiations between the Balkan allies
and Turkey will be resumed shortly.
CAROLINA AND GEORGIA
RAILWAY CONTRACT LET
AUGUSTA, GA., April 23.—The
contract has been let for the Caro
lina and Georgia railway, seventy-
five miles from Augusta to Columbia,
work to begin May 16. The stock
holders met here and authorized an
increase in the capital stock from
$1,000,000 to $2,500,000, and also au
thorized a bond issue of $2,000,000.
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British Admiralty Head Loses Pa
pers and $2,500 After Visiting
Riviera Gambling Resort.
NAVAL LORD ON VACATION
Scotland Yard Detectives Trail
Aristocratic Band, of Which
Girl Is Alleged Member.
LONDON. April 23. — Winston
Churchill, First Lord of tiie Admiralty
and one of the foremost statesmen in
England, it was learned to-day. has
been the victim of a most daring and i
sensational robbery, in which a beau
tiful and mysterious young woman is
suspected as the possible Hgent of
some foreign power.
By the theft the First Lord of the
Admiralty not only loses $2,500 in
money, but highly important confiden
tial naval data, such as might eager
ly be sought as of greatest value to
any nation not too friendly with
Great Britain.
The robbery has greatly aroused
the entire Admiralty, and Mr. Church
ill has put Scotland Yard detectives
on the trail of an aristocratic band
which has just appeared in London
Won the Money at Cards.
The First Lord of the Admiralty
met with his misfortune immediately
after having won -the money at cards
on the Riviera recently.
Shortly after visiting Toulon.
Churchill’s cruisei Anchored off
Cannes, where the First Lord received
an invitation to go ashore.
He went alone to u fashionable
house, noted for high play, where he
found many well known society per
sons gathered around the tables.
Churchill soon was engrossed in a
game, and after an hour s play found
himself richer by $2,500. The First
Lord of the Admiralty was warmly
congratulated on his sudden streak of
luck, especially by a beautiful young
woman, who, with two aristocratic-
looking men, had paid < lose attention
to Churchill and his play.
Find* Wallet Gone.
While chatting with this young
woman the First Lord of the Ad
miralty stowed his wad of money
away in his right hip pocket. A few
minutes later he look his leave. It
was not until he was aboard his
cruiser and he started to tell about
his luck that he found the wad was
missing.
This was bad enough, but with the
money had disappeared the pocket-
book containing notes on British naval
matters which would be extremely
valuable to foreign powers.
It is rumored the woman in the
case is a member of an international
band actively engaged in espionage.
The political section of Scotland Yard
is making secret inquiries.
Wants to Protect
Perilous Crossings
Commissioner Headden, Cobb County,
Prepares Bill Providing for
Underpasses or Bridges.
A bill for the construction of bridges
or underpasses at all dangerous' rail
road crossings in the State may be
introduced in the Legislature at the
next session. The measure is being
prepared by W. .1 Headden, County
Commissioner for Cobb County.
Under the measure, the State Rail
road Commission would decide what
crossings are dangerous and aim
what share of the expense should be
borne by the State and the railroads.
Mr. Headden admits the initial cost
of the undertaking would run into
millions, but declares the railroads
would be amply repaid by the rebel
from damage suits, and the money
spent by the State would be more
than balanced by the saving in human
lives.
Appelbaum Case Indefinitely Delayed
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Deputies Hunt for Defense’s Mainstay
Express Messenger
Stringer Is Indicted
Wayne Superior Court Probably Will
Give Confessed Embezzler an
Immediate Trial.
JBSUP, GA., April 23.—J. D. String
er, the Southern Express Company's
messenger who confessed to stealing
$3,000 from a package in transit last
week, has been indicted by the Wayne
County Grand Jury for embezzlement.
As Wayne Superior Court is in ses
sion, Stringer will probably get an
immediate trial.
The money taken by Stringer was
m route from the Brunswick Bank
and Trust Company to the Central
Bank and Trust Corporation, of At
lanta. Stringer returned the entire
33.000 to the express company after
his »r»ri
GRAFT PROBE IS CRAFTS PRAISES
STARTED TO-DAY VIGECRUSADERS
Refusal of McClelland to Furnish
List of Witnesses Fails to
Halt Inquiry.
Investigation of th< < ouncilniani*
graft charges will proceed this after
noon. despite the refusal of Alder
man John E. McClelland to furnish
a Mat of the witnesses to prove his
charges Attorneys for the deft c ••
declared the testimony of th« accuse
Aldermen would be sufficient to bring
out all the facts.
At the request of Assistant City
Attorney W. D. Kliis, Jr., Alderman
McClelland has written he would no:
give the committee further informa
tion until his attorney, Charles T.
Hopkins, returned to the city. H •
said he was not physically able o
attend the hearing.
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- « nar- In Ika QaufU
Paying high tribute to Chief Beav
ers and Marion Jackson for their suc
cessful campaign against commercial
ized vice in Atlanta, Wilbur F. Crafts
to-day declared the South In a few
years would become the cleanest and
most moral part of the world.
Mr. ('rafts is superintendent of ih-
International R< form Bureau, with
headquarter.- in Washington. He is
in Atlanta to attend sessions of tin
Southern Sociological Congress, which
began Friday.
One of the firs things Mr. Crafts
did after his arrival was to go to
headquarters for a conference with
Chief Beavers on the details of the
anti-vice campaign waged here.
It is patent," he said, “that vice
has gone from Atlanta to stay. Wi:h
such a man as Beavers in charge of
the situation it can not come back. I
had heard much of the city, but I was
surprised beyond mv expectations at
finding it morally the - leanest city in
America. Atlanta has gon< at the
problem in the only effective and log
ical method by insVint extermina
tion.
"Sucti men av Marion Jackson are
2 Georgia U. ’07 Boys
Are Victims of Cupid
Raul and Turner, Football tars. Are
Last to Join Ranks of
Benedicts.
The class of 1907 at the University
of Georgia Is stirred to-day over
news that two more of its Atlanta
members are soon to wed. A brief
double announcement made it known
that Loring Raoul and Lewis Turner
will embark on matrimonial seas.
Raoul was captain of football and
track teams at Athens, a member ot
Sphinx ami a captain of one of the
crack military companies. Turner
was a football player and wore the
chevrons, epaulet#, etc., of a lieuten
ant in the military. Both were sea
men" in the far-famed Boating Flub.
Several other members of the class
of 07 are marked for matrimony Ru
mor has it that Harrison Jones has
definite plans and that “Bill” Brant-
lcv won’t be lett behind. As for- Rol-
liri Broughton, of Mobile, formerly of
Madison, he married early this month.
Wilburn Seeking-
Change of Venue
Judge Park, at Grays, Passes on
otion This Afternoon—In
dictments Returned.
GRAYS. GA.. April 23.-.-Judge Pa;k
to-day will hear arguments from At
torney John K. Cooper on a motion
for H I hange of venue for Nick Wil
burn, the slayer of James King, the
Jones County fanner, whose trial is
set for Monday. Mr. Cooper asserts
that Wilburn will be unable to get a
fait triai in Jones County.
Judge Bark has alreadv indicated
that he does not bplieve a change of
venue necessary.
Solicitor Bottle pxpeots to take up
the ease against Mrs. Kate King im
mediately following the conclusion of
the Wilburn trial.
The indictments against Wilburn
and Mrs. King were announced yes-
G. Cohen’s Failure to
Appear in Court
Blocks Proceedings
Against Widow Ac
cused of Slaying.
Failure of G. Cohen, main
witness for th edefense, to
appear .caused an upset in
plans of Mrs. Appelbaum s
attorneys shortly after the
case was opened at 9 o 'clock,
and postponement was or
dered while deputies
searched for Cohen, who is
said to be in the city.
In the meantime, Solicitor
Dorsey called Elmer E Dar
den to trial. The call for
witnesses in the Darden case
was begun at 9:15 o'clock.
The case was finally put over
until Monday on account of
the illness of Alderman J. E.
McClelland.
Confident of acquittal. Mrs. Ca-lli a
Scott Appelbaum. accused of the
murder of her husban. Jerome, in the
Dakota Hotel on February 25, entered
the criminal division of the Superior
Court to-day to plead “not guilty*” be
fore Judge L. S. Roan.
Mrs. Appelbaum. before the trial
began, said she had prayed constant
ly.
“But." she added. “1 do not rely
entirely on prayers. The facts, when
they are put before a jury, will clear
me I am innocent and I have no
Sene I Ua outcome."
No difficulty was expected in finding
* jury, according to Mrs. Applebaum s
lawyers and the Solicitor. Unless
something 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 tb*»
Tower this morning and long befor-
the hour for her departure for the
court room was anxiously awaiting
the arrival of attendants. She was
dressed as she was yesterday—black
broadcloth s'kirt. black silk waist and
black oxfords. If anything, she was
in better spirits and more confident of
acquittal than she has been sinefe she
was confined In the Tower, three
months ago.
Solicitor Dorsey will attempt tn
break down the theory advanced bv
Mrs. Appiebaurn’s lawyers that Apple
banm 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
conviction, he said, as Mrs. Apple
baum and her attorneys were of ac
quittal.
tl is understood the 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 Apple-
bauni room, they distinctly heard
footfalls, as if some one were running
in the hall past their door.
If the Jury believes it was Mrs.
Applebaum that ran past G. Cohen’s
door before the last, or second, shot
was fired, the suicide theory will he
established, for it was only a few
seconds after the last shot was fired
that Mrs. Applebaum. hysterical, ran
into the hotel lobby.
Some one did run by Cohen's door
toward the staircase, say her lawyers,
and the\ will attempt to show it
was the woman on trial for her life,
running from the sight of her hus
band shooting himself, o: possibly go
ing for medical aiu.
With the exception of a heightened
pallor caused by the long confine
ment and a slight tingd of grey in
her ha id, Mrs. Appelbaum looked but
little different from the pictures of
her printed at the time of the shoot
ing. She was. however, an entirely
different woman from the almost hys
terical witness at the coroner’s 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
ber? to permit his burial in a lot ii*
Atlanta which Mrs. Appelbaum pur*
nVi j e art