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VOL. XI. NO. 224. # ATLANTA, GA., THURSDAY, APRIL'24, 1913. 2 CENTS EVERYWHERE more 0
Alderman Denies Alleged Official
Corruption and Makes Serious
Counter Charges.
INVITES A SUIT FOR LIBEL
Intimates Close Relations With
Big Corporations, Brewers
and Crooks.
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 ;
n the form of a letter to Aldennan^
McClelland, asking a number of
pointed questions reflecting on Al
derman McClelland’s character and
official conduct.
Alderman Maddox denied that lie
legally or morally guilty of mi»-
onduct in having sub-contracts with
the city. He said he would not pre
tent counter charges before th
Council investigating committee this
afternoon on account of Alderman
McClelland’s mental and physical
ondition, but resorts to McClelland
nvn tactics and invites a suit f<>
libel. ^
Maddox Asks Questions.
The questions, introduced by tin
statement that Alderman McClellam
•* being used by designing men for
political purposes, follow:
1 Why were you so viciously op-
11 -ed to anything like a contract with
• • 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
i his 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-
! made contract, for which you had
voted? Is it possible that >ou have
accepted the “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?
Why did you appear in court as
hp attorney at law’ in a suit against
the city of Atlanta, w’hen you knew
hat this appearance was 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
itv 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.
< 'hewning, a member of the police
f t< e of the city of Atlanta ? Why
did you state in your place as such
attorney, that you were his leading
counsel, and ask for a checking of the
•nse because of your physical disa
bility, and thus delay justice and
violate the laws?
Represents Brewers.
•"> Why do brewers appear in your
"dice and go into your private sanc-
uim. behind closed doors, while they
1 e applications pending before the
Police Committee of Council, of
" Inch you are a member?
' Why do you give legal advice to
bn wing agent.)* touching the validity
*nd effect of a lease on a place of
business for which an application is
ii pending before the Police Com-
"'ttee of which you are a member?
How many clubs have paid fees
t" your firm to represent them in le-
' matters, while they had applica-
l '" ns pending before the Police Com
mittee of w’hich you were a member;
u a t services were to be performed
md how much was paid?
^ How many women of the under-
’’ H d do you represent in ‘civil mat-
ms - other than Eva Clarke? What
a5 e of a civil nature did you plead
"or her, anyway?
Personal Conduct Questioned.
4 Why did the officers of the city,
"hen endeavoring to round up a
of lawbreakers in a certain hotel
f this city, find you in a room there-
‘u. a hen the said hotel was within
bteen minutes’ walk, ten minutes by
a: and five minutes by automobile
r from your home?
10. Why did you act in such man-
ber as to cause a certain prominent
minister of the.gospel of this city to
from his pulpit that a member
' , the General Council of this city
pad been guilty of such conduct as
bring reproach to himself and
5 name upon the city?
1. Why are your friends or rep
resentatives engaged now in seeing
men who know things concerning
>our conduct, and who may be sub-
Pjraed as witnesses, and asking
nese men either to forget that they
now anything or to evade the ques-
°ns when asked?
When you have answered these
**veral questions, there may be oth
which it will be equally difficult
lor you to explain.
Julian Hawthorne
\\ ho is Prisoner No. 4435 in
the Federal 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 •
I p there in the great blank hall:
Through the window-bars the great blue day
And the golden sunshine call,
Call 11s, 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.
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
Roaring aloft over grief and fate
\s the tones of the master of music roll
"i hrough the gloom and doom of the prhon-pen,
Distilling Ihe 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 aboce poem trus umpired bp gratitude for Caruso's gracious
act in singing for the prisoners this afternoon.
PROBE, FUSES WIFE; BLAMES
C. Q. 0.10 GOBBI LURF OF OPERA
“Georgia Peach” Didn’t Say So,
but Facts Show Magnates
Are in Panic.
HOLD-OUT GOING TO DETROIT
GAIRIN2YEARS. IN 0. S. PEN;
“King of Forgers,” Held in San
Francisco, Will Be Tried There
Before Atlanta Gets Him.
A modest income of $200,000 in the
last two years was netted Benjamin
W. Brumby, of Marietta, by the
handicraft of his clever forgeries, if
the substance of his confession tele
graphed to-day from San Francisco,
where he is under arrest, to Atlanta,
is true.
Bocal Pinkertons have been on the
trail of the “king of the forgers" since
last December, when he broke jail in
Montgomery, and they would like to
get him back here, where he is want
ed for three forgeries, two on one
bank, but the San Francisco authori
ties wired Chief Beavers to-day they
have two strong cases against him
there
He will be prosecuted there, and
when the Western authorities are
through with him he will be held for
the Atlanta police.
Far from being reticent when he
was arrested in the West. Brumby
was talkative, even boastful. He re
lated at length and with a showing
of considerable pride the forgeries
he had made and the money he had
collected. He declared that he had
forged checks aggregating more than
$200,000 In the last two years and
that he never had failed to cash them.
Atlanta Pinkertons are inclined to
believe that Brumby has overesti
mated the amount of his forgeries.
They say their records show he has
forged this amount since he started
operating in 1900, but not in the last
two years.
Traced by Trail of Checks.
After sawing his way from the
Montgomery jail, where he was held
for the Atlanta authorities for his
$1,000 forgeries here, he started west
ward and the detectives were able to
trace him by his trail of worthless
checks. He made four banks in Den
ver his victims, getting an aggregate
of $2,400 from them.
He was next heard from in Okla
homa City, where one bank was gath
ered into his net to the extent of $1.-
000.
At Salt Lake City he swindled two
banks for a total of $1,330. and in San
Francisco he victimized two before he
was caught. According to dispatches,
he is wanted in a dozen other cities
about the country.
Golden Voice of Greatest Tenor
Touches Hearts of Eight
Hundred Prisoners.
GRAND OPERA L\
PRISON.
By Enrico Caruso.
World’s Greatest Tenor.
“O Paradise," L'Africaine-Myerbeer
“Idealle," a ballad Tosti
“Ridi Pagliacci” («ob song),
I Pagliacci—Leoncavallo
This is the incomparable pro
gram the golden-voiced tenor sang
for the prisoners at the Federal
Penitentiary this afternoon.
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
holts 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.
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, 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 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
Continued on Page 2, Column 4.
Tigers’ Owner Burns Wires to
Summon Star After H. Smith
Calls for Contract,
BY PERCY H. WHITING.
That President Frank Navin, of the
Detroit Baseball Club, wired Ty Cobb
to go to Detroit just six hours after
Senator Hoke Smith made his threat
of a Federal investigation of the al
leged Baseball Trust—
That this threat has the leaders of
organized baseball thoroughly fright
ened—
That they will force Navin to sign
Cobb, in the hope of quieting the fiery
Georgia Senators and Representa
tives, who are explosively irate at
what they consider the rough treat
ment of their favorite ball player.
That the so-called Baseball Trust
fears an investigation—
These are the facts gleaned from
an hour's talk with Ty Cobb. But he
did not say them, hint them, sug
gest them or even mean that such
conclusions shduld be drawn.
Begs Privilege of Silence.
"What about it. Ty?’’ I asked him.
All he said was, "Being a hold-out
is h—1.’’
"Don’t ask me to talk." said he.
and I’ll tell you why. Frank Navin
asked me not to discuss things any
more and I promised him yesterday
by wire I wouldn’t.”
“Now’, here’s my attitude, ’ contin
ued Ty, refusing with one breath a
shampoo, massage and hair tonic.
"I'm keen to play ball. 1 believe that
President Navin and 1 can get to
gether. I am going there at his
request. He asks me not to talk any
until the thing is settled one way or
the other It may mean—well. I'm
not saying the sum. but it may mean
a lot of money to me."
"Let’s see, when did you get the
telegram?" Ty was asked.
The “Peach” produced the yellow
document.
The day and hour of its arrival was
clearly marked. A little arithmetic
told the story. It was sent just six
hours after Senator Hoke Smith an
nounced to the press that he had
wired Cobb for a copy of his contract,
and that he and others of the Geor
gia delegation were considering
whether to have the alleged Baseball
Trust investigated by Congress or
whether to have the Department of
Justice proceed against it.
Here’s the Present Status.
Now consider the situation:
Cobb’s contract ran out last fall.
He saw President Navin before he
left Detroit at the end of last sea
son and stated w’hat his terms would
be for this season. President Navin
made no decision then. Cobh all along
has refused to state for publication
what he asked for. Newspapers at
the time said $16,000 a year, and
doubtless that is not far wrong. This
spring Navin sent Cobb a contract
calling for a salary, so the rumor said,
of $9,000 a year. This was sent back.
Since that time neither Cobb nor
Navin has done much nor said much,
though the papers have been full of
the case.
A week or so ago it became evident
that the magnates of the American
and National Leagues had banded to
gether to make an example of Ty
Cobb. In fact, they as much as said
that. Navin. in particular, talked a
lot about disciplining Ty. At the start
he had alleged that he just couldn’t
afford to pay Cobb $15,000 a year.
* Delegation Gets Busy.
Then the Georgia delegation start
ed something noisy in the halls of
Congress. Six hours later Cobb re
ceived his message to come to De
troit. The conclusion is obvious.
What evidently happened was this;
The heads of the baseball organiza
tion read their evening papers. The
story that the United States would at
once move against the alleged Base
ball Trust spurred them to action.
They forgot about disciplining Cobb
They thought only of saving their
own skins.
They must have consulted by phone
or wire. There was one course. To
quiet the Georgia delegation they
must get Cobb signed and get it done
Immediately. They can be Imagined
dashing to the telegraph office and
wiring. “Sign Cobb at any cost.”
Before the ink was well dried on
the papers carrying the story of the
investigation of the Baseball Trust.
Cobb had his first invitation to go to
Detroit. He will be there to-morrow.
He will be signed before the week is
out. It isn’t that Detroit needs him
Therefore it must be that the Base
ball Trust w'ants the Investigation
hushed tip.
Missing Woman, Found in Mari
etta, Returns to Atlanta Home
With Her Husband.
NO ELOPEMENT, THEY SAY
Man Who Fled Peachtree Street
Hotel at Same Time Succeeds
in Eluding Police.
H H. Oates, member of a well
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 and simple, he said. His
wdfe had become angered over a do
mestic difference and had lefl 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-
ion’s Scotch collie, also mentioned in
the police alarm.
Oates bounded oft the 1- 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 tile 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
I am confident. I* am satisfied that
my wife was on her way to Chicago
to see her brother, who is 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
Lucrezia 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 8.
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
lri this respect with increased force.
"She read every word of the ad
vance notices. She raved over the
success of Lucrezia Bori and w'^pt
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 start out
for Chicago to study vocal music with
the ultimate idea of supporting her
self."
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 many notable gatherings,
and it is believed that he and Mrs.
Duke, who was Mrs. William Inman,
of Atlanta. Oa., famous throughout
the Shuth for her beauty, will enter
tain extensively.
Deluge Sweeping
Over Mississippi
Break in Rolling Fork Levee One
Mile Wide—Thousands Heme-
less—Fifty Towns Suffer.
MEMPHIS. TENN , April 23. A
break more than a mile wide near
Bolling' 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.
Miss., a town of 1.500 Inhabitants.
More than 50 towns suffered slight
damage. The levee at Pala Alto, La.,
was reported caving to-day. A high
wind wss sending the waves against
the dikes, making repair work dan
gerous.
More than 200 refugees on board
tlie steamer Alice Miller reached
Vicksburg to-day. Small boats con
tinued patrolling the o\-..iowed sec
tions, picking up hundreds.
Wife’s Plea Frees
‘Blind Tiger King’
Governor Brown Commutes Dan
Shaw’s Sentence to Present
Service and $700 Fine.
A heartbroken and almost penniless
wife succeeded in gaining the clem
ency of Governor Brown to-day for
Dan Shaw, the Atlanta "blind tiger
king," where m oves of his friend?*,
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, whs 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 cbr.sented to the com
mutation. Mrs. Shaw wrote that she
had obtained a position for her hus
band in Richmond. Va.
Visitor Lauds Chief
For Vice Campaign
New Mexico Man Tells Beavers Eyes
of the Nation Are on Atlanta
in Approval.
M rs. callie scott ap-
PELBAUM, on trial
charged with slaying husband,
who aided her counsel select
jury.
\
8. M. Johnson, of Roswell. N. Mex.
in the city on his way to attend the
National Good Roads Convention in
Birmingham, to-day called at the po
lice station to pay his respects to
Chief Beavers and congratulate nim
on his vice war.
"The eyes of the whole country
are on Atlanta, and the people of all
sections are with Chief Beavers',"
said Johnson.
"The closing of these vice houses
here is the greatest move for the
betterment of a community that has
ever been made by any city in this
country. Atlanta is now the object
of admiration for the whole nation.”
All Decatur Joins
In Spring Cleaning
School Children Collect Bottles and
Cans to Win Prizes Offered by
Board of Trade.
By Friday of this week thousands
of bottles and old tin cans will be
piled up in Decatur school yards.
Children of the town or vying with
each other for the honor of collecting
the greatest number.
it Is clean-up week in Decatur. The
Board of Trade, the Woman's Club
and the Sanitary Committee of the
City Council have inaugurated a
campaign similar to that of last year.
Last spring more than 17.000 cans and
bottles were collected by school chil
dren.
Prizes are offered
Grand Operagoers
Warned of Showers
Weather Man Predicts Slight Rain
For To-night or Early To
morrow Morning.
Operagoers are warned of possible
light showers late to-night, the pre
diction beini) a slight precipitation
during the night or early to-morrow.
Otherwise the fair weather of the
wpek will continue.
There will be a moderate rise in
temperature to-morrow. The ther
mometer registered 76 at 2 o'clock
to-day.
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 Marohiafava said
that His Holiness was showing satis
factory improvement.
0
Women Tell Social
Work Sex Has Done
Health Problems Also Topic at Fed
erated Club’s Convention
in Washington.
WASHINGTON. April 23. Wom
an'? part in the national health move
ment and some of the problems being
solved by her activity in social lines
were discussed by Mrs. S’. 8. Crockett
to-day before the Council of Feder
ated Women’s Clubs, in session here.
This idea was further emphasized
by MU*s Helen Louise Johnson in an
address on "The Meaning of Home
Economies.”
The biennial council to be held in
Chicago next year was discussed by
Mrs. George Bass and Mrs. Samuel B.
Sneath. Mrs. Philip N. Moore and
Mrs. Harriet Bishop Waters also
spoke.
Doesn’t Like Opera;
He Can’t Whistle It
Alderman Candler Disappointed and
Attorney Luther Z. Rosser Much
Prefers His Sleep.
Criticisms of grand opera are uni
versal this week, of .course, but few
comments have the punch of those
made by Alderman John S. Candler
and Attorney Luther Z. Rosser just
before the convening of the council-
manic graft investigating committee
yesterday.
“I heard Manon Lescaut.'" said Al
derman Candler, "and I must admtl
that I was disappointed. I can't
whistle a single bar of it."
“I have reached two very positive
conclusions about life." said Mr.
Rosser. "No preacher in the world
can outpreach sunshine and no singer
can outsing sleep."
:LECT JURY
Widow Accused of
SI a y i ng Husband
Calmly Aids Counsel
Pick Men Who Will
Decide Her Fate.
Case. Halted 2 Hours
by Absence of Wit
ness for Defense,
Taken Up This Af-
noon at 1 o’Clock.
Clad in black, veiled and slightly
pale, but cool and almost eager to as
sist her attorneys in every turn of her
defense, Mrs. Callie Scott Appelbaum.
accused of the slaying of her husband,
Jerome A. Appelbaum, in the Dakota
Hotel February 26. faced a jury in
criminal division of Superior Court
to-day and entered a plea of not
guilty at 1 o’clock. After one witne**
had been examined court adjourned
until 3:30 p. m.
Tbe trial began at 1:30 o'clock and
five panels were exhausted. Two
veniremen, George W. McCarthy and
J. J. Osborn, told the court they were
opposed to capital punishment where
a woman was involved, and were ex
cused.
Tiie jurymen drawn wore W.
H. O'Rear, T. J. Butler. D. P.
Donehoo, H. W. Reese, L. J. Bentley.
F. C. Wilkinson, E. E. Gilliland. W. H.
Foster, G. W. Manning, W. E. Heard.
8 H. Marcus and H. G. Hackney.
Defendant Takes Notes.
Mrs. Appelbaum took notes con
stantly while the jury was being
drawn and time and time again in
structed her lawyers to object to cer
tain selections.
G. Cohen, main witness for the de
fense, whose failure to appear at 9
o’clock delayed the trial for two hour*,
said he would tell on the stand the
story that he refuged to affirm under
oath before the grand jury a month
ago.
Upon Cohen's testimony, which will
attempt to establish that Mrs. Appel
baum left her husband's room after
the first shot and was running in the
hallway of the hotel when the second
shot was fired, will hinge the de
fense's theory of suicide.
Son Defends Mother.
Claude Henderson, 16-year-old son
of Mrs. Appelbaum, sat in the court
room with Jds mother and John Moore
and James Branch, attorneys for the
defense, signified their intention of
sending him to the stand in his
mother’s behalf.
Following the selection of the jury.
Solicitor Dorsey asked for a rule of
court segregating the witnesses. This
was done preparatory' to the introduc
tion of testimony by the prosecution.
Detective J. D. Doyle appeared in the
role of prosecutor.
Mrs. Appelbaum entered her plea of
not guilty shortly after I o’clock. As
she stood before the court in answer
to Superior Judge Roan’s summons,
she spoke clearly and without hesita
tion. Her voice was audible in the
farthest corner of the little court
room.
T. B. Thomason, clerk of the Dako
ta Hotel, on duty the morning of the
shooting, was the first witness to take
the stand. He went up for the prose
cution. but upon rigid cross-examina
tion proved a capable aid to the de
fense.
Doctor to Testify.
Under fire 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.
Dr. S. J. Liebman and the police
officers will follow Thomason to the
stand at 3:30 o’clock, when tbe tr£
is resumed. G. Cohen an 1 Alvin Rob
erts, two men who occupied rooms in
the hotel, and J. T. Lindsay anu J.
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, “I 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
fear of the outcome.”
No difficulty was expected in finding
3 jury, according to Mrs. Appelbaum'a j
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