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lawyers and the Solicitor. Unless
something entirely unlooked for de*
velope. Solicitor Dorsey expects the
• *cr to he in the hands of a Jury to
morrow.
Accused in Good Spirits.
Mrs. Appel ha uni arose early at the
Toveor 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 Tower, three
months ago.
Solicitor Dorsey will attempt to
break down the theory advanced by
Mrs. Appelbaurn’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,
but he was equally as confident of
convicted, he said, as Mrs. Appel-
haum and her attorneys were of ac
quittal.
It is understood that Applebaum de
fense will bo based on the testimony
of two witnesses, the men who testi
fied ai the Coroner’s inquest that in
the interval between the first and
second shots they heard in the Appel-
bauni room, they distinctly heard
footfalls, as if some one were running
in the hall past their door.
If the jury believes it was Mr*.
Appelb&um 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 Airs Appelbaum. hysterical, ran
into the hotel lobby.
Some one did run by Cohen's door
toward the staircase, say lier 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
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. fc*he 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. Isador Appelbaum, is said
to be dying at her home, 19S7 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 dowm in his
room in 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 65 Liberty
Street
Disowned After Disclosures.
Appelbaurn’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 assorted 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 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
weli remembered there yet.
Shots Followed Angry Words.
Jerome A. Appelbaum was shot
while in his room at the Dakota Hd-
tei the morning of February' 25. G.
Hood’s
Sarsaparilla
in k indreds of homes is the fav
orite
Sprang Medicine
Caruso Sketches
Mayor Woodward
And Colonel Peel
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HIS HONOR THE MAYOR.
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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 tv.o of At
lanta's leading citizens.
r ™ ’■ -I* Barks, Herbs
v St . t 5 OBe P^scrlbed by the best
P-iyelrla* s for ailments of the
ciood. stomach kidneys and liver.
«o» apueUte.
Cohen, a traveling salesman, who had
a room next to that of the Appel-
baums, was startled by the Round of
shots following angry* words and
sounds like that of u 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 down 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 two wounds in
his right arm. Ima 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 if!
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-
iel; 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.
' ll*- was mean: he was bad,'' she
muttered. “If I shot him it was in
self-defense."
She was placed in the Tower, where
she expressed the desire to have de
fend her the same lawyers that suc
cessfully had defended Daisy Grate,
Moore & Branch, whose case so close
ly paralleled her own and for whom
she was said to have expressed the
warmest admiration.
Trail of Conquests Bared.
In the discovery of a number of
love ltdters to Appelbaum from oth
er women, the detective* the follow
ing day thought they had discovered
a possible motive for the murder, if
murder it was. Dispatches from
Kansas City told of a wife from w hom
he had been divorced only a few dqys.
If the dispatches were correct, he had
been living bigamously with Calli«
Scott Appelbaum.
Betters disclosed a sweetheart in
Saginaw, Mich., identified only as
“Girlie." Reports from Charlotte, N.
C„ where the Appelbaums had lived
before coming to Atlanta, described a
trail of broken hearts that the Lotha
rio had left across half the continent.
Oallie Scott Appelbaurn’s heart af
fairs had been no less tangled or Im
petuous. As an unsophisticated coun
try girl she had married C. D. Hen
derson, of Brewton. Ala. Later she
became the wife of J. H. Keller, of
Montgomery, Ala., and it was while
site was in Atlanta after divorcing
Keller that she met Appelbaum.
Son Stands With Her.
The day after the shooting Mrs.
Appelbaum collapsed, and it was
feared that she would have to be
taken to the hospital. At her own re
quest she w it* 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 was 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
wl^ow was carried on a stretcher
from the Tower to witness the last
’4>rlef ceremonies. Three days later
the Fulton County Grand Jury in
dicted her for murder.
To Tho 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 he acquitted
and the declaration that she had a
« onscience perfectly clear and un-
trpubled.
Wilson’s Plea That Secretary of
State Be Allowed to Pass on
Measure Ignored.
WASHINGTON, April 23.—
Word reached the White House
this afternoon that the Califor
nia 8enate and Aeeembly will
paaa a joint resolution inviting
the Secretary of State to visit
California, following out Presi
dent Wilson's suggestion made
earlier in the day. The Secretary
of State will leave for Sacramen
to either to-night or early to
morrow.
WASHINGTON, April 23.—Presi
dent Wilson, alarmed at the develop
ment* In the California-Japanese
situation, to-day wired Governor
Johnson and the Legislature of Cali
fornia to inquire whether it w'ould be
agreeable to them to have Secretary
of State Bryan visit Sacramento To
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 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 Maine 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.
Declare Johnson Acts
On Roosevelt’s Advice.
SACKAMKNTO, CAL,., April 33.—
News that President Wilson had sug-
gesled to Governor Hiram Johnson In
a telegram to-day that Secretary of
stute William J. Bryan visit Califor
nia and confer over the anti-alien
land legislation Created Intense in
terest here as regards its political
effect on national and State politics.
Some Legislators to-day asserted
that Governor Johnson is acting on
advice secretly received from Roose
velt. Governor Johnson refused to
say whether tie 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 parly 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 fall of passage in any form
and the administration would he
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 the 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.
Japanese Ambassador
Scouts Rumors of War.
WASHINGTON, April 28.—“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 belief of the Am
bassador as expressed in the press.
Viscount Chinda will visit Secre
tary of State Bryan to-morrow on
the usual diplomatic calling day. He
declined to-day to state the nature of
his proposed conference there.
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guards, rifles across Knees, eyes on
the men before them.
Hawthorne Affected.
In a corner near the little stage
sat an old man. who has been much
fn 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 tome to him that hii
plea for a parole had been refused.
He Is scarcely 60, but he seemed
years more than that to-day.
In a cluster not far from the stage
waited the most appreciative music
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
w hen the accompanist struck the keys
and Caruso stepped to the little plat
form. Behind him was the garfish
scenery of the prison theater, rudely
painted by a convict with artistic ten
dencies. Before ^iirn 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,
Paradiso,” aria from Meyerbeer's
"L’Africaine."
If Caruso faltered a moment at the
beginning it must not be thought he
wap 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 tonor
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
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 Toati’s ballad,
“Idea 11a," a simple work sung with all
the expression the*master of all sing
ers could give it. But the best was
reserved for the last, the greatest
Rong in all opera, the aria which has
won Caruso his greatest fame, the ef
fort w'hich 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 tlie 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 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
w ? ept 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 th«
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
T YRUS RAYMOND COEB,
the famous Georgia
baseball player, whose trouble
wit hthe Detroit Club has
threatened congressional in
tervention.
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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,
Miss., a town of 1.900 inhabitants.
More than 50 towns suffered slight
damage. The levee at Pala Alto, La.,
was reported caving to-day. A high
wind was sending the waves against
the dikes, making repair work dan
gerous. •
More than 200 refugees on hoard
the steamer Alice Miller reached
Vicksburg to-day. Small boats con
tinued patrolling the overflowed sec
tions. picking up hundreds.
reverie, surrounds them once more
with cold stone walls, drives them
back lo the day’s routine. But it has
been a day in a thousand, a day
worth marking w T ith 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 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 I come to Atlanta again."
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