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✓ THE ATLANTA UttOKCHAN A XT) NEWS lu Oil JURY SELECTED Continued from Page One. 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 /j HIS HONOR THE MAYOR. Y/ 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. Continued from Page One. 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. Y 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." J FLOWERS and FLORAL DESIGNS; | ATLANTA FLORAL CO Both Phones Number 4. 41 Peachtree ATLANTA THEATER SUMMER PRICES Matinees lOc and 25c Nights 10c to 5oc ALL TH I S WEEK Matinees Wednesday and Saturday Miss BILLY LONG And Company In “WILDFIRE” GRAND THIS WEEK Mai. Today 2:30 Tonight 8:30 TRUELY SHATTUCK LITTLE Bl L ' JERE BRADY-FRARKIE CARPENTER & CO. JAS. LEONARD A CO. ED MORTON MARIO TRIO FRED ST CNGE & Ctt IT If K urn VAUDEVILLE Auditorium Cyrano to-night Grand Opera METROPOLITAN OPERA COMPANY Giulio Gatti Casazza. OF NEW YORK John Brown Gen. Mgr. Business Compt. Full Orchestra—Corps de Ballet—Original Scenario Alda, Mattfeld. Robeson, Van Dyck, Amato. Martin, Reiss. Hardman Piano Used Exclusively Tin SUNDAYAME! GREAT BASEEA Pj KilBl Ail the important leagues of baseball are now in action. So aro tens of thousands of fans. So are also the men who write of the doings of the dia mond stars for those same fans to read. It is the newspaper with the STAR TEAM of writers that makes the strongest appeal to baseball enthusiasts. BUT—to be stars, baseball players and writers about the diamond warriors must be fair and square. That is an essential pari of KNOWING THE GAME. Here Ss The Hearst Sunday American Team for 1913 CHRISTY MATHEWSON-^“L“°£ York Giants. Known everywhere as one of the brainiest players in the business and one of the squarest in whatever he writes about the game of which he is master. TAT API 171? The Crackers’sensational first-sacker. He is w rlviLiLdli giving local fans all the “inside’’ news of Bil ly Smith’s aggregation. His comments on plays are immense. W S FARM^WORTH His stories of the bj g lea 8 ue vv , kJ. A /"XlxIlkJ Vv VJI\ I II teams are right up to the minute. Having traveled with the New York Yankees, New York Giants and Boston Red Sox during the past seven years, he is able to tell of the “workings” of the major league clubs. PF R P Y W W WITT IMP For over sevon years lie has i £ ill, v¥ 111 1 i i \ VJ been writing Southern League baseball. He is the dean of Southern diamond experts and has the larg est following this side of the Mason and Dixon line. He is fearless in his writings and always tells the truth. C A PR A M17 A- big league ball player for years and per- kJ/TtlTl L-IX/Hilj sonally acquainted with all the maior leaguers. For the past twenty years he has been writing baseball and is considered the greatest student of the game in the world. He travels with the National League Champion Giants. A RI TNJVOM The wittiest baseball writer in the IXvJli I vll East. He tells of the big league games in a manner that has a laugh in every line. But he never gets away from baseball like most of the humorous followers of the diamond warriors. W f M^RFTW Uis “i ns ide” stories of big league games • iViCDLi 1 il cannot be beaten. He sticks to facts and figures and his predictions are followed by thousands of fans. He has traveled as “war correspondent” with nearly every big league team dur ing the past ten years. PH ART FY 1TIRYF'TFI\I The ^® ark Twain of baseball. 11 r-\fvJL>IL i I L/IL iv For years he has traveled with New York, Philadelphia and Chicago teams and his writings are base ball classics. / He is personally acquainted with every big league player and probably has the largest following of any baseball expert m the country. A T I ' IVjf I’T’PI 1171 I Considered the greatest expert • H. v. Ivli I UOLLL i n t}i e New England States. His stories of last fall’s world’s series were marvels. He roasts when a roast is coming and praises when praise is due. He has been writing baseball for twenty years. AIIF1V ^ ANPRF F He is we}1 known in tbe South, hav- v O/iki a Jl\IL IL ing been here with big league teams on training trips for the past fifteen years. -He will travel with the New York Yankees this season, and his stories of Russell Ford and Ed Sweeney, former Crackers, will be of especial interest to local fandom. W M«PHW A I TP I4V Popular with Eastern base- • 1V1CL v/ It A* VJ lJ I ball fans because of his fear less writings. He never gets away from the truth, but tells a straight, readable story. He has been writing baseball in St. Louis and New York fbr twelve years. W nriCM A AT Considered the greatest college coach in • 1TILIiDIt1/\1T the South. His college stories are copied by every paper in this part of the United States. His predictions are seldom wrong, and his weekly review of Southern college teams cannot be beaten. |AF nr A RxT As coach of Marist he has led all the other prep JUIL school coaches a merry chase. A few years ago he was the star shortstop of the N ew York Giants. His stories are bright and interesting. IMWIQ R PPIW M — For four ye ars be was considered one of liT11 IkJ DI\v tv lv the greatest athletes that ever attended Vanderbilt. His baseball stories of college teams are read by every un dergraduate and graduate in the South. J. J. In the General Sporting Field As well as in baseball, The Sunday American scores an exceptionally large number of base hits in all other branches of sports. Ben Adams, hero of the Olympic games, writes interesting stories about track and field athletics. The boxing world is well covered by Ed W. Smith, W. W. Naughton, H. M. Walker, Ed Curley and “Left Hook.” Tick Tich- enor takes care of the golf. He knows every golfer in the South and his stories are real live “bearcats.” Tennis and automobiles are twp other branches of sport that are covered thoroughly in The Sunday American. Read The Sunday American For All Live Sporting Hews