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VOL. ,\1. NO. 227.
ATLANTA, GA., SATURDAY, APRIL 2(5, 1912.
PR ICE TWO CENTS. ' Aiork
DETROIT CLUB
"Georgia Peach” and President
Navin Finally Agree on the
Terms for Season.
REACH SALARY COMPROMISE
Tiger Owner Will Apply to the
National Commission for Rein
statement of Hero,
DETROIT, -MICK., April 25.—Ty
11011 signed a contract for one year
it it the Detroit baseball club this
ittrnoon. It is said that his salary
. compromise between the $15,000
'landed and the $0,000 offered him. j
The report here is that Cobb will
< paid $12,500, with bonuses for ex
tra* good work. Just what these
anuses are no one can tell, for both
- obb and President Frank Navin re-
’ i:s*“d to say a word other than that
wy laid reached an agreement and
i iut Ty had affixed his signature to a
Detroit contract.
President Navin will see to it that j
''obb is reinstated by the National I
Commission. He is now under sus- j
pension because of his failure to re
port for the opening game. It is like
ly that a fine of $100 will be imposed
on him.
Cobb announced that he was in fine
condition and that he would go out to
the park and practice with his team
mates this afternoon.
1 am perfectly satined with my
contract/’ said Cobb as he came out
of Mr Navin’s office. “But I prom-
3ed Mr. Navin that J would not give
out the amount of my salary.”
The offer I made Cobb this after-
. non proved satisfactory' to him and
h p signed the contract offered with
er a second's hestitation,” declared
the Tiger boss.
Mr. Navin announced that he would
Pl’ly to the National Commission by
• graph asking that Cobb be rein-
Helps Woman; Gets
$20,000 and a Home
Mrs. John Kamb, Washington, Re
warded for Help She Gave
Poor Stranger.
WASHINGTON, April 25.—Mrs
Jo n Kamb, wife of an employee of
the navy yard, has received $20,000
;; rash and the deed for a home from
T h . Suzanne Frochard, of Toulon,
-Mrs. Kamb declares that several
years ago, while walking in the
neighborhood of her home her at
tention was attracted by a woman of
mystery, who later sought her ao-
'ina’.ntance. The woman was living
a conditions of poverty.
-Mrs. Kamb said she won the
friendship of the woman by little
a ' Cs of kindness. Recently, accord-
111 £ to Mrs. Kamb, Mme. Frochard
■) ole $600,000 in mining, and decided
t0 reward all her friends before re
turning to France to enter a con
vent.
Boy Rises in Coffin;
Grandmother Expires
Double Funeral, Instead of One, Is
Held When Physicians Fail
to Revive Child.
* TTK. CAL., April 25.—A double,
ineral was hold at the home of Mrs.
ft- Burney to-day.
^ hilc the family was listening to
services for Mrs. Burney’s three-
.'oar-nid son yesterday, the boy sat
bright in his coffin. Mrs L. I*. Smith,
1 grandmother, aged 81, saw him
;in <j dropped to the floor dead.
' ho boy foil back into the oasket
Fid efforts of two physicians failed to
revive him.
*; le grandmother and boy were bu-
ned together.
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Lr, ‘S ANGELES. CAL., April 25.—A
"°man believed to be Mrs. Anson Rid-
n f of Columbus, Ohio, was found.
? dead, beside the body of an un-
U'ntifled man, apparently 24 years
o a iiotel here.
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n successfully passed the bar cn-
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S7.HI III NOTES
M RS. CALLIE SCOTT APPELBAUM, acquitted as slayer
of her husband in the Dakota Hotel, snapped as she is read
ing one of the love letters which the prosecution maintails caused
her to kill Appelbaum.
There Were No Rapiers, but Two
Society Men Managed to
Make Things Lively.
Postal Authorities Search for a
Registered Letter Sent From i
Washington, Ga., April 13.
ALL STARTED AT A DANCE; NO TRACE OF PACKET FOUND
Ben Gatins. Ed Terrell and Dan i Lost or Stolen Between Starting!
Woodward Principals in a Dra
matic Fight in New York.
The good old days of the code duello
and of flashing rapieres. when brave
men fought for beautiful women, arc
revived for Atlanta, and the city's
society today is agog over the story
of a formal combat between two of
the most prominent of Us younger set.
j Only, in this combat there were no
i flashing rapieres. It was just a fight
| with fists, in the light of the moon.
! and it took place Tuesday night un-
Point and Crawfordville While
En Route to Atlanta.
Two registered letters sent from the
postoffice in Washington, Ga.J on April
13, containing negotiable papers, thir-
c
ler the shadow ol’ the Piedmont Park
Peace monument.
The story of the light leaked out
to-dpy. and the names of Edward Ter
rell. Ben Gatins and Dan Woodward,
its principal figures, are on every
body's lips.
Began at a Dance.
It began at a dance at fcsegadio’s,
when Mr. Gatins objected to the an
cient and honorable custom of “Break
ing.” He refused to relinquish his
position as the partner of a beautiful
girl when Mr. TenwyU iigiti ly ■ tapped
him on the shoulder.,
Mr Terrell did not insist- 1 -then.
But after the dance he aproached Mr. j
Gatins and informed him that break-!
ing was the custom.
'You haven't been up North so long i
you’ve forgotten that, have you?” lie
asked. Mr. Gatins lias lived in New
York for several years.
"Well, it doesn’t go with ine,” Mr.
Gatins is said 10 have replied Then
there were other words.
A few minutes later. Mr. Terrell j
was formally aprpoached by an emis- j
sary of the young New Yorker. A
whispered conversation. Then tlie|
crowd about the* young men heard j
Mr. Terrell speak determinedly.
"I'm on,” he said. It was said with j
a world of defiance in its tone
A mysterious party left Segadlo's J
hall after the dance, in two autorno- ■'
biles. They made their way to Pied
mont Park, in whose open space the
moon beat brightly down. The duel
was ideally staged. The Peace mon
ument towered mournfully above the
beligerqat young men.
The whole affair was being sched
uled according to Marquis of Queens-
burv and all the other crlterions of
the ringside.
By the Light of the Moon.
At that moment another automo
bile dreyv up. The news that a duel
was impending had spread.
The Gatins faction, says the story,
objected to the audience. This was
no show affair. One of them, it is
said, objected in violent language, and
Ben Woodward entered the affair.
The original quarrel was forgotten,
and Woodward and Gatins mixed it
for a good twenty minutes. Fighting
I was lively under tin* Peace monu-
j merit.
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Oliver and Jackson
Indicted for Attack
i County Policemen Face Trial on
Charge of Assaulting W. H.
Johnson, Former Officer.
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I Am as Innocent as an Angel In
Heaven Cries Mrs. Appelbaum to
Jury, After Describing Salesman’s
Threat to Kill Her.
Mrs. Callie Scott Appelbaum was found not guilty of the
charge of murder in the criminal division of Superior Court at
5:03 o'clock this afternoon. The jurors which decided she did not
kill her husband had been out just 33 minutes and the verdict was
reached after a few ballots.
As F. C. Wilkerson, foreman of the trialmen, entered the court
room, Mrs. Appelbaum was standing with her lawyers with a
smile on her lips. As she sought to thank him she fainted.
As the foreman puttered the words “not guilty” she started
across the court room while the crowd craned their necks to gel
a view of the scene. Close to the jury box she fell forward anc»
fainted dead away into the arms of a court attache, but was re
vived later and left the court room with her lawyers smiling.
While the jury delibirated she appeared in the best of spirit,
chatted with reporters and even allowed photographers to snap
her with her son.
The case against Mrs. Callie Appelbaum, charged with the
murder of her husband, went to the jury shortly after 4 o'clock
to-day.
Solicitor Hugh M. Dorsey concluded Ins dosing argument 1o
tlie jury and Judge Koan made n brief charge. The fate of Mrs.
Appelbaum. accused of shooting her husband in the Dakota Hotel
on February 25. was then put in the hands of the twelve jurors.
Solicitor Dorsey confined himself most to an effort to nullify
tiie effect of the testimony of the star witness for the defense, G.
Cohen, a traveling salesman. Cohen was in the room next the Ap
pellations. It was In- who testified that in the interval between,
shots he heard some one hurrying from the room occupied by Mr.
and Mrs. Appelbaum
nowu I whs not guilty, i did not re-
eal my identity because I wanted U
hield my aged father and mother an*
t ie blai
nis
Lieut. John Oliver and A. W. Jock-
j son, of the county police force were
! indicted by the grand jury this after-
! noon for assault and batery upon W.
| H. Johnston, former member of the
force.
The alleged kssault occured in an
anteroom to the criminal court in the
I Thrower building a month ago. Lieut.
I Oliver pummeled Johnson for the re-
! marks the latter is said to have ut-
| tered reflecting on his character.
Neither the police officer nor John-
I son w as hurt.
If you have anything to sell adver-
• sc in The Sunday American. Lar-
vi^jt circulation of any Sunday news
paper in the South*.
teen of them sent to an Atlanta bank,
approximating $7,000. have been re-
| ported as lost or stolen in transit and
an investigation is on by the postal
authorities to fix the blame.
* The more valuable of the two let
ters, containing the thirteen notes,
was sent to the Fourth Nation
al Bank of Atlanta by one of
the Washington banking institutios
for discount and credit. When ac
knowledgment was not received from
the Atlanta correspondent in regular
course by the Washington bank a
tracer was started, which developed
the fact that the registered letter had
never reached its destination.
Postmaster Poche, of Washington,
was in his office for the first train
leaving Washington on the morning
of April 13—Sunday - and was a wlt-
j ness to the fact that the registered
j letters were dispatched from the.
| Washington office by one of the clerks.
The registered mail with three Iet-
! ters for Crawfordville, the first sta
tion on the Georgia Railroad from the
i junction at Barnett, it is claimed,
* was done up in a package together,
| according to the postal regulation
I known as “bracing,” and addressed:
1 “Georgia Train No. 1—local package.”
It has developed that one of the let
ters addressed to a bank at Craw
fordville and containing checks and
cash items amounting to more than
$250 was also missing from the pack
age.
This is the first instance in four
teen years of the loss of a piece of
registered mail handled either in the
outgoing or incoming mall of the
Washington postoffice.
SAFE ROBBER AND THREE
COMPANIONS BREAK JAIL
SELMA. ALA.. April 25.—Charles
Prater, Ed Cook. Ernest Jackson and
Will Thomas, all white, escaped from
the Dallas County jail to-day. Pi.ner
was charged with cracking a safe. The
other three were charged with hui -
j gini y and forger.v
K
aid.
Hearst Editorial
Goes Into Official
Record of Congress
Representative Willis, of Ohio,
Makes It Part of Tariff
Discussion.
WASHINGTON, April 25.—The edi
torial by William Randolph Hearst on
the Federalists ideas and the tariff
views of President Wilson has been
put into The Congressional Record by
Representative Willis, of Ohio.
Twice Democratic leaders defeated
Mr. Willis in his effort to have tin
editorial printed in The Congressional
Record vo that it might have the
broadest possible circulation in con
nection with the tariff discussion.
Representative Hardwick (Georgia)
was the first to object, and later Rep
resentative Fitzgerald frustrated Mr.
Willis
Mr. Willis, however, obtained pci -
mission to address the Houre for one
minute. He announced he desired to
have the editorial printed as a part of
his remarks. There was no comment
as the stenographer took the printed
copy.
GENERAL WEST TO MISS
MEMORIAL DAY PARADE
General Andrew J. West has ac
cepted invitations to deliver Memorial
Day addresses at Forsyth to-morrow
and at Marietta on Monday.
General West, who had been se
lected a- an aide from the Confed
erate veterans on the staff of Grand
Marshal Joseph Van Holt Nash for
the memorial parade h r - Saturday
regrets that the conflict of dates will
prevent him idiug wtlh In nib corn
ra'L-s ol AILoiLi.
Powers Arrange to
• Exchange Children
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
BERLIN, April 25. Exchange of
school children by Germany, France,
Belgium, England, Switzerland and
Norway Is being arranged by an Inter
national committee with headquarters
in Berlin. The plan, if adopted, will
give several hundred pupils a summer
vacation in a foreign land at the ex-
pem«e only of railroad fare. It has
long been the custom of German fam
ilies to exchange daughters on the
,theory that the girls learn house
keeping better in some other home
than their own.
The international exchange was
founded by teachers for the purpose
of stimulating the knowledge of lan
guages and breaking down the bar
riers of race.
NEW COMPANY TO HOLD
ALABAMA CONSOLIDATED
BIRMINGHAM, ALA., April 25.--
The officials of the Alabama Com
pany have notified Trustee Harry
Coffin that they have the money
ready for the formal purchase of the
property of the Al.tbama Consolidated
Company and transfer of the deed.
The formal transfer of the deed w ill
take place Friday and hereafter the
affairs of the former Alabama Consol
idated. w hich has been in bankruptcy
for nearly a year, will be in the hands
and under the control of the new
concern.
Charges Robbery on Boat.
SAVANNAH. -Claiming that a
purse containing $100 had been stolen
i from the stateroom occupied by them
on tin* steamship Merrimack. Jack-
! on vide to Savannah. R. Morris and
j E. .Morris, o! New York, have taken
| tk • mg,tier up with lhe authoiities of
j * he Met “him-: and Miners’ Yianspor-
i at ion < ’oinpany.
That her mind was a conap
at the time her husband
death in the Dakota Hotel was the
striking feature of a remarkable .state
ment made on the stand to-day by
Mrs. Callie Scott Apeplbaum, on trial
for her life. *
Mrs. Appelbaum said she loved her
husband better than anything in the
world. She wound up an incoherent
but dramatic narrative, told between
sobs, with the declaration that Appel
baum had threatened to shoot her,
that she buried herself beneath tile
bed covers and remembered nothing
until the next morning. In the mean
time the tragedy with which she is
charged had occurred.
The prisoner said that Appelbaum
had feared for his life; that they had
all sorts of trouble, and that she her
self had tried suicide and made her
will. Here Is Mrs. Appelbaum’s c ni-
plete statement:
Tells Al! She Remembers.
“I am going to tell all I can possi
bly remember abotit Mr. Appelbaum’s
death. I have been unjustly Impris
oned, and kept there. No one on
earth could be more anxious to know*
how he met his death than I am. I
know you want the truth, and that Is
what I am going to tell.
‘ I think if the detectives had treat
ed me fairly the morning they had me
at the station iiouse they would have
Kirkland Elected
To Head Arkansas
State University
Chancello of Vanderbilt, Now in
Atlanta Tendered Presidency of
Fayetteville Institute.
LITTLE ROCK. ARK., April 25.—
Chancellor James H. Kirkland, of
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, was
this afternoon elected president of the
University of Arkansas at a meeting
of the beard of trustees of the lat
ter Institution held here. Dr. J. C.
Hardy, formerly president of the
Mississippi Agricultural and Me
chanical College was elected dean of
the Arkansas College of Agriculture.
Both Arkansas institutions are lo
cated at Fayetteville.
The new beads arc expecto
charge July 1.
Chancellor Kirkland in
at school in Mom
ell n»e Mr. Appel-
hey told me he had
was not
my son. who \va
gomery.
“They did not
baum was dead,
a scratch on his arm. but
badly hurt. I insisted that I be taken
to him, and they said then that be
was shot and had given them a state
ment saying that,I shot him. I tolrfc
them that that coma not oe true, that
I loved him too much to do him the
slightest harm.”
Sobs Interrupt Her Story.
Mrs. Appelbaum broke down here
and sobbed for a few* minutes. Turn
ing to the jury, she said;
"Gentlemen, I knew all his faults,
and in spite of them loved him more
dearly than everything in the world.
You can not be more anxious than l
am to find the trylh. I have prayed
night and day that when this trial
was held we would know how Mr. Ap
pelbaum met his death. I know my
love was an honorable love. I was a
good wife. I made every sacrifice on
earth for him. He often admitted I
was the only friend he ever had on.
earth who had not double-crossed
him. :
“For several weeks before the first
of February he had been morose and
dejected. My health had been very
bad and f was unhappy. On the 1st
of February I tried to take my own
life.
“f gave him money to go in busi
ness in Charlotte. It was never in
my heart or mind to mistreat him. On
the 1st of February I took laudanum.
Before doing it I wrote a note that
would exonerate him of all blame, i
did not want the people to think he
was In any way responsible for it. I
wrote a will, dividing my stocks and
bonds and small bank account oe-
tween him and my son.
Tells of His Fear for Life.
“About a week before his death we
went to a motion picture show to
gether. He was very nervous, and
said he wanted to go out. 'We went
out together and went back to the
hotel. He was drinking. I asked
him what was the matter. He said:
'Some one is following ine all the
time, and our lives ar in danger
every minute we are out.’
“He went out the next morning and
bought a pistol, had it cleaned, and
oiled and loaded. When he got up
t the next morning he was awfully
,ake j nervous and cross. He went down
! into the dining room and Cus>ed with
. ( t,ta i the waiters, and finally came back to
, . Un* room, sayintt he had forgotten bis
pistol.
1 "Ho hull to SO out of to,Ml tlmt