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VOL. X. XO. 238.
MHS.GRACE
INDICTED;
SAYS SHE
IS GLAD
Grand Jury, by Almost Unan
imous Vote, Holds Her for
Shooting Husband.
COUNSEL FOR DEFENSE
DEMAND A QUICK TRIAL
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Mother of Grace Is Not Called,
and Neighbors and Police
Are Chief Witnesses.
Mrs. Daisy Grace was indicted by the
grand jury this afternoon on the charge
of attempting to murder her husband.
Eugene H. Grace, and will probably
face trial at the July term of the supe
rior court. At the latest, her trial will
be before September 1. if her attor
neys ask for an immediate trial.
The new jury, of which Major R. J.
Guinn is foreman, considered the case
for two hours and 40 minutes, most of
the. time being taken up by the exami
nation of witnesses. All except one or
two corroborative witnesses were called
and each was examined thoroughly.
“I’m Glad of It,’’
Says Mrs, Grace. •
Mrs. Grace was told the news of her
indictment by a reporter for The Geor
gian five minutes after the jury’s ac
tion. She received the news with ap
parent Joy.
"I’m glad of it; I'm glad of it; I’m so
glad," she repeated. Her next question
was about her husband.
"Did they bring out anything about
Mr. Grace’s condition?” she asked. As
the grand jury investigation was secret
the reporter could not answer the ques
tion.
Mrs. Grace expressed her hope of an
early trial. She said she had been im
patient for some definite action by the
grand jury. The news that it had
found a true bill did not seem to sur
prisp her.
Will Make Bond As
Soon As Possible.
Mrs Grace’s bond will be made as
soon as the amount is assessed by the
officials. This was announced by At
torney J. A. Branch, when he was told
of his client’s indictment.
“The offense charged is bailable, and
we will make the necessary security
when the amount is fixed,” he said.
“We desire as early a trial as possi
ble." he added, "and will endeavor to
have it set before June 1.”
A consultation of Mrs. Grace’s law
yers will be held this afternoon, when
the return of the true bill will be dis
cussed and plans for future procedure
decided upon.
Dr. W. S. Goldsmith
First to Testify.
Dr. W. S. Goldsmith, who attended
Eugene Grace at St. Josephs infirmary
after he had been carried there from
his Eleventh street home, was the first
witness called before the grand jury.
He testified as to the nature of Grace’s
wounds and the conversation which oc
curred between the wounded husband
and the accused wife upon their meet
ing in the infirmary the night following
the tragedy. Dr Goldsmith exhibited
to the jury the nightshirt which Grace
wore when he was shot, showing the
bullet hole with powder burns and blood
stains.
Officer R. A. Wood followed Dr.
Goldsmith, and told the jury of his
breaking into the house to reach Grace
after the wounded man had tele
phoned the alarm to the police station.
He also testified as to the position he
found the wounded man in when he
er ,r.:. r o’ the chamber of the tragedy. To
corroborate this testimony. Policeman
James Dorsett was called, and also
told how the blood had dried on the
bed sheets and pillow slips.
Neighbor and Officers
Give Testimony.
John S. Owens, a neighbor of the
Graces, was the fourth witness, and
gave testimony merely corroborative of
that of the police, as Mr. Owens en
tered the house immediately after the
officers broke In.
Chief Newport A. l.anford. of the
clt' detectives, was called next, and
told of his conversation with the ac
cu-ed woman after her arrest. James
Deval, another member of the Atlanta
detective force, followed his chief, and
exhibited the bed clothes which he took
from the Grace home immediately aft
er fftp wounded husband had been re
moved to the hospital.
The Graces’ negro servants, J. and
Martha Ruffin, were questioned closely
concerning the actions of Mrs. Grace on
the morning of the shooting and of her
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The Atlanta Georgian
MACONAWAR
GAMP US BIG
REUNION
OPENS
Old Age and Youth Mingle at
the Central City for An
nual Festivities.
DAYS OF '6l RECALLED
BY GRIZZLED VETERANS
Confederate Flag Raised Over
Tented City—Pretty Girls
There by Hundreds.
By THOMAS B. SHERMAN.
MACON, GA.. May 6.—The old and
the young, the fresh and the faded, the
sublime and the ridiculous, the beauti
ful and the plain are blended in strange
contract throughout the city, as the
great Confederate reunion opens.
At corners and in front of the hotels
men of gray hair and wrinkled brow
meet and speak, sometimes it is a mere
exchange of courtesy, then again they
will hark back to the old days. Pres
ently a lad of ten or twelve will come
up and place his fragile hand into that
of the vet. For this once the beauty
and graciousness of Macon’s woman
hood is out with lavish smile and cor
dial manner. Against the sprinkling
of gray in all the streets there marches
every now and then a youthful militia
man in the regulation United States
khaki.
Every home, every business place is
decorated. The stars and bars wave at
passersby from piazzas, from upstairs
windows, from the hats of civilians,
from the shoulders of some tattered
soldiers. Out at Camp Gordon a huge
Confederate flag swings to the breeze.
In the presence of thousands it was
raised yesterday afternoon and the
hand that pulled the rope was that of a
son of Massachusetts.
Fakers On Hand
With Their Noises.
From the extremes of the city where
the soldiers are already beginning to
assemble a bugle call clear and sweet
comes at intervals and is answered by
the hoarse rattle of a drum. Against
this in all its garish modernity is the
tiny piping sound of an oboe coming
from the tents of “Boscoe, the snake
eater,” and the "two-headed baby.” but
from the topmost point of Coleman Hill
to Review' park, around which are
flanked the stands of lemonade venders,
a scene of bustle and hurry presents
itself. With each passing hour the
crowds grow. Already there are 25,000
persons in excess of the normal popu
lation in the city and before Wednesday
100,000 will be within the city’s bounda
ries.
It all means that special trains
and extra coaches on every regular
train from every section of the South
are pouring thousands of visitors into
Macon today for the twenty-second an
nua! reunion of the United Confederate
Veterans and the annual gatherings of
the kindred organizations, the United
Sons of Confederate Veterans and the 1
Confederate Memorial association.
Grizzled old veterans who fought for
the South for four long years in the
sixties—this one minus a leg. that one
an arm. this one bent with age, that
one crippled from an’ old wound—are
here to revive and perpetuate the mem
ories of their war days. Knots of the
old soldiers are gathered in every ho
tel lobby, on the street corners, in the
veterans’ camp, and at other public
places, retelling their experiences of
half a century ago.
Tattered old battle flags are unfurled,
and the old soldiers point with pride to
the bullet holes in them. They tell
of how the flags were carried over the
ramparts at First and Second Manas
sas, through the Wilderness, at Pe
tersburg, up Lookout mountain, on
Chickamauga, through Georgia to At
lanta. in the Mississippi campaign and
the Red river country. And with tear
dimmed eyes they earess the old ban
ners as they recount the last days at
Appomattix.
South’s Prettiest
Girls All There.
Rut the old veterans are not the only
ones in Macon. Thousands of the pret
tiest girls of the South, named as
sponsors and maids of honor, are com
ing in for the social festivities inci
dent to reunion week. They are at-,
traded by the parade, balls and other
affairs in which they will play conspic- j
nous parts.
In Central city park is a vivid re
minder of war days. Hundreds of tents
have been pitched here, and the old
veterans not able to get accommoda
tions in hotels-boarding houses or pri
vate homes will live in camp during
the week. The ca,mp was opened and
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Sheltering Arms Will Have
Bushel of Goin Before Cam
paign Closes Tonight.
Atlanta women and girls were out to
aid the little children of the Sheltering
Arms, and however much they disliked
the idea of tagging strangers on the
streets when they first started, they
soon forgot it. Everybody entered into
the spirit of the ds.y and willingly
handed out a coin large or small, for
the tiny piece of pasteboard and the
gracious word of thanks that it pur
chased.
Automobiles were stopped in the
street and large streamers with “Tag
Day" printed across them were tied
on the hoods. Whenever a street car
stopped to let off passengers tj)? same
story was repeated, and men and wom
en leaned out of the windows and
bought tags from groups of excited
girls who braved the dangers of pass
ing bicycles and automobiles.
How much the tag sales will bring it
can not be estimated until all the com
mittees get together and count their
individual gains. The sales are being
carried on in 'West End, out in Inman
Park and at every corner and gathering
place throughout Atlanta.
WOMAN LEAPS FROM
WINDOW OF HOTEL TO
ESCAPE FROM POLICE
Mrs. Senie Hayes, proprietor of a hotel |
at 46% West Hunter street, escaped from
the police by jumping from a second
story window in the hotel, while she
was in her mom alone on the pretext of
dressing to accompany the officers. The
woman was evidently unhurt, as no trace
of her could be found when her escape
was discovered and a search made. She
is still at large.
Her leap followed a raid on the hotel
by officers Baker and Bone. When
was tahen into custody, she requested
that she be allowed to go into her room
and don her street attire before being
taken to police station. The officers con
sented.
When they had given her what they
supposed to be ample time to dress, the
officers knocked on the door. 'There was
no response. Investigation revealed the
woman s absence and an open window.
\V. B. Hayes, husband 'of the missing
woman; E. Sherman, a clerk, and a young
woman giving her name as Annie I.
Smith, of Jacksonville. taken into
custody.
UNIVERSITY CLUB TO
ELECT SLATON HEAD
The annual meeting and election of of
ficers of the University club will take
place tonight at 8:30 o'clock m the. club
house in Peachtree street. John M. Sla
ton is the present head of the organiza
tion.
ATLANTA. GA.,- MONDAY, MAY 6, 1912.
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Ballington York
Dies Suddenly at 8 7
Ballington W. York. $7 years old, died
early today at the home of his daughter,
Mrs. Lewis Awtry. 37 Highland avenue.
Mr. York had been confined to his bed
for two weeks, but had seemed better
last night. The end came suddenly, ami
was due directly to heart failure.
Mr. York wa,s one of Atlanta’s oldest
citizens. He married Miss Hordelia Sas
seen here before the Civil war. and with
the first call to arms ho enlisted in the
Confederate army. He served with dis
tinction throughout 4he war. being pro
moted to a captaincy under General Mar
shall in Kentucky. He was with General
Lee at Appomattox.
After the war Mr. York returned to At
lanta and engaged in the mercantile
business, lie was prominent in business
and public life until his retirement twen
ty-fixe years ago.
Mr York is survived by one brother,
Oliver York; one daughter, Mrs.
Awtry. and three sons, Norman, Reuben
and Lucien York, the latter manager of
M Rich Bros. & Co
The funeral will be. held privately from
the chapel of Barclay & Brandon and in
terment will be in the family lot in West
vie w.
Miss Sadie Andrews, one of the girls who volunteered to
tag every man in Atlanta today, jg shown'tagging Edward Hen
derson. who had already fallen a victim to a dozen other girls.
Below is. Miss Edna .Mooney, waving an irfvitation to a friend
to come over and dig up a quarter.
BISING FLOODS
WmL WOMEN
Terras Dike Breaks at Morgan
sea, and Baton Rouge Is
Endangered.
NEW ORLEANS, May 9.—Twenty
five persons are reported to have been
drowned in Point Coupe parish today
when the levee gave way before the
flood-swollen Mississippi. Several
bodies have been recovered.
A later report states that at least 30
perished and that the death list may go
to 50. Survivors report recovering
twelve bodies. All communication with
| the inundated districts have been cut
I oft.
1,000 in Dangec.
| At least 1,000 peonle are in danger
and remain to be rescued from the in
undated country' west of W°lls\vorth
and Batchelor. Some of them are on
elevated ground; others are floating in
boats and rafts. All are menaced by
hunger and exposure
It is impossible to estimate the exact
number of dead and the full death roll
| may never be known. Refugees ar
riving here said that they had seen en
tire families swept from housetops into
the water.
Leaders in the rescue work are send
ing motor boats to points where fami
lies had taken refuge, only to find that
they were t|>o late. In every rase the
flood had added to its toll of human
life.
More Levees Break.
A heavy rain which fell on
Sunday increased the danger of
breaks tn the Mississippi lev
ees today. At Baton Rouge, where the
situation is desperate, hundreds of ad
dition'll workers were sent to the lev
ees to aid in the fight to hold them
against the rushing water It was
feared that the storm water, when it
reached the river, would be more than
the weakened dikes cxiuld withstand,
and they would give wav. At Mellville
it is feared breaks may occur.
Flood water from the Terras brisk
has reached Morgansea. Women anil ,
children were rushed to places of safe
ty. The town is partially inundated
and the flood is expected to do heavy
damage. it Is not believed that the
levees there will go out.
Heavy loss of life is feared in the
Ateh ifnlaya country as a result of the
Torras break. Many people there have
refused to leave their homes. In some
places people tried to escape after the
water reached their doors. A number
of negroes have been drowned.
A fleet of rescue boats under orders
of the United States engineers were
started for this section today in an
effort to rescue those imperiled.
Artillery Punch Is
Barred in Savannah;
It Was’a Knockout
The famous Savannah artillery punch
is a thing of the past.
The potent concoction, which has
sent no less famous men than an ad
miral of the navy and scores of others
more or less distinguished to tempora
ry oblivion, has been barred at Savan
nah functions.
Governor Brown brought home the
news today. He said the famous brew
was not in evidence during the recent
Hibernian celebration in Savannah, and
the reason for its absence was not hard
to find
“They have decided in Savannah to
do away with the artillery punch," said
the governor. “Public men need no
longer be embarrassed when approach
ing the flowing bowl. The punch with
the punch has gone for good.”
According to Randolph Anderson, a
Savannah legislator and authority on
the famous beverage that amounts to
a highball, a jolt of West Indian rum
and life-sized drink of Japanese sake
rolled into one, the punch had long ago
served its purpose.
“It had got so that they wouldn’t
drink punch in Savannah,” he said. “If
they did they were afraid they couldn’t
get back to their hotels. So the good
old stuff had to go.”
It is said that one of the ingredients
of the punch was champagne, but the
exotic cordials that went to make out
the greater part of the drink are Sa
vannah secrets never to be revealed.
But it was something more than a mere,
punch. It was a knockout.
UNCLE GIVES BLOOD
TO SAVE BOY DYING
FROM HOOKWORM
SAVANNAH, GA„ May 6.—ln a des
perate effort to save the life of his six
year-old nephew, Clifford McTire Car
ter, who is in a dying condition suffer
ing from hookworm. E. M. Bennett, of
Okatie, S. c„ has submitted to an in
fusion operation at the Savannah hos
pital, giving some of his blood to the
boy. Despite the operation, it is doubt
ful if Clifford will recover. He is being
given oxygen in an effort to save him,
but it is said that he is slowly dying.
Last week th" lad’s older sister died at
'their home near Okatie from the same
trouble, and now- his eight-year-old
brother, Halton, occupies a bed in the
same room and is in a serious condi
tion.
TITANIC RELIEF FUND
PASSES $1,000,000 MARK
LONDON. May 6.—Lord Crosby's Ti
tanic relief fund passed the million
dollar mark today. At noon it was sl,-
150,000.
i HOME
X— EDITION
PRTPP. On Trains. FIVE CENTS.
A XIAVEj. i n Atlanta. TWO CENTS.
8 KILLED IN
WRECK OF
VETERANS’
SPECIAL
Train Bound for the Macon
Reunion Derailed on Trestle
in State of Mississippi.
20 INJURED WHEN FIVE
COACHES LEAVE RAILS
Special Loaded With Heroes of
'6l. Coming From New Or
leans, Jumps Tracks.
NEW ORLEANS, May 6.—Eight per
sons were killed when the first section
of the Confederate veterans special
train leaving New Orleans at 3:50 a. m.
today and loaded with veterans en route
to the reunion at Macon, Ga., was
wrecked at 8:30 o’clock one mile south
of East Abuchie, Miss. The engine
was derailed, carrying with it five
coaches. The wreck occurred on a tres
tle.
At least three passengers and five of
the crew are known to have been killed
and twenty others injured.
Engineer W. A. Wood and Fireman
Cicero Jones and a man supposed to
be George Reid, a road foreman, were
among those killed.
mil MB POTTS
US HE QUITS GOT
Police Will Not Consent to
Waive Serving of Warrant
on Him for Slaaying.
Kell Potts, of 21 East Fifth street,
who killed C. Richard Harper in a
knife duel in Manhattan avenue last,
Thursday and who was himself badly
slashed with a knife, will be arrested
on a warrant for murder when he
leaves Grady hospital this afternoon,
despite the efforts of counsel for both,
’sides to have him released from cus
tody and sent to his home. Potts has
been under guard of a policeman in the
hospital ever since the -tragedy.
The police have been notified that
Potts will be discharged from the hos
pital during the afternoon.
Attorney Charles T. Hopkins, counsel
for Potts, and Attorney John W. Moore,
representing Harper's family, held a
conference with police officials today
and submitted a proposition for the re
lease of Potts, to which they' said they
had both agreed. Chief Beavers de
clined to enter into the agreement,
however, and directed Chief of Detec
tives Lanford to go before Justice J. B.
Ridley’ and swear out a warrant against
Potts charging him with murder and
have it served when the slayer leaves
the hospital.
Police Refuse Freedom.
The two attorneys agreed to have
the guard taken off Potts when he
emerged from the hospital, so that he
might go to his home a free man. At
torney Hopkins is said to have prom
ised to be personally responsible for the
slayer and have him in court at any
time that his presence there might be
desired.
“Potts has taken a human life, and.
whether it was murder or was justifi
able. it is not within the province of the
police to turn him loose. The courts *
will havt to determine the question of
his frci-dom. We van do l»it one thing,
and that is turn him over to the
courts," said Chief Beavers in refusing
to free Potts.
When asked if Harpers family in
tended to prosecute Potts, Attorney
Moore was reticent. The impression
was gained at the police station that
proseeuti' n would be dropped in order
to avoid further publicity as to the de
tails of the tragedy ami the scene where
it occurred.
When the warrant for murder is
served on Potts he will be taken before
Justice Ridley and a date fixed for his
preliminary examiantion. That his
counsel will make a hard fight for his
immediate release on hail -'here is lit
tle doubt. Should Judge Ridley hold
him without bail, Potts must go to the
Tower.
Potts was able to be up and walk
about the hospital ward today. Phy
sicians say he is out of danger and able
to leave the hospital.