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2 STATEMENTS OF THE TWO PRINCIPALS BEFORE TRIAL STARTED Mrs. Grace Says: “I have not the slightest fear of the outcome. I know Eugene Grace Says: “She shot me and she knows it. She was tired of in my heart lam innocent and I know that there could be no evidence which me and she needed money. If I could go before a jurv I could convince them would show any possible guilt. I did not shoot Eugene—-he knows it, I know of her guilt. If I can look at her when she testifies I can force her to tell the it and before the trial is through everybody in Atlanta will know it. ' Not only truth about the whole business. As soon as the legal limit has expired I will will I be acquitted, but my innocence will be so firmly established that all sue for divorce, because I know that my wife is a bad woman. It the truth doubt which might exist in the minds of some will be completely swept away.” comes out it will show that my acts, in my relations with her, were blameless.’’ GRACE TRIAL ON; BEGIN PICKING THE JURV First Clash Comes When the Defense Refuses to Reveal Names of Witnesses. Continued From Paqe One. were many of the 108 on the jury list who offered various excuses, but it was evident that others were willing to suf. fer the confinement of several days in order to hear the case. Negroes’ Cases Called First. The prosecution announced today that Thomas if. Goodwin, attorney, had been added to the list of state’s coun sel. Mr. Goodwin will assist in strik ing objectionable jurors, and In con ducting examinations of witnesses. At 9:20 o’clock the four panels for the jury had been drawn, and Judge L,. S Roan ordered the sheriff to call the calendar for the day. There were a dozen cases set for the day, that of the State vs Mrs. Daisy Grace, leading off. Solicitor General Dorset asked that all prisoners be brought in. as some desired to plead guilty. Several ne groes. charged with various felonies, were brought in. entered pleas of guilty and were held over until the Grace case should be disposed of. Will Thomas, charged with assault to commit mur der. the same crime charged to Mrs. Grace, entered a plea of guilty and was sent back to jail to be sentenced later. The case of Mrs. Grace was taken up at 9:25 o’clock. Dr. W. S. Goldsmith, surgeon to Gene Grace, being the first on the list. Others to be called were J. Ruffin, Grace’s negro servant; Martha Ruffin, his wife: O. VanWyck, a reporter: Alan Hardaway. 1. W. Car ter. Hamilton Hill, Mrs. Louis Hill. Mrs S. L. Hill. Earl McCoy, Preston Hill, Morris Prloleau, Luther Williford, Chief X. A. Lanford, E. E. Lawrence. Mrs. Andrew Calhoun, a neighbor to the Graces in Eleventh street: W C. Al ston. Janie and Jack McGuire, Miss Louise Dooly The state announced "ready” at 9:30 o’clock. Luther Z Rosser, for the defense, announced that none of the witnesses for the defense was in the room. Mr. Dorsey made an effort to force the de fense to call the names of the wit nesses, and a sharp brush between the state and defense ensued. Mr. Rosser positively refused to divulge the names of any of his witnesses. It was evi dent that the defense was determined not to expose its hand until the last possible moment. Mrs. Grace entered the court room at 9:05 o’clock. She was dressed in a white lingerie gown, with a golden locket hanging at her throat. Her hat was of winter style, of brown velvet with a brown willow plume. She ap peared rather worn, but she smiled fre quently while in consultation with her lawyers, beside whom she sat. Her mother sat by her side. Mrs. Ulrich was simply attired in black Mrs Louise Wilson, the trained nurse sat at the same table with Mrs. Grace One Jury Panel Quickly Exhausted. The court began drawing the jury from the first panel, but succeeded in finding only one acceptable juror. M. A. Cason, cashier of the Southern railway, was first called. Mr. Rosser objected to his being asked his occu pation and was sustained. The state threw him out on peremptory challenge. George Beering was stricken for cause by the state. John Todd was next, and accepted. Juror, look Win prisoner, prisoner, look on juror.” declaimed the solicitor general. Mis. Grace arose and gazed upon the first ,iur-. man selected. This gave the crowd (list glimpse of her, and a tipple of "alls’ went up from the crowd. W. H. Gunter was stricken oft. G. B. Wright was stricken by the defense. W. <’. Satterwhite was stricken by ||>, defense. Reuben Moss was turned down. He wore an Elk badge Eugene Gra< . is an Elk Thomas E. Peagin was stricken by the defense. \V. A. H. Wilkes had a pn-jlldli e and was stricken for CHUSt B. <’. Troutman was stricken by the detense. This exhausted the panel, only one of tito twelvt being accepted by both state and defense. The drawing of the second parol was begun. .1 T Walkt was stricken for ■ aus< t’. E Thomas was stricken by the stall S. .1 Eiik- wa- stricken by tile de fense •I E Mct'uiiougit went off on pteju cfi. < .1 \Veinmiestei was -1; i■ k* tt by A B .1 Wilson a,is obje< tionabli ■ defense P- • ’ Stannard was sit li ken lot Grace’s Life Is Changed Completely Sim e Eugene 1! Grace awoke from a stupor and found himself shot through the ,-pinal cord, his life has been as different from what it was before as human intelligence could conceive. In his sturdy young manhood and through his days at Tech he was a specimen of perfect physique. Persons passing him on Atlanta streets com mented on his physical perfection. He had given little time to the thoughts and pursuits of the indoor man. Life for Grace was life tn the open. He hafl little time to read or spend indoors in any form of amusement. The perfect health and good spirits given him brought him a sunny disposition that won to him hundreds of friends and with them he spent many merry hours. On March 5 he found himself shot through or near the spinal column, and unable to move his body below his gam Iwk. V. '7- Jczzzzzz - ** 1,.- y ■*« t. aI yiy Y - --4 aJi Ml ■*-. jr .-1 - c.’;« Sj -xw W '’.fra, WBWWIHR. ■ -AH'- *T' " <■■ •' t-17 <?' b w « If ■.• 1 - v '- a\ - -■—'-a- ' . .7- ' . ■ ■ ■ ' Mrs. Daisy Opie Grace, on trial today on a charge of attempting s ’ a . v her husband, and her little blind son, Webster Opie. The little fellow nearly cried when told he couldn't come with his grand in °ther, Mrs. Martha 1 Irieh. trom Philadelphia to Atlanta tor his mother’s trial. “Thoughts of my little boy have been one of my greatest comforts in my hour ot trouble, said Mrs. Grace recently. waist. Since then he has lain on a bed or cot. He was moved from his Elev enth street home to the hospital and later from there he was taken twice to be examined by the X-ray. On March 23 he was taken to his boyhood home in Newnan. “Taken to bis mother’s home to die," it was said by his friends and physicians. First Sees the Beauties of Nature. For a while after he was shot Grace lay unconscious at his home: later He lay unconscious at the hospital. Then he awoke to the world and friends and relatives visited him and brought him books to read and flowers to look at. Lying there hemmed in b;> hospital wails and incapable of moving more titan his hands. Grace had plenty of time to think of the beauties of life around him He noticed for the firs’ time the wondrous delicacy of the flowers friends placed in his room. Through his window he saw the leav.s of tile trees just breaking into life. He admired the- beauty of their shape and the exquisite tints of g-een with which nature had adorned them. Friends brought books so lie might relieve his mind of thoughts of his con dition. and Gtace spent many hours leading the works of Shakespeare. Mil ton. Tennyson. Longfellow and late! writer--, following word f'> word their wondrous thoughts. Much of >t was new to him. ('er tiiinly. to think and ponder over these wonderful minds, was new to him. In school he bad rend literature and passed Ids < xamlnations H-- had i--a 1 what was 1-equlred of him and studied enough to get th' ueiessay mark. Mu.-h r.-aditig kept him indoors and lie I disliked it Now. All Was Different. Now all was different. lb- had to ,t ay indoors, on lite flat of his bai-k. i Books became his best f: lends and ids thoughts hung constantly around them. Th dang.-r of monotony from read ing was reli- \. Iby constant visits from 'Atlanta friends ami relatives and f ont Hiis mother in N- wnaii Tlicn, too. tlu-r * were tie.-es.-arv -’gal formalities to dis , us- with his attorneys He made a inew will, leaving all to bis mothet ; he | swore out a warrant for ills life insur- Irmce pap- s which ills w ife held, an I haiei he agiced to the cancellation ol’ this in-urane, Other busines- matters I and long discussions took up time at Ivariou- intervals and the-, were Visits I fi om bls physician-. i When lie was taken to Newnan Grn,< J be. ame tin recipient of many calls li'om fi a mis of his family , neighhois and ---ays ami glris with whom in- had J grow ti up They all w anted to see him am! sympathize with him THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. MONDAY, JULY 29, 1912. How Mrs. Grace Has Lived Since Shooting » “One long night of terror, onl}’ broken by the sight of rny little son and my old mother in Philadelphia and by the words of sympathy sent me by At lanta friends,” Is the way Mrs. Daisy Grace describes he life since March 5 when she returned from Newnan, Ga.. i to face her husband’s accusation that she had shot him. * A wealthy and cultured woman, ae ! customed to every comfort of home, she ■ found herself on that day in jail. Jail- I ers, trying to he gentle to the woman, i t eplaced the trained se vants she had had at her beck and call. Coarse ptls i on food and a hard cot took the place of all the domestic comforts she had I known. Then there was thrown on her life the glare of publicity. The multitude I demanded to know all about her past life, and that was exposed and many people said things about her that caused her eats to burn in shame. She stood it all with hardly a murmur, say ing: "it will all come out clear at the trial." Released and Rearrested. Tim day after the shooting Mrs. Grace was released on bond, only to find herself teat rested the next day and again taken to tile Tower, where she remained thirteen days. In the mean time she was daily in conference with Iler attorneys, who steadfastly declared to the press that she would be acquit ted. I In March 19 Mrs. Grace obtained her release on bond and left for Philadel phia to straighten out her financial af fairs. Grace’s attorneys declared that she had tied and would never return to ’ face lie- trial. She did return within, a few days. At the railway -tation n great crowd gathered one Sunday afternoon, the day of her return, and waited until after dark to get a glimpse of tile woman, the moused in the Grace mystery. A wild dash ill a taxicab through the . struggling mass of humanity and she arrived at the Kimball house, where ■ she had shaken from the trial all but a handful of determined newspaper men. Automobile rides with a nurse whom . she had engaged gave her sonic of he: , so. met- amusement ami strengthened I her. but there was always the fear that I she would be ,-eog'nized and followed ; by curious persons. Public Favor Goes to Her. Various theories of the shooting w,-i - advanced about this time and public opinions, always favorable to tile wom ’ an In distress, turned almost complete ly to M:s. G: e. I’iu- people look- d 1 on her as t’m- law must do -innocent ■ until proved guilty. Again, on April 16. Mr--. Grace was i consigned to tile Tower. This came 1 after her preliminary hearing before ’ Justice Ridley. She remained there so: nearly a month. Finally she was r<-- ‘ leased again on bail and went to the home of her nurse in West Eml. In that quiet neighborhood she spent I her time-in little domestic occupations. - She lead ami tended the flowers in the back yard. She avold-d the fr<-nt -ai l l whore the im-st beautiful flowers were ■ There were too many staring people on the street. Autonmbil- rid- s fa into the t-oun ’ tty and an occasional visit to Kimbad- J ville farm made life seem more normal i to ter. ami then last Frtdav her motlim arrived from Philadelphia t - witli lici and comfort he through the trial. MRS. GRACE IS CHEERED BY THOUGHTS OF CHILD Chronology of Grace Tragedy 1910 —Eugene H. Grace, prominent Georgian, clubman and graduate of Tech, meets Mrs. Daisy Ulrich Opie, of Philadelphia, wife of a wealthy man of that city. She is known as ■ Daisy of the Leopard’s Spots.” They are frequently seen together. i February. 1911—Webster H. Opie, hus- I band of Mrs. Daisy Opie, dies of blood poisoning, supposed to have set in from wounds caused when cranking his automobile. March B—Eugene 11. Grace and Mrs. Daisy Ulrich Opie gn through a mar. riage ceremony at "The Little Church Around the Corner” in New York city. May 16—Eugene Grace and Mrs. Graci go through a secret marriage cere mony in New Orleans, two months after the first marriage has been made known to their friends. November 1 The couple decide to make their home in Atlanta, and Grace becomes a member of the firm of the Grace-Lawrence Building Company. They are received in the ’ best Atlanta society and go together constantly to theaters, where they are known as "First Nighters, 1 March 4—Grace announces his inten tion of going to Philadelphia on a ■ business trip and Mrs. Grace is to go to Newnan to remain with her moth er-in-law. Mrs. S. 1,. Hill. Marcii ' At an unknown hour and by a mysterious hand Eugene Grace is shot at his home. 29 West Eleventh street. At 2:30 o’clock in the after noon 11 ■ phoned tile police station and asked for aid. To the police ami i newspaper men Grace declares: My wife shot me." He is taken to the hospital. Mrs. Grace, who earlier in the day had gone to Newnan, as - planned, hears of the shoting and returns to Atlanta, going to the hos pital to see ht r husband. H- o’-us- s Iter of shooting him ami she denies tiie charge. She is arrested and placed in jail. March 6 Mis. Grace is released on a $7,501) bond, signed by I. C. Clark, Josh Tye and Avery Chastain. She I retains John W Moore and J. A. Branch as her attorneys. i Maiah 7—Mrs. Grace is rearrested and placed in tiie Tower. Grace swears out a possessory warrant for ills life insurance papers held by his wife and I make- a new w ill, naming his mother. Mr> S 1. Hill, of Newnan, as ills sole 1 licit. March b -Mrs. Grace suffers an attack of tonisilitis in her cell in the Tow er. Scores of persons send her flowers and notes of sympathy. Reuben R. Arnold, one of Eugene Grace’s attor neys, charges Mrs. Grace with having > drugged and shot Eugene Grace for his insurance money and then having ’ plugged up the telephone and b-ft him 1 without calling a physician. March 9—Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company brings suit against Mrs. I Daisy Grace and Eugene Grace to i cancel the insurance pollices on i Grace’s life. March 10—Eugene Grace gives one of his attorneys. Lamar Hill, power to ■ 1 camel the policies. 1 I Marell 11—First X-ray examination of ■ | Grace is made by Dr. Michael Hoke. | Grace declares to his mother that 1 Mrs. Grace shot him for his insurance money. ; March 12—A second X-ray examination 1 of Eugene Grace's wound is made by- Dr. J. S. Derr and Grace’s spinal cord > is said to be severed. I March 13 —Physicians tell Grace he can 1 not live. I Marcl) 14 —Luther Z. Rosser is engaged as associate counsel for Mrs. Grace. March 15 Mrs. Grace ami Grace ex change jewelry through their attor neys. ■ March 16—Grace has his mustache 1 shaved off because "it pleased Daisy ' to have me wear it.” March Is Mrs. Grace’s hearing post poned by agreement till March 28. March 19 —Mrs. Grace is released on ‘ $7,500 bond, signed by .1. J. Fain and 1 I. (’lark. She leaves on the mid- night train for Philadelphia to wind 1 up her business affairs and is aecom -1 j panied by .1. A. Branch, her attorney, I ami three Atlanta newspaper men, I March 20- Reuben Arnold, one of 1 I Grace’s attorneys, declares that Mrs. - i Grace has fled ami will m-ver return i | to Atlanta. • .March 21 -Mrs. Grace tells Georgian ' reporter in Philadelphia: "My hu.-- - i band knows exactly who shot him I j and why he was shot, and so do I.” I March 22—" Another woman in the > | case" is suggested. Mrs. Grace finds . I she has about $75,000 worth of prop erty left in Philadelphia. .(March 2:1 —Mrs. Grace leaves Philadel phia for Atlanta, accompanied by .1. I i A. Branch, om- of her attorneys, and i the three Atlanta newspaper mem • March 23—Grace is taken on cot to his i home in Newnan. Hi is quoted as . j reiterating statement that IPs wife shot him. i March 24—Mrs. Gram returns to At i rant., and is im-t at tiie tram by 2,000 RACE CLASH ENDS; NEGROES IN Jill Three White Men and Ten Blacks Wounded in Outbreak at Plainville. Ga. CALHOUN. GA., July 29.—With ten negroes in jail here, under guard, and officers searching today for a few oth ers who escaped, an end has been put to the race rioting that stirred Gordon county Saturday afternoon and night and yesterday, when a. series of clashes took place at Plainville, in the south west part of this county. Each of the ten negroes and three white men were wounded. Some of the negroes were shot and others clubbed. The white meh are Sheriff C. N. Owen, of Calhoun, shot In the face; Ernest Johnson, of Plainville, shot in the breast, and Robert Miller, of Plain ville, with a flesh wound. Johnson’s condition is considered critical. The other two are not seriously hurt. It is not thought any of the negroes are fatally wounded. The trouble had its inception when a half-grown negro girl slapped a white boy while at work in a peach orchard near Plainville, This was followed by an attack on the father of the negress by several w hite youths when he came to Plainville late Saturday afternoon. The negroes in the town became rebel lious and threatened vengeance. There upon four of them were caught near the depot and horsewhipped. The negroes, drunk on "blind tiger” whisky, armed and barricaded them selves in a section house, threatening to shoot any white man that appeared. Warrants were sworn out, and Sheriff Owen was called from Calhoun to ar rest them. With a posse, he reached Plainville about midnight, and a battle ensued until 2 o’clock yesterday morn ing. when the house was stormed and the ten negroes Raptured. In the meantime the sheriff of Eloyd county was requested to send reinforce ments, and another posse came from Rome. The negroes arrested were brought to Calhoun ot daylight and placed in the county jail, where a heavy guard was maintained throughout the day and night. Today only the sheriff’s depu ties and jailers are guarding the pris oners. Several persons from Plainville went to Rome yesterday and secured guns, and there were rumors that it was planned to storm the jail, but no attempt of that kind was made. ARGUMENT AT MILL NEARLY PROVES FATAL MASSILLON, OHIO. July 29.—While engaged in a Ifeated argument at the edge of the Navarre mill race, Edward Schlaflafly, a Beach City hardware merchant, fell backward into the race and was swept toward <he wheel. His cries aroused the miller, J. E. Seese, who seized him when he was about to be whirled over the wheel onto the rocks below. He is in a serious condi tion from nervous shock. His eight year-old boy stood at the mill race helpless to'aid his father. TROUP INSTITUTE AUGUST 5-9. I,A GRANGE, GA., July 29—The Troup County Teacher- institute begins in this city August 5 and continues un til August 9. under the supervision of the state department of education, and the management .>f Professor J. Ik Strong, county school superintendent. curious persons. She takes a room at the Kimball house. March 27—Georgian publishes, exclu sively, letters written by Grace to Mrs. Grace before and after the mar. riage. Lamar Hill, one of Eugene Grace’s attorneys, brands letters as "fakes.” March 28—Georgian prints fac-shniles of the letters, telling the story of Grace's downfall in his own hand tv riting. March 28 —Alleged affidavit made by Abe Steinberg, traveling salesman, bringing in third party, the "other woman.” March 29—Steinberg, located, denies making affidavit. Announcement of the second wedding in New Orleans is first printed. March 31 .Mrs. Grace leaves the Kim ball for the home of her nurse, Mrs. Louise Wilson, 270 Ashby street. West End. April 16—At preliminary hearing before Justice R B. Ridley. Mrs. Grace is held under $7,500 bond for assault with intent to murder, and is sent to the Tower. May 6 —Grand jury returns true bill against Mrs. Grace, charging attempt to mu filer. May l'i Mrs. Grace's bail fixed at s.j,ooh. She is released after six weeks in the Tower. Chess Largomarslno signs the bond. She goes to tiie West End home of her nurse. July 26—Mrs. Martha Ulrich. Mrs. Grace’s mother, arrives from Phila delphia. July 27 - Grace reannounces his inten tion of coming to the trial on a cot. LODGE MAN, SHOT BE IN INITIATE. ISJEAD S. Milton Taylor Succumbs to Four Pistol Wounds in An derson, S. C„ Hospital. ANDERSON. S. C„ July 29 .V, P , making a desperate fight for life f., r more than two days, S. Milton TayTnr died today from four pistol woun reived I-’riday night, while initiating a candidate for membership in I'ri. i.ck.iiii: lodge. Woodmen of the World, near here. Taylor’s death took place at a hospital in this city, to which he was rushed immediately after the shootau; It is likely that Eurman Bagw< 11, the candidate who did the shooting, w ill be prosecuted by the father of Taylor, al though no warrant has yet been issued, Taylor was head of the degree team that was conducting the initiation. A olank cartridge was fired as part of the "funny" work. This frightened Rag well, who rushed to the antc-rc > n , where he took a pistol from ] ; j s ~n at and fired at Taylor, four shots taking effect, ARCTIC EXPLORER, LONG THOUGHT LOST. IS REPORTED SAFE COPENHAGEN. 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