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Curious Spectators Find Sensations They Seek as the Famous Tragedy Is Unfolded in Court 1 WOMEN SEE A MARRIAGE LESSON IN THE GRACE' TRIAL A Graphic View of the Women at the Hearing Who Find in It a “Big Show.” Varying the Monotony of Dull Lives. By DUDLEY GLASS. If any spectator at the Grace trial expected to be awed by the solemnity of the tribunal and thrilled at the dra matic stage setting—accused wife and Wounded husband glaring at each other before the judge—he must have been gurnewhat disappointed. Tile striking detail one couldn't get sway from was the women in the audi ence. the poorly clad women who sat in i :;O s< rear seats breathing that fetid atmosphere, surrounded by men of f—— □►r- . . •* aL .. U.,„.:• a ■. X z < I . V t ' * I T —C O, 'swram.-a, 1 81ftili4 1 d } I 'L ciL.i ; z? ’■' Xi y fl ■• .al.Wv ' zllz/z z- ~. *•■••-. . ,«* z>t. ; I : ‘T■ ■ ' ; ■' •'L ■'■'■ •■■ . i ■’ ' I ’ ■•' '■ Y'VWWA L--L i ,Lc'r.WL i '-R ■ ' • v 1 -. “ : . ■ •-•.,■ ww !? 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There were little groups of women, dull-eyed, who chewed gum incessant and chatted together in low tones the ease progressed. 1 saw no wom an whose garb or manner stamped her is one of the demi-monde few of the type the world would call ''refined.” Tw y seemed just ordinary women, whose husbands were at work for day ":igcs'. To them the trial of Mrs. Grace was the great "show" of the year. It '•is to their starved, sensation-hungry souls what the grand opera is to the ’over of great music. It was the event ‘if their lives. And how little they saw and heard! ■Most of them were crowded into seats 1 at the left of the court room, with Mi' judge’s bench and the railed do ■ tiions of the clerk shutting off their ■■w of all the principals In the drama. 1 "”.v saw no more than if a wall had been built between them and the court. F’l’haps they caught a glimpse of a Hite-covered cot as Eugene Grace was " rne into the room and out again. Por - is they saw a bit of brown plume •Mrs. Grace rose to make her exit. Rut through all the six hours of the " Hing they saw nothing more, for the ' 'l ings and the standing men against were between the audience and the Rut they did not leave in disappoint. ut. Xu; they stuck to their seats in -fi 'i determination. knowing that ■'hotiid they leave a dozen other men ■>' women were waiting for their places. ■ > sat and waited, in the forlorn '"I'V that something might happen to it'ak the monotony of the proceedings lr perhaps satisfied’ with being merely n the same room with those famous li-iracters immortalized by the papers. 1 b''.' were like the crowd which gath r outside the walls of a jail waiting "i' the moment of the execution which ’h<-y have no hope of seeing. Drama Strangely Dull. Rut the drama Itself was strangely bill and emotionless. I'pon the wit ' stand a policeman in his Sunday dizen's suit or a negro in worn and 'sty garments answered such ques ’lis as were put. waiting palienti) - ,K “ vnutur solicitor and the burly trial lawyer for lire (iefendani quarreled over the wording of a phrase. There were questions sot :ningly without a shadow of importance, answers appar ently meaningless. There were half angry altercations between the lawyers over points bearing no meaning to the auditor; flashes of rough wit as a cross, questioner tried to ridicule the witness into tangling his testimony. And Mr?. Grace, central figure of 'the play,” sat at her lawyers’ table, ex- •1,. 1 ~w-'jfr - y ■ 1/''' ‘ pressionless, inscrutable There were moments when the testirttony became unprintable; when almost forbidden subjects were discussed with comment bordering on buffoonery. But still Mrs. Grace leaned over her table, her dark eyes fixed upon the face of the wit ness, her cheek unmarked by blush or pallor, it was as though all the smaller things of life had been forgotten in the face of the great question the tribunal had been called to answer. And Eugene Grace, the “dying man” of so many newspaper extras; the man who had descended into the shadow of death; the hopeless cripple who would never smile again—he lay on hls cot and laughed softly as his friends made comments on the case. He chuckled at the sharp tilts between the counsel and commented caustically upon bits of the testimony. His face was brown, as though he had been playing golf in the sun. There was no trace of the pallor which comes from long confinement save in the slender hands, which were white and emaciated. Grace seemed the merriest man in all the room. $20,000 FIRE SWEEPS ONEIDA LAKE RESORT I’TICA. N V.. July 30 Flames swept a section of Sylvan Beach at Oneida lake early today and for a time it was feared the noted resort would be wiped out. The blaze started in M. T. Burt's palm garden, which was destroyed, to gether with a number of the restau rants, cases and novelty booths. The loss is estimated at $20,000. CHANGE OF VENUE DENIED IN ALABAMA KILLING CASE MONTGOMERY. ALA., July 30 Judge Armstead Brown, of the Montgomery criminal court, overruled a petition by the defense for a change of venue or for a continuation of the case against Walter Jones, the Lowndes county citizen, who Is charged with the death of Sloan Rowan. Rowan was killed on a train as he was about to leave Montgomery a short time ago. MARIETTA SCOUTS ORGANIZE. MARIETTA. GA, July 30.—A Boy Scout troop has been organized In Marietta with twenty members. Suits, tents and full company outfits are to be had right away, and some real com pany and scout work will be done be fore the boys have to return to school. Tile boys Will also help care for the state reunion of Confederate veterans to be held here August 28 and 29 THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. | GRACE IN COURT- -Drawn by P. A. Carter | I ' ,s zv.- ,*> rzx'4fcA “ *‘’'•*.l _j. * pr ' - 1 t DARROW. CONFIDENT, RESUMES STAND TO < FINISH HIS DEFENSE '■ LOS ANGELES, July 30.—Resuming I' the witness stand when the morning e I session of Judge Hutton’s court opened today, Clarence Darrow expected today to complete his testimony in his own 1 behalf. Fortified by a good night's rest, f the famous labor lawyer had a confi dent bearing. Rogers, chief counsel for Darrow, and B Darrow conferred before the trial open j ed. Rogers in his direct examination 3 wanted to jump ahead to the more im ? portant points, but Darrow protested to his counsel that he preferred to take the story up chronologically. He said ( It would be easier that way. and Rogers „ acquiesced. j Coincident with the order of the court that the defense be permitted to in spect all documents in the possession of the state purporting to be. written by the defendant. District Attorney Fred ■ cricks turned over to the defense a fat envelope today. Before he went on t the stand. Darrow perused copies of tel -1 egrams and letters, most of which were u secured by the Federal authorities orig ] inally. s It is expected that Darrow's cross _ examination will begin before the end . of the day's session e BEAUTY DOCTORS DROP COSMETICS FOR NATURE • CHICAGO. July 30.—" Back to na ture —away with harmful cosmetics," is 8 the slogan of the National Cosmeti- V clans' Society, which has been meet -1 ing here. I’ r “Our purpose." said Madame Marie Malnello. president of the society, "is to uplift our profession and to weed s out those who work harm to the pub lie. Nature is the best guide and pro vides remedies if worked out properly that are beneficial." n BEE IN HIS WINDPIPE. HE NEARLY SUFFOCATES 0 ITHACA. N. Y.. July 30. Aubrey Bersonious. of Brockton, seven miles I. from here, had a narrow escape from c death by suffocation, when a bee flew s into his mouth and lodged In his wind pipe. LOCONTO DO SHOE IN 0. S. Earl’s Daughter Will Dance for Pay in a New York Vaude ville House. LONDON. July 30.—Lady Constance Stewart Richardson, daughter of the Earl of Cromartie and kin td many a noble house of England and Scotland, is to dance Salome on Broadway, New York. This latest plan of the accomplished but most unconventional young woman to startle society is not a plan to aid charity. She sails in a few weeks to appear as Salome as a strict profes sional in the production which is staged by Reinhardt, the great German "producer," and which will be offered to the American public at a vaudeville theater. New York society has not yet for- I gotten the surprising appearances of Lady Constance a few years ago in the fashionable entertainments given for charity. Her daring dances in scanty and filmy garments sent gasps through even the blase audiences whom she en tertained. Since her return from America she has decided to go in for professional dancing and has done a turn at the Palace theater, where Miss Mauii Allen set the fashion in lack of attire a few years ago. WIFE DRUGGED AND THEN MARRIED HIM. HE SAYS CHICAGO. July 30.—Asserting that his wife courted him, proposed to him and that he was drugged when he agreed to a marriage. Harry Wolchano vesky presented a startling defense to bls wife's suit fm abandonment, heard In Municipal Judge Scott’s court TUESDAY, JULY 30. "7 ’W' * SENATE BILL FIXES LAWYER’S CHARGE IN DAMAGE ACTION Damage suit lawyers partial to the con tingent fee method will find hard sledding if the state legislature passes the Harris- Hamilton hill. This measure, which went to the sen ate yesterday, limits contingent fees taken by lawyers to 25 per cent of the amount of the judgment. The 25 per cent applies to judgments under $5,000. Be tween $5,000 and SIO,OOO the hill limits the fees to 15 per cent. On judgments of more than SIO,OOO a fee of not more than 10 per cent can be taken. Senator Harris said the present law handicapped persons unable to pay law yers large retainers As a result of the present system, he asserted, it was not uncommon for a lawyer to take 95 per cent of a judgment as a fee CONVICT CAMP COOK STABS WHITE YOUTH CORNELIA. GA., July 30.—Tinney Woods and \\ . W. Gailey, white youths, and General Gordon, negro cook of the Habersham county convict camp, lo cated near Alto, in this county, were placed under bond of SIOO each for engaging in a. three-cornered fight in the public road near the camp. Gailey was painfully, but not severely, stab bed in the back in two places by the negro. A preliminary hearing will be held on Thursday. SAM HYDE. CONDEMNED TO DIE. IGNORES FATHER ANDEIISON, S. C, July 30 —“I have not heard one word from my son,” said George \V, Hyde, father of Samuel Hyde, the Anderson man who killed his wife and father-in-law arid who is In the pen itentiary now awaiting the report of alienists. George Hyde spent his small means in the effort to save his son from electrocution. Sam left here two months ago for the penitentiary and has cut him self off from all communication with hS home people HOTEL KEEPER CHARGED WITH SHOOTING TRADER Jake Goldberg, proprietor of the Albian hotel, this afternoon before Recorder Broyles will fdee a charge of having shot and seriouslj wounded Jonas Nash yes tenia y. Nash was shot in the right thigh when he mid Goldberg hud a quarrel at the lat ter'* hotel. 25 South Pryor street. The trouble is said to have resulted from at- Untlom paid l>\ Nash to ti young woman at lh< hotel Nash, a horsetrader, lives nt 553 West Hunter street Ihe Probable Causes of the Tragedy Speculated Upon by Two Women as They Study Gene and Wife. By T. B. SHERMAN. The wife's outward composure, the 1 husband's disdain, the tender care in the face of the aged mother—each made manifest in many different ways hroughout the course of the trial, play vith strange effect upon the. heart trings of the women spectators at the rial of Daisy Opie Grace. As for the men. they are there to sat isfy an appetite for details about two •arsons who have suddenly been lifted 1 to the spotlight by a plethora of news paper publicity. When the average man knows the result of tlie Grace trial his interest soon will wane. But no verdict of the jury will ever satisfy tlte un spoken queries which have at isen in tlte mind of every woman who has read of tlie Grace case. No matter what the trial brings forth the Grace case is but a varia tion of the domestic equation. The Graces were incompatible, either by na ture. or through worldly circumstances which arose early in their wedded life. The wherefores of this incompatibility —the reason for tlte climax, whatever it was—are the things about the Grace case which disturb ami compel the at tention of the women. But She Wants to Know. "I object to being classed among the 'idle curious,’" said a well-dressed mid dle-aged woman who sat in a front seat at the trial. She was speaking to a friend. "Well, ft's hard for me to say why I came," said the friend. "1 confess to this—l am not so much interested in whether she shot him or not as I am in the chain of circumstances which brought about tlte shooting.” “Os course." said the middle-aged woman, “there was tragedy in the Grace home -that much is sure. There are a thousand possibilities. She may have been undutiful or he may have been. If so, why? Did their natures interlock? Or did an outside < ircum stanee force itself in and disturb the domestic balance? "If the full details of the Grace case were known I don't mean merely the details which led directly to the shoot ing—they would show ij, problem which arises in the lives of every married. couple. In their case, it might have been primitive—they might have fall en out about some petty thing, or they may not have fallen out at all—it might have all been under the surface. “But whatever the trouble was—it arose because of the inability or the failure of one of them to bear an equi table part of the responsibilities of married life. There are a million ways in which this old. old formula can be violated. In some Instances you see a man and woman, apparently fashioned for each other. Both of them are gen tle in spirit, both are considerate, both allow to each other the little necessary privacies—and there is enough money to keep the wolf at a safe distance from tlie door. Yet there is no permanent happiness. It may be that one of them tried to do too much. It may be that the stronger withheld from the weaker certain matters which should have been met by both of them together. "And so It was with the Graces I am sure, regardles of what form it took." •lust then the bailiff rapped for or der. "The spectators will have to keep quiet and stop interrupting the court,” lie bawled. The two women were silent for a moment. .At this particular mo nwri Mrs. Grace turned her head amt •gazed for the barest pa i *t of a second at the cot where her wounded husband lay. “Look at her—she can't keep her eyes off him," whispered the younger woman. “Yes." responded the middle-aged woman. "Elementally she is no differ ent than she was the first day she saw Eugi ue Grace. He fascinated her. The two types point to that clearly—” "I don’t see how they ever fell in love with each other,” said the younger woman. ’ "She Was Fascinated.” "I don't know that they did," said the middle-aged woman. “But I can see this. He had never known much of her type of woman and she had never seen much of this type of man. They wen novelties to each other. She is clearly a woman of a whimsical nature. She is the kind who could concentrate her whole nature in the achieving of one particular thing. He was tall and good looking and with tlie unmistakable marks of Southern breeding—he was a new element in her life. She was fas cinated—and still is, down at the bot tom, regardless of what she thinks she thinks of him." “And what of him? What did she mean to him?" “I don't believe that the emotions which she stirred in him could have been of a very firm texture.” answered the middle-aged woman. "1 don't be lieve that he was ever more than mere ly infatuated with her. And that, I tiiink. is in a measure responsible for the present situation." The women were silent for a long period. They listened closely to the evidence. Finally the middle-aged wom an seemed to lose interest. As if pos sessed by a sudden thought she nudged her companion. Then They Dissect the Men. “A woman will always know what to wear." she said. "I'll wager that Mrs. . Grace picked out the simplest gown sho could find—although it fits her horri bly." “Yes.” agreed the other, “there are lots of things which figure in a trial besides the sworn evidence." “ —But ail mothers are just alike. They all look the same, they all act the same. Their actions spring from tlie one primitive animal Impulse of protection for their young. The fact that Mrs. Grace’s mother has rushed to her daughter’s side proves nothing. If Iter daughter were innocent as an angel or black with guilt, her attitude would be the same. It's beautiful, though." The two women then fell to dissect ing tlie men. The prosecuting attorney was certainly very insistent for a lit tle fellow—and how Mr. Rosser roared. Neither one of them could understand how such a benevolent looking man as Judge Roan could sentence anybody to prison. Both agreed, however, that the jury was a very Intelligent looking body as a whole. 3