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Curious Spectators Find Sensations They Seek as the Famous Traqedy Is Unfolded in Court 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 c f 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 flli newhat disappointed. The striking detail one couldn’t get away from was the women in the audi ft’ie. the poorly clad women who sat in those rear seats breathing that fetid atmosphere, surrounded by men of every stamp, hearing little, seeing less and apparently supremely happy de apite the wilting of their garments and the trickle of perspiration through the powder on their cheeks. There were perhaps 50 of them—some eld enough to be grandmothers, some girls not far In their teens, line wom en bore a child of five, who fretted and whined on her lap and begged to be tiken outdoors again. There was a jlttle girl who ran through the crowd when the doors were opened, dodging between the legs of the grownups, gain ing ground by her very Insignificance, Until she found a front seat by the judge's stand. Just Ordinary Women. There were little groups of women, rl ill ■ cod. who chewed gum incessant ly and chatted together in low tones tis the case progressed. I saw no wom en whose garb or manner stamped her ps one <’f the demi-monde few of the tvp- the world would call "refined." T.y y seemed just ordinary women, v, :-ns<- husbands wore at work for day w:>sce. To them the trial of Mrs. Grace .. r'a, great "show” of the year. It v i- to their starved, sensation-hungry souls what the grand opera is to the bw.-r <>f great music. It was the event of their lives. \n 1 how little they saw and heard! Mi.si of them were crowded into seats f : 1 at the left of the court room, with the judge's bench and the railed do rrh ions of the clerk shutting off their ■ ■ ■ of all the principals in the drama. T’n v -aw no more than if a wall had In i 11 built between them and the court. P.rhaps they caught a glimpse of a white-covered cot as Eugene Grace was borne into the room and out again. Per haps they saw a bit of brown plume as Mrs. Grace rose to make her exit. Tbit through all the six hours of the in i ing they saw nothing more, for the railings and the standing mon against it were between the audience and the Hut they did not leave in disappoint- nrni/rn snnrPT uLimLll nllilLu i «S POLICE Lieutenant is Held Under an indictment for Rosenthal Murder. NEW YORK, July 30.—Mayor Gay nor today announced that he would 1 ;■ special meeting of the board of • ■ "man to begin an investigation of iw- police department. Police Com ■i ; -ion. Waldo was with the mayor v. :>,-n the announcement was made. Panic reigned in the New York po -11 department this afternoon when it " nine known that several high offi- ■ T- had been named to District At i ■ io \ Whitman as participants in the graft system that resulted in the ass > |.-sination of Herman Rosenthal and th. indictment of Lieutenant Charles A lb 1 ■ k v i*. Kight men occupying high positions - involved in the case by the con- ■ ‘"i "tis of "Jack” Rose, Louis Webber i Harry Vallon, according to reports t- urrent about Al. Whitman’s office. Tic district attorney refused to give "it these names. Every newspaper man who saw the district attorney was iatcr besieged by various police officials for any information he might have se- Complete Exposure Os Graft Promised. Complete exposure ■of a graft system in which the police have bin kmailed gamblers and other law-breakers and have protected them in turn, was promised today as a result of the indictment and arrest of Becker on the charge of planning and ordering the murder of Herman Rosen thal. District Attorney Whitman is confi dent that he will be able to fix the crime on Becker as a result of confes t >ns made by "Jack'’ Rose, who ad mitted that he had been Becker’s eol- ' tor; Louis Webber, the gambler, and Hurry Vallon, the East Side gang lender. they named Harrv Horowitz. Erank Holler alias "Whitey Jack Lewis; ' '">is Rosenzwelg, alias "Lefty Louis.” ariii "Dago Prank" Cicerio, as the ac- ■1 murderers. The last named is the 1,1 one in custody. Becker is in the !I| |- on a charge of murder in the h" t degree, while every possible effort ""iiig made to trace the other three -ned of firing the shots that '■ ! ic-d Rosenthal. h"’ • ntlial was i.-sassinated just in I" pri-vent him testifying before crand juiy concerning the alliance ''"ii tin gamblers and the police ' -meining tin- pel-onal allian ■' '"•n Becker and Rosenthal in om f'• lbl|j| R house !i tis< lr , onti ■ns, Rose, Webber . ment. No; they stuck to their seats In I grim determination, knowing that ! should they leave a dozen other men I or women were waiting for their places. They sat and waited, in the forlorn | i hope that something might happen to ; break the monotony of the proceedings j or perhaps satisfied with being merely ' in the same room with those famous ' characters immortalized by the papers. I They were like the crowd which gath- . er outside the walls of a jail waiting j forth" moment of the execution which they have no hope of seeing. Drama Strangely Dull. But the drama itself was strangely . dull and emotionless. I' pnn the wit . nes's stand a policeman in his Sunday citizen’s suit or a negro in worn and dusty garments answered such ques- i tions as were put. waiting patiently I while the young solicitor and the burly trial lawyer for the defendant quarreled over the wording of a phrase. There - were questions seemingly without a ' 9h V°" ,ls importance, answers appar entlj meaningless. Th.-re were half angrt altercations betweefi th.- lawyers . o\rt points bearing no meaning to the auditor; flashes of rough wit fl9a cross ' questioner tried to ridi< .ffi. th,, witness into tangling his testimony And Mrs. Grac,.. CPn! ra , of . ' play, sat at her Lawyers' table, ex pressmniess, inscrutable. Tt, Prt wer „ moment? whon thn t.-H.,. . , i “ 1 " •' -ttnionv became ’"UTtntable; when alm.,st foroidden subjects were discussed with comment bordering on buffoonery. Bu* still Mrs. Grace leaned over her table, her dark eves fixed Upon the face of the wit ness, her check unmarked by blush or paHor. i; v.-as as though all the smaller things of lit,. been fnrgotu-n in th»-- ' face ts th.. sr ,. ;l t question the tribunal n<«d been called to answer. And Eugene Grace, the "dying man” ,>f SO many newspaper extras; the man who had descended into ;he shadow of death: the hopeless cripple who would never smile again -he lay on his cot and laughed softly as his friends made i 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. and \ allon declared Becker set the stage for the murder and personally I managed its details. Each swore he I acted at the repeated direction of Becker, and that Becker both before i and after the crime assured them of protection. i '1 hose men gave to District Attorney W hitman the complete chain of facts leading up to the assassination. And in doing so they pave.] the way to the I most remarkable exposition of graft that has ever been known. All of the statements lead to men higher up in the official scale than Becker. They caused District Attorney Whitman to state that lie was no longer concerned for the little fish, but was determined to get the bigger men who were responsible for the direction , of Becker. They told how the services of big Jack Zelig's red-handed murder band had been called in to carry out Beck er's sentence of death, and how the whole startling .-rime had been com mitted under the threat from Becket that if the gamblers did not murder Rosenthal. Becker would send them to prison under "framed up" charges. i For the telling of the murder story. Rose. Webber and Vallon will get im munity. They were called as witnesses and testified before the grand jury, which was called in extraordinary ses sion last night to indict Becker. Three Men Guarded Through the Night. All night long Rose, Webber and ■ Vallon .-amped in the office of Hugh > Byrne, secretary to District Attorney i Whitman. Detectives Leigh and Russo, with Process Servers Kling and Zinn, took turns guarding them. There was no sleep for Webber. Intensely nerv ous by nature, the man sat in a chair and smoked cigarette after cigarette, ' alternately weeping, wiping his fore head with a huge handkerchief and staring vacantly into space. At that L he said that it was the first good night he had passed in weeks. Becker Passes Sleepless Night. Becker passed a sleepless night in cell No. 120 at the Tombs. He said this morning: "This is an awful plight for an inno cent man to be in. i can't say any thing more now." The delicate health of his wife, who is expecting the arrival of an heir, weighed upon Becker quite as much as the charge against, him. The man who had jauntily twist'd a panama hat the night before and smiled in the face of a ! charge of murder in the first degree ' was broken and unstrung. When Police Commissioner Waldo came to his office he was affected, "Have you any statement to make?" "Absolutely none,” was his reply. "Don't you think that as the head of tlic department of N< w York and in ( view of what has happened in the last 21 hours it is up to yen to say some t hfng "1 do not." "It h.i ■ li'-eii "' ported it .it .xml re signed from ill' p'c-itioti as a result of this' 1 " The c'-tninissivncr made no reply. THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. TUESDAY, JULY 30. 1912. MRS. GRACE, CONFIDENT, LEAVING HOME Photographed by a Georgian Photographer - - ; Cz ' ■■ f wife ■ • 7 --- Aw 'wr iiaiirlPlß ‘ ■ / / qmnl»MMcF! \ x / • i a \ lii-xjf’ I . « l\ t T-l - \\ ' X l "* * t’A A-.-A I ** a *■ * '*•Sri I JU " ' '%<| |! w ■ : ’ ii * * *// // w ; ■ //■ \\ \N ' // 7, \\ \\ £z2if/x¥3S * /As / / >// ** ME sms J BREWOMI Victim of Shooting Ordered by Physician Not to Go to Court Room. Continued From Second Page. within a fraction of an inch. He be lieved the bulb I rested in the spite. The spinal cord would not be shown in an X-ray. Air. Rosser's insistence that the witness "speak English" In stead of Latin phrase' occasioned some a mu semen t. Dr. Durr said Grace had no control of his legs when the X-ray was taken. He attributed this to the pressure of a bony substance against the spinal cord. The X-ray plates were admitted Ir. evidence. Tin? court took a recess here until 1:30 p. m. So fearful for their seats were the morning spectators at the trial that they refused to leave the court room during the recess period. The same faces that peered over the rail when court, opened this morning were there when Judge Roan rapped for order at 1:30 o'clock. The edges of tlie crowd were swelled to a considerable extent by a throng of men who dropped in “just to look on for a few minutes.” Quite a sensation was caused just prior to the opening of court by a thin, bedraggled old woman who forced her way into court and demanded a seat. Not finding any seats vacant, she made her way to the inside of the rail. Here she deliberately caught a man by the] coat collar and jerked him from his I chair. She then took the seat herself,] At the afternoon session the patent medicine bottles in question were ten dered by the solicitor general. Airs. Grace was missing from tier seat, but she arrived a moment later. Morris Prioleau, a relative of Eugene Grace’!; family and an employee of the | Southern Bell Telephone t'ompany, was the first witness at the session. Grace had not returned from the san itarium to which lie had been taken in tin ambulance at luncheon time He had felt the effects of the heat at the session. Mrs. S. 1., Hill was recalled to the stand, Air. Prioleau being taken down. “Did you tell Airs. Grace "f any ac cusation made against Iler”" she was asked. "No; I didn't know of anv," site re plied "Alt.-. Gt in, e was nut uul us my pres- ence from the time she left Newnan until midnight. "Gone told me he had married Diisj' on March S, 1911. in Now York. She is about 30 years old." On cross-examination. Alys. Hill said Daisy bad told, her she had given Gene a patent medicine that morning. She didn't remember testifying to this be fore Justice Ridley. She said Daisy had told her Gene was feeling "par alyzed" that morning and he seemed to feel better after the medicine. Heard at Depot That Mrs. Grace Was Accused. At the Terminal station two police men met her. She and Mrs. Grace did not ride to the police station in the same vehicle. She hadn’t meant to say they hadn't been separated at all. "Didn't you know," asked Mr. Ros ser. “that it was rumored around the streets that Grace accused his wife?" Mr. Dorsey objected. The court ruled in favor of the question. "I heard It at the depot." said Mrs. Hill. "Didn't Mrs. Grace have the same opportunity ?” "I don't know. A paper was shown me. I don't know whether she saw a paper or not. "I don't know whether Daisy knew whether she was suspected or not. Yes; she went down the street with Morris Prioleau, and two policemen followed them. Mr. Rosser gave a comical imitation of Air. Prioleau. Airs. Grace and the policemen. Mr. Prioleau resumed the stand. "I saw Mi's. Grace at the Terminal station on the evening of .March 5," he said. "I said nothing to her about any ac cusation against her. I was with her all the way to the hospital. "Nobody told her anything about the accusation while 1 was with her. 1 was with her in the room at St. Josephs." Mr. Prioleau was extremely confident I of his answers. He was in the room at the hospital j when Mrs. Grace confronted Grace. Mr. Dorsey began to ask about the conver sation. but the defense objected and the Jury was sent out again. “Mrs. Grace spoke first,” said the witness. “She said: 'Gene, what are these things you're saying about me?’ iHe replied: 'Daisy, why did you shoot me?' " .Mr. Rosser protested against Mr. Dorsey 's leading tlie witness. Conversation is Barred From Jury. "This witness, more than any other man. perhaps, is the friend of Eugene Gra<declined Mt. Rosser. The court ruled that the evidence could not go before the Jury. The Juiy relumed tu R s bux and the examination of Prioleau continued, tin being questioned lie said: "Nobody had said anything to Airs. Grac about an accusation against her until tlie time t went to Grace's room with her. “She told me Gene had had a cold that day. and asked me what his con dition was w ith r< ference to the cold. "She asked me how the people had got into tlie house and expressed worry about the furniture. "She said she wanted to go out and .-pend the night and protect the fur niture. This was before she had seen her husband." "Did she manifest any worry or so licitude over her husband?" The defense was on its feet, ob jecting. and was sustained. Mr. Rosser was persistently leading the witness. After the question was put In proper form, the witness answered: "She asked about how badly Gene was shot, “Site said Grace had intended to go to Philadelphia, and his failure to go would put her In an embarrassing posi tion." Told Him She Had Heart Trouble "She told me sin was addicted to heart trouble, and her keys wei <■ in a handbag and her jewels in her bosom, and if anything happened I must get them and keep them safe. "The question of Grace's being droyy sy was not brought up. “Preston Hill took'Mr. and Mrs. Hill away from Mrs. Grace and me at the station. Daisy saw them talking. She asked what had come up to make Pres ton take Gene's mother away from her. She asked why we couldn't all go to gether. She asked yvhat Preston was telling Mrs. Hill. "She told me J Ruffin, the serv ant, must have shot Gene. She felt, certain of it. She said they had quar reled. "Daisy never asked me yvhat the pa pers were saying. “At the police station Daisy told Chief Lanford tliat the key to Glare's room was kept in a glass boyvl down stairs." Mr Rosser cross-examined Prioleau said all his conversation with Mis. Grace was In a cab and without witnesses. No, he hadn't looked to see whether her waist bulged with Jewelry. He didn't know whether the furniture was the Graces’ or the Kisers', owners of the house Testimony Weakened By Cross Grilling. Witness said an unknown yvoman was In the reception rootn at tlie hos pital when they entered Colquitt •'al ter and a few others were there. Witness admitted that he didn't really know the detectives had "beat- The 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 husband’s disdain, the tender care in the face of the aged mother —each made manifest in many different ways throughout the course of the trial, play with strange effect upon the heart strings of the women spectators at the trial of Daisy Opie Grace, As for the men. they are there to sat isfy an appetite for details about two persons who have suddcnl.v been lifted to the spotlight by a plethora of news paper publicity. When the average man knows the result of (lie Grace trial his Interest soon will wane But no verdict of the jury will ever satisfy the un spoken queries which have arisen in the mind of every woman who has read of tile Grace case. No matter what the trial brings forth, the Grace case is bur a varia tion of tlie 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 the climax whatever it was- are the tilings about the Grace case which disturb and eumpel the at tent ion of thi \x om n. But She Wants to Know. "I o-iject to being e assed among the ‘idle curious,'” said well-dressed mid dle-aged wi u.in v. ho sat in a front sea, at the trial. Siu- was speaking to a friend. "Well, it'.-; hard for me to say why I cam, ." said the friend, "I confess to I his--I am not so much interested in whether -lie shot him or not as 1 run in the chain of circumstances which brought about the shooting." "Os Cours'." said th' middle-aged woman, "there was tragedy in the Grace home -tint much is sure. There are a thousand possibilities. She may have been undutiful or lie may have been If so. wity’.’ Did their natures interlock? Or did an outside circum stance force itself in and disturb the domestic l>al.-in< '•? "If tile full details of the Grace case were known 1 don't mean merely the details which led directly to the shoot ing—they would show a problem which arises in the lives of every married couple. In their ease, it might have been primitive—they might have fall en out about some petty tiling, or they may not. have fallen out at all—it might have al! been under the surface. "But whatever the trouble was—it arose because of ttie inability or ttie failure of one of them to bear an equi table part of th'- responsibilities of married life. There are a million ways in which this old, old formula can l>" 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, troth allow to each other the little necessary privacies—and there is enough money to keep the wolf at a safe distance from the 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 witli the Graces I am sure, regardles of what form it took." rn" him to the hospital, as tie had said. They had only told him so. Witness admitted that he had sworn to a thing or tilings he didn’t know, except on hearsay. Witness didn’t -'-member that news paper reporters came into the recep tion room at the hospital. He couldn’t remember a reporter trying to inter view Mrs. G ace. Yes. hr- had earritrl an "extra" into the n-i-i ption room himseif. He iiad been out in the hall for fifteen minutes. A lady. Mrs. Stall ings, was talking to Mis. Grace. He saw .Mrs. Grace crying. No. he didnt know what she had ben told. Prioleau’s statement that nobody bad had a chance to tell Mrs. Grac of her husband's accnsailons was com pletely broken down 1» this cross qu'-stioning. Mrs. Grace Wanted Policies Payable to Her. Luther Williford said Mrs. Grace told him she wanted Grace's insurance policies payable to her instead of to his estate. She said she wanted him to take out an annuity policy. Witness was shown two Penn Mutual policies. This was late in 1911, He couldn't state positively that the two policies shown him today were the same Grace had had. The two policies had been for a total of $25,000. Witness said his wife was a distant relative, by marriage, to Eugene Grace, Tracing the relationship was as in volved as determining the age of "Ann," Witness said he had no idea why Mrs. Grace had talked to him about insur ance. He was not an Insurance man. Mr. Rosser declared that Williford was a partisan witness, in favor of the prosecution. He had refused to tell Mr. Rosser anything about the ease but admitted that he had talked to So licitor Dorsey, Air. Dorsey refused to permit witness to recount what he had told the solicitor. Mr. Williford said Grace was present when Mrs. Grace talked to him about insurance. He hadn't paid much atten tion to the conversation. He was dis missed. Mr, Dorsey desired to offer the poli cies In evidence. "Why?” asked the iimri. "To prove the motive for murdering this man," returned Mr. Dorsey. The policies wen- ruled out, us the witness Just then the bailiff rapped for or der. “The spectators will have to keep quiet and stop interrupting the court,” he bawled. The two women were silent for a moment. At this particular mo ment Mrs. Grace turned her head and gazed for the barest part 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 Eugene Grace. He fascinated her. The two types point to that, clearly—” “1 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 were 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 the 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. “I don’t be lieve that he was ever more than mere ly Infatuated with her. And that. I think, 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. Giace picked out the simplest gown she 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 all mothers are just alike. They all look the same, they ail act tlm 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 her daughter were innocent as an angel or black with guilt, her attitude would be the same. It's beautiful, though.” Tlie two women then fell to dissect ing the 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. had not identified them. Lew is S. Hill of Newnan, not a rela tive of Grace, was next. He had made a demand on Mrs. Grace's lawyers for policies drawn in favor of Mrs. Grace, i i** hadn I seen Airs. Grace about it. Objection was made to his testifying that lie bad made a demand on her attorney.-. Court Refuses to Admit Evidence. Mr. Dorsey said Mrs. Grace was in the next room wherj the demand for her policies was made His object was to prove tli.u sfie tiad the policies and wouldn't stiiT'nder them, even after Grace was shot and had demanded them. Tim court refused to admit the evidence, as there was no proof that Nir-. Grace, herself, had refused to give up the policies. Witness had not heard Mr. Moore talk to Airs. Grace. Mr. Dorsey insisted that he was try ing to show by a set of circumstances that Airs. Grace shot her husband for Ids insurance. Mrs. Grace entered the room at 8:55 o’clock, accompanied, as on yesterday, by C. W. Burke, a private detective. She wore a large white panama hat with a black velvet ribbon around it. Her dress was of black silk, with low shoes to match. Diamonds flashed irf her ears. A bracelet with the insignia of the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity was on her left wrist. She wore white silk gloves and wielded a palm leaf fan vigorously. Her face wore the marks of the long ordeal she had gone through the day before. She took her seat so that her back would be turned toward the spot which Grace’s cot had occu pied'on the previous day. "Oh, yes; I slept very well last night,” she said. “No; I'm not worried a bit. Os course, one's nerves suffer under the strain of such a day. But the heat was the worst of all. There never was such awful heat before.” Grace was borne into the court room at 9:22 o'clock and placed in the same position as on yesterday, looking to ward the Jury and away from his wife’s seat. Airs. Grace had retired from the room for the recess and was not pres ent when her husband was borne into the room. Mrs. Grace came In a moment later, but did not glance toward her husband. 19