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Eugene Grace a Study in Smiles and Frowns as Fight to Convict His Wife Goes On
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Eugene Grace as lie looks lislening to dry, technical testimony
—bored and hut slightly interested. There have been long stretches
of testimony to bring out just this expression.
Wounded Man, as He Lay on Cot,
Followed Testimony Closely—-Vary
ing Expressions Showed Emotions.
By T. B. SHERMAN.
How has the trial of his wife ini- I
pressed Eugene Grace?
What passes through his mind as the
sweltering crowd all about him moves
restlessly, whispers and bickers —all
bent more or less upon catching a
glimpse of him or his wife?
What does he think as the counsel for
the defense and the prosecution argue,
quibble and rail at each other in legal
ized invectives?
How does he feel when some curious
spectator fights his way to the rail and |
looks down upon him, as if he were a
street fair curiosity? What are his im
mediate hopes as regards the trial?
Does he hope down in his heart for a
conviction? Would he delight in seeing
his wife —the woman upon whom he
lavished love—sent to prison?
What does he know that the jury
never will?
What must be his emotions when
there comes to him the knowledge that
his wife sits only a few feet away wear
ing upon her wrist the A. T. O. jew
eled bracelet which he gave her.'
These are some of the questions
which entered the minds of the specta
tors the days that Eugene H Grace
was a mute witness at the trial of his
wife.
Lies Easily on His Cot.
If any disturbing thoughts have!
flashed across his mind since he has
been a witness in the criminal court
room, there has been no reflection of
them on his face.
He lies easily on his cot and holds a
close ear to the proceedings of the
court. Every now and then he smiles,
as if some stray witticism had tickled
a remote part of him. A first glance at
him would indicate that he was labor
ing under some petty inconvenience.
This appearance is brought about by a
slight pucker between his brows which
is due not to inward disorder, hut the
glare of the sun. He lay in a well
shaded room at home.
His attitude is the same as the nor
mal man assumes when he reads a book
of absorbing interest. The only time
he seemed to Strain himself was when
the X-ray negative showing pictures
of his spine and of the bullet’s location
was exhibited to the Jury.
Dr. Durr, the demonstrator, stepped
down from his chair and held the glass
plate to the light of the window so
that judge, jury and counsel might see.
The plate was dark, as if smoked, with
white streaks across it.
Interested in X-ray Photos.
Grace raised his head and peeled cu
riously at these. He was seeing for
the first tims the wound which had
brought about his paralysis, once dur
ing the course of the trial he had an
opportunity to gain a clear view of His |
wife.
it was during the progress of Dr,
Goldsmith's testimony. Solicitor Dot
sey asked the physician to slmw, on
• '.race’s body, the place where the bul
let had entered. For this pun -■•- ,:r “' "
was lifted and placed parallel to the
jury box. Had he inclined his head to
the right he would have set n the black
gown, the white hat ami the expres
sionless face of Ins w ife
But he kept Ids , p- rnialght to the
front
Th. war of iiidtifei- t.ct < arrled on -o
I successfully between husband and wife
I since Grace was first admitted to the
court room was broken somewhat today
by her. Several times she endeavored
to catch fleeting glances of him over
her shoulder. If he knew about this he
gave no sign. Xot once did he make a
similar effort.
Doesn't Appear To Be a Wreck.
Grace, so far as appearances go,
might be a man in normal health
thrown abed by some trivial disorder.
i His cheeks have a good color, his eyes
I are cleat, he speaks in rational tones—
and his hands, though thin and bony,
haven't the appearance of tnose of one
ravaged by disease.
in point of fact, from a 'ittle above
his hips on up he is as well as he was
the day before he was shot. All below
that —might as well not be there so far
as serving a function is concerned.
Yesterday afternoon the court was
startled by a decided movement of
Grace’s feet. Grace didn't seem to be
aware of what had happened. Some
one questioned him and he smiled.
Often Aids His Attorneys.
wish it were so." he said. "I would
give almost anything to see their use
fulness restored, but it's not so. If you
don't believe me, stick a pin in my
[leg and see how much it affects me."
Grace is not reluctant about offering
suggestions to his lawyers. He fre
quently points out where a ouestlon
might be put to advantage f. r his side.
During his stay in Atlanta Grace is
resting at the Piedmont sanitarium. To '
several of his friends he said he had
not slept very well his first night here.
During the early hours of the morning
he suffered a severe chill, but it had
passed entirely away by the time he
was ready to come to court.
MiSS ANNIE McCULLOUGH,
ONCE INSTRUCTOR, DEAD
Miss Annie McCullough, for several
years in the chair of English at the
Georgia State Normal school at Ath
ens, is dead at her home in Round’Oak,
Ga. Miss McCullough, who received
her Anal degree at Columbia, was re
garded as one of the foremost women
educators in the state and was known
and loved by hundreds of former pu
pils.
\V. M. and R. 1- McCullough, of At
lanta. two brothers, survive her, be
sides two brothers and a sister in
Round Oak.
The funmal and interment was at
Round • >ak.
PRAIRIE DOG IS NEW PET
OF COLORADO SOCIETY SET
EVANS, <’< >LO., Julx 31 Mrs. W. A.
Bugman. of Sharon Springs. Kans.,
who is visiting Mis. Michaels, has in
troduced a new fad when calling. She
brought with her "Little Jimmie," i
young prairie dog. which she carries
around in a large pocketbook when
calling. ....
'l'li, tl -t npp.aram i of "Little Jim
mie" i -used < onste'-natlon at a social
gathering yesterday, but now that the
pau- made bls acquaintance tin x
cntliusi.iatle over the new fad,
it max' be that this social innoxa
'.,,, mH . xt.nd throughout Well
count.'
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. AV EDNESDAY, JULY 31. 1912.
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Eugene Grace keenly interested in a stirring fight between
Solicitor General Dorsey and Airs. Grace’s lawyer, Luther Rosser.
The wounded man has followed this case closely.
WANTS ATTORNEY GENERAL
TO PROSECUTE FLOGGERS
MACON, GA., July 31. —Attorney R.
I). F’eagin has gone to Atlanta to ask
Governor Brown to appoint Attorney
General Thomas S. Felder to prosecute
the men who flogged Essie Carter at
Dawson on July 20. It is expected that
Judge W. ('. Worrill will call a special
grand Jury to investigate the affair and,
if indictments are returned it is the hope
of the attorneys for the girl that the
attorney general, in behalf of the state,
will conduct the prosecution.
GOES UNKISSED TO GRAVE:
SHE NEVER HAD A BEAU
LEBANON. OHIO, July 31.- Miss
I Amanda Crandall, aged 91, one of the
oldest residents of Lebanon, is dead
after an Illness of more than a year.
She boasted all her life of never hav
ing been kissed by a man, and is said
nicer to have had a beau
Miss -Crandall was born and lived
continuously in the house in which she
died. She never rode on a railroad
train, electric car nor automobile.
ST. SIMONS LAUNCH BURNS.
BRUNSWICK, July 31. -The launch
Middy,‘owned by Jesse Thomas, of this
citv. was destroyed by fir*- on St. Si
mons beach yesterday. The- lire ap
parently was of incendiary origin. Ihe
■ Middy was used for fishing excursions
from St. Simons, and was one of the
largest boats of its kind In these wa-
I ters. The loss Is partly covered by in
surance
DROWNING AT CEDARTOWN.
. CEDARTOWN. GA . July 31 Paul
I BIoCOS proprietor of a Greek restau
rant hen-, was drowned when he dived
. | from the hank above the dam nt the
I property of the Cedartown Iron Com
pany.
BANKER SNEED AND WIFE
ARE REPORTED RECONCILED
FORT WORTH, TEXAS. July St.-
John B. Sneed, the wealthy Amarillo
banker, who last winter here shot and
killed Captain A. G. Boyce, owner of
the Capital ranch, and his wife, Lena,
have become reconciled.
Sneed killed Boyce because he
strongly defended his son, Albert, who
eloped with Mrs. Sneed to Canada, with
SIO,OOO.
Sneed and his wife leave gone to
Georgetown, Texas, to make a new
start. The Sneed and Boyce families
for years were neighbors at George
town. Al his trial. Sneed claimed his
wife was insane. The jury disagreed.
BACK BROKEN 7 YEARS:
DEATH ENDS ALL AT LAST
KANSAS (TTY. MO.. July 31—Chas.
B. Reynolds, whose back was broken by
a dive into shallow water more than
seven years ago, died at his home here
He was 24 year.- old, tile only son of
c. B. Reynolds, principal of the Searrilt
school. The. physicians said death was
due to pastiitis and not to the original
injury.
FEARS ATTEMPT TO MIX
POISON WITH MEDICINE
GADSDEN. ALA July 31 Being
aroused at an early morning hour by
some one near his window. Dr. James
E. Leach went outside it, time to see
two men Jump on a bicycle and dis.tp
i pear down the street He found his
medicine cases bad been opened and
I some of the bottles tampered with He
■ called the police and told them he be
lieved the unknown parties had been
trying to mix poison with hi- medicine.
Here is Grace’s worried face. It
appears when evidence he doesn't
like is being given.
Mm INSURANCE
BILL FIGHT LOST
General Judiciary Committee
Disapproves Measures Op
posed by Foreign Firms.
Despite the strenuous efforts made by
state insurance eon panics to secure its
approval, the Mann bill requiring all
insurance companies to invest 7;> |>er
cent of their reserve In Georgia se
curities lias been rejected by the gen
eral judiciary committee of the state
senate.
Although Senator Mann told the
members of the committee today that
he’ would carry his tight for the meas
ure to the floor of the senate, tlie bill
will go to the upper house heavily han
dicapped.
Local representatives of foreign life
insurance companies opposed the bill
strenuously, and the hearings before the
judiciary committee were conducted
with vigor. The foreign companies
maintained that the passage of the
measure would drlVe a score of the
best insurance companies out of the
Georgia field and that the hill was de
signed by Georgia companies to kill
competition. The local companies
through Senator Mann, pointed to the
success of a similar law in Texas.
Mosquito Damage Bill Approved.
Designed to benefit residents of New-
I ton county, disturbed by mosquitoes
I bred in a back water sw amp from the
i dam of the Central Georgia Power
I Company, on the Ocmulgee river. Sena
tor Felker’s bill to establish the venue
of damage suits against the power com
panies will go to the upper house with
the approval of the Judiciary com
mittee.
I'nder the present venue laws, the
outraged citizens of Newton county ah
forced to carry their damage suits to
Macon, the olficial residence of the pow
er company. Because they have been
unsuccessful before Macon Juries, they
want a change. The Felker bill puts
power companies in the same class witty
railroads in allowing suits to originate
where the damage occurs.
TAFT CHILDREN GO TO
GLACIER PARK TO CAMP
(Tlli'AGei, July 31. Robert and Hel
en Taft, son and daughter of the presi
dent. will arrive in Chicago August 3
on routo to tho Ncition&l park,
when- they will camp They will leave
Chicago on the same day that they ar
' rive They will tenialn at the park for
1 three wee Ks.
Mrs. George E. Vincent, wife of the
president of Minnesota university,
will chaperon the camping party. A
’ number of young people will be in the
‘ party.
’ TRADE SECRETARY QHOSEN.
HKI'XSWIi K. July 31 The diree-
• tors of the Brunswick Board of Trade,
recently organized, have elected J. G.
. Weatherly, of Columbus, Miss., as see
< ritarv. Mr Weatherly is at present
secretarj of the Columbus Business
1 league, the Tornhlgbee River associa
" lion and the Association of Commercial
- Secretaries of the State of Mississippi,
i He has accepted and will arrive here
t. about September 1,
The smiling Grace! Hopelessly helpless. Eugene Grace does not,
often show it in his expression. The frequency with which he smiles
—although it may be a slightly troubled smile—amazed spectators.
Defense, So Far, Has Played With
State’s Chessmen and on the Prose
cution’s Side of the Board.
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By DUDLEY GLASS.
It is like a great game of chess, this
trial of Daisy Grace, with the court
room as the checkered hoard, the wit
nesses as pawns, the lawyers the play
ers. The object of the Black is to ex
tract from the witnesses every state
ment possible which might add a link
to the chain of evidence against Mrs
Grace and to put that statement before
the jury, it is the object of the White
to balk the Black at every move; to iru
terpose objections to every question
which might be damaging to the de
fendant; keep from the ears of the jury
any word of evidence which by a twis;
of the law may be ruled out.
It is a game which must be played
according to the rules, and the rules tire
myriad ami susceptible to many inter
pretations. The judge is tile umpire o»
the play; the jury is only the referee of
the final result. The game is to con
vince the umpire that a move is per
mitted by the rules or is not, according
to whether Black or White is moving.
There are two skillful masters of the
game of human chess manipulating the
pieces in the case of State vs. Daisy
Grace. Behind them are their asso
ciates In the ease, good lawyers all
But the two are the captains of their
teams. One is Hugh M. Dorsey, solici
tor general of Fulton epunty and there
fore official prosecutor for the state.
Tin- other is Luther Z. Rosser, associate
counsel for Mrs. Grace and the "court
loom lawyer" of the defense. These
two carry on a continuous struggle for
points, with the jury keeping score.
“Leading” a Witness.
A state's witness is on the stand. So
licitor Dorsey, slight, almost boyish,
seemingly tired out from the strain of
two long days on his feet, begins to
qu-slion him The questions and an
swers are pat enough for a moment or
two. Then
“Now, Mr. Jones, what did Mrs. Grace
say to you about what she had left in
the bath room?’’ he begins.
Luther Rosser, brawny as a black
smith. his great round head thatched
by reddish hair which stands out like a
porcupine's quills, is on his feet in a
second, bellowing at the witness. He is
a terrifying object as he giowets upon
the unfortunate on the stand. The de
fendant's counsel picked their jury law -
yer well.
"I object, your honor,” he shouts.
"My friend, the solicitor, is leading this
witness. He's always doing it. He
puts his questions so the witness can't
help knowing just what answer is
wanted."
Judge Roan bends over from his
bench and patiently requests Mr. Dor
sey to put his question in different
form.
"What, if anything, did Mrs. Grace
say to you about a bath loom?" is his
new version. The witness answers.
"I object, your honor," shouts Mr.
Rosser again. "This is Irrelevant, hear
say evidence; it is not admissabh*. I
move that the answer be stricken out.”
But He Really Is the Victor.
The court instructs me jury to dis
regard the question and the answer in
! making up its verdict, to forget that
! any such matte- was introduced. Mr
Dorsey sits down, apparently defeated
■ He has been ruled out of order seveta
dozen limes since the case was opened
But—perhaps the solicitor is reallj
. Ute victor, not the vanquished. Agair. 1
and again he lias drawn from the wit
nesses answers which promptly were
titled out of court. Rut they had
teached the jury, had been hammered
into the minds of the twelve men who H
must decide the fate of the defendant,
and all the charges of a hundred judges
<an not remove from the mind of a
human b- ing an impression which has
once found a lodging there. So there
may be a reason for the smile the solic- 1
itor wears as he takes his seat.
Then it is Mr. Roster’s real play. The
cross-examination begins.
"Take the witness,” says the solici
tor, abruptly.
The witness has testified that he met
Mrs Grace at the Terminal station
when sh<- returned from Newnan; that
he had not left her for a moment until
she reached her husband's side in St,
Josephs hospital; that she haM been
given no opportunity to be told of her >
husband's reported accusation against I
lier. He seems relieved at having
passed the ordeal. He doesn't know
what Is ahead of him.
Tangling Up a Witness.
Luther Rosser hitches his chair
around the table, rises and sticks his
round head almost into the unfortu
nate one's face.
"You pay you tn<-t her at the station?
You say you drove in a cab with her
to St. Josephs? You say you were
with her all the while? Now. who else
was In that reception room at the hos
pital?” - h
"There were several people—a
strange woman and some others.”
■ "Were there any detectives in tha
( room?”
"No,” returns the witness.
"But you said you talked to detec
tives out there. Where were they?”
, “Out in the hall.”
"You talked to them out in the hall, 1
then. Then you must have left Mrs.
Grace!”
I The witness admits that he left her
( perhaps fifteen minutes, though he was
( in sight of her through the door. Yes;
3 he remembered a woman talking to
j her. Mr Rosser draws from him, by
skillful questions, that this woman con
versed with Mrs. Grace for some time,
and when she closed Mrs. Grace was
crying.
Things the Jury Doesn’t Hear.
, "That's all," says Mr. Rosser, ab
, ruptly. He has discredited the witness
s by proving his memory seriously at
fault. H-- has provetl that several state
s inents of the witness were in conflict.
He has proved, and by the state's own
t testimony, that Mrs. Grace did havij '
an opportunity to hear of her bus.
e band's accusation.
s Ami so the game goes on. Several
times, when a particularly important
question is up for decision by the -
- judge, the defense has insisted that the
I jury be taken from the room until ths
” matter is thrashed out, thus balking the
solicitor s scheme of getting the mattel
- before tlie jury, even without the "tti
n cial standing of evidence. The whole
t matter of Grace's accusation against
his wife was debated in the absence of
I. the jury, in fact, the twelve men in <
tl the box have not yet hoard Mrs. Grace
-1. accused by any witness of any crime.
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