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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. • ,•,<■ ■.’ j ...'-IrnSKaK ■. ? :• MPWF : I ' • • ■ '• < T It |la ,t 1 W. "Z. 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. j 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. 3