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NO. 1 IS ATTORNEY JOHN W. MOORE, MRS. GRACE’S COUNSEL; NO. 2 IS LAMAR HILL, GRACE’S LAWYER; NO. 3 IS JUDGE ROAN, AND NO. 4 IS MRS. GRACE.
GRACE ATTENTIVE
TOANOTHER.WIFE
SAYS IN OEFENSE
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Startling Line of Defense Is
Sprung When Court Recon
vened This Morning.
Continued From Page One.
head. Mrs. Grace answered and had a
talk with Mrs Williford. Thu plan :
vis for Grace t«» Ivavt at 11. but If
delayed and delayed, and finally said 1
he’d R'o at 2:45. She saw that h»* was *
trying to get her out of Atlanta before
he b ft. She believed he was trying T<» '
MAKE AN ENGAGEMENT WITH 1
THIS WOMAN
“At II o'clock Lawrence called up.
and sh. told him Gene hud decided to 1
go at 2:45 Instead.
Lawrence said lie had made a deal.
Made Her Conceal
Their Negro Row.
"Then Daisy Grace accused her hits- j
hand of trying to sell het home and
making a date with a woman. Ho
grabbed her and choked her and
threatened to kill her. and he grabbed
his pistol and she struggled with all her ,
might and they fell on th. bed and
the pistol he had in his hand went off
and he was shot. He wasn't paralyzed
then. It wasn't a wound which would
paralyze. All lie thought of was his
social standing and In . went to work to
make her conceal their (nigger row)
and she has kept his secret until now.
She wanted to call a .Im tor and he
insisted he didn’t need any doctot lb
said he wasn't hurt and be hurried her
away. Hl made her take th. pistol
and told her to throw it away. Site
didn't take it to New nan, but out it tn
the room downstairs. Sin trad to
phone him from th. station and
couldn't get han S didn't know
what to do but ob< > :s instructions.,
and she dl ' it. He t.dd h. r to keep
silent rather than injm. bis social
standing, lb madi ii. r swear to keep
his secret
The Witnesses
For the Defense.
John W M - :• ■ ■’ th. f ■ ow mg
w Itness. - f ’ . • f. i. ■.
E E Me. kb
E E I. iw i. n. . . .slier of <?::(..
S D B< ’ . me p
Dr. < ’llunn
Dr Sanim ’ll G an 'ml Ih> ■
clan
John Satti, s I. . •
Scott Tod : . ugg t
M (> .laeksm
S H Moe-
Rus-. B:. ■■ <■' A■■ I ' ■m. I
!v< ster K-nm ••
M’t? Mar\ R<»hr.< fb hh'! tt the i
police station.
Mi - M.-irtf. < f : iv ■’ ■ <-f Mi' i
Gru <
Mrs Lomse Wl-on, train. .: . : I
M s Gi a. .
Thirteen witness - w. . on th.-■ !
c alled. It Was . . id, nt • om th. . . . .. i
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by the newspaper men, a buzz of sur
prise over the audience. 'Judge Roan
turned to the lawyers for the defense.
"What will you do, gentlemen'"’ he
asked.
The crowd hung breathless upon the
answer. Perhaps the theory of the de
fense would he at last suggested. Per
haps Mrs. Grace might take the stand.
"We want to take a rest and get back
Into solid form,” growled Luther Ros
ser. "We're almost melted and run
ning down the stairs."
The answer broke the tension. A
laugh swept over the room and was cut
■hort by the angry bailiffs, worn to the
breaking point with three days hand
ling of an unreasonable throng. The
■use closed for the day without the
slightest hint of the plans of the de
fense.
Dorsey Will Forge
The Links Together.
But the state had submitted Its case
to the jury, all but the masterful sum
ming up by the solicitor, the eloquent
arguments by the several lawyers for
the state. That summing up of evi
dence will be the great work of the
state's counsel The solicitor must take
each separate link of the testimony ex
tracted from the numerous witnesses
and weave them into a chain so strong
that It can not break at any point, a
chain which will stand the assaults of
the shrewd counsel for the defense
witjmut a strain. If there is a link
missing in this chain, the ease is lost,
for the jjiry must find the defendant
guilty “without a reasonable doubt,"
and the court must so instruct them in
his llttal charge.
Here are the links of scattered testi
mony which Solicitor Dorsey must
forge into the chain which will bind
Mrs. Daisy Grace in prison, the items
of circumstance which are the state's
only dependent'. For, it must be re
membered, nobody saw Eugene Grace
stmt; tie lias never lievn able to state
with positiveness that Daisy shot him.
and, so tar .is the Jury is concerned, he
does not exist, for the law forbids his
testifying. There is nothing but cir
cumstance to prove the ease of the
state.
The Complete Case
Against Mrs. Grace.
The state has proven, or contends
that it has proven:
That Mrs Grace and Eugene
spent the night together at their
home That Grace was groaning
next morning when the servant
built the tire. That Daisy spoke to
him and said he was "sleepy" and
b.e replied. “That's not what's the
matter with me.” That Mrs. Grace
locked the doors, or told the serv
mts she would lock them, that she
ordered the servants to remain
away from the uj'stalrs looms until
her return; that she left the house
. . out 11 o'clock, that Grace was
tout) : wounded in his room about 2
o'clock.
That M>s Grace took with her to
Newt.in a back dress, planning to
w< ar r back as mourning when the
I la ws that Eugene was dead should
i li her. that when the news that
was wounded came, she yvon-
’ hoyy a man shot through the
ungs < otild live, that when she
t ' . the hospital she ujibraided
<:■ i . for accusing her when she
l i. been giy.u no opportunity to
i< irn of lus ae, us.ition (The de
f< i ■ its ■' at sh< HAD been
piveii tnews in the liosjdtnl
>. room ami proved that she
bud . ad the oj'i'ortunity. 1
I It M's Gl ace li.oi given Ell
g. tie ovii. o-, s of narcotic j>atent
1 I. ill. i I..I: he yy as droyy st
v. hen h. found himself wounded,
th' till blood was dried on his
i . c.c. n and !u had < vid. ntly
o. . > - 'mt H. y < ral hunt s before.
Tl ' m o.u-.d his cite of slioot-
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. THURSDAY, AUGUST 1, 1912.
MRS. ULRICH THINKS STATE 1
HAS FAILED TO MAKE A CASE
Mrs. Daisy Grace’s mother is entirely confident the
state has failed to establish a case against her daughter, and
that she will be freed. Here is her view:
By Mrs. Martha Ulrich.
The prosecution has done all that it can do. The solicitor |
general has brought out everything that possibly could be
brought out. but nothing has come to light which would lead
in any way to a conclusion that my daughter shot Eugene.
■ lust as 1 thought, there have been a lot of suppositions
and theories.
I belive that the trial will end shortly, and that the jury (
will not take long to make up its mind on a verdict. Although ,
my daughter is, of course, feeling the strain of the trial, she ‘
is in no wise fearful of what the result will be.
My only concern is that she shall get through it all with
out becoming sick.
Since I have been in Atlanta it has seemed to me that i
the majority of the people here believe in my daughter's in
nocence. They will be convinced shortly. j
i
ing him; that he rejieated this in
spite of her denials.
That tyvo life insurance policies,
for SIO,OOO and $15,000, yy ere taken
out by Grace in Daisy's fay or and
these constituted the motive for the
crime.
Charge She Planned
Crime Three Months.
That Daisy had planned to kill
her husband as far back as Jan
. uary, three months before the
crime; that she had used a type
’ yvrlter in the North Boulevard
home, yvhere the Graces lived then,
to write tile noted "down-and-out
friend letter” purporting to come
from Eugene to Daisy, and had
kejit this until she had shot Eu
gene. That she bad mailed this,
and a penciled note of the same
' general tenor, to herself at Newnan
after shooting Grai-e: that these
were designed to constitute an alibi
for herself and 'o lix suspicion of
the crime upon this fictitious friend
of Eugene's who had “spent the
night with him."
(The defense maintains that no
proof has been shown that Grace
did not write these letters, no proof
that Mrs. Grace had any knowledge
of them, it contends that Mis.
Grace could not have mailed them
at the hour of their jiostma’ks; that
it is not tile burden of the defense
to prove who yvrote them. The ab
sence of proof of authorship of the
letters is the weakest point in th<
state's chain.)
Hollowing tin* introduction and ad
i mission y esterday afternoon of tliet w
y.tle-s which were eeeiyed in N.wnai
I the day of tile shooting Ifetcctiy.' Bui
bird was placed on the stand He t>s
titled to having seen Mrs Glace ti;s
at th. Termina' Gallon the evening o
the shooting. He fodow. I Iler to St
Josephs hospital nnd heard ijer hus
band aeeusy* lie* of bay Ing -!'ot him
He put in .' under ar • th. A sab
sequent conversation was held betwe. i
him and Mrs Grace at the colic, st.i
tint)
W 11 Kis< : testitied t > liay ,ng a asi'i
the Eleventh street hour, to thi Graces
i Tlh eas. Itself was rul’d out as evl
j dene.- The stat, summoned a Mrs
Staring- but tin .'finer iiliirntil am
.said that M - Sta mgs bad pb ad,
I siekin ss His Gali in.nt to this < ffe.
Iw a • put mt h. 1 • old I'a. sill, thl l
rest’ d its . u»t.
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BOSTONIANS SEARCH
FOR PROMOTER WHO
GOT THEIR $100,000.00
BOSTON. Aug. 1. —The Boston and '
Providence people who put SIOO,OOO .n ’
Promoter John R. HodiMon's company,
organized to impiove Boston harbor to
the extent of $40,000,0011, now think
they have been swindled.
They would like to have Hodsdon re
turn from London or wherever else lie
may be ami explain where the money :
want.
The eomjiany was called the Port of
Boston Docks and Warehouse Com
pany. Lawyer W. Edwin I’lmer, for
merly cleik of the concern, says:
"(’rlmlnal action will be instituted
against Hodsdon."
)\ hen last heard from the company
had been sold out to a London corpora
tion.
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YOUNG WOMAN WHO SLEPT
FOR TWO MONTHS IS BRIDE
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VANDAI.IA, ILL., ug I—Miss Ha
zel Schmidt, daughter of former Aider
man Schmidt, who, a year ago, broke
the record for continuous sleeping, has
been married to William Bledsoe ot
Martinsville. Hl,
Miss Schmidt, who was a telephone
operator in Vandalia, went to sleep
one niglit in May. 1911, and it was
more than two months before she
awoke for more than a few minutes at
| a time.
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" ONE-LEGGED DESCENDANT
OFSTUYVESANTIS SOUGHT
st
.f PH 11.ADELPIliA. Aug 1. Dr. Ober
t. aoltzer, ditector of th. historical ,
• ■ i pageant which, is to lie held her. In
October, is trying to find a one-legged 1
>- descendant of Peter Stuyvesant, to ap- 1
n pear for the Dutch governor.
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AMERICANS HIT FRENCH
GAMBLERS FOR MILLIONS r
—' —‘ I
’ , PAHIS. \mr 1 Hard-hit rou!eit»* r
d I b.tqkers, wlm h.iv.- lost tnoie than i 1
J I million to Atm leans in two y.ars. -,.y *
I it was not due either to luck or "*y»- {
n l t< II ' "11 the pai : f the winners, but to .
bri1....! attendant* 1
7.OOOATOPENING
OF MSITIDN
IN ARMORY
Governor Brown, Ex-Mayor
Maddox and W. L. Moore
Make Addresses.
The Atlanta Manufacturers exposi
tion, designed to reveal in some meas
ure the wondrous advancement of this
city as a manufacturing center, is in
full swing.
The opening was attended by nearly
7,000 persons, who listened to addresses
by Governor Brown, ex-Mayor Robert
E. Maddox and Wilmer L. Moore, pres
ident of the Chamber of Commerce.
J. K. Orr and Brooks Morgan, to whose
enterprise the exposition largely owes
its existence, were seated on the ros
trum with the speakers.
A splendid tribute to the men of the
South who laid after the war the foun
dations of the Atlanta of today was
paid by President Moore in the opening
address. He then introduced ex-Mayor
Maddox, whose address was a predic
tion of what Atlanta will be in the fu
ture.
Tells of Atlanta's importance.
The former mayor also told in con
cise figures of the standing of Atlanta
today in the commercial and industrial
world and of the wonderful growth
since the early eighties. He enijfha
sized the value of the two expositions
held in Atlanta in 1881 and 1895.
“What those expositions meant in ac
tual growth to Georgia and the
South," said he. "this exposition means
to Atlanta and Georgia, and I trust that
it will be made a yearly affair and that
next year we may have every manu
facturer in the city represented here."
Governor Brown, in a short address,
in which he paid a glowing tribute to
the capital city, told of the hopes of
Georgia for Atlanta and of the firm be
lief the people of the state have in this
city.
Governor Brown made no reference
to politeal affairs. Previous to his
speech he had declared privately that
on account of the stupendous task of
reviewing the Tipipns bill he had been
unable to devote any time to the prep
aration of his speech.
Starts the Machinery.
At the end of his address he turned
and declared the exposition open and
pressed a tiny electric button on the
table before him. A score or more of
wheels began to turn, the band broke
into the strains of "Dixie” and the mass
of people spread themselves over the
large hall and began to inspect the va
rious exhibits and to sign up their
names for chances on several hand
some souvenirs which are to be given
to the lucky ones.
In the words of . x-Mayor Maddox,
"the exposition contains everything;
made in Atlanta, from aeroplanes to '
artificial limbs and coffins'’ While not
representing all of the many articles
manufactured here, the exposition
shows enough to open the eves even
of the man or woman who has lived I
here a lifetime. , ,
Men admired the wagons and auto- .
mobile trucks, th. intricate machine
which manufactures barbed win- and '
the women clustered around the dis- 1
play of Atlanta-made stoves and 1
rang, s the corset department and nth- ,
<r attractive exhibits, while the chll
dr. n begged for the beaten biscuit
giv. r, iwa) at on. booth, and hung in 1
bun. h> Hound the pickle display pre- <
sided i.v.i I". T o Gay Who i’ut th, '
Pi. k in Pi. kle." i
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The 'Diabolical Plot' of Mrs. Grace
WEIRD GRIPPING STORY ■
By DUDLEY GLASS.
Here Is the story of "Daisy Grace’s
diabolical plot to murder her husband,"
as Solicitor Dorsey termed it in 'open
court—the state's theory of the plot and
the crime, as the counsel will sum it
up. The truth or falsity of the state
ments must be decided by the jury. It
is, of course, completely denied by the
defense:
Daisy Opie Grace, widow of Webster
Opie and wife of young Eugene Grace,
had been away from the lobster palaces
of the East for nearly a year, and was
tiring of her boy husband and the quiet
life of Atlanta. They were living in the
Clements house on North Boulevard
when she persuaded Grace to take out
two life insurance policies in her favor;
amounting to $25,000, a sum far in ex
cess of his means. She intended to
realize on these policies far sooner than
Eugene or the insurance companies had
dreamed, and at once began her plans
to that end.
Using a Smith Premier typewriter
which had been left in the Clements
hame when they leased it, she wrote a
letter, addressed to "Dear Wife Daisy"
and signed "Gene," the signature being
made on the machine. This was a clev
erly worded document which should at
once provide an alibi for Daisy and fix
the suspicion of crime upon another —
for Daisy had even then jdanned to
murder Eugene for his insurance money.
The “Down and Out Friend.”
The letter said that Gene had found a
“down and out" friend who was going
home to spend the night with him. and
that Gene would not leave for Philadel
phia that day, as he had expected, The
letter was not dated, for Daisy could not
know just when it must be used.
Then they moved to the home at 29
West Eleventh street, and in March
Eugene made plans for a trip to Phila
delphia, probably at Daisy's instigation.
She planned going to his mother's home
at Newnan on the same day.
On March 4. the night before the
fateful day. Daisy persuaded Eugene
Grace to write, at her dictation, a lit
tle note addressed to her. The note
told of his love for her and said "My
friend is with me at the house tonight."
it was intended to corroborate the type
written letter referred to above. How
Daisy persuaded her boyish husband to
write this foolish missive can not eas
ily be explained, but he told his law
yers several months ago that he had
written it at her suggestion, as a joke.
The Shooting of Grace.
Daisy put these two missives in an
envelope she persuaded Gene to ad
dress to her at Newnan. Then she hid
them in her handbag.
Next morning, after giving Gene an
overdose of narcotic medicine, she took
his own blue steel revolver and shot
him in the left breast while he lay
asleep in the bed. She pulled the cov
ers over the wound and saw that he
was apparently dead. Then she called
the negro girl to come up and build a
fire. She wanted to prove to the serv
ant that Gene was "all right" then.
But Gene turned a little and groaned
aloud. What this must have meant tc
the wife i s only known to herself, but
perhaps she believed his death could be
only a matter of time. She went on
with her plans, forbade the servants to
enter the upper rooms, hurried them
away frmn the house for their "day off,”
locked Eugene into his room, and went
downstairs.
Then Daisy went downstairs and put
tin revolver in a window sill in the
drawing room Tim Insurance policies
wer.o nly a fev» months old, and the
companies will not pay the j.i tnlums
on a suicide within the first year. So
Daisy was careful to place the weapon
where nobody could believe that Eu
gene had shot himself. She was deter
mined to fix the crima upon this
"friend" who had spent the night—the
next night—with Gene (all this accord
ing to the state).
Locking the front doors. Daisy left
the house, her wounded husband lock
ed in the room outside. On the way to
the station she mailed the letters ad
dressed to herself at Newnan and
boarded the train which left at 1
o’clock.
No one knows what she did with her
time between leaving the house at 11
o’clock and taking the train two hours I
later.
So Daisy had carried out her plans
and completed her alibi. That after
noon or next morning she would re
ceive the letters from Eugene and show
them to his mother, expressing regret
that he had missed his train, and calling
attention tot he fact that the "friend”
was to spend the night with Gene.
Eugene Grace would die in that lock
ed room and his body would He there j
until next Friday, when Daisy was to I
return, accompanied by Gene's mother, ’
Mrs. Hill. They would go into the
house together, chatting merrily of a
tea they had planned. Daisy would un
lock the fatal room, would see her hus
band's body lying there, and Mrs. Hill
would be a witness to her anguish. Then
the hunt for the mysterious “down and
out friend" would begin. And Daisy
would collect the insurance.
But that strange working of provi
dence which almost Inevitably betrays a
criminal, no matter how carefully the
plot is laid, stepped in and proved her
undoing (according to the state). There
were two unforeseen circumstances,
and by these the whole fabric of the
plot broke through.
Eugene Grace did not die from his
wound. He gave the alarm and was
found in time to accuse his wife. And
the letters, so carefully drawn to es
tablish her innocence, proved instead a
link in the chain to prove her guilty.
They went to the wrong address In
Newnan, and when they were found
Mrs. Grace was locked up in the police
station. The finder, a Mrs. Cleveland
Orr. did not send them to Daisy, who
might have destroyed them, but to Mrs.
Hill instead. Then they passed into the
hands of the state, and constitute the
chief weapon to be used against the
woman. <
This is the story Solicitor Dorsey will
tell the jury in his summing up—lt is
the "theory of the state.” Whether he
will be able to establish its truth, step
by step, link by link, remains to be
seen. And upon this hangs the fate of i
the woman who sits day after day in ,
the court room, scanning the faces of
the witnesses and the jurors.
GOOD-PAYING JOBS IN
CIVIL SERVICE OPEN
An examination for assistants In bo
tanical laboratory work in the bureau
of jilant industry at Washington will
be held August 21 In the local civil
service office. Men only are admitted
to tlris work and the salary ranges from
$1,200 to $1,600 per year.
Applicants for the positions of mine j
technologists and metallographlsts will J
be examined on August 24 The sala
ries for these two positions are at SI,BOO (
per year. The position of metallog- r
i iphlst may be filled by a woman. The
mln. technologist must be a man.