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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 W. i< -i. ■ h.m .r," S-C . it.a Dor ' * y . 11 noa n> < '(* 111 ■ a . *. Ire. ..... \ , I 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. - ' ■■ ■ ■ I 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. i YOUNG WOMAN WHO SLEPT FOR TWO MONTHS IS BRIDE ——_ i 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. t " 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. L . ] 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 i ■ I 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.