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LAST PLEA FOR MRS. GRACE THE WEATHER Forecast for Atlanta and Georgia: Fair today and tomorrow. VOL. X. NO. 265. MBS. BRACE’S STDRY REHEARSED DIE li'MW Drilled and Trained by Various Law yers and Assistants for Weeks—Her Speech Pruned and Edited—-Grace Name Dragged in Mire and Police Led Astray to “Save Family Honor.” Mrs. Daisy Grace's reinarkabL band Eugene, recited to the jury 1 lion, pruned, amended and polishe rehearsed as a dramatic offering b This startling fact was reveal* lion before it had been delivered in It had been prepared in the offices of her lawyers, John W. Moore and -lames A. Branch, '(’here it had been decided in numerous conferences what would lie good for lhe jury to hear and what might best be omitted. There its 7.500 words had been intoned day after day by Mrs. Grace. There, ami in other places, the woman win- was to recite it in explanation of her part in a tragie shooting bad been re hearsed and guided and trained bv lawyers, a secretary and a pri vate detective, and from there it loimd its wiy into type hours before -Imige koan and the jury of twelve men who possibly thought it an extemporaneous masterpiece neard a word of it. To Save Grace Name Dragged It in Mire. \- u,. sa:-,r time that these -uipris ing riVL'liitiors were made, the aston ' Xing fact Atis bared that Mrs. Grace’s luv. vers Meme <S- Branch, had known .‘I he’- claim that Grace shot himself ii- j|i. vbeginning. Despite that f... t. the} had permitted the entire po ]i> (• fine of the city and detectives in a iiost of otivt cities to waste many v eaiiscme weeks hunting supposed sus pects and -my ■ terions persons.” As the testimony showed, Mrs. Grace was pointing suspicion toward her hus batiil’s servant, end indirect accusations involved many others not specifically named. While the lawyers were Keeping Mrs. Grace's alleged secret—presumably be cause ol hei alleged promise to Grace to shield "the family honor”—they were giving out a mass of and papers •md statements reflecting hideouslv upon '.he wounded n.an and conditions in the Grace home. Their attacks, as well as those of their client —while site and they were sending scotes of police on false scents to "shield the family honor” —made the G ice family life a by-word, and often contained insinuations unprintable. The training in this ease was no half-hearted affair. No playwright ever 'worked more painstakingly to eliminate wha: might hurt him with his audience and insert what might benefit him than those who had a part in the construc tion of Mrs. Grace's story. No star of th* 1 stage wa- ever more carefully trained to speak her piece effectively end without the aid of the prompter than the woman accused of trying to i. urdi r Eugene Grace. Plenty of Critics And Stae Managers. Coachers. dramatic critics and stage managers there were a-plenty. When it was first fashioned it may have been a rough, uncouth tale: when It left the chief dramatists' office to be given to the street and finally to the jury, it was a gripping, well rounded melodrama, with pistols and gems and attempted killings and unexpected climaxes a-plenty. Mrs. Grace did credit to her coat her and the playwright, whoever they may have been She had rehearsed with her lawyers She had repeated the story day after day to Detective Burke ami to a specially engaged assistant, who found in that their principal work She said her speech before Mr Rosser, arid then recited h to his law partners She studied faithfully and conscien tiously day and night Her coachers w er- p«rei»t- nt mil The Atlanta Georgian ( Read For Profit—GEORGIAN WANT ADS—Use For Results [ le story of the shooting of her hus was a carefully prepared deelama :d by her lawyers, and as,carefully iy a professional actress. ed by the publication of the recita n court by Mrs. Grace. tireless. Most of them could go on the stand today and recite the story them selves—so often lave they heard it in the quiet north side home or the farm on the outskirts of the city, where Mrs. Grace may have treated the birds and the rabbits to an eloquent phrase or two of her masterpiece. Learned Her Speech Os 7,500 Words. As a result, Daisy Grace accomplish ed the difficult feat of committing to memory and repeating 7,500 words without an error except when her ig norance of grammar caused an occa sional slip. She had droned them and intoned them so often she could have probably spoken them in one' of the dreams helpless Gene says she occa sionally had. • The recitation in court was. there fore, little of an ordeal. With her wounded husband lying before her, his eyes fixed steadily and clearly upon hets, she spoke her piece, dropping a word here or a phrase there occasion ally, but m th" main sticking to manu script with commendable accuracy. Very skillfully Mrs. Grace was re served for the last witness. She was not under oath, and the state could not cross-question her. The fact that, her surprising story was a. painstakingly prepared and oft rehearsed story could therefore, not be put before the jury. Grace to Tell All After Verdict NEWNAN, GA., Aug. 2. —"I will give out no statement for publication until the jury has rendered its decision,” de clares Eugene H. Grace. "When the jury decides the case I shall have some thing to say, and what 1 shall say will be what I would have said had 1 been permitted to go on the stand.” Grace made this positive assertion on his second home-coming trip to Newnan from Atlanta yesterday after noon and he reiterates it today at his home. His attorney. Lamar Hill, he said, had advised this course: but he indicated that he was anxious to say the last word in the affair, and that he would take up his wife's accusations in the finest detail". Lying on his cot in the baggage car of train .15 of the Atlanta and West Point railroad, Grace scanned his wife's prepared statement as closely as blurred print and two dim lights would permit. On being told that the state ment had evidently been given out prior to her statement before the jury, he said. "Then she must have guessed at it when she went on the stand.” This ■ was the most direct reference he made to the ease during the ride, and after it. he cheeked himself with the remark that he could not pursue the subject further. The trip down was uneventful, but marked by pleasantries and the good humor of Grace’s host of "brother” Elks. In the escort were T. G. Farmer, Jr., E. M. Carpenter, R. E. Platt and B. H. Kirby. Grace’s boyhood friends from Newnan who had come up to the trial with him. A picture of these friends in an Atlanta newspaper held the wounded man's eye seveial mo ments Then he turned to his wife's allegations as the very newest thing in the case. Grace’s stepfather, 3. L. Hill, of Newnan, and Robert Bailey, the negro boy who has been with him constantly for four months, were also along Conductor "Jim" Lynch passed through the car several times and once he paused opposite Grace to play a game of solitaire on an empty soda water case. Grace lay on his cot near the middle of the baggage car, at the loft, facing toward Newnan. On his right was an express strong box, be hind him a big consignment of flowers tagg-d to a LaGrange florist, ami tn front a couple of trunks and a block of Ice, and farther front, a -rated calf billed to a wayside town. LAWYER CALLS MRS. GRACE “POOR, PERSECUTED WOMAN” - x\ n\ ‘p&LJL ♦ *A\ £( // ■ r .m \ ®\A t s' / |l&£HS9b&' ' "'■* ' r> v ;•.•■'• I B>. ™ VWF rv . ■ ~ . „> ~ ’ J ' j • \ ■' IMMMu. / / • Mrs. Martha \A|^ ; ' KTM I 'lrich. who iias N -. 'l PRI been at her X x? :; / daughter’s side '' . during the trial. _ _________ ._ . GOV. BLEASE BRANDS MAYOR GRACE WILFUL AND MALICIOUS LIAR COLUMBIA, S. C., Aug. 2.—The bteak between Governor Blease and Mayor Grace, of Charleston, went a step further when the governor issued a lengthy statement calling the Charleston official a "malicious and willful liar.” This was a denunciation of Grace's recent statement that the governor had "nursed" McDuffie Hampton, son of the late General Wade Hampton, into the office of railroad commissioner, paying Hampton's cam paign expenses with money furnished him by the Southern railway, jtnd th.it the governor had been in a "drunken carouse" on the night before his in auguration. The issue has nqw come to be one of whom to believe. Mayor Grace has called the governor a liar and the gov ernor has strongly branded as false th - told by Grace on the chief '-x --ecutive. ALEXANDER FAILS TO SPEAK IN DEFENSE OF THE TIPPINS MEASURE Hooper Alexander failed to male- his promised speech in favor of the passage of the Tippins bill over the governor's veto today. When the measure came up in the ltou.se representatives, the op. ponents of the measure, ieu by Ran dolph Anderson, declared they were content to let the governor's vto speak for itself. • Mr. Alexander then decided lie would not talk for tin measure, and several other friends of the bill also ahan- ATLANTA. GA., FRIDAY. AUGUST 2, 1912. MRS. GRACE’S MOTHER SENATE CALLS NEW I COUNTY WHEELER ! INSTEAD OF KENT ■ The senate committee on constltu- I tional amendments today approved the 1 i bill to make a new county of part of 1 I Montgomery and agreed that If the , ? people of Alamo, the proposed county ; I seat, will raise $20,000 for a new court I i house and Jail the new county will be 1 ‘ authorized and named Wheeler, In hon -1 or of the late General Joe Wheeler. The committee heeded numerous pro- , I tests from residents of the proposed ; county demanding that when created ' J it should not be given the name of , Kent, after Oscar W. Kent, the lawyer 1 i i . who recently was disbarred by the su- , preme court. ’ The bill undoubtedly will be passed i ' by the senate. A similar bill, though 1 carrying tile other name for the coun- 1 ty. lias already passed the house. SLEEP WALKER DIES OF INJURIES FROM < SECOND-STORY FALL ( ‘I AUGUSTA, GA.. Aug. 2.Miss Alice J . i.\, Hora, a prominent woman of North • I Augusta, S. (died today from injuries - | sustained when she fell from a second- ' » ! story window white walking in her * , sleep. She had been in ill health for ‘ some time. (>n Monday night Minx Hora became ’ L restless and while walking about the 1 hou.*»e in a stupor fill from the second i story to the ground. She was picked ! I up by members of the family, who ’ heard he* cries, and medlca* attention 5 UNUSUAL DEATH OF WOMAN AFTER VISIT OF RELATIVE PROBED WORCESTER. MASS., Aug. 2.—The police today- began an investigation of mysterious circumstances surrounding the death of .Mrs, Max Biller, wife of a wealthy contractor. Her stomach was sent to the Harvard Medical school to be examined by Dr. William F. Whit-, noy for poison. Elizabeth, an eighteen-year-old daughter, declares that her uncle, Emil Biller, called at the house yesterday, talked with her mother a short time and then left. Her mother immediately went upstairs, she said. She heard the window of a room upstairs thrown open. Then she heard a heavy fall. Going upstairs, she found her mother lying on the floor dead. It is said that Emil Biller has been a frequent caller at the home of his b. other and Mr. Biller informed Medi cal Examiner E. 1,. Hunt that this was in defiance of his orders. Mrs. Biller left home on July X very- quietly and returned only last Friday, saying that she had been in New York, OFFICER? IN SOCK FEET, CHASES LUNATIC ABOUT STREETS OF CORDELE t'< iRDELE. GA . Aug. 2. < m tiny re tclise Tn wanting a glass of war l>. Smith, an inmate of the in ane as., lum at Milledgeville, being taken to Ash wood, Berrien county, to answer to a charge of bmglaiy, e-, aped from the I lixie Fly <•) at i 'ordeb When the deputy sheriff found bis prisoner had gone n< rushed from the train, in sock feet ami bail -headed ami tor seveial minutes elvis-d tile lunatic Declares That Prosecution Has Con cealed Evidence That Would Help Clear Her—Case Goes to Jury Today. TA ith every prbspect that the state’s case against Mrs. Daisy Opie Grace, charged with the attempted murder of her husband, Eugene, and her remarkable defense would go to the jury this afternoon, coun sel for both sides continued their summing up today. Mrs. Grace, as confident and undisturbed as ever, was on hand once more as court reopened, but her husband, whose clear, accusing eyes confronted her as she told her amazing story yesterday, was back at his home in Newnan still stretched on the cot he has occupied since he was found paralyzed by a bullet on March 5. “I am confident that L will be acquitted,” said Mrs. Grace, “and I am glad that the ordeal is drawing to a close.” Grace declared at his home that he would have an important' statement to make when the jury had rendered its verdict. Mrs. Grace, when told of this, declared that, she would have a no less im portant announcement. Lamar Hill, of counsel for the state, resumed his attack on the accused women when the court reopened. A great crowd was on hand for what promised to be the last day of the famous trial. Mr. Hill termed Mrs. Grace a modern Lucretia Borgia and tried to show how she had carefully planned and executed the crime. John W. Moore, one of the wom an's lawyers, then launched into a vicious attack an the state, charg ing it with concealing important evidence and weaving a false net about a ‘‘poor, innocent woman." Likens Mrs. Grace To Lucretia Borgia. Lamar Hill resumed his argument this morning at 9:05 o'clock. He brought out the fact that circum stantial evidence was well recognized by law. He likened Mrs. Grace to Lucretia Borgia. He said that she had planned the deed with the same cun ning that she would have had she liad the advice of lawyers from the begin ning “Mrs. Grace has told you,” said he, “that Mr. Grace shot himself while they were struggling on the bed. Look at the top bed covering and see it there was blood upon It. Not a drop.” Mr. Hill went on to show the heart lessness of Mrs. Grace’s action in leav ing when she knew he was suffering. He ridiculed her statement about her oath to Eugene being the reason why she didn’t tell the true story, upon her arrival in Newnan. Every point in the case, said Mr. Hill, pointed clearly to the gtfilt of the defendant. State Concealed Evidence, Says Moore. John W. Moore opened the argument for the defense at 9:07 o’clock He began quietly and dispassionately, speaking in soothing, cajoling tones. He said he felt he had done his duty as a lawyer in this case. “This Is the first case in all my ex perience,” he said, “where it was nec essary on the part of the defense con tinuously to struggle to force the state not to cover up evidence.” He walked up and down slowly in front of the jury box. clappinf his hands, extending his arms at full length, placing his hands on his hips and looking solemnly into the faces of the jurors. "They have tried to convict this poor unfortunate woman, not by evidence, not by circumstances, hut by concealing and covering up. "There’s not .- man hero but knows E. 11. Grace wrote a letter they have 'UNDERTOOK' to saddle off on that woman. Is that fair? Has It come to the pass that these representatives of the state of Georgia have come to such a point that they must spend all their time in coveting from the Jury all evi dence in her favor? "Another instance: They undertook to convey the impression that Mrs. Grace wrote a typewritten letter that she knows nothing about and 1 know nothing about. The} haven't let you know much about that letter, but they undertook, by a typewriter expert, who proved he couldn't be certain of any thing. that she wrote that letter. "How Easy to Prove She Couldn't Use Typewriter." ‘ I low easy it would havo been to prove that this woman couldn’t op erate .< typewriter! Rut the> didn’t. "They tried to Impress you that this woman was scheming to Ret her hus- i band to Philadelphia for the purpoi* of doing her » favor. \nd even, then, thev had thiM power of attorney in iindr pojfrfcrsMivh, and they refused to intro- IXTRA 2 CENTS EVERYWHERE & V HB NO duce it here so you might know what Grace was going for. Was that fair to you? “These lawyers have tried to 'coyer it up. cover It up.’ They have tried be fore the trial and during its session*. “I do not believe the great state of Georgia indorses their acts. They tried to convey to you that this woman tried to drug Grace and they knew that he bought that medicine himself, and they ' made us bring the witnesses here to prove it. "Persecuted in a Land of Strangers." “This poor woman Is persecuted tn, a land of strangers. What a hurrjrl when she was invited here to give hen simple story; what a hurry to resort toe theatrical effects! You thought when) you brought Gene Grace in here thi» poor woman could not look the jury in the face. But your plan failed, miser-j ably. If that woman hadn’t been telle ing the truth, she would have failed in that hour when she should not to have been disturbed. But even with all your trickery and your theatrical efforts— some of us still believe in an old per sonal God—she capie in all her inno cence. she took her seat, calmly and dignified, not brazen, and with a ring of truth she looked him in the face and; she told the most reasonable story, the most reasonable statemnet. If she had not been sustained by truth and right they would most unfairly and unjustly? broken her down. Oh, how sickened, they were when the plan failed. It was their own doing—and their own undo ing. "She made her statement with thw same feeling, with the same composure, as the Smithfield martyrs of old. They could not break her down. Such eon met as that of those lawyer* U frowned upon by all fair men. ‘ Case Built Alone on Theory.” "You've heard nothing but theory. I never saw a case so impregnated with theoryfl Did you take your oath that 1 you would put a woman in chains on’ theory? I didn’t hear any sueh oath. You said you'd find a verdict by the evidence and not by some interested e person's theory a "They say that this woman, for ineu cenery motives, whose life na's be€h-_ one of indescretion —possibly yes, but not bad whose gain was that she was hurried from the grave of her first husband to fresh matrimony? What did she gain? The Power of the Fascinating Man of the World. "Poor, foolish, credulous woman! She mart led the 'most fascinting man in the world to her.’ What does it mean when a woman meets a fascinating man of tile world? What power, what influ ence! They say she was mercenery, who spent her wealth on her new hus band lavishly, unselfishly Find one act in her life tiiat smacks of merce nery motives "They say that away back in New York she had slnlstei motives when she raised for him $6,000 to go into business in Atlanta Where was the mot i ve ? "There sits the man, E. K. Law ti me, whom they could have put on the stand and disproved it. But we • had to call him. "1 run show you who wus mercenary.