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Prosecuting Attorneys For the State and Counsel For the Defense Are Summing Up Their Final Arguments in Impassioned Speeches
MRS. GRACE’S FATE WILL REST WITH JURY IN A FEW HOURS
State’s Attorney Again
Denounces Accused
Woman as a Lucretia
Borgia, While Her
Lawyer Elays Prose
cution and Weeps For
Client.
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1 can show you who wag interested in
making - he; out a murdeiee> The te.-
rimony fell fiorn th* unwilling lips of
Grace’s oup people. that they were
struggling !<• help Gene G ate in hi«
estate The wiuje motive of the state
has been born in the kennel nf me -
rneiy motives, they must blacken h
t baracter and rob her of hei inhe
tame For the\ thought Grice migh
die.”
‘ Insurance Policy
Motive Trumped Up”
"The) xay that she astutely planned
t" take h-r. husband's life for some
fn.-utante policies.' continued the
speaks .
■‘Well, they had to find a motiv.
somehow —they wanted to dig upsony
thing that would cun her out of Gcqi -
'Ria. but she didn't run.
•'The insurance racket was ail th-.-
could drag up and it could be brought
up about any respectable family in
Georgia."
Mr. Moore continued to ridicule the
Idea of he having shot Grace to ob
tain his insurance money
"Mis Glare didn't start the quey
tlon of Insurance." said Mr MOore.
"Mrs. Hill herself started it
"There’s not a man on this jury but
knows that these policies had no mor.
to do with that disgraceful fight out
there than 1 did.
"\nd now let’s take up their nex
link. They sax It happened early in
the morning imagination that An
other part of the sta.e's hastily born
and premature theory.
“Drugging Tale
Purest Rot.”
"They say she drugged him and then
that not doing the work, she put a
bullet in him. That she was trying to
d-ug him with Radway’s Ready Relief
and King’s New Discovery THINK of
it! Hate you ever heard the like in
yout life
"There's not a man here but know >
that that is rot pure and simple
If that mati had been drugged Goto
smith would have so testified. Vm
know that E H Grace was never un
. onsi ions'
"The whole theory .s rotten and It"
nn insult to a juiy to offer them such
a i-ument
Whom did they prove their theory
•if shot in rhe mgnt' by ’.’ Ry nobody.
Hy nothing but the most illogical cir
cumstance, proved by unreliable wit
nesses
"What Is it ’.’ Why. she put a note
downstairs telling .J. C. and Martha no
to wake them up But they <an not
lake away from you your common
sense. A person plotting a murne
would she care to stay In a darkened
room with her corpse’’
"Wouldn't she welcome ihe rising
sun and ciowing chickens'.’ Would she
have written a note telling the servant"
to leave her alone’.’
Mother and Nurse
With Mrs. Grace
Mrs. Grace was attired in a dark skirl
and white shirt waist today and wore
the big white panama hat which has
become so familiar to the court room
throng Her mother. Mrs. Martha I’l
rich, and her nurse. Mrs. Louise Wil
son, were at her side again, having
given then testimony and being no
longer excluded from the room. Her
bondsmen, too, were al her table, and
■the private detective and prize fight
referee. C. W. Burke, was with her as
usual. Burke has been engaged by her
counsel in working up evidence In the
case, and has acted as personal body
guard for the woman on trial
The blood-stained clothing and all
the exhibits in evidence were pi ed on
the table of the state's counsel Law
books to show authority were stacked
before both sets of counsel
The jury members looked freshet and
brighter than on the previous day The
c-ooi night had evidently brought them
a good rest, and the yhad been supplied
with fresh linen and tht services of a
barber or safety ’.v.’.ors
Mrs. Grace Nervous
As End Approaches
"Well, thank Heaven. ilti* is the last
day of this otdeal" -aid Daisy Grace
to her lawyers when she entered Judg.
it Roan's court room and sank down by
..p.'W s stde of bet ’ti..ii ci and h< body
gusrd Deteclivt Burke
One of the lawyers told nor that the
pleadings would !>•• finished by early
afternoon, and that il> jury would al
most surely reach . u-rdht t» foii
nightfall.
"Pray God it doe- she -.c.l fi-i leni
ty. "I have absolute faitli that tin
jury will say ’Not guilty
Nevertheless. Mis Gi.oi spent n.i.
night prior to the last day of the t. t.,
She is evidently worried <>vci tin <-
pons that the case would l>< i mo tri.c
with the possibility of loii-ing | 1( .
through another ordeal Sin . i.i no
sleep as w< 11 as usual al the \V< st £n<
home where she is staying, and he
mother remained with het unt> sh
finally fell into sleep lute li-i n x
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ment upon his lasi words when In
said just before departure that tin
story >he had told yesterday upon the
stand was a story of rehearsed lies
“My lawyers will not let niv make a
statement,’ site said. "But I am glad
that I went upon the stand and told tlie
truth of the story. There’s not one line
in it that I uonld change, although I
did not tell all that I could have (old.
After the case i- ended I will have
something to say just us important as
whatever Eugene may say."
Mrs Grace said that rhe wanted to
correct a statement made h\ a paper
y« sfeiday afternoon which declared
that she hissed out in the court room.
Oh, what a liar!” a: Atto ney Lamar
Hill, who had said she did not own
property she i aims to own.
She says that hei words were Wli.it
a !ie that t ’ She said that II h'list
from her in the moments indlgmtion.
but sin- deviates that she never ires
■'lla. io anyone and regret*
that she said what she did in the couit
Aged Mniiser Finds
Delight in Witness Chair
1 N I hula ! <lson. an aged min
achieved his hetirt’» desire today
« : "ti ne foiin.i .he w hnesit chair empty
iai .imbed nt. F’.u several days
ne i .id been liaumiiig the corridors,
ii'ing io gum <nt,inie to the court
loim < m Wednesday he managed to
k»-' inrmigii a private door, hut was
I l"> • ' "lit again by an exa»pe> it.-d
"a - i’’ i.-teiday he came early ami
tout. .. good seat in the court room,
"d >day he was the most coneplcu-
I one fig.ite it i .• house occupying the
j" i- nail fixed high against the
I ' l..w< aa« no' -o great todav as
|« <’on • • . u h ,*s had «tlll to iook for
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inc. ai LA.XTA GEORGIAN AND NEWB.FRIDAY. AUGUST 2, 1912.
MRS. GRACE, DEFIANT, IN WITNESS CHAIR-Drnwn by P. A. Carter
room was not so disagreeable. Tlje
news that Grace had returned to New
nan. too. may have kept part of the
throng away by removing one item of
the ''show” which has drawn the at
tention of Atlanta for five torrid days.
Judge Roan said today that in his
opinion the ease would go to the jury
before nightfall.
“Those Were Slim
Lies,” Says Grace
When Eugene Gtace came from New
nan to confront his wife at hei trial
there was in the baggage car a coffined
corpse Reto nlng to Newnan last
night, h had for traveling companion
a elated call.
His negro valet. Hob told Go.
that the bleating eaif riding with them
wo.- a sure omen of victory in the ins'
against his w ife.
"I don't know about that." the par-
' alt zed man sgld grim y from his cot on
th.- floor of the car •'but if lies will
otiv ict he she lias ni. eadv i otiv i. led
I herself ■'
< ices .etui ..me f 1 om C iota was
| attended by none of the sensationalism
| w hi. ii.ii bed Ins ai rival Monday. The
1 I moment Judge Roan in the court loom
. I had ruled that as the defendant's hus
band he could not go upon the stand to
> tv-lify Gia ■■ gave the ignai to his six
• Sends fro - Newnan to lift his litie
I from the floc: wiie-e hehad lain fating
I the witness stand and they began to
. push their way through the crowded
! room out a Utlh side entrance to the
■ • im’.inci' that had waited an holt.
' outside
Attain Covers Face
- <1 <i> oveted h « fact wltn the tn-
levttab newspaper to fend photug fi
ll pile’s .me spoke only on ■ a- the am
l.ii a n > in ' m bail’ o I. . I *
m-tii -atri.o turn Thu v>•>. it. n
i IP : j . . i. mi B H Iv.. m , w,m
sat beside him. and said:
"Those were slim lies she told —ail
lies."
At tile sanitarium he was taken to
liis room only long enough for a final
examination to test his strength before
the train ide. Then Ills parents paid
his bill, he was bundled into the am
bulance again with his baggage and the
party sped down to the I’ermlnal sta
tion just a- the 5:40 train for Newnan
was made up.
The i rated calf was already installed
in one end of the baggage car asGrace
was lifted through the door and at the
sight of the man on the white stretcher
it sot up an excited bleating. Grace
pulled the nevvspape off his face and
grinned at the calf while his friends
laughed loudly. But the face of the
wounded man soon settled into trie
grim lines that have seldom faded from
it since he went into the court room to
confront his wife upon the stand Evi
dently he was brooding deeply over the
testimony she had given. once he
turned to a friend by him and said
quickly : "That woman had been re
peal.sed in those lies. I do not believe
she even invented all that story he -
sei f "
Then lie elapsed again into silenc.
as the train pulled slowly from the sta
tion on its way to Newnan.
HALF-MILLION DOLLARS
IN LA GRANGE BUILDINGS
LA GRANGE. GA Aug - Neatly
$500,000 is to be spent in buildings for
1 business purposes during the next
, year in LaGrange. according’ to pn’s
l ent |>lans. In addition to the Callaway
department stole, to cos; $35,000, the
; Kii-w stores. $25.Q00. the LaGianee
' Electric laundry, $16,000. and the new
Eedetal building. $75,000. the., js in
contemplation an office building, to
cost $45,000; a city auditorium. $45.0001
a new hotel. $50,000, and several other
projects which will bring the total up
to the half-million mark
T>'< new Dunson mil • ' p> er. nting
,i >st ..r Jho.i line "uve Just been pir in
opei Hinn. and th.’ first ,« of it- piou
> mi Just ii'.intiy .'hipped East.
ALDERMAN WILL ASK
TURNER BE DEPRIVED
OF FREE TELEPHONE
Alderman A H Van Dyke said today
that at the meeting Os the council Mon
day he would offer a resolution instructing
the Southern Bell Telephone Company to
take out the free telephone in the resi
dence of City Electrician R. C. Turner.
The company, by contract, furnishes the
city twenty-five free phones, but an or
dinance prohibits them being in the homes
of city officials. Alderman Van Dyke said
that he had called the attention of coun
cil to the free phone in Mr. Turners
home some time ago and asked for an
investigation of the city electrician s de
partment. But his resolution was tabled
and the free phone was left there.
it is reported in city hall circles to
day that when Mr. Turner submits his
communication to council Monday urging
the abollshm.net of the board of electrical
control a new resolution calling for an
investigation of his office will be pre
sented
J. WYLIE SMITH EATS
AT OROZCO’S TABLE;
GOING WITH REBELS
EL PASO, TEXAS, Aug 2.—That .1
Wylie Smith, the Atlanta loan agent, will
join the rebel command of General An
tonio Rojas in a few days is the an
nouncement just made in Juarez.
Smith has been promised that he will
not be extradited for trial if he joins the
rebel army and he has embraced the
chance and will join Rojas, with whom
he became very friendly in the peniten
tiary in Chihuahua some weeks ago,
when Rojas was incarcerated for insub
ordination and bank robbery General
Orozco.
Rojas secured the release of Smith in
Chihuahua when the rebels left there
and brought him to Juarez. He was re
arrested in Juarez, but will be released
this week to go to the front with Rojas
Smith now eats at the table of General
Orozco dally.
JESUP LINEMEN STRIKE.
JESI'P. GA. Aug. 2—Progress in th:-
constructlon work of the new munici
pal power and lighting system was
suspi-nde when the entire force of
linemen declined to work. They de
mand an increase in pay and tegular
working hours Ruth sides are -lead
fast In their stand each apparently
aw aiting i uni v'Sioh’;
Mrs. Grace Evidently Was Drilled
JURY CAN REJECT STORY I
ii >
Against rhe array of evidence sub
mitted. by the state stands Mis. Grace’s
own story of what happened in the
Eleventh street home, and the history
of her life with Eugene Grace before
that time. It must be remembered that
Mrs. Grace was not on oath, could r>ot
be cross-questioned, was at liberty to
repeat to the jury any story in which
she had been carefully drilled, which
was told so apidiy and sequentially
that it was plain to all that it had been
prepared and memorized. The jury will
be at liberty to accept or reject any
portion of her narrative.
Mrs. Grace opened with the simple i
statement:
"Gentlemen. I am Innocent. I did
not shoot Mr. Grace.'’
Then she continued, saying she had
Spent $15,000 on Grace in the year of
their married life. She was totally un
der his influence.
Never Mentioned Fake Marriage,
She described their travels around
the country and their extravagant ex
penditures. But when she told of their
visit to Hot Springs and New Orleans
site made no mention of their second
and real mar.-iage in the Crescent City,
nor did she refer to their "fake" itiar
iage in New Orleans. She hastily
passed over the events in Atlanta be
tween her return from Newnan and
her incarceration that night. A careful
study of her written statement shows
that she avoided almost entirely any
reference to details upon which any
positive evidence was in existence, ex
cept those given by lie. own witnesses,
the grocer who said Grace answered
the phone and the calling up of the
house by Rebecca Sams Her whole
storj was made up of statements which
had not been controverted by the
state's witnesses and which the state
had liad no opportunity to controvert.
Mrs. Grace hud been an attentive
listener to the proceedings throughout
the case, having the defendant's privi
lege of being present and keeping her
own testimony to the last.
She told of Grace’s having tried to
push her off a steamer rail on the way
to Nova Scotia: of his pushing her
over on a rocky beach and bruising hei
knee: of bls slapping he because she
refused him money. She exhibited a
scar on her cheek she said he had mad
with a heavy ring She told of his
drawing a pistol on hei in Philadel
phia. I
A’ .art, af.ei vovc.ins all the even..-
DIRECT ELECTION
AMENDMENT IS
REJECTED
i Georgia Legislature to Sene
I
Measure Back to Congress
as Illegally Passed.
The legislative committee to which
was referred the proposed constitution
al amendment providing for election of
United States senators by’ the people
sent in a lengthy report to the house
today.
The committee advises the return of
the amendment to congress, with the
objection that it was not legally passed
by that body, and that, therefore, it
would be dangerous and unwise for the
legislature either to agree to or dissent
from it in its present form.
The famous "Bristow clause" is not
referred to nor does the committee
address itself tfi the merits of the
amendment. It merely sets forth that
Georgia, in the main, is favorable to the
election of senators by the people, but
that Georgia should not. through its
legislature, agree to an amendment il
legally inaugurated.
The point raised by the committee
against the amendment is that it was
not passed, as a matter of fact, by two
thirds of the national ‘congress, each
house voting separately. The commit
tee holds that "two-thirds" means, in
this case, at least two-thirds of the
"elected membership" of congress—not
merely two-thirds of “a quorum vot
ing.”
Advises No Action Be Taken.
it is not denied that, the amendment
failed of a two-thirds vote in the na
tional house, if two-thirds be held to
mean two-thirds of the elected mem
bership. It did receive two-thirds,
however, if two-thirds be he’d to mean
merely’ two-'hirds of a quorum voting.
In congress, two-thirds has been held
to mean generally two-thirds of a quo
rum voting, and hence the constitution
al amendment was held to have been
I legally passed by congress.
I It is to that view, nevertheless, that
i the Georgia committee specifically’ ob
i jects, and upon which it advises the
j return of the amendment to congress
I without action.
GIRL-WIFE RUNS BURGLAR
WITH BIG CANTALOUPE
NEW YORK. Aug?. 2. -A peddler of can-
■ taloupes who indulges in burglary a? a
side issue was hoisted by his own petard
while attempting to rob the home of
H. L. La tn er, on the second floor at No
538 West One Hundred and Seventy-
i eighth street. The bprglar was armed
( with a revolver, while Mrs. f.atner. who
is only nineteen years old. had one of his
■ cantaloupes. A battle ensued and the
' burglar was put to a hurried and undig
i nifled flight. while Mrs. captured
I his accomplice.
of their married life, up to March 5. tit- AM
fateful day. she took up the story <•'
the shooting. ■
Describes the Shooting. W
"Cm Maicli 4 he complained of a■!
co d and thought he couldn't get off on ■fl
the 11 o’clock train next day." slu I I
said. "But he insisted on my getting ' i!
ready to go. Next day he complained i
of being sick and stayed in bed, bu' i
still insisted on my leaving. He said
he would take a later train. I was IJ >
suspicious that he was trying to gi : |
me out of town so he could take a I, .
woman to Philadelphia with him. I f ,
! had given him a power of attorney t v If
I sell my' home in Philadelphia, and this V ;
was way he was going. When Mr >
Lawrence called to say a business det> I
had brought in some money. I told Mr A I
Grace there was now no reason for hi’ . B
selling my home, but he swore hr
would sell it anyway.
“I took tlte power of attorney' frorr. -
his coat pocket and started to throw’ n ■■
in the fire, when he jumped up, curs
ing. and grabbed me. We struggled ano ilßj
I dropped the papeis. Then ne reached
into a drawer and drew a pistol. He
tried to shoot me, but I grabbed hi’
wrist with both my hands and we fed
over on the bed. The pistol went off
and he was shot.
"Mr. Grace insisted he wasn't badly ;
bun. cursed me again and ordered me
to go on to Newnan, saying that it
this tiling leaked out ii would ruin him
with ids neighbors and destroy all his
chances foi social success. He mad
me sweai on a Bible that I would ted
nothing :<> any one. He wouldn’t bi
me call a doctor, but made me call a
cab and leave. Al the station 1 tried
again and again to call him by phone.
but it was always busy. 1 thought
perhaps he was all light if he was using
the Phone, and 1 didn't know what else
to do. so I went on. SjjgF
"I am satisfied now that if I had tol I
tne detc. fives the truth that night thee
would not have held inc a minute bu. ■
the Hills seemed to want me to keep
quiet and I ha.l promised Mr Gia.e
I said nothing. * “ , Wk
Tiiat is all I ha,,. nothing but * ASok
the truth"
GOWER HAS OPPOSITION. Mm
• ’ORDELE. GA., Aug. R[, \vj>. hSK
sin ha« announced his . andidaiw fm
representatfye from <’riep countv m
oppositioi io <> T Goner, the pr.-s.-,,- MB
representative Mr. Wilsc.n
the wesllhle.l . itizet,. ..f , 11P , oun , | MH
i M■. Gow . r 'iinmi:u’< in.’iu foil
ie-eeetion ..n Mon.la HHI