Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page.

2 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. Continued From Page One 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 Inquires if Husband Reaches Newnan Safely Rut she ‘(‘emH InmivitMiK .•♦■■ l «-w< fhi* morning v, in n up uj ent* • uu; th court room, •E» not coiif rooted i p|OMtli*U Hl CUMIIR fOIIM Os hf huhtmnd a* keel f hi* bad ieat he Nt vi nut* *a hi v bi b» <jrvHlied to tom - « ’ s'**" ’ * > • "i /tjj, • - • • -•'•♦‘l '• :■ . ...... ... » " Sir "Wl »s,- BOSS Sask • jw I k MwKW 1 An ......... . X- - JnßßfiMfi \\ Jbw//.wb wbMIl v - ijfjJUlL r; Ip qranWKL"''.■ B** J lll,w ™ W .■■:M nMWMSMESMBv/* jIKUbBK/ - t u'. 5 : !?> ' A r \ till®sX wwßßkwli // a WtiWi aa'yma ■-'■ "■•TAriaE. wfewL'' . WWAi \ W-.?■•... ‘ ts s ai t. - ■ .3 • 'a* n* e ,4 ■■■ X'. v X. - I ■” W ■. X. <4. 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 | ' >’’ J i’>" ng M ■>. i.uto . stot. on ■ m.<m ’•.am .ng i> >, • i.U tilt a: moepltcrv of llu 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