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Prosecuting Attorneys for the State and Counsel for the Defense Have Completed Their Final Arguments in Impassioned Speeches
MRS. GRACE’S FATE IS PUT IN HANDS OF TWELVE GOOD MEN
| State’s Attorney Again
Denounced Accused
Woman as a Lucretia
Borgia, While Her
Lawyer Flayed Prose
cution and Wept.
MF Continued From Page Two.
took with her to Newnan the precious
’ ’ life insurance policies.
"Just watcli me weave the web
around her." Mr. Dorsey shouted, cast
ing the policies on the tloor before the
jury. “Watch me build up chain, link
by link.
k “Took Pistol to
V Upset Suicide Theory. - '
* , "Why did she take the pistol out of
L that room? Because those policies
■ wouldn't be paid in case of suicide. That
■ pistol must be out of that room.
■ “Mrs. Grace says she didn't know
F anything about that letter. But she
k, could have told us whether or not he
wrote it. Did she do it? No!
"Let’s see about these little tricks.
Where's that typewriter? That ma
chine upon which that letter was writ
ten? Gone? Gone? Echo answers
I 'where?' Sixty days ago it disap-
L peared. Gone! Talk about suppress
or ing evidence. The pot calls the kettle
black.
“Money in his business! <»f all the
money she is said to have given tiiis
poor man. not a check is proven to
have been cashed by him.
| “But the record shows this man giv-
I ing money to the woman who shot hint,
k “Those policies were to the name
of Mrs. Grace and no will Grace might
iAS have made could have diverted the
L *-■ money from her.”
<4 yr r . Dorsey contended that Mrs.
Grace had never given Eugene money,
or checks would be in evidence. He
would bet that Grace paid for his in
surance.
“I want something better than the
word of this woman." he said.
He believed the woman had artfully
persuaded Mrs. Hill to suggest to Gene
that he take out insurance.
“Insurance Evidence
Establishes Guilt."
| "If there is a shadow of a doubt that
I this woman is guiltv. this insurance
tt|'l evidence demonstrates her guilt to a
■ y mathematical certainty.
J ~ "Why didn't she poison him? She
knows there is too great an oppot lU
n nt'ty for detection. No; she shot him.
and she shot him in the dead hours of
M the night. They say he was shot In
Hi the daytime. Where is the man who
f heard the shot?
"Why ws.s Martha called to toe room?
That she might tell the police that
Grace was lying in the bed. But she
I was hurried away.
Kept Servants
r. Out of Room.
t “She never let these negroes get
i** back in the room. She rushed them
1 off in a hurry. She gave them orders
against going upstair’. This points di
» roctly to her guilt.
••So wildlv infatuated was he with
i tills woman that he would almost at
■J ’ her request have pulled the trigger on
’ himself and died to please her. She
told him to buy that medicine and he
t . did
1 “She says she loves him. but sue
T ' protests too much. She even told poor
| 4 old Mrs. Hill she wanted to live In
Newnan with her. something you know
she never dreamed of.
“She deceived the Hills. They even
went out and got counsel for her.
“In the name of right, don't he swept
off your feet by '.Jonny worship.' We
\ all honor good women, but there is as
A much difference between the good
I A, jF women we honor and this woman as
I between day and night. We can not
sacrifice the laws of this common wealth
upon the altar of a woman.
"There is a grave difference between
what Meekle said Grace said at the
telephone and what she said Grace
said. Meekle quoted him. 'l*ll call
Mrs. Grace.’ She quoted him. 'l’ll call
my wife.' I'd rather believe Meekle.
“Put Bloody Towels
| In Bath Room Purposely."
W "Grace was shot, locked in his room,
f Nobody knew that the key in his
■ * pocket would unlock the Philadelphia
vault. She would have said Ruffin
knew about the key. She put those
I towels in the bath room to show that
| the murderer used them to dry his
I hands.
I "So mercenary was she that she
I padded the bed to keep the stains off.
' because the bed was rented and she
JL would have had to pay the damage "
KV Mr. Dorset dragged the blood-
jil stained bed clothes to the floor and
I” spread them before the jury.
I "The only spot of charity in the
I whole case is that she tried first to
f saddle the crime upon an unknown
man from South Carolina.
I "But if by hook or crook she could
Al tease Gene into writing a letter w hich
she could put In an envelope with th
typewritten letter, she had her alibi
* fixed.” said the solicitor. It was the
first reference to the theory that she
persuaded Grace to write that "pencil
note,” which he had charged to her tn
conversation several month- ago lie
was willing to accept ft as Gene's loi
ter.
* Admit. Grace
Wrote Note.
"I believe that Gene liuir, did w tie
that letter, because it is g ,im i.it,.
K I" ■ aus‘ it contain- no; , «,u,|
Hh tji oust Ills suspicion w'l'ih tin- i> i >
/ wYltten letter contains t-n- sarm uti-
k g’ammatical phra ■ front 1 in 111.1
(Bl larefuli.v prepa <d statement sh> mad'
’J. ’* yesterday."
/ s Mr. Dm sej pouted into Mrs G • ■
statement all the guns in Ids battery.
He showed errors in grammar all the
way through it. He showed the same
errors in that typewritten letter. The
words “come" for “came” and “run"
for "ran" were especially shown.
"She made Eugene Grace write his
own death warrant." lie shouted. “That
poor, confiding box ! How lie must re
gret he ever met this woman. He will
regret it to bis dying day.
"She persuaded Gene to write that
note, telling him some sweet story.
She couldn't have made him write the
details in that typewritten letter. So,
failing to get his w riting, she had only
the typewriter to fall back on.
"See how carefully the plot was
worked out, gentlemen of the jury?
She plotted in this letter to show that
Gene would take this bum home, even
into his room, into his very bed. She
even planned to have mother come
back and fall p ostrate on the cankered
body Os her beloved son.
Mr. Dorsey then quoted "The Female
ads the Species is More Deadly Than
the Male." He delivered this second
Kipling poem at length, quoting several
stanzas. One stanza was:
"When the Himalayan Peasant meets
the He-Bear in his pride
He shouts to scorn tire monster who
will turn aside;
But the She-Bear thus accosted rends
the Peasant tooth and nail.
For the female of the species is more
deadly than the male '
Mr. Dorsey concluded at 1:24 p. m.
Judge Roan began his charge to the
jury at l:_'i> o'clock. He said, briefly:
“This bill of indictment charges as
sault w Ith intent to murder. The charge
is that Mrs. Grace, on March 5, 1912.
with a pistol, did unlawfully and with
I malice aforethought, shoot E. H. Grace
I with intent to murder him.
"Ml.-. Grace pleads not guiltv, and
| waive- indictment, and. with the pre
i sumptb u of innocence in her favor.
This presumption remains until the
| state shall remove it ami convince you.
j beyond •< asonabb doubt, of her guilt.
“Gent! -men. this presumption of in
nocence would entitle her to a verdict
of not guilty, unless the state has con
vinced you beyond REASONABLE
doubt of her guilt. Not Just any doubt.
I II must be a real doubt, from the evi
dence honestly believed by the jury.
“You have heard the evidence. It is
| for you to take this evidence and pass on,
“You Have Right to Believe
I Or Reject Statement.”
“You heard the defendant make a
I statement. She was not subject to
cross-examination. The defense lias a
fright to make a Statement. You have
a right to believe it all or reject it all,
or believe a portion and reject a por
tion. That is entirely with the jury.
You have the right to believe it in the
' face of all the sworn testimony if you
I see fit. or to reject it.
“Intent to murder embraces all the
: facts of murder except killing. Here
iis the definition of murder:
"If the defendant assaulted him in
the mariner charged and he had died it
would have been murder. Then you
are authorized to find her guilty of
intent to rnurde- if you can find that
she intended to kill him and used a
weapon likely to produce death.
"It must appear that she intended to
kill him and used such a weapon No
person can be guilty of assault with in
tent to murder unless they intended
to kill."
Malice Must Exist
For Guilt, Says Court.
He quoted the distinction:- in murder.
An expressed or implied malice MUST
exist. Persons can be guilty of murder
even of persons they love. Malice
means deliberate intent to take human
life no matter from what passion It
springs.
"it is charged that the weapon used
is likely to produce death. This must
be shown by satisfactory evidence.
"There have been two letters offered
here, purporting to have been addressed
to Mrs. Grace at Newnan. It is claim
ed they were mailed here. It is claim
ed further that the envelope inclosing
the two was addressed by E. H. Grace.
It is claimed by the defense that one of
these was in writing of E. H Grace,
the other typewritten.
"I simply let these letters go to you
for you to determine one point. If you
believe Eugene H. Grace backed that
envelope, or wrote one of tile letters
and if he himself directed these letters
to his wife and had them mailed, in an
effort to communicate with his wife,
you must give those two letters no con
sideration or weight.
"If you find that E. H. Grace did not
make an effort to communicate through
those letters to his wife, they are be
fore you to give you whatever assis
ts n<e they can to reach a verdict.
"If you believe the defendant delib
erately or intentionally shot her hus
band. Intending to kill him, 1 charge
she would be guilty of the offense of In
tent to murder.
"I charge you, further, that if you
believe this defendant and her hus
band were in an altercation in their
home, if lie shot himself In this wof
fle with the pistol he had taken out.
if you believe that. I charge you should
acquit her. It makes no difference
who had the pistol In his or her hand
at the time.
"If you believe the woman guilty,
you must say: ‘We, the jury, find the
defendant guilt.'.' You can go further.
This is a felony. You can recommend
that she be punished as for a misde
meanor and not as for a felony.
"Give the prisoner the benefit of any
reasonable doubt and acquit het. Tur
object of all these Investigations i- Hie
dis. ov< twos the truth Th, state
chargis the defendant with a ,Tillie.
Tli, defense maintains her innon, • n, „.
Tins ilo Issue f-.r von t„ de,-id,
Before th. jure i« authorized n,
convlel on ci: - uinsla nt l.i ev Idem ,'
even It.'p-d 8 util, : Ilian thm ot
THE ATT,ANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS.FRIDAY. ATGUST 2. 1912.
MRS. GRACE’S MOTHER I
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T racing Bribe A ttemptin Grace Case
TRAIL GO-BETWEEN
Detectives were today making vigor
ous efforts to run down charges of at
tempted bribery and tampering with
state witnesses in the Grace ease. Their
investigation revolved about Rebecca
Sams, the mulatto dressmaker for Mrs.
Grace and a Witness for the defense
in the Grace trial. J. Ruffin, the ne
gro servant in the Grace home, and
his wife, Martha, both important wit
nesses for the prosecution in the trial,
swore on the witness stand yesterday
that Rebecca Sams told them that Mrs.
Grace would take care of them if they
would testify for her.
The detectives believe that they e.'i.i
develop much stronger evidence. The
attorneys for the prosecution tried to
establish at the trial yesterday that she
was a medium for the defense in a
scheme to influence witnesses. The
detectives' are working under the di
rection of Solicitor H. M. Dorsey.
Witnesses Approached.
The detectives have tin statement of
Abe Peloat. father of Martha Ruflin,
that Rebecca Sams sought to get the
Ruffins to testify for M s. Grace and
that she endeavored to get them to go
witl) her to the office of John W. Moore,
attorn, v for Mrs. Grace. P,float said
he went to Mr. Moore's oflici himself
to find out what was wanted.
"Mr. Moore told me that he just
wanted to talk to Martha and for me to
bring her to his office," Peloat declared
to the detectives.
Peloat was in the court room yes
terday ready to make his statement
under oath, but it was too late to call
him to the stand.
Detective Doyl, found Rebecca Sams
talking to the Ruffins in tin court
house just outside the room in v. hici
the Grace trial was taking pla •< l.i.st
Mon day.
the state, must be removed beyond a
reasonable doubt."
Tin- case went to th, jury at 1:18
p. m.
Mother and Nurse
With Mis. Grace.
Mis. Grace was attired in,a dark skirt
and white shirt waist today and wore
the big whit, panama, cat which has
become so familiar to the curt loom
throng. Her mother, \l - Marti,a I'l
- and iter ours, Mr:. Lou: < Wil
son. w er- at lie, sid- again, iiavir::
given ih'flr testimottv tt-c le-itia to
long- 1 i-Xcluc,,! Iron, 111, rem H' r
Itotti.-er, n, too. w et, at her I , bl, . and
the l-t i - He d, le.-tiv, and prize light
ref, tec •' W. Burke, was with her x
ItsiJ-'H. Burke has It, <I) engage,! I,v le t
< out,-< I in vorkliig up id- m - m th,
< , < nti,| It;,- acted as u- : -,tia I bo-tv
guard sot H e .vo,mu, on
Tli, idood - sI-I ilie,l clot nog at,,:
the exhibits in cv!d,-nc, •. ■t, |>il<-I on
th, tattle of the stat, > - -.ill, •• 11.
oefor, hoi i, s. ■ . ~f I <i,ll • -
"I ant on to you,” lie declared, "and
if I catch you talking to these wit
nesses again I will lock you up.”
The Sams woman said she was only
i talking to the Ruffins about their do
pmsti, relations, the Ruffins having re
• cently separated. But the Ruffins told
the detective that site wanted them to
tesify for Mrs. Grace. J
Burke’s Part.
Newport Lanford, chief of the city
detectives, told an interesting story to
day about D, tective Burke, a special
agent for Attorneys Moore and Branch,
.w ho lias been a companion of Mrs.
Grace much of tlm time recently and
helped her. Chief Lanford said that
Burke made prodigious efforts to find
out what evidence the prosecution had
against Mis. Grace under the guise of
helping the detective department build
up its case.
Burke was a special agent of the
Southern railway and refereed boxing
' matches at one of the local clubs. He
called on chi, f Lanford for help tn
catching some "car breakers.” Chief
Lanford gave him help and a number
, of criminals were eaught. Then for
weeks Hu k-- mad,- efforts presumably
Io help th, detectives collect cvldenc'
against Mr-. Grace to show bis appre
ciation.
"11-- wanted to see th, famous letter
, from G.- .i, to his wife at Newnan I
which fell into the hands of the prose
cution " said Chief Lanford. "He want
ed to help us identify tin- typewriter
on which it was written But h, never
got his itands on that 'letter or found I
out anything else about out evidence.
A f,-w weeks ago he quit coming
a ound. Wh'-n q,- 1,0, atm frank about I
iu.- '-onnecti'-it . i'li th»- Gi;,,-, w I
realize-! his 'ga me ’ "
—
brighter ;tn.n on tie- previous day. Tito
cool night hm: viibr'lv brought tm-m
a good rest, atldtl;- ~<lb<-,-n supplied
with fresh linen ami lit,- services of a
ba ' her or sa ft I y razor'.
i Mrs. Grace Nervovs
As End Approaches.
•‘W'eli, thciiik tiii. ) Ilf lasi
day of this ••rd<‘ai." >aid Daisy <ha<« |
to h» r law \< i. a h»'ii Ji- • n’on d Judg ■ |
i Kuaji'.- c ourt room and -ank down by
i (la- >f|t of* < t op 'i la ■ ;• nd h< i h»fd (
' L'li-uo D< • »iv Burk*
(hh <T th.- lav. '» r told * r that tin |
; p|.’a<T'a. ■■old In llnl hrd by « ar|v!
,i fl •? t»o< at and that tha jin v w<aild all
nit. - m »dy i • arb a V< fdh • h* . i
; nightfall.
I’r.< < ;*p ! ’ do* ' sb'- -nd Li v< nl
ly. { ba • faith that th<*
; jur\ A m - Xol g ld! \
A \ . I? ji If, , Ml ( ; j,' < < ’j” nl H bad I
! nik'H' i»j hh io th. L i oh y of t In- 1 1 ml '
■ ii: IH‘ pon IbflH «»f Io;. mg hoi I
' ~,ii.-h <ooJh«'i , (*d«al * did hot |
i home where she is staying, and her
mother remained with her until she
finallj’ fell into sleep late last night.
Inquires if Husband
Reaches Newnan Safely.
But she seemed immensely relieved
this morning when, upon entering the
court room, she was not confronted by
rhe prostrate, accusing form of her
ItßSband. She asked if he had reached
Kewnan safely, but she declined to com
ment upon his last words when he
I said just before departure that the
story site had told yesterday upon the
stand was a story of rehearsed lies
"My lawyers will not let me make a
statement," site said. "But. I am glad
that I went upon the stand and told the
truth of the story. There’s not one line
in It that I would change, although I
did not tell all that I could have told.
After the case is ended. I will have
something to say Just as important as
whatever Eugene may say.”
Mrs Grace said that she wanted to
correct a statement made by a paper
yesterday afternoon, which declared
that she hissed out in the court room,
"Oh, what a liar!” at Attorney Lamar
Hill, who had said site did not own
property she claims to own.
Site says that her words were "What
a lie that is!” Site said that it. burst
from her in the moment’s Indignation,
but she declares that she never uses
the word “liar" to anyone, and regrets
I that she said what she did in the court.
Aged Miniser Finds
Delight in Witness Chair.
Rev. <’. N. Donaldson, an aged min
ister, achieved his heart’s desire today
when In- found the witness chair empty
land climbed into it. For several days
he had been haunting th* corridors,
I trying to gain entrance to the court
i loom. On \\ ednesday he managed to
| get through a private door, but was
, pulled out again by an exasperated
! bailiff. Yet-1, t da.v he came early and
| round a good seat in the court room,
and today he was the most conspicu
ous figure in the house, occupying the
witness chair fixed high against the
wall.
The crowd wits not so great today as
when the curious had still to look for
ward to hearing Mis. Grace’s story on
tin- stand. Tin- room was filled, but
there were not so many standing in the
■ orridots, and the atmosphere of the
■ room was riot so disagreeable. The
news that Grace had returned to New
nan. too. may have kept part of the
i i : >,,t,g a . .i.v by removing one item <>f
| ■ I, -ho-.v' whi,-h ha.< drawn the at
feiiti"tt of Atlar.:., sot five torrid days
Judg-' 1t0.,r said today that io Ills
i -pinion t-i, -.is, would go to th, lury
I I„-for»- ttightfall
MBS WALPOLE DEAD.
dr Mat v Gardner Wulpol, . aged
1 -■ ,! H It- r- sidi n- - •_!', I M>rt le
■ i to --n toda v S’- . survived
cm daugnti ! \1 - Itole i t It Otis,
it-, i-t, Mia. Joint Dorman,
I wi K.,1, Lovett and Mis- Elizabeth
IGa nil Fiiit'-I ■ ill rangenients have
MRS, GRACE'S STORY
REHEARSED LIKE PLAY;
WAS COACHED BY MANY
Mrs. Daisy Grace's remarkable story
of the shooting of her husband, Eu
gene, recited to the jury, was a care
fully prepared declamation. pruned,
amended and polished by her lawyers,
and as carefully rehearsed as a dra
matic offering by a professional actress.
This startling fact was revealed by
the publication of the recitation before
it had been delivered in court by Mrs.
Grace.
It had been prepared in the offices of
her lawyers. Joint W. Moore and James
A. Branch. There it had been decided
in numerous conferences what would
be good for the jury to hear and what
might best be omitted. There its 7,500
words had been intoned day after day
by Mrs. Grace. There, and in other
places, the woman who was to recite it
in explanation of her part in a tragic
shooting had been rehearsed and guid
ed and trained by lawyers, a secretary
and a private detective, and from there
it found its wav into type hours before
Judge Roan and the jury of twelve men
who possibly thought it an extempora
neous masterpiece heard a word of it.
To Save Grace Name
Dragged It in Mire.
At the gam' time that these surpris
ing revelation! were made, the aston
ishing fact was bared that Mrs. Grace’s
lawyers. Moore N- Branch, had known
of her claim that Grace shot himself
from the very beginning. Despite that
fact, they had permitted the entire po
lice force of the city and detectives in a
host of other cities to waste many
wearisome weeks hunting supposed sus
pects and “mysterious persons."
As lhe testimony showed, Mrs. Grace
was pointing suspicion toward her hus
band's servant, and indirect accusations
Involved many others not specifically
named.
While the lawyers were keeping Mrs.
Grace's alleged secret presumably be
cause of her alleged promise to Grace
tn shield “the family honor” - they were
giving out a mass of letters and papers
and statements reflecting hideously
upon the wounded man and conditions
in the Grace home.
Their attacks, as well as those of
their client—while she and they were
sending scores of police on false scents
to "shield the family honor”—made the
Grace family life a by-word, and often
contained Insinuations unprintable.
The training In this case was no
half-hearted affair. No playwright ever
worked more painstakingly to eliminate
what might hurt him with his audience
and Insert what might benefit him than
‘I Can't Live W ithThat W oman N ow'
GRACE TO RUSH DIVORCE
NEWNAN, GA., Aug. 2.—"1 can’t live
with that woman!" exclaimed Eugene
Grace, back in his parents’ home here
today. "Whatever happens—however
this trial turns out —I’m going to sue
her for divorce.”
Grace awaited the verdict in the trial
of his wife with ill-concealed impa
tience.
"Lamar Hill is going to get the di
vorce for me,” he added quickly. "We
would have applied for it before, only 1
have not yet lived In the state a year
until November. Then I will not delay
that divorce a day. And If she con
tests it, I will fight It to the last ditch,
and 1 will get the divorce. My charges
against her will embody substantially
the charges already filed against the
woman, but there will be more evi
dence.
Would Have Gone to Reno,
"I haven't wanted to wait the year
for that divorce,” said Grace resentfully.
“I want to be legally sejjarated from
her and her name forever, and just as
soon as the law will allow. I would
have gone to Reno to get the divorce
quicker, but I was shot and paralyzed
and said to be dying I could not go.
But I have that promise from my law
yer In Atlanta that he will not delay a
day after I have been in the state of
Georgia a year. That’s one more rea
son I’m going to get well —to get that
divorce from that woman."
Grace talked considerably today
about plans he has formed to leave
Newnan after the Atlanta verdict has
been rendered, for some resort where
he will be less closely confined than in
this little town Many friends itave
written him that lie would surely re
cover if he were to take some famous
“cure,” but. pending the verdiet, his
plans for tit'' future remain unsettled.
Grace commented briefly this morn
ing on his wife's statement of yester
day before the Jury, but. brief as his
comment was. it Indicated one thing
clearly—he will lend all his strength
toward redeeming what he considers a
cruelly besmirched name.
“She’s Defamed My Character.”
Grace had finished reading his wife's
statement, and he said witli bitterness,
but considerable self-control
"She has defamed mv , hat in ter.
When tin- Jury lias rendered its vet diet,
I must take up her charges, t, fle- ting
so seriously on nt,. and refute them.
Tit, people don't know how things are.
and they must have the truth."
Grace again lay In a darkened room
of the Hill home on Grenville -treei
ll< was'taking his morning tie ttiueiit.
He was f, ,-lliik fim . he de, lnr, d. and
K-gretled only that he could not enjoy
the outside will til omshlne and breeze
Beyond saying that h, would take up
his w ife's siatetu'nt in detail. In d< ■
elhn <| to discuss tile etise, but it is evi
dent it" •marts und< r tin- lutest uttd
those who had a part In the construc
tion of Mrs. Grace's story. No star of
the stage was ever more carefully
trained to speak her piece effectively
, and without tire aid of the prompter
than tin woman accused of trying t*
n urd< r Eugene Grace.
Plenty of Critics
And Stage Managers.
t'oaehers, dramatic critics anff stag*
managers there were a-plenty. When
’ <t was first fashioned it may have been
f 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
r killings and unexpected climaxes
1 a-plenty.
Mrs, Grace did credit to her coacher
and tile playwright, whoever they may
have been. She had rehearsed with
her lawyers. She had repeated the
story day after day to Detective Burke
1 and to a specially engaged assistant.,
who found in that their principal work.
She said her speech before Mr. Rosser,
and then recited it to his law partners
She studied faithfully and conscien
tiously day and night.
Her coaehers were . persistent and I
. tireless. Most of them could go on tha
s stand today and recite the story them
selves—so often have they heard It in
f the quiet north side home or the farm
j on the outskirts of the city, where Mrs. 1
’ Grace may have treated the birds and
the rabbits to an eloquent phrase or
I two of her masterpiece.
Learned Her Speech ■
Os 7,500 Words.
p I
As a result. Daisy Grace accompllsh
-3 od 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-
J slonal slip. She had droned them and
p Intoned them so often she could have
probably spoken them in one of the
s dreams helpless Gene says she occa
sionally had.
s The recitation In court was, there
for'", little of an ordeal. With her
f wounded husband lying before her, his
eyes fixed steadily and clearly upon
s hers, she spoke her piece, dropping a
word here or a phrase there occasion
ally, but in the main sticking to manu.
II script with commendable accuracy.
Very skillfully Mrs. Grace was re
o served for the last witness. She «as
r not under oath, and the state could not
cross-question her. The fact that her
surprising story wa« a painstakingly
e prepared and oft rehearsed story could,
n therefore, not be put before the jury.
sharpest lash of his wife and unwilling
ly holds himself in restraint until the
Jury has returned its verdict.
Mrs. Grace had previously attacked
the character of her husband, but Grace
considers that she went to superlative
extents in her last effort.
The readers of Mrs. Grace's stories
of abuse would get a much better im
pression of Grace if they could study
the face of the wounded man. Grace
has an extremely winning smile and
large blue eyes that beam forth hon
esty and confidence in the stranger and
high regard for friends. He is ap
proachable. affable, kind and consides
ate, and If he did all his wife charges,
his face shows none of ft.
Interest in the case has not waned in
Newnan. Newspapers still are eagerly
gobbled up, and the question of Mrs.
Grace’s guilt or innocence Is still the
' main topic around the postoffice, the
depot, the public square and the lead
ing hotel. Sentiment naturally is with
Grace, although there is much doubt
that the evidence Is direct enough to
bring a verdict of guilt.
The Trip on the Train,
Lying on his cot in the baggage car
of train 35 of the Atlanta and Welt
Point yesterday, Grace scanned hie
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 case during the ride, and after
it. he checked himself with the remark
that he could not pursue the subject
further
Tin- trip down was uneventful, but
marked by pleasantries and the good
humor of Grace's host of "brother''
Elks, in the estort were T. G. Farmer,
Jr, E M. Carpenter, Tt. E. Platt and
B. H. Kirby, Grace's boyhood friends
front 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 several mo
ments Then he turned to his wife's
allegations as the very newest, thing in
the case. Grace's stepfather, S. 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 tin ear several times and vn< *
lie paused opposite Grace to play a
game of solltal’c on an empty soda
wal» . a « Grace lay on Ills cot near
tin middle of the baggage car, at. the
left f.mlng t"\'.ard Newnan On his
right was an Cyprus strong box. be
hind lb.n i big consignment of flowers
tagged to .1 LaGrangi florist, and in
from a couple of trunks and a block of
in . ind fartin ' front, a crated calf
hilled to a wayside town.
COOPERAGE PLANT BURNS.
Y< INKERS, N Y., \ug 2 Fire ear
ly this moi nlng completely destroyed
tin |ilnni of Hu Federal Cooperage
Company and the wirihouH of tile
Witring Manufacturing Company here,
. .iiising a lo* t.muted at Jf'mi.OOO.
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