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VERDICT ROTTEN,
DECLARES GRACE
NEWNAN, GA., Aug. 2. —Grace’s first
words on hearing the verdict were:
“That's rotten, absolutely rotten.
I never expected it. did you? She
knows she is as guilty as you gen
tlemen sitting there on those stairs
know it.
“Her histrionic ability yesterday
was as capable as her lying ability
before that. She was coached on it
four or five months. Her lawyers
knew from the first what her state
ment was going to be, although
they say they did not.
“She may be innocent in the eyes
of man but she is guilty in the eyes
of God.
“I pray God may give me power
to walk just twenty-four hours I
will set myself right in the eyes of
the public.
“This hurst. Honest, it does! If
The Atlanta Georgian
Read For Profit—GEORGIAN WANT ADS—Use For Result,
MRS. GRACE, DEFIANT, IN WITNESS CHAlß—©’•awn by P. A. Carter
is
I had been fighting for my country
or home or honor, I could have ac
cepted the result like a man. But
to be shot down in cold blood is
hard to bear.
“God knows, I know that in her
heart she is as guilty, as guilty can
be, and on top of it she tried to
put a stain on my name! It will
be a cinch for me to get a divorce.”
Grace declared that his wife en
tered into a conspiracy with a Phila
delphia physician to give a death cer
tificate upon the death of her former
husband, Opie. He said the bruises
on Opie's arm would not have killed a
child.
Grace Indicated his belief that it
would be necessary to name a co
respondent. He said she has admitted
marital Infelicity.
“Daisy never bought me a suit of
clothes in her life,” he continued.
“The statement that she gave me
$6,000 is an insolent -lie. I swear
to God, and it is sacred to me, I
never drew a gun on her or slapped
her in my life. I did not push her
out of an auto or otherwise try to
take her life. I never asked her
for a nickel in my life. She gave
me only small amounts out of the
goodness of her heart. She had a
trouble from her former husband,
and that was why her little boy
was blind. If they will prove I
ever flirted with another woman
since my marriage, with two men
as judges—-and not the kind that
set on the present case—l will rake
together $5,000 in some way, and
give it to them. I was as true to
her as any man could be. I reit
erate my former statements. They
are absolutely true. I stand by
them, and have had only one story
to tell.
“All three lawyers.for Mrs. Grace
are as black as can be. They could
not look me in the face, but turn
ed their heads away. Luther Ros
ser told Lamar Hill shortly before
the trial that she was guilty. But
the court turned away my best
witnesses. I was not allowed any
chance. Mrs. Grace bought that
ring she told of herself in Savan
nah.”
He was very excited as he declared
this.
“They might as well put dyna
mite under every court house and
jail in Georgia and blow them up.
There is no justice in them,” he
continued.
COTTON BILL DEBATE ON.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 2.—Debate on
the Underwood cotton bill was begun
In the hou-i 1 today, and an agreement
was reached to end debate in four and
one-half hours
ATLANTA, GA., SATURDAY, AUGUST 3, 1912.
ANOTHER GANG
MN IS CAUGHT
NEW YORK, Aug. 2.—Frank Miller,
29 years old. alias “Whitey Lewis.’
accused of being one of the slayers of
Herman Rosenthal. was locked up to
day, making the second of the four gun
fighters charged with the actual killing
now in custody. Miller protested his
innocence, but was not permitted to
make a statement or to hold a conver
sation with any one.
Miller was arrested last night at
Fleischmann’s Delaware county pla e
just as he was about to board a train
for Kingston. Detectives had been
trailing him for days on the tip said
to have been given by Harry Vallon,
the gambler under arrest in connec
tion with the murder.
District Attorney Whitman today
was busy. He had been informed that
Sam Schepps. wanted as i principal in
the slaying, would give himself up. But
Schepps failed to do so. The district
attorney was later told that he might
expect Schepps today, but still later it
was reported Schepps would not sur
render himself, no matter what In
ducements were held out to him.
TIPPINS (GT DIES
IN HOUSE; CAN’T
DE REVIVED
The Tippins bill was defeated in the
house today by a vote of 94 to 69, with
21 absentees, on an aye and nay roll
call.
To pass the bill, over the executive
veto, 12.3 votes, or two-thirds of the
entire house membership, were re
quired.
The bill today failed to receive the
necessary two-thirds, and even failed
to receive two-thirds of the voting quo
rum present. It barely passed the con
stitutional majority point. 9,3.
In the extraordinary circumstances
under which the bill came before the
house, the sustaining of the gov< rnor’s
veto so overwhelmingly is regarded as
a significant and decided victory for
the executive, and a relatively signifi
cant .setback to Mr. Alexander and his
gubernatorial ambition.
The bill Is absolutely dead. It can
not go to the senate. It can not be re
ceived bj’ the present legislature, save
in the remote contingency of a recon
sideration on the next legislative day,
and no attempt at reconsideration will
he made.
The bill came up under a special or
der rule adopted Wednesday, and the
question was upon a motion of Mr.
Hopkins, ot Thomas, that the bill pass,
the executive veto notwithstanding.
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"DRAMA OO," 51 ROAN
Daisy Opie Grace was found not guilty this after
noon.
The verdiet was returned shortly before 4:57
o’clock, after the jury had been out for more than three
hours.
The verdict was reached at 4:30 o’clock, but it was
not announced until nearly a half hour later because
Mrs. Grace was not in the court room, and the jury’s
decision could not be given before she arrived.
When Mrs. Grace entered she waa as white as a sheet. She was
supported by Attorney Moore and Detective Burke. She had her
back to the crowd and her face was entirely concealed by her big
Panama hat. When the jury came in they had to file past her seat,
and she studied the faces very intently as though to learn the secret
in their hearts.
The judge announced:
“Mr. Foreman, read the verdict.”
The foreman, W. A. Laird, arose from his seat and read:
“We the jury find the defendant not guilty.”
Mrs. Grace wati absolutely impassive for a moment. Her breast
heaved, and she uttered a great sigh of relief. Her shoulders rose
and fell as though she had uttered a great cry.
The blood rushed back into her face.
Mrs. Grace Thanks the Jury.
John Moore arose and addressed court.
“Your honor,” he said, “my client wishe? to thank the jury.’’
Mrs. Grace arose trembling. She studied with a hand on
the table and turned half around to face the jury.
“Gentlemen, I thank you,” she said.
Her voice was infinitely lower and weaker than when she was
on the stand.
Judge Roan remarked to the reporters.
“That’s the end of the drama, boys.”
Mrs. Grace, escorted by her lawyers, went over to the jury and
shook hands with each of the twelve men who had given her her
liberty. The court announced that the crowd must be orderly and
the crowd filed out fairly quiet, but tense with excitement.
Mrs. Grace, to a casual observ
er apparently calm, but undoubt
edly torn with emotion within,
went down the court house ele
vator with her lawyers. A crowd
of three hundred persons hung on
their trail and followed then, out
Mitchell street, but without mak
ing any demonstration.
They proceedd to the office of
Ihe county physician, Dr. S. 11.
Green.
Detective Burke, who has been
her constant companion, declared
that -she did not go there for
medical attention, but simply be
cause the physician is an old
friend.
Freed Woman’s
Signed Statement.
At her lawyer's office the freed wom
an gave out this signed statement:
“I have been asked to make a
statement since my acquittal. I
am gratified beyond expression, but
not surprised. I knew that God
would not forsake me in my trou
bles. I was taught ts believe that
He will never forsake the innocent.
I am thankful for all who have
helped me. I will return to my
little boy in a day or so and devote
the rest of my life to him.
“I will live with my mother in
Philadelphia and try to comfort her
as long as we live.
"DAISY E. GRACE.”
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 poor woman Is persecuted in
a land of strangers. What a hurry
when she was invited here to give her
simple story; what a hurry to resort to
theatrical effects'. You thought when
you brought Gene Grace in here this
poor woman could not look the jury in
the face. But your plan failed, miser
ably. If that woman hadn’t been tell
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 —
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some of us still believe in an old per
sonal God—she came 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, tho
most reasonable statement. 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.
“Case Built
Alone on Theory.’’
"She made her statement with the
same feeling, with tho same composure,
as the Smithfield martyrs of old. Thev
could not break her down. Such con
duct as that of those lawyers is frowned
upon by all fair men.
"You’ve heard nothing but theory.
I never saw a case so Impregnated with
theory. Did you take your oath that
you would put a woman In chains on
theory? I didn’t hear any such oath.
You said you’d find a verdict by the
evidence and not by some interested
person’s theory.
"They say that this woman, for mer
cenary motives, whose life has been
one of indiscretion—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?
“Poor, foolish, credulous woman! She
married the ‘most fascinating man in the
world to her.’ What does it mean when
a woman meets a fascinating man of
the world? What power, what influ
ence! They say she wag mercenary,
who spent her wealth on her new hus
band lavishly, unselfishly. Find one
act in her life that smacks of merce
nary motives.
"They say that away back In New
York she had sinister motives when
she raised for him 16,000 to go into
business in Atlanta. Where was the
motive?
"There sits the man, E. E. Law
rence, whom they could have put on
the stand and disproved It. But ne
had to call him.
"I can show you who was mercenary.
I can show you who was interested in
making her out a murderess. The tes
timony fell from the unwilling lips of
Grace's own people, that they were
struggling to help Gene Grace in his
estate. The whole motive of the state
has been born In the kennel of mer
cenary motives; they must blacken her
character and rob her of her Inheri
tance. For they thought Grace might
die.”
“They say that she astutely planned
to take her husband’s life for some
