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M= GRACE FREED THE WEATHER Forecast: Fair today. Tempera tures: 8 a. m., 74; 10 a. m., 77; 12 noon, 83: 2 p. m., 87. VOL X. NO. ?65. gate t fe»gfc --N Safe - - 'WW v. ■ WMHBws ; v \SM| 'i f Vi *£ V-'BkA' A ‘ , ''-<'-' >/■<■• _'-5t Ni- ,yT-< ‘?!*swi?:'''-'■'■-ts ^ > J'jfe^fflMr^JTlinii l i»iiT'~~- ...^.r, r r;^-»'»'-'nA7-<»^:'v»>’.#. l^,'^7.;,A -r,,<;,-.t-:4;i.<,r J -i;JA.As>n. . / 'srniint - w• • .w^ i v. iV T« ’.. ■."'/i® iF’lißt|®ofc z?-'./ >iW f r'■ fay? ■ %W«s /xB xisabgWFjJ%KF4Msh . ..- • . !■&-A » Sr flw&W 7J.57 /IShf ws> •—■-- ■■-- -* '" bxwjpSSx ~' *"'- wg[.. B terißW i’ma- ?j St Jfc' // «s«.‘ I rlw wlm // %,/»i v^^feS. i fol' --- W sfe 'V...V Mfe'X-/■» V iW>.'\ 3 "'“■ /Sw®' W»-fiSf■''■>'■ - ■'-<’-';'■ v X«wwfc« \ ‘<A v W?<v- •'■- / :" '■3';z"sts= wteMF-- -- :/■; U'.-Z-Mf 5 if# y* iiiilri 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. i tMu," s«[ a "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 — ixm 2 CENTS EVERYWHERE & V RB NO 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