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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.
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took with her to Newnan the precious
life insurance policies.
“Just watch me weave the web
around her,’*Mr. Dorsey shouted, cast
ing the policies on the floor before the
jury. "Watch me build up chain, link
' by link. •
“Took Pistol to
Upset Suicide Theory.’’
"Why did she take the pistol out of
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
anything about that letter. But she
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
'where?’ Sixty days ago it disap
peared. Gone! Talk about suppress
ing evidence. The pot calls the kettle
black.
"Money in his business! Os all the
money she is said to have given this
poor man, not a check is proven to
have been cashed by him.
"But the record shows this man giv
ing money to the woman who shot him.
"Those policies were to the name
of Mrs. Grace and no will Grace might
have made could have diverted the
money from her."
Mr. 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. Hiil to suggest to Gene
that he take out insurance.
“Insurance Evidence
Establishes Guilt.’’
"If there is a shadow of a doubt that
this woman is guilty, this Insurance
evidence demonstrates her guilt to a
mathematical certainty.
"Why didn’t she poison him? She
knows there is too great an opportu
nity ’or detection. No; she shot him,
and he shot him in the dead hours of
the light. They say he was shot in
the taytime. Where Is the man who
hears the shot?
"W y w:.» Martha called to the room?
That she might tell the police that
Grad was lying In the bed. But she
was -lurried away.
Kep Servants
Outof Room.
"Se never let these negroes get
back in the room She rushed them
off ii a hurry. She gave them orders
agaist going upstair?. This points di
rect? to her guilt.
wildly infatuated was he with
this woman that he would almost at
het-request have pulled the trigger on
liirself and died to please her. She
tol him to buy that medicine and he
difit.
She says she loves him. but she
pptests too much. She even told poor
ol Mrs. Hill she wanted to live In
Nwnan with her, something you know
si* never dreamed of.
'She deceived the Hills. I hey even
wnt out and got counsel for her.
■ln the name of right, don’t be swep'
o' your feet by ‘Jenny worship.’ We
a honor good women, but there is as
ruch difference between the good
Mmten we honor and this woman as
btween day and night. W e can not
scrifice the laws of this commonwealth
non the altar of a woman.
“There is a grave difference between
diat Meekle said Grace said at the
tiephone and what she said Grace
aid. Meekle quoted him. ' 'l’ll call
Irs. Grace.’ She quoted him. Til call
iy wife.' I'd rather believe Meekle
‘Put Bloody Towels
[n Bath Room Purposely.
“Grace was shot, locked in his room.
Nobody knew that the key in his
pocket would unlock the Philadelphia
vault. She would have said Ruflln
knew about the key. She put those
towels in the bath room to show that
the murderer used them to dry his
hands.
"So mercenary was she that she
padded the bed to keep the stains off.
because the bed was rented and she
would have had to pay the damage.”
Mr. Dorsey dragged the blood
stained bed clothes to the floor and
spread them before the jury.
“The only spot of charity in the
whole case is that she tried first to
saddle the crime upon an unknown
man from South Carolina.
"But If by hook or crook she could
tease Gene into w riting a letter which
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 sht*
persuaded Grace to write that "pencil
note.” which he had charged to her in
conversation several months ago. He
was willing to accept It as Gene's let
ter
Admit Grace
Wrote Note.
"I believe that Gene Grace did write
that letter, because it is grammatical,
because it contains not a word to
arouse his suspicion, while the type
written letter contains the same un
grammatical phrases found in that
carefully prepared statement she made
yesterday.”
Mr. Dorsey poured into Mrs. Grace's
statement all the guns In his 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." he shouted. "That
poor, confiding boy! How be must re
gret he ever met this woman. He will
regret it to his 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,
tailing to get his writing, 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 prostrate on the cankered
body of her beloved son.
Mr. Dorsey then quoted "The Female
of the Species Is .lore 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 bis pride
He shouts to scorn the monster who
will often turn aside;
But the She-Bear thus accosted rends
the Peasant tooth and nail,
1-or the female of the species is more
deadly than the male”
Mr. Dorsey concluded at 1:24 p. m.
Judge R' an began his charge to the
jut- at 1:26 o’clock. Ho said, briefly;
'This bill off indictment charges as
sault wife intent to murder. The charge
is that Mrs. Grace, on March 5. 1912.
witii a pistol, did unlawfully and with
malice afor thought, shoot E. H. Grace
with intent to murder him.
“Mrs Grace pleads not guilty, and
waives indictment, and, with the pre
siimptic n of innocence in iter favor,
rhis presumption renjains until the
state shall remove it and convince you.
beyond reasonable doubt, of her guilt.
“Gentlemen, 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.
It 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
0# Reject Statement.”
“You heard the defendant make a
statement. She was not subject to
cross-examination The defense has a
right 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
see fit. or to reject it.
"Intent to murder embraces al! the
facts of murder except killing Here
Is 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 murder if you can find that
she intended to kill him and used a
weapon likely to produce death.
"It must appear that she Intende'd 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 distinctions 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 the letters
and if he hlniself 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
tance they can to reach a verdict.
“if you believe the defendant delib
erately or intentionally shot her hus
band, Intending to kill him, I 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 he shot himself in this scuf
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 guilty.' You can go further.
This is a felony. You can recommert'd
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 her. The
object of all these investigations is the
discovery of the truth. The state
charges the defendant witii a crime.
The defense maintains her innoncence.
This is the issue for you to decide.
“Befo e the jury is authorized to
convict on circumstantial evidence,
every hypothesis other than that of
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS
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during the trial.
T racing Bribe A t temp tin 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 case. Their
investigation revolved about Rebecca
Sams, the mulatto dressmaker for Mrs.
Grace and a witness for the defense
in the Grace trial. J. C. 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 toid them that Mrs.
Grace would take care of them If they
would testify for her.
The detectives believe that they can
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 the statement of
Abe Peloat. father of Martha Ruffin,
that Rebecca Sams sought to get the
Ruffins to testify for Mrs. Grace and
that she endeavored to get them to go
with her to the office of John W. Moore,
attorney for Mrs, Grace. Peloat said
he went to Mr. Moore’s office 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 Doyle found Rebecca Sams
talking to the Ruftins in the court
house just outside the room in which
the Grace trial was taking place last
Monday.
the state must be removed beyond a
reasonable doubt.”
The case went to the jury at. 1:48
p. m.
Mother and Nurse
With Mrs. Grace.
Mrs. Grace was attired in a dark skirt
tnd white shirt waist today mid wore
the big white panama hat which has
become so familiar to the court room
throng. Her mother, Mrs. Martha 111-]
rich, and her nurse. Mrs. Louise Wil- |
son, were at her side again, having |
given their testimony and being no |
longer exeltldPd from the room. Her,
bondsmen, too, were at her table, and
the private detective and prize tight I
referee, C. W. Burke, was with her as!
usual. Burke lias been engaged by her I
counsel in working up evidence in the
ease, and has acted as personal body
guard for the woman on trial.
The blood-stained clothing and all
the exhibits in evidence were piled on
the table of the state's counsel. Lan
books to show authority were siacki ■!
before both sets of counsel.
The jury members looked fresher and
MRS. GRACE’S MOTHER
“I am on to you,” he declared, “and
if I catch you talking to these wit
nesses again I will lock you up.”
The Sams woman said she was only
talking to the Ruffins about their do
mestic relations, the Ruffins having re
cently separated. But the Ruffins told
the detective that she wanted them to
teslfy for Mrs. Grace.
Burke's Part.
Newport Lanford, chief of the city
detectives, told an Interesting story to
day about Detective Burke, a special
agent for Attorneys Moore and Branch,
who has been a companion of Mrs.
Grace much of the time recently and
helped her. Chief Lanford said that
Burke made prodigious efforts to find
out what evidence the prosecution had
against Mrs. 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 Chief Lanford for help in
catching some "car breakers." Chief
Lanford gave him help and a number
of criminals were caught. Then for
weeks Burke made efforts presumably
to help the detectives collect evidence
against Mrs. Grace to show his appre
ciation.
“He wanted to see the famous letter
from Grace to his wife at Newnan
which fell into the. hands of the prose
cution." saiil C'niff Lanford. "He want
ed to help us identify the typewriter
on which it wa c written. But he never
got his hands on that letter or found
out anything else about our evidence.
A feyv weeks ago he quit coming
a otind. When he became frank about
bis connection with the Grace case, we
realized his ‘game.’ "
brighter than on rhe previous day. The
coo! night had evidently brought them
a good rest, and the yhad been supplied
witii fresh linen and the services of a
barber or safety razors.
Mrs. Grace Nervous
As End Approaches.
"Well, thank Heaven, this is the last
day of this ordeal.” said Daisy Grace
to her lawyers when she entered Judge
t Roan's court room and sank down by
the side of her mother and her body
| guard. Detective Burke.
One of the lawyers told her that 'he
! pleadings would be finished by early
1 afternoon, and that the jury would al-
I most surely reach a verdict before
! nightfall.
"Pray’God it does.” she said fervent
ly. "1 have absolute faith that the
jury w ill say 'Not guilty.' ”
Nevertheless, Mrs. Grace spent a bad
night prior to the last day of the trial.
She is evidently worried over the re
ports that tin ease would be a mistrial.
I with the possibility of forcing her
through another ordeal. She did not
xle, p as well as usual at lite West End
home where she Is staying, and her
mother remained with her until she
finally 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
the prostrate, accusing form of her
husband. She asked if he had reached
Newnan safely, but she declined to com
ment upon his last words when he
said Just before departure that tho
story she had told yesterday upon the
stand was a story’ of rehearsed Iles
“My lawyers will not let me make a
statement,” she 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 she did not own
property she claims to own.
She says that her words were "What
a lie that is!” She 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
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 he found the Witness chair empty
and climbed into ft. For several days
he had been haunting the corridors,
trying to gain entrance to the court
room. On Wednesday he managed to
get through a private door, but was
pulled out again by an exasperated
bailiff. Yesterday he came early and
found 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 was not so great today as
when the curious had still to look for
ward to healing Mrs. Grace’s story on
the stand. The room was filled, but
there were not so many standing in the
corridors, and the atmosphere of the
room was not so disagreeable. The
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 h.s
opinion the case would go to the jury
before nightfall.
MRS. WALPOLE DEAD.
Mrs. Mary Gardner Walpole, aged
66, died at her residence, 254 Myrtle
street, at noon today. She is survived
by one daughter, Mrs. Robert R. Otis,
and three sisters. Mrs. John Doonan,
Mis Kate Lovett and Miss Elizabeth
Gardner. Funeral arrangements have
not been completed.
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 th 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. John 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 way into type hours before
Judge Roan and the jury of twelve men
who possibly thought it an extempora
neous masterpiece heard a word of ft.
To Save Grace Name
Dragged It in Mire.
At the same time that these surpris
ing revelations were made, the aston
ishing fact was bared that Mrs. Grace’s
lawyers. Moore & 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 tn a
host of other cities to waste many
wearisome weeks hunting supposed sus
pects and “mysterious persons.”
As the 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
to 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 tn this case was no
half-hearted affair. No playwright ever
worked more palrstakingly to eliminate
what might hurt him with his audience
and Insert what might benefit him than
h lCan tLiveWithThatWomanNow"
GRACE TO RUSH DIVORCE
NEWNAN, GA., Aug. 3.—"1 can't five
with that -woman!” exclaimed Eugene
Grace, back in his parents’ home here
today. "Whatever happens—however
this trial turns out—Fm 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 I
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 I 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 separated 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 wias 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 have
written him that he would surely re
cover if he were to take ( some famous
"cure,” but, pending the verdict, his
plans for the 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 with bitterness,
but considerable self-control:
"She has defamed my character.
When the jury has rendered its verdict,
I must take up her charges, reflecting
so seriously on me, and refute them.
The people don’t know how things are,
and they must have the truth.”
Grace again lay in darkened room
of the Hill home on Greenville street.
He was taking his morning treatment.
He was feeling tine, he declared, and
regretted only that he could not enjoy
the outside warm sunshine and breezes.
Beyond saying that he would take up
his wife's statement in detail, he de
clined to discuss the ease, but it is evi
dent he smarts under the latest and
those w ho 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 the aid of the prompter
than the woman accused of trying te
n urd. r Eugene Grace.
Plenty of Critics
And Stage Managen,
Coachers, dramatic critics ana stagw
managers there were a-plenty. When
it was first fashioned it may have been
a rough, uncouth tale; when*it left the
chief dramatists’ office to be given
the street and finally to the jury, ft wa.-j
a gripping, well rounded melodrama,
with pistols and gems and attempted
killings and unexpected climax®*
a-plenty,
Mrs. Grace did credit to her coa after
and the playwright, whoever they may I
have been. She bad rehearsed with
her lawyers. She had repeetesl the
story day after day to Detective Burke!
and to a specially engaged assistant, 1
who found in that their prlnctpe.l wot* ’
She said her speech before M’n Rosser,
and then recited it to his law partners'
She studied faithfully and consden
tlouHly day and night. ‘
Her coachers were persistent andj
tireless. Most of them could go an the|
stand today and recite the story them-'
selves—so often have they heard It In
the quiet north side home or the farm I
on the outskirts of ths dty, where Mr* '
Grace may have treated the birds an**
the rabbits to an eloquent phrase or
two of her masterpiece.
Learned Her Speech |
Os 7,500 Words. /
As a result. Daisy Grace
ed the difficult feat of to
memory and repeating 7,500 words
without an error except when f»er jg-.
norance of grammar caused an ooca- 1
slonal slip. She had droned them and
Intoned them tto often she could have
probably spoken them In one of the
dreams helpleas Gene says she occa- ,
sionally had.
The recitation 1n court was, there
fore. little of an ordeal. With her,
wounded husband lying before her, his
eyes fixed ateadUy and clearly upon
here, she spoke her piece, dropping a
word Iwre or a phrase there occasfre
ally. but tn the main sticking to manu.
script with commendable accuracy.
Very skillfully Mrs. Grace was re
served for the last witness. She was
not under oarh. and the state coifid not
cross-question hsr. The fact that her
surprising story wa« a painstakingly
prepared and oft rehearsed story could,
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 superlatfv*
extents In her last effort.
The readers of Mrs. Grace's stnrlea
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 hats
eat y and confidence In the stranger and
high regard for friends. He U ap
proachable. affable, kind and conaldaor
ate, and if he did all his wife charge
his face shows none of it.
Interest in the case has not waned tn
Newnan. Newspapers still are eagerty
gobbled up, and the question of Mm
Grace's guilt or Innocence is still ths
main topic around the postoffioe, ths
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 hls cot in the baggage car
of train 85 of the Atlanta and West
Point yesterday, Grace scanned Ms
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.
The trip down was uneventful, but
marked by pleasantries and the good
humor of Grace's host of "brother”
Elks. In the escort were T. G Farmer,
Jr., B. M. Carpenter, R. E. Platt and’
B. H. Kirby, Grace's boyhood friends
from 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 al.-o
along.
Conductor "Jim” Lynch passed
through the ear several times and once
he paused opposite Grace to play a
game of solitaire on an empty soda
water case. Grace lay on his cot near
the middle of the baggage car. at the
left, facing toward Newnan. On his
right was an express strong box. be
hind him a big consignment of flowers
tagged to a LaGrange florist, and in
front a . ouple of trunks and a block of
i(, and farther front, a crated calf
billed to a wayside town.
COOPERAGE PLANT BURNS.
YONKERS, N. Y„ Aug. 2. -Fire ear
ly this morning completely destroyed
the plant of the Federal Cooperage
Company and the warehouse of the
Waring Manufacturing Company here,
causing a loss estimated at $200,000.
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