The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-07-27
ARE READY TO TRY
MRS. DAISY GRACE
Criminal Division of Georgia
Superior Court to Meet
Monday.
National News Association

(National News Association)
ATLANTA, Ga, July 27.-The GRIM
linal division of the Superior Court,
Judge L. s. Roam presiding, will meet
here next Monday and the opening of
the season is awaited with unusual
Statewide interest for the first case
ito be taken up Is that of Mrs. Daisy
tOpie Grace, who is cahrged with hav-
ling attempted to murder her husband,
Eugene Hamilton Grace. This intense
interest in the case is de not SO much
ito the social prominence of the defen-
ldant and her alleged victim, but to the
peculiar circumstances surrounding
the case and the mystifying features
which promise to make the trial one
long to be remembered.
Mr.. and Mrs. Grace came to this
city from Philadelphia, their former
home, about eight or ten months ago.
According to statements made by Mr..
Grace since the shooting, his wife,
who is an unusually handsome and at
tractive woman, used to be one of the
numerous sirens of the Great White
Way of New York, when he became
acquainted with her few years ago.
She fascinated him and, after a brief
courtship, he married her and took her
to Philadelphia. where he held res
ponsible position. Less than year ago
jMr Grace, who is well to do and has
property interests in the South, decid-
ed to remove to Atlanta, where he
owns some valuable real estate
Grace and his wife made good i'm
tpression and freely mingled in local
social circles. They seemed to be de-
voted to one another and nobody ever
suspected that bloody tragedy lurked
behind the all-deceiving mask of hap
piness The catastrophe came in the
might OF March 5. What really occurr-
ed within the secrecy of the Graces
beautiful home on West Eleventh
street, is still mystery, the solution
of which at the coming trial is await
ed with intense interest. Beyond a
general denial Of the charges made
by her husband Mrs. Grace has volun-
teered no statement that would throw
any light upon the events of that
might. Mr. Grace, however, has not
been SO reticent.
According to his statement, made on
the day after the shooting, when the
doctors expected that his death would
Ibe merely a question OF few hours,
Mr.. Grace was in bed, asleep, when his
wife shot him. Awakened by the shot,
he found himself powerless to move
and begged his wife to call a doctor.
She left the house, according to Mr..
Grace's story, but instead of calling a
doctor, she took the next train for
Newman, the home of Mr.. Grace's
mother. There she was arrested upon
the charge Of attempted murder and
drought back to Atlanta. Later she
was released under $4,000 bail.
Mr.. Grace was desperately wounded
and at first the physicians entertained
no hope that he would live more than
few hours. But his splendid consti-
tuition helped him to fight off death.
He was taken to sanatorium where
he gradually gained strength, although
his lower limbs remained completely
paralyzed. After month or more he
was taken to his mothers house at
iNewnan, in this state, where he con-
ltinued to improve. Although the ply
!sicians have no hope of his complete
recovery from the injury caused by
the bullet, he is able to get about with
the help of clutches.
The victim Of the tragedy has dis
played great bitterness against his
wife since her arrest and his supplied
practically all the evidence in the
hands of the prosecution which is to
he used at the trial. He openly de-
iclared that his wife was an adventur-
ess and had duped him into marrying
iher. although she did not love him and
cared only for what she could get out
of him. He stated that some time ago
The had insured his life for $4,000 up
ION her suggestion and made the charge
that she had tried to murder him to
kget possession of the money, which
would have enabled her to return to
her former friends in New York.