The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-07-29
DAISY OF THE
LEOPARD SPOTS
Mrs. Grace on Trial Today, Charged
With Having Shot Her Husband
to Collect His Life
Insurance.
is PARALYsED
When He Thought He Wac Dying Hs
Made Accusation Against Hia
Wife as His AssalL
ant

Chronology Of the Grace Case.
lsl0-EoSene II. Grace, scion OF 4
prominent Georgia family, meets Mrs.
Daisy Wrich Opie, wife OF wealthy
Philadelphia.
February, 19l1-webster q. Opie.
Mrs. Opie's husband, dies Of blood
poisoning. caused by slight injury Ia
cranhng automobile. Widow receives
$4,000 insurance
March s, 1911--Gracc and Mr..
opie reported to have been married IN
New York.
| May 1e. 1s11-G1ace and Mrs. opis
married In New Orleans
November /. 19il--Graoe enters
prominent Atlanta building firm.
| March 4. 912-Grace teils wife his
intention to go to Philadelphia the
following day.
| March s, 19t2--Police respond to
telephone plea from Grace's home,
Grace saying he is shot. Grace found
unconscious, wounded In back. says:
1T looks Ike my wife shot mo-" Mrs.
Grace left early in day for Newman.
Ga Returns at once and Is arrested,
charged with the shooting.
| March 6, 1912--Mrs. Grace released
ON $500 bond. Mrs. Martha Ulrich,
mother Of accused woman, says Grace
threatened his wife's life unless she
gave him money.
March I, 1912-Grace believed to be-
dying; Mrs, Grace rearrested and held
in jail.
i March s. 1912--Grace's attorneys
\ a1nrge Mrs. Grace with drugglng and
shooting her husband TO obtain in
surance money.
March 8, 1912-Grace pronounced
out of danger. Mrs. Grace waves all
rights In insurance money.
i March 10. 1912-Mrs. Grace released
ON bond.
/ May 6, 1912--Mrs Grace indicted on
charge of assault with intent to muir
| der,
4 July 20, 1s12-Mrs Graces trial be-
/ gun.
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ATLANTA, Ca, July 29.-The judi
cial unravelling of the mystery skeins
| Of Atlanta's most perplexing shooting
! began today when Mrs. Daisy Opio
Grace, Daisy of the Leopard Spots
stood before the bar OF the Fulton
i court charged with attempted murder
4 of her husband, Eugene H. Grace.
prominent clubman and member of
an old Georgia family.
Hundreds tried to squeeze into the
dingy lite court room to see the
woman, whom society had welcomed
4 in the year of her honeymoon with
Grace, fight against possible peni-
tentlary sentence But Judge Roam
had issued orders that only the hun
dred regular seats in the room should
be used. They were filled long before
the court crier announced the conven-
ing OF the tribunal.
4 On the eve OF her supreme fight,
Mrs Grace was cool and collected.
She was confident of freeing herself
from the stigma of attempted murder
and certain that her complete story
of the night OF March As, would clear
the mystery.
The prosecution, counselled by two
of the states foremost lawyers retain
ed by Grace's family, claimed their
case against the wife was complete.
4 1t was late in the morning of March
4 5, that police were summoned by tele-
phone to 20 West 18th Street, the
fashionable homo of the Graces A
mans voice declared "I am shot" The
police found the man. Grace. locked
in the bedroom of his home, the tele-
phone In the same room was stuffed
with paper There was no one else In
the home. Apparently the shooting was
the result of carefully planned plot.
Grace was removed to ST. Joseph's In.
firmary where he fingered near death
for weeks, the bullet having lodged
close 10 his spine, parlyzipg him
from the chest down.
4 Mrs. Grace, who had left Atlanta
for Newman, the home OF Grace's par.
ents earlier In the day, returned that
, evening and was confronted with her
husband, an ante-mortem statement
being expected He made a dramatic
| accusation that she shot him in order
to collect large sum of insurance
which she had insisted he carried.