The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-07-30
PUBLIC SYMPATHY
 WITH MRS. GRACE
Husband Who Says She Shot Him Glares at Wife as He,
 Lies Paralyzed on Cot

Atlanta, Ga, July 30-The second day of Mrs. Opie Grace's ordeal be- gan with jostling mob crowding the corridors Anticipating an even more sensational series of episodes than those furnished yesterday, there were twice as many spectators on hand to- day clamoring for admission. It was the hope of lawyers on both sides that the trial might be concluded late this affernoon, but inaSmuch as the de- fense has not yet given an inkling of the number of witnesses it expects to call Or intimated the course to be pur- sued, it was conceded that the trial may continue over until tomorrow. The prosecution still had. 26 witnesses but expected to call only half of these in establishing their direct case.
 Despite the pathetic figure present. cd in the paralyzed husband lying on a cot in the court room, his vengeful eyes never leaving the face of the wife he accuses of attempting murder, public opinion is emphatically with Mrs Grace. The defendant is not worrying over the outcome of the trial. But she does her best to avoid the baleful gaze Of her husband. The dramatic scenes when the husband was carried into the court room, and Mrs. Grace swooned were expected to be repeated today.
 Opening of court was delayed and when Judge Roan finally mounted the bench he ordered an hours recess so that members of Grace's family, who were delayed by a late train in com ing from the family home at Newman, Ga, might be present.
 The heat in the little courtroom was intense. Two hundred people damned every seat and were packed in the aisles. Two-thirds were women who literally fought for points of vantage. The ventilation was abonninable and counsel for both sides protested against crowding of the room, fearing interruption of the trial by faint1ng women. Grace spent the night at private sanitarium and was taken to the courthouse early.
 Mrs. Grace was among the first persons in the courtroom. arriving be- fore the doors were opened to the spectators. She took the same seat she. occupied yesterday. but pushed the chair back further from the place where her husbands cot lay, evident ly desirous of avoiding his eyes.
 When the hours recess was up there, was still another delay. Grace had been carried on a stretcher into the elevator and the lift wedged between floor, where court is being held Near ly half an hour elapsed before the cage could be repaired.
 Mrs. s. l.. Hill, Grace's mother, was called and said that Mrs. Grace ar- rived at Newman late in the after noon Of March 5-the day the shoot ing was discovered.
 ssThe first thing Mrs Grace said when saw her." the witness testi- fled, twas Whats this I hear about Gene being shot ?a ~ told her what had been telephoned me from Atlanta. She insisted that Gene could not have shot himself, and intimated that if meaning the negro butler. She said Gene was complaining when she left and had taken medicine. She says she tried to telephone him from way station
 Mrs. Hill told in detail how she re- lated the detectives story to Mrs. Grace. The witness declared Mrs. Grace seemed n1ystified that a man could be. conscious with a shot through the lungs. With Mrs. Grace, \ tho witness said, she returned to Att lanta that evening. The witness then read a long letter received from Mrs. Grace The defense objected and So- licitor Dorsey promptly came back with the declaration that the prosecu- ton expected to show by the letter that the. accused woman went to New nan with a black dress on so that if information reached her there that Grace was dead, she would have mourning attire all ready.
 The prosecution in the trial Of Mrs. Grace today made it plain the theory on which they are charging the for mer Philadelphia woman with att tempted murder of her husband.
 As outlined by Solicitor Dorsey, to- the court, the prosecution claims the murder was planned long in advance. Mrs. Grace. he charged, made arrange ments with Mrs. Hill, mother Of Eu- gene H. Grace, to return to Atlanta from Newman. Ga, on March 8. Grace planned to go to Philadelphia on March 5, and the attorney asserted that the wife plotted to shoot him early that morning, lock up the house. go to Newman and. on returning with. Mrs. Hill. on March 8. discover the dead body of her husband in his room.
 Solicitor Dorsey charged that Mrs Grace took black dress to Newman. with her, with the specific idea that if Grace's death was discovered during. her absence that she would have proper mourning apparel to put on at once.