Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-03-12

At 2:5O Monday afternoon 0y agree
neHt Eugene Fl. Grace has Cancelled
his policies for $4,000 life Insurance
in the Penn Mutual company. The
cancellation tcdS authorized by Grace
early in the morning and in the df-
ternoon the policies i0ere definitely
cancelled.
"HREE sensational features, prob
ably the most important devel-
n opments in the mysterious
Grace case since last Wednesday,
we're brought out by Attorneys Reu-
ben Arnold and Lamar Hill. counsel
for the Grace family, late Monday af-
ternOon. One is a statement made by
Eugene Hamilton Grace to his mother,
telling in detail of the occurrences
surrounding his wounding last Tues
day. Another is a sensational state
ment by Mrs. S. L. Hill, Grace's moth
er. who gives her evidence in the case
from the first time she heard in New
nan by a telegram that her son had
been shot The thiro development is
the announcement that attorneys for
Grace and attorneys for the Penn Mu-
tual Life Insurance company are now
in conference, Grace having agreed
! through his attorneys to waive for
his mother and himself all claims on
the $4,000 life insurance policies,
taken out last Christmas with that
company.
| In his statement, reiterating his
charge against his wife, is the wound
ed mans clearest and most forcible
charge yet made public. In it he
shows, his attorneys declare, that Mrs.
Grace left him when ne was i'll,
numb, paralyzed and apparently dy-
/ ing. He begged her, he declared in
the statement, to get him a doctor.
He was in fearful pain, he said, and
felt that he was dying.
Pray for me, Daisy" he said, and
Daisy answered, Il can't pray"
Grace charges in his statement that
he woman he now accuses of trying
% kill him, twice gave him medicine
in which there might have been an
opiate. He again repeats that he must
/ have been drugged.
Growing it ALL" said Reuben R.
Arnold, Grace's attorney, 'is his tell
ing his mother of little conversation
wife late Monday night.
Where is a mans heart? she asks
| ed, and naturally as any a man
would, he told her as nearly as he
could just where that vital organ is
located.
Even then" declared the famous
attorney, his voice rising as if he
were delivering a charge to a jury,
"she was planning to place his own
pistol above his heart and fire"
HE WROTE ONE LETTER.
OF the two letters to which his attor-
neys attach such great Importance
Grace says that one he wrote just to
humor his wife in a playful mood.
1.-THE letter in pencil" he says to his
mother. II wrote in a spirit of fun, just
to please Daisy-you know. mamma,
how Daisy is when she is in one of her
teasing moods"
OF the typewriter letter he says he
knows nothing at all. although it pur-
ported to have been signed by him.
THE suffering was terrible" Grace
told his mother, in talking over the te
dious hours that he waited for help, too
weak to crawl to the telephone. Then
he tells of how, pulling himself on
his elbows, he finally reached the tele-
phone and found it stuffed with a
boudoir cap and other cotton material
This he says he remembers jerking out
of the instrument before he could get
the police over the phone.
Mrs. Hill in her own statement, the
first she has made for publication since
the tragedy, tells first of her notifca-
ton of her sons wounding by tele-
gram sent her by John Owens, promi-
nent Atlanta man, who lives next door
to the beautiful West 18th street home
of the Graces.
Mrs. Hill dwells on the calmness of
her daughter-in-law's demeanor when
she was told that Grace had been shot
The nature of the wound was natural
| ly discussed by the mother and the
wife.
How can a person shot through the
lung be conscious?" Mrs Hill says the
woman asked her, as if greatly surpris-
ed that Grace was not more seriously
hurt.
Attorney Arnold also believes that
this point is very material.
"She didn't realize" said Mr.. Arnold,
that a man shot, where she had shot
her husband could be conscious. She
though that her work was complete"
Mrs. Hills statement, which embraces
the salient happenings from the time
she left Newman with her daughter-in-
law until after she had talked with her
son, tells of their conversations.
! Mrs. Grace said he was suffering
from acute indigestion when she left"
the mother said. land told me of giving
him medicine-he complained of numb
ness before she left the house."
( Commenting on this portion of the
statement Reuben Arnold says, why,
Mrs Grace's own statements are
enough to convict her. Here she adj
mits to his own mother that Grace was
sick that he was numb from acute in
ldigestion-yet she left him there, and
went off to try and prove an alibi."
WILL BE ADMISSIBLE.
Messrs. Hill and Arnold agree that
the statement of Mrs Hill regarding
the things told her by Mrs. Grace will
prove very important for the state
should Mrs. Grace come to trial.
Signed statements from the husband
lor his own testimony should he sur
lvive, will be challenged by the /attor-
neys for the defense. ANY admissions
made by the defendant to Mrs. Hill,
however, could be introduced at the
trial. attorneys say.
The third sensational feature of Mon
days developments in the Grace case
came out. when Attorney Lamar HILL
representing both Grace and Mrs. Grace
took uD the matter of the S25. 900 in