The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1912-07-09
BBEIETIBE
A AGAINST WIFE
DECLARES HE WILL HAVE HER
i PUNISHED FOR SHOOTING HIM.

ATLANTA. July SIR It costs me
The life thar Is coming back to ME. /
am going ID &c at tho trial to help pp.
5ehlud the bars the woman who tried
10 kill me. And after that | will di.
yorce her so that she may never again
call herself BY the name OF Grace,
These two things | will do or die In
doing them"
Lying helpless In bed at his moth
er's home in Newman, still paralyzed
from the bullet that he gays his wife
fred into his tody while he lay
asleep, Eugene H. Grace held up his
right hand as one who swears an oath
when he made that declaration.
Daisy Grace comes TO trial in At.
lanta, July %" he went on. "My doc.
tor says that will still be paralyzed
hten-- that there is little hope that |
VIII be able to move my lower body
pr my limbs for months to come. But |
know that II | am at that trial she
Will be convicted, though the law pre-
vents my testifying against her, and
SO have already ordered an invalld's
chair that will carry me to Atlanta,
and am Going to lie In the courtroom
BY my lawyers side to help them
prove her guilt from her own lips"
-. -. Will Continue Flight
As Grace told OF his vow and the
fight he Is going to make against
Daisy opie Grace, his hands worked
neryously at the Counterpart, his
teeth snapped together in the intensi.
ty OF his resolve, and now and Their
the paralyzed legs twitched suddenly
beneath the bed covers from reflex
action that the doctors say is the
promise OF recovery.
at is lie." he continued that l
ever wrote that would not prosecute
my wife. | did not write that letter
to DR.. Fetter in. Philadelphia. My
nurse wrote 1t, but she did not say
! would not prosecute. 1t is why |
am trying so hard TO get well. Listen.
That woman shot me while slept be-
cause she thought she saw a way to
get the $1,000 life insurance policy
"She had doped me into marrying
her. She was lobster palace lady.
She was clever In the way OF those ad.
venturesses who have had much OK
perience beneath the white lights. /
was less experienced, brought her
to Atlanta. Well she coutdnot be
satisfied with Atlanta after the life or
New York, did my best toimake her
happy. But she tired OF me. w
~ e Shot While Asleep. ~
SHE could not care for one man
alone, so she thought she saw her
way ODE rid OF me, and atithe same
timeiwin for herself IA fortune and a
free return TO the White Way, that
She loved. And IwhIle9t' slept She shot
me. Could woman pdo anything
worse@ir Gods sightlor mans? DO
You wonder that Lam going to live ID
sees her put behind prison bars? And
do you wonder that when she has
been convicted | amlgoing to sue her
~ hi'p'sS. 40 aoObNdsi HuNe llNtu
In the state year?" u
Youn Grace really looks far upon
the road TO health. His face is as full
of color as that of man OF robust
strength. He moves his arms, head
and his upper body with ease. Only
the helpless length OF his lower body
lies palsied.
Those stories OF immortality that
they have told about me are all lies"
he said vehemently. They're more
of the lies that woman has fabricated
10 win sympathy for herself. | did
not drink to excess. l did smoke Gig
arettes, but was not iend. It's an.
other lie that | was shot at the end
OF carousal. There was no reason
but the ones have given for the
shooting.
My wiei wanted that insurance
money and to setl she shot me
while. slept