The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-27
NEW TURN IN GRACE SHOOTING MYSTERY Letters of Grace to His Wife
 Published
 HE ASKED FOR MONEY Admitted That Rusinass Eaiiura
HE ASKED FOR MONEY
Admitted That Business Failure Was Due to Fast Living. Grace Denies Authenticity
 of the Letters

Atlanta, March 26.-The Grace shooting
 mystery was given a new turn today by
 the publication here of several letters
 alleged to have been written by Grace
 to his wife in 1911 and a form of con-
 tract which Grace asked his wife to sign providing that in case of a quar-
 rel in which she was to blame she was
 to forfeit to Grace the sum of s2S. .ooo | in cash and her home located in Phila- delphia.
 In the letters published Grace admits 1 that his failure in business was due | to association with absolute women and l 10 the drink habit. He promises to ab- stain from both these evils. He also
 asks for money to establish himself in business in Atlanta and for money to
 enable him to join Mrs. Grace in Phila- delphia.
 The contents of these letters are in marked contrast to statements by Grace I after he was shot In what was sup posed to be his dying statement Grace
 said that he had always led a sober
 and upright life and that he had never
 asked his wife for money All sums
 received from her, he said, had been given voluntarily.
 1 The letters and form of contract, which were dated at Philadelphia, are pub
 lished without information as to where they were obtained or who furnished them l for publication.
 Lamar Hill, attorney for Grace, issued
 a statement tonight in which the authen-
 ticity of the alleged letters of Grace to his wife, published here today. is de- nied
 MT. Hill read the letters to members
 of the Grace family in Newman. Ga. Their contents were made known to
 Grace and the following statement given
 out:
 MT. Grace states that the letters in l an Atlanta paper purporting to have
 been written by him, are fakes, and if
 they are in his hand writing, are forg- cries.
 1 If any part of them was written by him such statements that his downfall
 was caused by fast women or drinking whisky are absolutely untrue and such
 parts of the letters fakes" | Mrs. Daisy Opie Grace tonight was | shown a copy of the paper containing the | letters and contract alleged to have been written by her husband. After reading | them over carefully she is reported to | have said:
 "Yes, these letters are word for word as they were written to me by my hus-
 band. I almost know that silly contract | by heart'
 J. A. Branch, counsel for MT. Grace, stated that the letters and papers were l lost from the home of Mrs. Grace in Phil adelphia recently.
 A copy of the contract" foilows l ITO whom it may concern-This is to
 certify that I. Daisy o. Grace, being of | sound mind and fully knowing what I am | doing, do hereby solemly swear and prom 1 ise that after this date, August Il, 1911. should I speak unkindly, harsh or fuss
 in any manner with my lawfully welded | husband, E, H. Grace, 1sshall forfeit 10 my husband the sum of s25,0oo In cash and
 my home located at 4246 Spruce street, this I city.
 Tn consideration of the foregoing prom | ise and pledge, my husband, E. H. Grace, also promises not to fuss unless given | proper reasons for so doing. Tn agreement of the above have duly sworn and fixed my seal and signature I hereto this the 11th day of August, 1911. Signed -- (S.) | "XVitnesses and joint signers