The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1912-07-22
GRACE
TRIAL
WIFE oF CAPITALIST WILL FACE
TRIAL THIS WEEK.
Husband viii Appear - Witness
Assiast rs Beautiful wife
History q Case.


promises 20 b. one % the most sen
sationai trials ever held In this city
will open next Monday. when Mrs.
Dalsey Ulrich Opie Grace will be
brought into court charged with shoot
ing her husband. Eugene H. Grace.
as he lay asleep in his home IN this
city. March ..
The chief feature OF the trial will
be the presence OF the accusing hus-
band. who will sit in the court room
in an invalid's chair. with the lower
part az his body paralyzed. aiding In
the pros ecntion OF his wife. who. he
SAYS. shot his 20 obtain. So. 200 in
surance he had taken out on his life
for her benefit.
Shortly after IL O'Clock. Tuesday.
March 2. Atlanta police headquarters
received feeble call for help over
the telephone. Policemen found
Grace lying unconscious in bed with
gaping bullet wound in his side. On
further search they discovered n re-
volver with one chamber empty. w.
Ing on the floor in the room immedi-
atty below the one in which Grace
was lying. After Grace had revived
he said he had been shot while asleep
| sometime during the early part of the
morning. and that he had every rea-
son 10 believe that his wife had done
IT,
Mrs. Grace Arrested.
Then II was learned that Mrs. Grace
had left the house sometime during
the day and had gone TO Newman Ga
80 visit her mother-in-Iaw That
evening Mrs. Grace was arrested al
Newman and brought back to Atlanta.
On facing her husband the latter d.
recty accused her OF shooting him
and leaving him TO die alone. Then
Mrs. Grace told him unless ne with
drew the accusation She would take
the power OF attorney which he OK.
ercised. away from him. This threat
seemed 10 have the desired effect. for
Grace az once declared he must he
misfakn.
The power OF attorney. the threat.
ened removal Of which caused Grace
10 withdraw the accusation for tho
time being. vas i'm regard 10 the mort.
gagiug Of Philadelphia property thar
Mrs. Grace had received from her
former husband Grace was 70 have
gone 10 Philadelphia on the dav no
was shot TO arrange for tho mort
gage
Mrs Grace admits that she did not
leave her husband until after II
O'Clock on the day Of the 5tb She
SAYS that her husband had complained
OF not feeling we'll but she supposed
he would soon recover from The IN.
disposition and 20 10 PHILADELPHIA IN
inc afternoon She saws she wen, IN
see her husbands mother and 10 ioin
/ the former on later train TO 60 on
TO Philadelphia with him
Says She Dragged Him.
"race charges his wife with having
heavily druCEed him before shooting
MIN This. he saws. accounts for Tho
iact that neither the report nor tho
pain accompanying the shot awoke
him "'"e
'HS'iung The states alleged notfva
tho attorneys for Mrs Grace saw M
th"ir client was wealthy In ber ov.,
right and had no need Of tho irsrr
ance money. They also claim ,bat sbo
is not tho type OF woman capoblc 90
such a deed. ana state that she ,,.,s
genuinely In love with her breb,n5
ana n" with her. until outside ineron.
cos began 70 work on his mind
TRACES coutrship Of his wife vae nj.
spec'acu'ar as it vas brief NJ,
trace was tho widow ~ Wfuio-, ~
opie. wealthy Pliadoiphia tailor
Nnd before his death. I'm F.brr,,-,.
1911. his wife had already boco,,o
known a. Daisy ~ tho -,
SNins. because ~ lor rr,,i. o..
mai ~. NAV anu
After tho death o. bor tr.t,,s
from whom sho Inherited sfr.. ..
MIS-. Grace b"came 70 coincidence .
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'nnsNIvan'1 metropolis About 80.
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man ~ Immaculate attire
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