The Washington times., 1912-07-07
INVALID HUSBAND
SEEKS REVENGE ON
MRS. DAISY GRACE
Atlanta Man Will Ask Di-
vorce After Woman's
Trial.

ATLANTA. July 7.--"If It costs me
the life that is coming back to me, I
am going 70 be at the trial to help put
behind the bars the woman who tried
to kill me. And after that will di-
vorce her so that she may never again
call herself by the name of Grace. These
two things will do or de In doing
them"
Lying helpless in bed at his mothers
home in Newman, still paralyzed. from
the bullet that he says his wife ired
into his body while he lay asleep,
Eugene II. Grace held up his right
hand as one who swears an oath when
he made that declaration
Daisy Grace comes TO trial in Allan
Ia July "a he went en-. My doctor
says that will still be psralyzed then
that there Is little hope that will be
shle to move my lower hody or my
limits for months to come. But know
that II am at that trial she will be
convicted. though the law prevents my
testifying against her, and SO I have
already ordered an invalid's chair that
will carry me 20 Atlanta. and I am
going to lie In the courtroom by my
lawyers side to help theh prove her
guilt from her own lips"
Will Continue Fight.
As Grace told Of his vow and the
fight nc Is going to make against Daisy
Opie Grace, his hands worked nervously
at the counterpart, his teeth snapped
together in the intensity of his resolve,
and now and then the paralyzed legs
twitched suddenly beneath the bed COW
crs from reflex action that the doctors
say is the promise of his recovery.
"It is a lie," he continued, that ever
wrote that I would not prosecute my
wife. did not write that letter to DR..
Fetter in Philadelphia. My nurse wrote
1t, but she did not say l would not
prosecute, That prosecution is my first
ambition. 1t is why I am trying Sc
hard to get well. Listen. That woman
shot me while slept because she
thought she saw a way to get the
$4,000 life insurance policy that I had
taken at her own request.
"She had doped me into marrying her
She was a lobster palace lady. She
was clever in the way of those adven
turesses who have had much experience
beneath the white lights. I was less ex'
perienced. l brought her to Atlanta
Well, she could not be satisfied with
Atlanta after the life Of New York
I did my best to make her happy. But
she tired of me.
Shot While Asleep.
''She could not care for one man alone
so she thought she saw her way to bt
rid of me, and at the same time wir
for herself a fortune and free return
to the White Way, that she loved. Ant
while l slept she shot me. Could q
woman do anything worse in God'l
sight or mans? Do you wonder tha
I am going to live to see her put be
hind prison bars? And do you wonde
that when she has been convicted l an
going to sue her for divorce as soon Al
I have lived in the State year?"
Young Grace really looks far upon tn,
road to health. His face Is as full o.
color as that of man OF robus
strength. He moves his arms, head
and his upper body with ease. Onl!
the helpless length of his lower bod!
lies palsied.
Those stories OF immortality that the!
have told about me are all lies," n
said vehemently. They are more o
the lies that the woman has fabricated
to win sympathy for herself. 1 did no
drink to excess. l did smoke cigarettes
but I was not a fend. It's another III
that I was shot at the end Of
one have given for the shooting.
my wife wanted that insuranc
money, and to get 1t she shot me Will
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