The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1912-07-30
JURY IMPANELLED
AND TRIAL BEGUN
IN G RACE CASE
PhRALYZED HUSBAND BROUGHT
INTO COURT ON a COT TO
r FACE ACCUSED WIFE.
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nFEFNcF SPRINGS cIIRpRIcE
DEFENSE SPRINGS SURPRISE
tThat Woman Shot Me, So Help Me
God,' Says Husband - Mrs. Grace
Refutes Statement Grace is Para
Iyzed by Attracting Reporters At
tention to Movement of His Feet.

tenton to Movement of His Feet.
Atlanta, July 20. - A complete
jury to try the case of Mrs. Daisy
Opie Grace, charged with attempting
to murder her husband, Eugene H.
Grace, March 5, last, was selected be-
fore Judge L. S. Roam of the criminal
court, recessed the court at noon to-
day. The following is the jury Sc
lected:
!. H. Todd, aged "a, contracto.
j. L. Eberhart, real estate.
j. R. Bryant, aged SO, farmer.
Eric Manley, aged 35, fruit { aler.
James H. Holland, collector.
J. M. Fuller, city marshal.
William A. Laird, assistant ,ales
manager fertilizer company.
F, c. Moon, painter.
f, c. Lacy, collector.
John A. Spurlin, meat dealer.
w. R. Massengale, advertising.
L e. Mann, clerk.
The list of twelve men was COM
pleted at the expiration of one hour
an fifty-fve minutes, after a more
Or less heated discussion, between at
torneys of both sides as to whether all
challenges had been used. Juror
Mann had been challenged by the de-
fense, but after the clerk checked the
list it was found that the defense had
expended its twenty, and Prosecutor
Hugh Dorsey insisted that he had
qualified and Judge Roam instructed
the juror to take his seat
The Husband Entered.
Much excitement followed the COM
pletion of the jury when the invalid
husband, propped up slightly, was car
rieb into the courtroom Mrs. Grace
was worked up to such a pitch of ex-
citement that a trained nurse quiet
ly opened a small needle case and
administered hypodermic in her
patients left arm. She looked fire.
quently at her husband, but finally
pitched her chair so that one of her
ATTIC rneys obscured her view.
Solicitor Dorsey read the indict-
ment against Mrs. Grace, which
to murder her husband, Eugene H.
Grace. She pleaded not guilty to the
charge.
The First Witness.
After quiet was restored witnesses
were sent out of the room and the
prosecutor called the first witness for
the state. Policeman R. A. Wood,
WIN went to the Grace home on the
morning of the shooting.
Officer Wood said he found the
doors locked, and asked for three
other officers. They entered the
house through a back door, but were
forced to break down the door to
Grace's room. Grace was lying across
his bed wounded, in a pool of clotted
blood. A pocketbook containing a
check for $4,000 was found on the
Attorney Rosser cross-examined Of
tion of adjoining room and doors
thereto, Solicitor Dorsey finished with
thu witness, and Attorney Luther T.
Re sser, assistant counsel for the ac-
cused, began the cross examination
Armed with a transcript of Officer
Woods testimony at the preliminary
trial, Judge Rosser secured the ad-
mission from the policeman that "he
did not recollect," concerning the
status of the doors in the Grace home.
Policeman Dorset Testifies.
Policeman James Dorset testified
in answer to the prosecutors ques-
tions that he and other officers went
to the rear of the Grace home, and
met negro, J. c. Ruffin, who had a
key to a rear door of the house.
Gle came running up" said Dor
sett, land wanted to know what vas
the matter. We told him man had
been shot there. He unlocked the
door, went into the house ard pre-
ceGed us up the steps to Grace's
room. The door was locked. We
broke it down and found Grace
wounded. We found purse and Gig
arctic case, but no jeweiry Or valu
ables. I went downstairs and found
a pistol One chamber had been fired
and it smelled strongly of burnt pow
der.
Bloody Clothes Exhibited.
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