The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-08-02

u when suddenly the pistol went off
I: and I screamed and jumped up. !
y He told me to stop screaming,
2 that he was not hurt much and I:
= that the thing for me to do was to I:
get out of the house and leave the ;
I; rest to him. He made me kiss a
+; Bible that I would never tell what I:
= had happened, as it would disgrace I:
!: us both forever.
+: Gentlemen. did not shoot Mr.. I:
+: Grace and he knows it: as God is !
. my judge, this is the solemn truth"
Atlanta. August with her hus-
band. face leering at her from the
pillow of his cot. Mrs. Daisy e. Grace
today related her story to the jury.
.I did not shoot Mr.. Grace and he
knows 1T; as God is my Judge. that
IS the solemn truth, she exclaimed
dramatically, and Grace's lips parted
in cynical smile. 1t was a remark
able story, told in a calm, even voice,
without pause, as though 1t had been
well rehearsed. Grace was revealed in
black coiors as a creature who had
rewarded wifely love and generosity
with the grossest cruelty and inf
5 .sslits
Mrs. Grace occupied the better part
of an hour in its telling and at its
conclusion She left the stand and the
defense rested its case. As she did
not make the statement under oath,
the prosecution was denied the priv
ilege of cross examination. The state
then put on one or two witnesses in
Iebuttal and rested finally.
q IN hfaI hU
two sides in summing up. Lamar Hill,
counsel for Grace, occupied hour
OF the prosecutions time before ad-
! journment was taken until tomorrow.
The case is expected to go to the jury
shortly after noon Friday.
A bold stroke by the prosecution in
trying to have Grace sworn to rebut
the statement of the accused woman
did not succeed. Judge Roam ruled that,
under the Georgia law, a husband was
not competent to testify against his
wife.
Says Grace Shot Himself
Mrs. Grace declared, in her state
ment. that Grace shot himself during
scuffle with her for possession of a
pistol with which he was trying to
shoot her. 1t was not the first time
lie had attempted to kill her, she said.
Last summer after she had made her
will in his favor at his insistence, she
testified, she said that he tried to
throw her overheard from a steamer on
which they were making trip from
New York to ST. Johns. Some time after
that when they were in Atlantic City,
she testified he threw her across the
bed and held a pistol at her head. de-
claring that he would kill her IL she did
not stop talking to him about going to
work She said that he had beaten her
and choked her frequently but that in
spite of his mistrea tment she had made
for him every sacrifice in this world
that a woman could make for a man" :"
From the time she met him until
the day OF the shooting. she said she
had given him $4,000 in cash II was
as true, to him as any wife could be-"
she said. ''and l always humored and
petted him like a spoiled child"
Another Woman Mentioned
Soon after they came to Atlanta last
November. Mrs. Grace testified she be-
gan to realize that her husband was neg
1ecting her. Another woman began call
ing him up over the telephone and when
she would say anything to him about 1t
he would get mad. As he usually beat
her when they quarrelled. she declared
she was careful not to arouse his anger.
Then Grace went into the building busi-
ness with Mr. Lawrence, but with such
poor success that he was drawing con-
stantly on her money Finally he pre-
vailed upon her to give him power of at
torney to go to Philadelphia and sell her
home. He was to leave on the morning
of the shooting, she going to the home
of his mother to stay during his absence.
Grace awoke that morning feeling badly
and she suggested that they defer their
departure until the next day. His man.
ner was very suspicious she said, land
/ made up my mind that he was trying
TO get me out Of Atlanta before he left
% he could take a woman with him, OF
worse STILL into my own home"
She said Lawrence, Grace's partner
called up about II o'clock and asked her
to tell Grace that he had just received
n nice sum of money and things were
looking brighter. Lawrence previously
had testified to this conversations Mrs.
Grace said she took the message to Grace
and commented that he could wait a
while before selling her home If business
was picking up. AT this suggestion, he
raised his voice very loud, cursing and
abusing me and told me that if | did not
hurry and get out of the house he would
break my damned. internal neck .
1 She said she was convinced there was
a woman at the bottom of his stranke
manner and was determined not to per-
nit him to send her off while he went
away on pleasure trip with some other
Grace as much.
Describes Scene
.As said this she continued, Grace
vas lying on the bed grunting His coat
VAS hanging just behind where he was ly-
ing. She walked toward the coat and
took out of the pocket the power Of At.
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