The sun., 1912-08-02

she saws Grace became worse than ever
after the woman.
Finally just before the shooting Grace g
business became involved and he clamored
for money. said the witness. At last he
persuaded Mrs. Grace to give him power
of attorney to sell her house in Philadel-
phia and also to sell some securities she
owned.
Grace arranged to leave for Philadel-
pha on March s. the day hs was shot,
and he insisted Mrs. Grace should 60 to
his mothers home in Newman. Graces
insistcncc that she so to Newman made
Mrs. Grace suspicious. She said:
AT first | did not suspect why he was
so anxious for me to go to Newman OH
that particular day. but finally began to
suspect that he was either planning to
take woman to Philadelphia with him
or that perhaps he intended to get me out
of town and have her come to our home
and carry ON his disgraceful conduct
and | believed it was either the woman
who called him out of the theatre or the
one whose picture he was carrying In
his watch when first met him and whom
he had confessed that he had ruined and
| had taken from Atlanta to Philadelphia
and lived with her and at one time was
very much in love with.
This is the same woman who tele-
| phoned him at the Piedmont Hotel when
! We were having dinner there.
I His manner was very SUSPICIOUS. and
1 made up my mind that Mr.. Grace was
| trying to get me out of Atlanta before
I he left So he could take woman to Phila-
delphia with him or, worse still. thought
might take her TO my home
Then came March .. the day oi the
shooting. Mrs. Grace's story of the
events Of that day follows
| "On the morning ot that day ] learned
that Mr. Grace's financial affairs were
looking better and decided not to allow
him to sell my Philadelphia property.
II said to MIR Grace | am so 4 lad things
are loohing better. and asked him il he
/ would not wait Il while longer before sell
ing my home ~ il did not seem necessary
il III" business wac peettinE better. Al
this suggest ION he raised hts voice very
loudly, cursing and abusing me. ana told
me # I did not hurry up and get ont oi
that he would break my damned Internal
neck. at the came time looking like he in
tended 20 make good his threats.
1T wa.- plain To IN. ,ha, he would allow
nothing To change his plans of getting IN,
OF to Newman ON the . o'clocr train and
was convinced there was woman al
the bottom of his strange manner and
decided that | would not permit HIM I,
send me OF while he went away on d
pleasure trip with some other woman OF
my money and sell my home and proba-
bly, spend IA great portion ot the proceeds
on the woman and hts own dissipation
and told him "a much.
As said this Mr.. Grace was still lyint
on the bed His coat was hanging JUS
behind where he was lying and a. ! spok'
walked toward the coa' and took out o
his pocket the power of attorney. a'on,
with some other papers which were i'll th'
coat.
1t was my intention TO throw the powe
Of attorney into the fire and as soon a
he saw what | was doing he sprang ont o
bed and grabbed my left wrist with hi
right hand and my right wrist in his lef
hand. We struggled and he backed m
over against the bureau and twisted IN.
left hand so hard that | dropped tn
paper, on the floor.
: Then he let go of that hand and grabbe'
/ my throat with his right hand and h
, reached in u small drawer in the burea
and took ont his revolver. lie was curs
ing in u low. hushed Voice and his FAC
wa, so distorted with rage that | wa
very t;tuiy scared. and when he made
plotion 10 hit IN" with the pistol and the
tried to shoot me threw all my weigh
and strength against him. grabbed hir
around tn" arms haNksd him over 10 III
bed and ~ soon as his legs came in contaC
with thu. bed he fell over backward with M
on top oi him and ~as punching. pullin
and showing and dong all in my powe
To Keep him from hitting N" with the pistt
or shooting me-. when suddenly the pistt
went or and screamed and jumped w
At ilr-t ! Thought was shot and tn"
when did not feel that | was threw IN
u,ntipI his neck and said. On ten,
| wha, hav. YOU done; Are YOU hurt
= He s~lid No, ! am not hurt. hut for God
sake don't make 50 much nose or yo
Will have III" whole neighborhood i'll here
In the meantime | was Very muc
excited aud wanted to know what ha
become Of the shot and If he was hur
and he said | have only got q scratcl
il don't amount TO damn and all ] wal
YOU to do il to hush and get ready an
re; out of here and that everythin
woul. come ont all right, He said: 1t
, damn lucky one of us did not get hadl
:, hurt or killed, and that il was all IN
Il fault and if | Was nor so stuck on thu
:, Internal piece Of pro!"rty in Philadelph
/, would never have happened.
Il was dressing az fast as | could and
WAS still ANXIOUS about his wounds an
% wanted To call a doctor. bat he said Il
= hell with q doctor! Pick up those paper
8 rs told you, and call a cab
Il did everything that he wanted NJ
!, to do and kept on begging him To lei II
-, call u doctor So We would both know no
y much he was hurt. | suggested that }
:, might he hurt worse than he thought
Il was and | told him he could tell the do'
o tor that he was handling his pistol an
t. dropped il and il went off and sho, hin
p and he replied that If had any sense TN
/ | wou!dn't make any such damn fool SUI
!, gesiions, and that he said he had Ia
- about as much experience with wounS
J. as most of the doctors and he could Il
= aS we'll as any of them could when
Vas hurt
He then told me that the thing for n
to do. and do il quick. was To 90 out
the house and leave the rest To him. al
said if this damned thing should got ol
y in nfighborhood like this We Won
never he able to live il down and all h
business and social prospects would
zone forever He insisted That | hurl
!. up and do as he had planned for me
IL do and said that if he later thought III
le he needed a doctor that h. would get on
a II" told me to 20 to Newman at once.
d He told me 10 take the pistol away
= my hard satChel and when got Ia Ne'
nan 10 hide it. lie told ne TO lock u
J. door So the servants would not know th
II he was in there He said he would r
g main there until dark and then he Won
go and see doctor and go out at d
other door.
, Il Judged from the way my husbai
talked that his wound must certain
bc only slight one. and that probab
n his plans were all for the best, and
know now tha, he did not think the woul
at all serious.