Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1912-07-31
EUGENE GRACE FEARS ATTACK.
Appeals to Detectives for Protection
Until Hearing Is Over.
(Atlanta COnstitution.)

The fear OF death, swift. silent and
relentless, clutched at the heart of
Eugene H. Grace yesterday as he lay
helpless on a hospital cot In the to-
bacco-laden court room of the crimi-
nal division Of the Superior Court,
listening to the sordid details Of the
crime which he has charged to his
wife, Daisy Opie Webster Grace.
The sting Of bullet or the swift
pierce of a knife is what Grace fears.
He says that he saw himself being
assassinated in a dream, and the
halucination has become so fixed in
his mind that he has appealed to
Chief Of Detectives \. A. Lanford for
protection during his trial.
81 don't trust that woman, and |
fear hcr friends still more he de-
clared Monday as he was being lift
ed into the court room.
TO ease his mind and dispcl any
fear Of danger. r. G. Farmer, Ir.,
and Tom Fisher, both boyhood COM
panions. stand at the head and foot
of his cot. At the slightest bit Of cN-
element in the court room Monday
morning, or whenever a strange per-
son approached his side. he would
clutch at the bed covering to attract
his friends.
"Watch me close, boys!" he ad-
monished them.
The Jury Completed.
The tedious task of selecting the
jury to try Mrs. Grace for shooting
with intent to kill her boyish hus-
band was completed at 11.30 o'clock,
and Immediately after both sides
plunged into the examination Of wit
nesses, which will last until Wednes-
day afternoon. Five witnesses were
heard. The State began tracing the
movements Of Mrs. Grace from 8
O'Clock Of the morning of March s.,
the hour which she was first seen by
the servants, until she reached New
nan at o'clock that same afternoon.
Up to 4.30 o'clock Monday afternoon,
when the hour of adjournment had
been reached, the Stat had failed to
show that Mrs. Grace had actually
fired the shot into the side and
against the spine Of her husband.
Policies Suggested as Motive.
(Atlanta Constitution, 31st.)
The crucial moment In the trial OF
Mrs. Daisy E. Grace came at 3
o'clock yesterday afternoon when the
Solicitor began laying the foundation
to show that the snug little fortune
Of $4,000 was the tempting morsel
which caused the woman to attempt
the murder Of her boyish husband.
"It is but one of the links in the
chain," said one Of the attorneys.
"This link will hold the chain to-
gether and make 1t complete. 1t will
show motive.
These policies were suggested
when Gene and Daisy, yet on their
honeymoon, paid their first visit to
the Hill home. 1t was Mrs. Hill, the
mother of Grace, happy because her
big boy had brought his bride home
to see her, who asked Gene to take
out the policies.
81 told them that 1t was duty
they owed to each other" Mrs. Hill
said on the witness stand Tuesday.
AS the tragic sequel Of the we'd
ding passed through her mind, Mrs.
Hill wept when she was questioned
as to what prompted her to make the
suggestion. 81 was just happy then,
and ! thought that it would be good
idea for them to be protected. Had
known that this great trouble would
be the sequence ! would have died
rather than breathe word"
Grace Collapsed
when his gray-haired old mother
oeSPPCb uo"h luS WlIllGSS DOS,
tagged from the trying ordeal Of ex-
animation. His condition was such
that DR.. Goldsmith advised that he
be removed hastily to the sanitarium.
A bulletin at Q o'clock was to the ef-
feet that Grace had high fever and
that his pulse was high, almost as
high as when he was shot on the af-
ternoon of March S.
"Grace is very sick" was the news
from Piedmont Sanitarium at eight
O'Clock last night, and there was no
encouraging news thereafter. The
physicians decline to discuss his
condition other than to state that he
was very sick.