Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-07-21

The motive for the crime, as held by the prosecution, was to obtain the $27,o00 life insurance policy held by her husband and of which she was the beneficiary.
 In reply to this the attorney's for Mrs. Grace, say that their client was wealthy in her own right and had no need of the insurance money. They also claim that she is not the type of woman capable of such a deed and state that she was genuinely in love With her husband aud he with her un- til outside influences began to work on his mind
 The courtship of Eugene H. Grace and his wife, who is about 20 years his senior, was as spectacular as it was brief
 Mrs Grace was the widow of Will liam H. Opie, a wealthy Philadelphia taller And before his death from blood poison in February 1911, his wife had already become known as Daisy of the Leopard Skins;' be- cause of her mania for coats made from the skin of that spotted animal. After the death of her husband, from whom she inherited $1O0,000, Mrs. Grace became a conspicuous fig ure in the gilded cafe life of the Penn sylvania metropolis
 About this time her eyes had been attracted by the tall form of hand some man of immaculate attire.
 Then the tall young man saw the leopard furs and the vivacious face they caressed and mutual attraction sprang up. An introduction was ob- tained and as result Eugene H. Grace was married to Mrs. Opie in New York at the Little Church Around the Corner, in March, 1911, less than one month after the death of the brides former husband.
 Grace, at that time, was a bond salesman who had ambition to become a building contractor Finding his wife disposed to further this ambition he took his bride to Atlanta, where he set himself up in business.
 But he did not prosper. He and his pleasure loving wife lived rapidly and spent lavishly. Instead of applying himself to business, it is said, he de-, voted himself to pleasure. And he was obliged to keep drawing on his wife's resources until at last, it is as- serted he was about to go to Phila- delphia to mortgage their last piece of property, their only remaining asset, when he was shot,
 In letter to his wife, shortly be- fore their marriage, Grace made this confession q have been a rank fail ure and can vtruthfully say it was caused by woman.' as Also in another letter to his wife he wrote: What I have witnessed, and I say this absolutely free of a sentimental feeii"g. ha: ne,n a reve- lation to me in that it shows that the finish of such fast living to be death. I shall never again be misled by the sweet silver-tongue of an accomplish ed, morally perverted woman into the depths of depravity. Neither shall I again drink whiskey.'
 From the time Grace was found in his home, wounded alone, it was never thought until recently, that he had any chance whatever, to live. At first his entire body was paralyzed. But he gradually gained control of the upper part of his body and now only the lower portion is useless. Even this, his physicians believe, will be finally overcome.
 He has made several post mortem statements, at times when it was thought he was dying, and in each one he has sworn to his conviction, that his wife first drugged and then shot him, for the sole purpose to get his insurance money. That he has always loved his wife, he does not deny, although he claims to be indif- ferent to her fate now. In the begin ming his people stood by Mrs. Grace, even going so far as to assert that Grace was not in his right mind, but the latter's repeated accusations, and the knowledge of other and mysterious circumstances, that will be revealed at the trial have turned them all against her.
 In passionately declaring her inno- cence Mrs. Grace affirms that she has always loved her husband and now loves him and that to accuse her of attempting to shoot him to death is a monstrous injustice.
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