The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-08-02
On Stand Accused Woman
Tells OF Fight in Their
Apartments in Atlanta
DECLARES HE FIRST
TRIED TO KILL HER
Defendant Asserts That on
More ! han One Occasion
She Was Made Vic
tim of Attacks


Daisy Ulrieh Opie Grace told the jury
this afternoon how her young husband,
Eugene Grace. scion OF an aristocratic
Georgia family, received the bullet
wound that paraiyzed him In their
Atlanta home on the fifth OF last
March.
Her frs, words on the stand Were.
Gentlemen, | am innocent. I did
not shoot my husband. and he knows
IT," Indicating with nod OF the head
towards her husband who lay on a
stretcher near the witness stand.
Mrs. Grace then declared her hus-
band had shot himself during strug-
gle with her following a quarrel over
another woman on whom Mrs Grace
alleged her husband had been spend
ing her money.
With flushed face and hands tremb
ling, Mrs. Grace spoke in clear. but
low Voice. declaring that her husband
had tried to kill her several times,
Once, SHE said. he tried 10 drown her.
again. he stabbed her, and. finally. the
day he was shot. he seized pistol
and in the struggle that followed he
wounded himself.
Mrs. Grsce's statement was very
long. The salient features follow:
Il did not shoot MIR. Grace, and he
knows H.; as God Is my judge, that
ls rhe solemn truth. Mr.. Grace and
took an oath over the Bible that we
would never tell how this trouble hap
pened. and not until after | was L.
dictsd did even tell my attorneys
Wouldn't Teli.
Week after week. / lay suffering in
jail trying to decide. upon the right
thing to do. ] knew that | was IN
nocent. and knew thar | was being
uuiustiy punished but also knew that
] had taken an oath never to tell how
AIR. Grace WAS shot, Finally. de-
cided that owed 1t to the name OF
my old mother and my little blind boy.
regardless Of my oath. TO tell tho whole
truth about this difficulty. no matter
whom IL might disgrace,
To me. Mr. Grace Mas THE most fas~
einatlng man | had ever met. and with
out shame and without strength 10 re-
sist II. have made for him every
sacrifice In this world that a woman
could make for "A man From the
time | met him until the 18th Of last
March. ! gave him $4,000 in cash.
was as true to him as any wife could
b.. 10 her husband, aud | always hui
rnored and putted hifn like "a spoiled
child
II dressed him III the height Of fash
ion: cooked HIS meals for him when
my servants could not please him. aud
] ceased 10 correspond with my wild
owed mother and sister in order to
please him. took HIS abuse and
heatings time after time because OF
my extreme dee-~on to- him"
Gave Husband Money.
Mrs. Grace gave a complete his
tory ci her relations with Grace. and
admitted that she married him two
weeks after the death of her ffst
. husband Webster -npie, Of Ph!ladal-
phia From the first Grace treated
her badly. and made eons'an de-
manda for money. Several times, she
r1elos. Grace tried "a XIII hs-. ,pnr
OF these attempts she alleged was
made while they were on steamer
bound from New York Ia Nova
Scotia, she said;
zone night while the steamer was
between Neva Scotia and New Found
afand. at about half Spast three. my
husband came to meet and suggested
that we take promenade on deck
We went 10 the stern Of the ship and
there was no one around He sud-
denly picked me up and sat me on
the railing, and pretended to fright
an me by pushing me backwards.
He became SO persistent In his CT
forts that I was very much alarmed
and | chung to his neck with all my
might and Threatened 70 scream II ne
didn't let me down at once, and as
soon as he had done so We Went NJ
once to our cabin, where | accused
him OF trying to push me overheard.
and / demande that he return to me
the will had signed before leaving
New York. He told me that ne had
only been playing with me. but I was
safisfied that he intended to drown
me-
Then she said her husband tried
IN nush her over blur at ST. Johns.
But failed, though her knee was bad
IL injured. She offered TO show the
fury the scar on her knee. She said
Grace wanted to kill her because she
had made a will in his favor.
Another attempt was made to XIII
her because she refused to take Grace
on a trip 10 Europe. She described
as follows:
HE sent my little hoy out on the
vorch. and renewed the fight about
NV refusal To go to Europe. Upon
NV second refusal to 60 he became
more furious than ever. and he took
\ his pistol out OF the chiffonier ana
tnid me he @euid put an end TO u
all. snatched the pistol out OF ms
hand and ran upstairs with II and he
was running after me, bur on nv
flight l had thrown the piston among
some pillows in a bay WINDOW Wneh
ne caught me and found ! had dis-
.pesad of tina pistol he took MS Knue
out Of his pocket and ! grabbed ms
hand and In the struggle he STABBED
the in the face right here winch mas
left 4 scar az you can sec for your
selves.
"Once he came TO me and said that
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