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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-07-30
Heard at Depot That
Mrs. Grace Was Accused.

At the Terminal station two police
men met her. She and Mrs Grace
did not ride to the police station in
the same vehicle. She hadn't meant to
say they hadn't been separated at all.
Didn't you know" asked Mr. Ros-
J SER that it was rumored around the
streets that Grace accused his wife,"
Mr.. Dorsey objected. The court ruled
in favor of the question.
Il heard it at the depot" said Mrs.
Hill.
Didn't Mrs Grace have the same
opportunity"
Il don't know. A paper was shown
me. l don't know whether she saw a
paper or not.
Il don't know whether Daisy knew
whether she was suspected or not. Yes
she went down the street with Morris
Prioleau, and two policemen followed
them.
Mr. Rosser gave a comical imitation
policemen.
Mr.. Prloleau resumed the stand
Il saw Mrs. Grace at the Terminal
station on the evening of March s." he
said.
81 said nothing to her about any ac-
cusation against her | was with her
all the way to the hospital.
Nobody told her anything about the
accusation while l was with her I was
with her in the room at St Josephs"
Mr.. Prioleau was extremely confident
of his answers.
He was in the room at the hospital
when Mrs. Grace confronted Grace Mr.
Dorsey began to ask about the CONVEX
sation, but the defense objected and
the jury was sent out again.
Mrs. Grace spoke first" said the
witness. she said Gene, what are
these things you're saying about me p
He replied: Daisy, why did you shoot
me-"
MIR. Rosser protested against Mr.
Dorsey's leading the witness
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-07-30
GRACE SUFFERS
A BREAK DOWN
Victim of Shooting Ordered
by Physician Not to Go to
Court Room.
Continued From Second Page.

within fraction of an inch. He be-
lieved the bullet rested in the spite.
The spinal cord would not be shown
in an X-ray. Mr. Rosser's insistence
that the witness speak English" in
stead of Latin phrases occasioned some
amusement.
DR. Durr said Grace had no control
of his legs when the X-ray was taken
He attributed this to the pressure of a
bony substance against the spinal cord
The X-ray plates were admitted in
evidence
The court took recess here until
1870 p. m.
So fearful for their seats were the
morning spectators at the trial that
they refused to leave the court room
during the recess period.
The same faces that peered over the
rail when court opened this morning
were there when Judge Roam raped for
order at 1870 o'clock The edges of the
crowd were swelled to considerable
extent by throng of men who dropped
in Gust to look on for a few minutes -
Quite a sensation was caused just
prior to the opening of court by thin.
bedraggled old woman who forced her
way into court and demanded a seat.
Not finding any seats vacant, she made
her way to the inside of the rail. Here
she deliberately caught a man by the
coat collar and jerked him from his
chair She then took the seat herself
At the afternoon session the patent
medicine bottles in question were ten
dered by the solicitor general Mrs.
Grace was missing from her seat but
she arrived a moment later.
Morris Prioleau, relative of Eugene
Grace's family and an employee of the
Southern Bell Telephone Company, was
the first witness at the session.
Grace had not returned from the SAN
itarium to which he had been taken
in an ambulance at luncheon time. He
had felt the effects of the heat at the
morning session.
Mrs. S l.. Hill was recalled to the
stand, Mr.. Prioleau being taken down.
Did you tell Mrs. Grace Of any ac-
cusation made against her?' she was
asked.
No; l didn't know of any" she re-
piled.
Mrs. Grace was not out of my pres
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-07-30

the examination of Prioleau continued
On being questioned he said:
Nobody had said anything to Mrs
Grace about an accusation against her
until the time I went to Graces room
with her
She told me Gene had had a cold
that day, and asked me what his con-
dition was with reference to the cold
"She asked me how the people had
got into the house and expressed worry
about the furniture.
She said she wanted to go out and
spend the night and protect the fur
niture. This was before she had seen
her husband"
Did she manifest any worry or So
licitude over her husband"
The defense was on it's feet. OBJ
jecting, and was sustained Mr. Rosser
was persistently leading the witness.
After the question was put in proper
form. the witness answered:
"She asked about how badly Gene
was shot.
She said Grace had intended to go
to Philadelphia, and his failure to go
would put her in an embarrassing posi-
tiop
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-07-30
Same Curious Faces
Peer Over Rail.

The second day of the trial was a
replica Of the first so far as the crowds
were concerned.
The same anxious. strained faces
peered over the rail and into the dock
the same little shivering women were
crowded against the wall and away
from all sight and sound the same
hectic faces of young girls bobbed in
and out in the audience
The personnel Of the crowd had
changed somewhat, but the same types
were there mathematical deputy
sheriff counted $40 spectators over and
above those directly concerned in the
trial. OF this number, 81 were women.
1t was a noticeable fact that there
were present many more nicely dressed
women than on the day before one
of these-young and pretty-who wore
neatly trimmed white suit, sat near
the rail- Every now and then she
made notes with a pencil. She replied
to a question that she was not a news
paper correspondent.
One of the lawyers concerned in the
case drew attention to the scarcity of
red headed girls in the court room. A
survey of the crowd revealed the fact
that there was one. She was slender
and nervous, frequently rose to her seat
and looked about When Grace was
brought in on a stretcher she climbed
to the top of a chair and so remained
until forced by sheriff to resume her
seat.
One little girl on the outside of the
court room was curious to discover how
Grace spent the night She seemed
very much disturbed when told that he
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ment No; they stuck to their seats in
grim determination, knowing that
should they leave dozen other men
or women were waiting for their places
They sat and waited, in the forlorn
hope that something might happen to
break the monotony of the proceedings
or perhaps satisfied with being merely
In the same room with those famous
characters immortalized by the papers.
They We're like the crowd which gath
er outside the walls of Jail waiting
Tor the moment of the execution which
they have no hope of seeing.
Drama Strangely Dull.
But the drama itself was strangely
dull and emotionless. Upon the wit
ness stand a policeman in his SUNDAY
citizens suit or negro in worn and
dusty garments answered such ques-
tons as were put, waiting patiently
while the young solicitor and the burly
trial lawyer for the defendant quarreled
over the wording of a phrase. There
were questions seemingly without a
shadow of importance. answers appar-
emily meaningless. There were half
angry alterations between the lawyers
over points bearing no meaning to the
auditor; flashes of rough wit as a cross
questioner tried TO ridicule the witness
into tangling his testimony.
And Mrs. Grace, central figure of "the
play sat at her lawyers table, ex-
pressionless inscrutabe There were
moments when the testimony became
unprintable; when almost forbidden
subjects were discussed with comment
bordering on buffoonery. But still Mrs.
Grace leaned over her table. her dark
eyes fixed upon the face of the wit
ness, her cheek unmarked by blush or
pallor 1t was as though all the smaller
things of life had been forgotten in the
face of the great question the tribunal
had been called to answer.
And Eugene Grace, the dying man"
of so many newspaper extras the man
who had descended into the shadow of
death the hopeless cripple who would
never smile again--he lay on his cot
and laughed softly as his friends made
comments on the case. He chuckled at
the sharp tits between the counsel and
commented caustically upon bits of the
testimony. His face was brown, as
though he had been playing golf in the
sun. There was no trace of the pallor
which comes from long confinement
save in the slender hands, which were
white and emaeiated. Grace seemed
the merriest man in all the room.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-07-30
Dougherty Shows He
Not in Conspiracy.

Deputy Police Commissioner Dough-
erty replied to statement by Rose that
he feared Dougherty and would not
confess in his presence, with denial
that he had held any friendly relations
with Becker in the investigation of the
murder
Dougherty said
81 have not visited any supervision
over Becker-never came in contact
with him or his work at all 1t was
outside of my jurisdiction.
when this investigation is finished
it will be determined that I never had
any relations with Becker Of any kind.
Everybody in and out of the investiga-
ton knows | had nothing to do with
gambling.
In the first place, I arrived at the
West Seventy fourth street police sta
ton As minutes after the actual muir
der was reported to me at my home,
and the case was absolutely dry when
got there. l ordered the arrest of
Libby and Shapiro. | got the first in =
formation from Shapiro that the MUIR
der car was hired by Rose and that 1t
went to Bridge Webbers house.
was the first to learn the names OF the
two men that rode with Rose. They
were WALTON and Schepps.
81 secured the first discriminating
statements from the prisoners and it
was on my evidence that all of them
were held in the first place,
Il have co-operated with the district
attorney in the entire case. OF course,
the district attorney could promise and
grant immunity where l could not"
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cent man to be in. can't say any
thing more now"
The delicate health of his wife, who
is expecting the arrival of an heir,
weighed upon Becker quite as much as
the charge against him. The man who
had jauntily twisted a panama hat the
night before and smiled in the face of a
charge of murder in the first degree
was broken and unstrung.
When Police Commissioner Waldo
came to his Office he was affected.
Have you any statement to make?"
Absolutely none" was his reply.
Don't you think that as the head of
the department of New York and in
view of what has happened in the last
"a hours it is up to you to say some
thing?'
Il do not"
ut has been reported that you re-
signed from the position as a result of
this?"
The commissioner made no reply
Jack Sullivan, another of the prison
ers under arrest for the Rosenthal mR'
der held a lengthy conference today
with his attorney This was taken as
an indication that Sullivan, following
the lead of Rose. WALTON and Weber,
and with the same assurance from the
district attorney that was given to the
other three, is prepared to tell all he
knows concerning the relations between
the police and the gamblers and the
6
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-07-30
State Pleased With
Progress of Case.

"The state is very well satisfied with
the progress of the case" said Lamar
Hill of cousel for the prosecution, to-
We brought out every point we de-
sired from one witness and have every
reason to believe we have made good
progress"
John w. Moore, Of counsel for the de-
Tense, only smiles when asked about
the states evidence.
Il am as well satisfied as Mr. Hill,
he said. There's nothing else to say -
That the case Will be continued
through tomorrow at least was indi-
Gated by the courts announcement that
all witnesses in other cases, called for
Wednesday. would be excused until
Thursday 1t is expected that the case
will reach the jury by Wednesday aft
eTnoon.
The absence of Reuben Arnold, the
noted criminal lawyer. from the trial
occasioned a great deal Of comment
from members of the bar and court
attaches, who had anticipated a battle
royal between Mr.. Arnold and Luther
u. Rosser, who have met more than
once in wordy wars over witnesses
1t was stated in the court room that
Mr. Arnold. who had been retained with
Lamar Hill by Grace's relatives. had
withdrawn from the case because he
did not receive a fee commensurate
with the importance of the case, and
because, as he said, he did not care to
face the ordeal of court room so hot
and sickening in it's atmosphere as that
in the Thrower building. Mr. Arnold
it is understood. is out of the city en-
gagged in an important criminal case
in a Georgia town.
Mrs. Grace entered the room at s: So
o'clock, accompanied, as on yesterday
by G. w. Burke, private detective
She wore a large white panama hat
with a black velvet ribbon around it,
Her dress was of black silk. with low
shoes to match. Diamonds flashed in
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-07-30
The Probable Causes of Sne Tragedy
Specialized Upon by Two Women
as They Study Gene and Wife.
By T. B. SHERMAN.

Just then the bailiff raped for or
der
THE spectators will have to keep
quiet and stop interrupting the court"
he bawled. The two women were silent
ment Mrs Grace turned her head and
gazed for the barest part of a second
at the cot where her wounded husband
lay.
Look at her-she can't keep her
eyes off him." whispered the younger
woman.
Yes" responded the middle-aged
woman. "Elementally she Is no differ
ent than she was the first day she saw
Eugene Grace. He fascinated her. The
two types point to that clearly"
Il don't see how they ever fell in
love with each other" said the younger
woman.
"She Was Fascinated"
Il don't know that they did" said
the mfddle-aged woman. But l can see
this. He had never known much of
her type of woman and she had never
seen much OF this type of man. They
were novelties to each other. She Is
clearly woman of whimsical nature.
She is the kind who could concentrate
her whole nature in the achieving of
one particular thing. He was tall and
good looking and with the unmistakable
marks of Southern breeding-he was a
new element in her life. She was fas-
cinated-and still is, down at the bot
tom, regardless of what she thinks she
thinks of him"
and what of him? What did she
mean to him.
Il don't believe that the emotions
which she stirred in him could have
been of a very firm texture" answered
the middle-aged woman. Il don't be-
lieVe that he was ever more than mere
ly infatuated with her. And that,
think. Is in a measure responsible for
the present situation"
The women were silent for long
period. They listened closely to the
evidence, Finally the middle-aged wom-
an seemed to lose interest AS if pos
sessed by a sudden thought she nudged
her companion.
Then They Dissect the Men.
"A woman will always know what to
wear" she said. I'm wager that Mrs
Grace picked out the simplest gown she
could find..although it fits her horri-
bly,
Yes" agreed the other. there are
lots of things which figure in a trial
besides the sworn evidence"
But all mothers are just alike.
They all look the same, they all act
the same Their actions spring from
the one primitive animal impulse of
protection for their young. The fact
that Mrs Graces mother has rushed to
her daughters side proves nothing. If
her daughter were innocent as an angel
or black with guilt. her attitude would
be the same It's beautiful, though"
The two women then fell to dissect-
ing the men. The prosecuting attorney
was certainly very insistent for a lit
tie fellow-and how Mr.. Rosser roared.
Neither one Of them could understand
how such a benevolent looking man
as Judge Roam could sentence anybody
to prison. Both agreed, however, that
the jury was very intelligent looking
body as a whole.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-07-30

ence from the time she left Newman
until midnight
Gene told me he had married Daisy
on March 8, 1911, in New York. She
is about 80 years old"
On cross examination, Mrs. Hill said
Daisy had told her she had given Gene
a patent medicine that morning. She
didn't remember testifying to this be-
fore Justice Ridley. She said Daisy
had told her Gene was feeling par
alyzed' that morning and he seemed
to feel better after the medicine
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-07-30
ENGINE HITS WAGON AT
CROSSING; DRIVER HURT

]. L. Smith, of Howell Station, was
struck by a switch engine at the Bell
wood avenue crossing of the Atlanta.
Birmingham and Atlantic railroad az
noon today. He was injured badly. He
was driving horse hauling a wagon
load of watermelons. The horse was
killed and the wagon demolished.
Smith was rushed to the Elkin- Gold
smith sanitarium in Patterson's auto
mobile ambulance. 1t is reported he
will recover.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-07-30
Curious Spectators Find Sensations They Seek the Tragedy
WOMEN SEE A MARRIAGE LESSON IN THE OF
A Graphic View of the Women at the
Hearing Who Find in 1t Big Show"
Varying the Monotony of Dull Lives.
BY DUDLEY GLASS.

If any spectator at the Grace trial
expected to be awed by the solemnity
OF the tribunal and thrilled at the dra-
matte stage setting-accused wife and
wounded husband glazing at each other
before the 1udge-he must have been
somewhat disappointed.
The striking detail one couldn't get
away from was the women in the audi-
ence, the poorly clad women who sat in
those rear seats breathing that fetid
atmosphere, surrounded by men of
every stamp, hearing little, seeing less
and apparently supremely happy de-
spite the whiting of their garments and
the trickle of perspiration through the
powder on their cheeks.
There were perhaps so of them-sone
old enough to be grandmothers. some
girls not far In their teens. One wom
an bore a child of five, who fretted and
whined on her lap and begged to be
taken outdoors again. There was a
little girl who ran through the crowd
when the doors were opened, lodging
between the legs of the grownups. gain
ing ground by her very insignificance.
until she found a front seat by the
Judges stand.
Just Ordinary Women.
There were little groups of women.
dull-eyed who chewed gum incessant-
~ and chatted together in low tones
as the case progressed. l saw no wom-
an whose garb or manner stamped her
as one of the demi monde few of the
type the world would call refined"
They seemed Just ordinary women
whose husbands were at work for day
wages To them the trial of Mrs Grace
was the great SHOW" of the year. 1t
was to their starved, sensation hungry
souls what the grand opera is to the
lover of great music. 1t was the event
OF their lives
And how little they saw and heard!
Most of them We're crowded into seats
far at the left of the court room, with
the judges bench and the rallied do
mirions of the clerk shutting off their
view Of all the principals in the drama
They saw no more than if wall had
been built between them and the court
Perhaps they caught glimpse of
white covered cot as Eugene Grace was
borne into the room and out again. Per-
haps they saw a bit of brown plume
as Mrs. Grace rose to make her exit
But through all the six hours of the
hearing they saw nothing more, for the
ratings and the standing men against
# were between the audience and the
stage.
But they did not leave in disappoint-
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-07-30
BECKER ARREST
ALARMS POLICE
Lieutenant Is Held Under an
indictment for RosenthaI
Murder.
Continued From Page One.

and WALTON declared Becker set the
stage for the murder and personally
managed it's details. Each swore he
acted at the repeated direction Of
Becker. and that Becker both before
and after the crime assured them of
protection,
These men gave to District Attorney
Whitman the complete chain of facts
leading up to the assassination. And in
doing so they paved the way to the
most remarkable exposition of graft
that has ever been known.
All of the statements lead to men
higher up in the official scale than
Becker. They caused District Attorney
Whitman to state that he was no
longer concerned for the little fish, but
was determined to get the bigger men
who were responsible for the direction
of Becker.
They told how the services of big
Jack Zeligs red-handed murder band
had been called in to carry out Beck
er's sentence of death, and how the
whole startling crime had Been com
mitted under the threat from Becker
that if the gamblers did not murder
Rosenthal, Becker would send them to
prison under framed up" charges.
For the telling of the murder story,
Rose, Weber and WALTON will get inn
munity. They were called as witnesses
and testified before the grand jury,
which was called in extraordinary SEES
sion last night to indct Becker.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-07-30

The wife's outward composure, the
husbands disdain, the tender care in
the face of the aged mother-each
made manifest in many different ways
throughout the course of the trial, play
with strange effect upon the heart
strings of the women spectators at the
trial of Daisy Opie Grace.
AS for the men, they are there to sat
isfy an appetite for details about two
persons who have suddenly been lifted
to the spotlight by plethora of news
paper publicity. When the average man
knows the result of the Grace trial his
interest soon viii wane. But no verdict
of the jury will ever satisfy the un-
spoken queries which have arisen in
the mind of every woman who has read
of the Grace case
No matter what the trial brings
forth the Grace case is but a varia
tion of the domestic equation. The
Graces We're Incompatible, either by ma
ture or through Worldly circumstances
which arose early in their welded life,
The wherefores of this incompatibility
the reason for the climax. whatever
It was-are the things about the Grace
case which disturb and compel the at
tention Of the women
But She Wants to Know.
Il object to being classed among the
idle curious" said a well dressed mid
die aged woman who sat in front
seat at the trial She was speaking to
friend.
We'll it's hard for me to say why
| came said the friend. 81 confess to
this--l am not so much interested in
whether she shot him or not as | am
in the chain of circumstances which
brought about the shooting
"Of course" said the middle aged
woman. there was tragedy in the
Grace home-that much is cure. There
are a thousand possibilities. She may
have been undutiful or he may have
been. If so. why? Did their natures
interlock? Or did an outside circum-
stance force itself in and disturb the
domestic balance?
IF the full details of the Grace case
were Known don't mean merely the
details which led directly to the shoot
ing-they would show problem which
arises in the lives of every married
couple. In their case, it might have
been primitive-they might have fall
en- out about some petty thing. or they
may not have fallen out at all-it might
have all been under the surface.
But whatever the trouble vast
arose because Of the inability or the
failure of one of them to bear an equi-
table part of the responsibilities of
married life. There are a million ways
in which this old old formula can be
violated In some instances you see a
man and woman. apparently fashioned
for each other. Both of them are gen
tie in spirit, both are considerate, both
allow to each other the little necessary
privacies-and there is enough money
to keep the wolf at safe distance from
the door, Yet there is no permanent
happiness. 1t may be that one of them
tried to do too much. 1t may be that
the stronger withheld from the weaker
certain matters which should have been
met by both Of them together.
And so it was with the Graces I
am sure, regardless of what form 1t
took"
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-07-30
Grace Case Nearly
Ties Up Legislature

Action was taken in the legislature
today to see that the Grace case does
not block the wheels of the law making
machine
When the house assembled it was
found that a bare quorum was on hand.
Representative Atkins, of Dooly coun-
ty. Immediately offered a resolution in
structing the messenger to hurry over
to Judge Roans court and summon ev-
cry legislator there.