Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1912-03-07
Husband Shot
While He Slept
WAS AWAKENED BY A BURNING
SENSATION"
WIFE HELD FOR CRIME
Victim First Accused Her and Later
Said He Did Not Know Who Did It
Servants Stories Significant

Atlanta, Ga March Good knows
/ am Innocent" exclaimed Mrs, Daisy
Ulrich Opie Grace today after her re-
lease on bail pending hearing on the
charge of assault with attempt to
murder her young husband, Eugene H.
Grace, a prominent building contractor
who was mysteriously shot at their
handsome home at Eleventh street
home yesterday.
Has Slim Chance for Recovery.
Tonight physicians said that Grace
has but slight chance for recovery.
The bullet penetrated the left side,
went through the lung and lodged near
the spinal cord. Pneumonia already
has set in, they say. Developments
have followed fast since Grace tele-
phoned the police to rush a doctor to
his house.
Accused His Wife.
did your wife shoot you?" asked a
policeman after breaking down the
door OF Grace's room and finding Grace
on the bed.
1T begins to look that way" the
wounded man replied.
Mrs. Grace was found at Newman,
Ga, at the home Of her mother-in-
law, who accompanied her back to the
city. On her arrival she was arrested
and taken at once, on her own request,
to the hospital to which her husband
had been removed. Seeing her, he
said:
Daisy, you are the one who shot
me-
Repeats the Accusation.
why, how can you?" she protested.
you are trying to make me out a
murderer, and they will take me to
Jail tonight"
You are the one who tried to kill
me-" he repeated. IF you persist in
that I will take the power of attorney
which you exercise away from you,
said Mrs. Grace, who was formerly the
wife of a wealthy Philadelphia pulp
manufacturer. Grace then relented.
Il don't know who did it." he said.
Mrs. Grace's Story.
Here is the story told by Mrs. Grace
Il left the house at 12.15 o'clock to
go to Newman, where l was to stay
while Mr.. Grace was in Philadelphia,
for which place he planned on an af-
ternOon train. When ! left him my
husband was about ready to get up.
I knew that he was not feeling well,
but did not think he was very sick.
He said he would meet me at the de-
pot, but when he failed to DO so l went
on to Newman, thinking he had been
detained on business. The next thing
I heard was when I reached the home
Of his mother. They said there that
Gene had been shot. My arrest and
the accusation of my husband is all a
horrible mistake.
Discovered Wound When He Awoke.
Grace told the police when they first
reached him that he first discovered
he was shot at o'clock in the morn
ing, when he aWoke with a burning
sensation in l1is side II told my wife .
he said. and asked for a doctor. She
left the room and came back later
saying she was unable to reach one
| over the telephone" Grace says then
| he became unconscious and that he
next called the police, when he became
| unconscious again.
Damaging Testimony Of Servants.
Much Importance is attached by the
police to the corrohorative testimony
! Of j. c. Bufin and his WIFE, negro
| servants. The woman says she made
| g fire in Grace's room about Z o'clock
at Mr.. Grace's request. While she was
in the room she says Grace groaned
several times and Mrs. Grace said:
You are not sick, Gene, you are sleep
| ing"
Rufin said Mrs. Grace told him as
she was leaving the house that her
husband was sick and that he had
wanted a doctor, but had changed his
mind, and II the doctor came he was
| to be sent away Mrs. Grace denies
giving any such instructions.
Grace Insured for $4,000.
A revolver was found on a window
sill in the hall on the floor below
Grace's room. It had one empty
chamber The key to the door of the
room which the police found locked
was in receptacle In the hall where
| Mrs. Grace said it usually was kept
IS furnishing a possible motive, the