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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-10-20

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is the severest blow the Chicago bolt
ers have yet received 1t marks the
beginning of the rapid recession of
their strength. Hadley was the floor
leader of the Roosevelt movement i'll
the Chicago convention.
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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-07-30
Told Him She
Had Heart Trouble.

she told me she was addicted to
heart trouble. and her keys were in a
handbag and her jewels in her bosom
and II anything happened l must get
them and keep them safe.
THE question of Grace's being drow-
sy was not brought up
Preston Hill took Mr.. and Mrs. Hill
away from Mrs. Grace and me at the
station Daisy saw them talking. She
asked what had come up to make Pres
ton take Genes mother away from her
She asked why we couldn't all go to-
gether. She asked what Preston was
telling Mrs. Hill
"She told me j. c. Ruffin, the serv-
ant, must have shot Gene She felt
certain of It, She said they had quar-
relied.
Daisy never asked me what the pa =
pers We're saying
AT the police station Daisy told
Chief Lanford that the key to Graces
room was kept in glass bowl down
stairs"
Mr.. Rosser cross examined
Prioleau said all his conversation
with Mrs Grace was in a cab and
without witnesses. No, he hadn't looked
to see whether her waist bulged with
jewelry He didn't know whether the
furniture was the Graces' or the
Kisers', owners of the house
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 went to Grace's 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 its feet, OBJ
jecting, and was sustained MIR. 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-
tton
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-07-30
Becker Passes
Sleepless Night.

Becker passed a sieepless night in
cell No. 1870 at the Tombs. He said
this morning:
This is an awful plight for an inno-
cent man to be in. l 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 tauntily 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 1t is up to you to say some
thing?'
Il do not"
1T has been reported that you re-
signed from the position as a result Of
this2"
The commissioner made no reply
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-
ser, that 1t 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.
Hin.
Didn't Mrs. Grace have the same
opportunity"
81 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
Of Mr. Prioleau, Mrs. Grace and the
policemen.
Mr.. Prioleau resumed the stand.
Il saw Mrs. Grace at the Terminal
station on the evening of March s." he
said.
Il said nothing to her about any ac-
cusation against her l was with her
all the way to the hospital
Nobody told her anything about the
accusation while | was with her l 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?'"
Mr. Rosser protested against Mr..
Dorsey's leading the witness.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-07-30
Find Sensations They Seek the Famous Tragedy Is Unt1dd Court
ZEE MARRIAGE LESSON IN THE GRACE TRIAL

ment No they stuck to their seats In
grim determination, knowing that
should they leave a dozen other men
or women were waiting for their places.
They sat and waited, in the forlorn
nope 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 were like the crowd which gath
er outside the walls Of a Jail waitine
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 policeman in his Sunday
cltlzen's suit or a negro in worn and
dusty garments answered such ques
olohs as were put, waiting patiently
Whlle the young solicitor and the burlv
trial lawyer for the defendant quarreled
over the wording of a phrase There
were questions seemingly without a
Shaoow of Importance, answers appar
emily meaningless There were half
angry alterations between the awyers
over points bearing no meaning TO the
auoltor; flashes Of rough wit as cross
questloner tried to ridicule the witness
into tangling his testimony
And Mrs. Grace, central figure of che
pay sat at her lawyers table. ex-
presslonless, inscrutable. There were
moments when the testimony became
unprlntable; when almost forbidden
SUBJECTS We're discussed with comment
bordering on buffoonery. But etiu Mrs
Grace leaned over her table. her dark
eyes nxed upon the face of the wit
ness, her cheek unmarked bv blush or
pallor 1t was as though all the smaller
thlngs of life had been forgotten in the
lace of the great question the tribunal
mad 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 emaciated. Grace seemed
the merriest man in all the room
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-07-30
Court Refuses to
Admit Evidence.

Mr.. Dorsey said Mrs. Grace was in
the next room when the demand for
her policies was made. His object was
to prove that she had the policies and
wouldn't surrender them, even after
Grace was shot and had demanded
them. The court refused to admit the
evidence, as there was no proof that
Mrs. Grace. herself, had refused to give
up the policies. Witness had not heard
Mr.. Moore talk to Mrs. Grace.
Mr.. Dorsey insisted that he was try
ing to show by set of circumstances
that Mrs. Grace shot her husband for
his insurance
Mrs. Grace entered the room at 1855
O'Clock, accompanied, as on yesterday
by c. w. Burke, a private detective
She wore a large white panama ha,
with a black velvet ribbon around it.
Her dress was Of black silk, with low
shoes to match. Diamonds flashed In
her ears. A bracelet with the insignia
OF the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity
was on her left wrist. She wore white
silk gloves and Welded palm leaf fan
vigorously. Her face wore the marks
of the long ordeal she had gone through
the day before. She took her seat so
that her back would be turned toward
the spot which Grace's cot had occu-
pied on the previous day
"Oh. yes; ] slept very well last night"
she said. No; I'm not worried a bit.
OF course, ones nerves suffer under
the strain of such day. But the heat
was the worst of all. There never was
such awful heat before"
Grace was borne into the court room
at 9:22 o'clock and placed in the same
position as on yesterday looking to-
ward the jury and away from his wife's
seat. Mrs. Grace had retired from the
room for the recess and was not pres.
ent when her husband was borne into
the room
Mrs. Grace came in moment later.
but did not glance toward her husband.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-07-30

en-" him to the hospital. as he had said.
They had only told him so. Witness
admitted that he had sworn to thing
or things he didn't know, except on
hearsay
Witness didn't remember that news
paper reporters came into the recep
ton room at the hospital He couldn't
remember a reporter trying to inter-
view Mrs Grace. Yes, he had carried
an extra" into the reception room
himself. He had been out in the hail
for fifteen minutes. A lady, Mrs. Stall
ings, was talking to Mrs Grace He
saw Mrs. Grace crying 80 he didn t
know what she had been told
Prioleau's statement that nobody
had had a chance to tell Mrs Grace
of her husbands accusations was com
pletely broken down by this cross
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-07-30

and WALTON declared Becker set the
stage for the murder and personally
managed its 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 eho
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 Zelig's 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 i'm
munity They were called as witnesses
and testified before the grand jury
which was called in extraordinary SEES
sion last night to indict Becker.
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 a 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. Rossers 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 a recess here until
1880 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 a considerable
extent by throng Of men who dropped
in Just to look on for a few minutes"
Quite q sensation was caused just
prior to the opening Of court by a thin,
bedraggled old woman who forced her
way into court and demanded seat.
Not finding any seats vacant, she made
her way to the inside of the rail. Here
she deliberately caught 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, a 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 herr" she was
asked.
No; 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
A Graphic View of the Women at the
Hearing Who Find in 1t Big Show"
Varying the Monotony Of Dull Lives.
BY DUDLEY GLASS.

II any spectator at the Grace trial
expected to be awed by the solemnity
of the tribunal and thrilled at the dra-
matte stage setting Wife and
wounded husband glazing at each other
before the judge-he must have been
somewhat disappointed.
The striking detail one couldn't get
evay 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 willing of their garments and
the trickle Of perspiration through the
powder on their cheeks.
There were perhaps 50 of them-some
old enough to be grandmothers, some
girls not far in their teens One wom-
an bore child Of five, who fretted and
whined on her lap and begged to be
taken outdoors again. There was q
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 insigniflcance,
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. / saw no wom-
an whose garb or manner stamped her
as one Of the demi monde few of the
tyne 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
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 were crowded into seats
far at the left of the court room, with
the Judges bench and the rallied do
mtnions Of the clerk shutting off their
view of all the principals in the drama.
They saw no anore than il a wall had
been built between them and the court
Perhaps they caught a glimpse of a
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
it were between the audience and the
stage.
But they did not leave in disappoint-
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-07-30
Mrs. Grace Wanted
Policies PAYABLE to Her.

Luther Williford said Mrs. Grace
told him she wanted Graces insurance
policies payable to her instead of to his
estate. She said she wanted him to
take out an annuity policy.
Witness was shown two Penn Mutual
policies. This was late in 1911. He
couldn't state positively that the two
policies shown him today were the
same Grace had had. The two policies
had been for a total of $4,000.
Witness said his wife was a distant
relative. by marriage to Eugene Grace.
Tracing the relationship was as in
volved as determining the age of Ann. ="
Witness said he had no idea why Mrs
Grace had talked to him about insur-
ance. He was not an insurance man.
Mr. Rosser declared that Willford
was partisan witness, in favor of the
prosecution. He had refused to tell
Mr. Rosser anything about the case
but admitted that he had talked to So
lcitor Dorsey. Mr.. Dorsey refused TO
permit witness to recount what he had
told the solicitor
Mr. Williford said Grace was present
when Mrs Grace talked to him about
insurance. He hadn't paid much atten-
ton to the conversation. He was dis
missed
Mr. Dorsey desired to offer the poli-
ces in evidence.
why" asked the court
ITO prove the motive for numbering
this man re.urpad Mr. norsa,, The
policies were ruled out, as the witness
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-07-30
The Probable Causes of the Tragedy
Speculated 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"
ne bawled The two women were silent
for moment At this particular mo-
ment Mrs. Grace turned her head and
gazed for the barest part of 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 middle 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 a 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 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 Worn-
an seemed to lose interest. AS if pos
sessed by sudden thought she nudged
her companion
Then They Dissect the Men.
"a woman will always know what to
wear she said, 'I'll 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
Three Men Guarded
Through the Night.

All night long Rose, Weber and
WALTON camped in the office of Hugh
Byrne, secretary to District Attorney
Whitman. Detectives Leigh and Russo,
with Process Servers King and Zinn,
took turns guarding them. There was
no sleep for Weber. Intensely nerv-
Gus by nature. the man sat in a chair
and smoked cigarette after cigarette,
alternately weeping. wiping his fore
head with a huge handkerchief and
staring vacantly into space At that
he said that it was the first good night
he had passed in weeks
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 s, 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