Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-12
GRACE : WIDOW
WILL ESCAPE
NEW CHARGE
Woman Accused in Husbands
Last Breath-End Comes in
Mothers Arms.

With Eugene H. Grace dead, after
4 remarkable fight for life, lawyers
were agreed Monday that the wife
he accused of firing the bullet that
made him a helpless paralytic could
not be arrested on a charge of MUIR
der despite the fact that Grace ac-
clsed her with virtually his last
breath.
They said that the fact that she had
already been tried for the shooting,
although it had not had fatal results
at the time, gave Mrs. Grace immu-
nifty under the constitutional pro-
vision preventing life or liberty be-
ing jeopardized twice for the same
alleged offense.
To the last moment of conscious life
Grace persisted in his accusations
against his wife. Until he became I'M
conscious he talked calmly, accusing
his wife time and again of shooting
him as he lay sleeping.
Dies in Mothers Arms.
For more than an hour before the
end came Grace lay silently, with his
eyes closed, only the faint beating of
the pulse showing that life yet re-
manned in the pain raCked body.
Then the eyes opened, glazed and
wondering. and the lips moved. His
mother bent closer, her ears laid
against the lips of the dying man to
catch his last words.
And then, with his mothers hand
Clasped in his and her arm about his
shoulders, the end came.
Until about o'clock Sunday after
noon Grace, though racked with PAIN
was rational and spoke calmly with
the relatives who were gathered
about his bedside. Late Sunday he
began lapsing into Inconsistencies
still fighting death with the grim de-
termination that made his case so re-
markable.
Doctor, If you'll help me-" he said
shortly before the end, "Fll win yet"
The doctor spoke encouragingly.
What about this cold l have; do
you think l have much chance?"
asked Grace at another time
Gene" replied the doctor, your
chances are slim. You are strong
man and you know I have always
been candid with you"
SWedFS 10 F1dunt woman,
We'll, doctor" he said, Il have
fought a good fight. With the same
tenacity with which l have chung to
woman who brought all this misery
upon me-"
Then the dying man lapsed into
stupor to awaken no more. In a de-
lirium he talked of playing the game
and winning"
"I'll win" he would say.
Grace's fight for life was one Of the
most remarka BILE in modern medical
records. Since March 5, 1912, when
he was mysteriously shot, he had
been a hopeless cripple.
DR.. Barge said that If the bullet
which pressed against the spinal
cord at the ninth dorsal vertebrae
until the lower half of the body was
hopelessly paralyzed had been re-
moved when he was operated on he
would be alive and well to-day.
Mother Is Frustrated.
Mrs. Hill was too Frustrated to
see reporters, but a few hours before
her sons death she told q relative
that she was satisfied with the life
her son had lived.
Gene has been a good boy" she
said. Il kno wof no man who has
been Drawer than he in all history
and ] am proud of him. Other men
have been brave fighting human enc
mics, but he has eclipsed them all in
battling with Death. He has a reward
in heaven, I am sure. The designing
woman who wrecked his life has a
penalty awaiting her there, even If
she was acquitted here"
Mr.. Hill when told by The Georgian
that Mrs. Grave had issued a state
ment in Philadelphia that she had
been informed by wire from Newman
Of her husbands condition was en-
phatic in the denial that any of the
family had sent the message.
The funeral will be held Monday
afternoon in Newman at the Hill resi-
dence, No. 112 Greenville street, and
interment will be in the family lot IN
Oak Hill Cemetery. The Rev r. L.
Edmondson, of the Methodist Church,
will officiate.
The pallbearers will be J. 7. Car
penter. Ben Orr, Cliff Glover, r. f.
Herring, William Askew, t. j. Fisher,
j. p. Powell and E. G. Cole.