Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-10
''DA|SY SHOT ME-. ="
DECLARES GRACE
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and others of the family frequently
| described her demeanor when she
! came to Newman.
Those who have watched by the
victims bedside believe that he will
make no new revelations in his dying
statement in case she should make
one. This, they say, is written on his
countenance when he tells his story 10
the keeper of the death vigil
Grace's battle for life against ter
rible odds has attracted the attention
of the entire country. Physicians de-
clared from the first that he had no
chance for recovery, but Grace with
indomitable courage, declared he
would live to enjoy old age and sec
his wife punished. After Mrs. Craze
was acquitted he was taken to his
mothers home at Newman to die, but
for two years he has kept his spirit
and fought the approach of death.
Fails to Rally.
Two weeks ago he began to decline,
suffering extreme nervousness aggrG-
waited by frequent fits Of nausea. For
more than a week nourishment was
administered to him in !. .uid form.
Thursday he took a sudden turn for
the worse, and Friday, when he failed
to rally, his physician told him there
was no hope. Grace received the
message with the calmness that has
marked him since the shooting.
"All right" was the only reply he
made when told that death was only a
few hours away.
No word has come to Grace from
his wife, who is living in Philadsl-
phia with an old servant In all The
two years she has sent no message Of
sympathy, and when she was notified
last night that her husband could live
only a few hours longer she said she
had nothing to say.
The shooting of Grace at his home
on West Eleventh street on March 5,
1912 was one of the most dramatic
| incidents in local police annals. 1t
precipitated a mystery which proba-
bly, never will be solved. Grace
charged his wife with the shooting
as soon as he could talk, and she
was arrested and tried for the crime,
but was acquitted. She has always
maintained that Grace was shot in a
scuffle over a pistol with which he
was trying to kill her. She was re-
leased on March on bond of $500.
Declared He Would Live.
Grace, taken to st. Joseph's In
Urinary Immediately after the shoot
was severed and that he could not
live. He declared that he would not
die and within a week he was joking
with his friends and reading news
paper accounts of the shooting with
the keenest interest. His mother Wis
tied him each day, and to her he de-
clared his intention of recovering.
Eighteen days after the shooting he
was removed to his home at New
nan, where he has been since that
time, confined to his bed and hope
less paralytic, but with the fire OF his
resolve to get well unquenched. He
sank rapidly for a few weeks after
making the trip to Newman, but raj
lied and late in April began to i'm
prove.
Mrs Grace was indicted for assault
with intent to murder when 1t became
evident that Graces death would not
be immediate, and she was placed on
trial July %, 1912; and after one of
the most memorable legal battles in
the history Of Fulton County, the
Jury returned verdict Of not guilty.
Grace himself was brought from New
nan and taken into the courtroom on
a cot. He pleaded that he be allowed
IN testify against his wife, but was
refused the laws of Georgia pre-
verNing such a course.