Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-12
A ACCUSE
v D N A \
IN LAST
BREATH

With Eugene H. Grace dead.
after a remarkable fight for life,
lawyers were agreed Monday
that the wife ne accused Of firing
the bullet that made him a help
less paralytic could not be ar
rested on a charge of murder,
despite the fact that Grace ac-
cused her with virtually his last
breath
chey 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.
Accuses Her to Last.
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 a. he lay sleeping.
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.
Dies in Mothers Arms.
And then, with his mothers hand
clasped in his and her arm about his
shoulders, the end came.
Until about 2 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 unconsciousness.
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, I'll win yet"
The doctor spoke encouragingly.
What about this cold | have; do
you think l have much chance?"
| asked Grace at another time.
Gene" replied the doctor, your
chances are slim. You are a strong
man and you know l have always
been candid with you"
Swears to Haunt Woman.
well, DOCTOR" he said. Il hava
fought a good fight. With the same
| tenacity with which I have clung to
life I will come back and haunt the
woman who brought all this misery
upon me"
Then the dying man lapsed into a
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 remarkable 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 bulles
which pressed against the spinal
cord at the ninth dorsal vertebras
until the lower half of the body was
hopelessly paralyzed had been re-
moved when he was operated on he
would be alive and we'll to-day.
Mother Is Frustrated.
Mrs. Hill was too Frustrated TO
see reporters, but few hours before
her sons death she told a relativs
that sne was satisfied with the life
her son had lived
Gene has been good boy" sns
said Il kno wof no man who has
been Drawer than he in all history,
and l 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 rewarI
| in heaven, | am sure. The designing
woman who wrecked his life has Il
penalty awaiting her there, even II
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 1f2 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.