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Show SENSATIONS Mrs. Grace Will Make Strong Defense in Shooting Case. Atlanta, Ga., July 30. Interest in today's session of the trial of Mrs Dalsle Ople Grace, charged with attempting at-tempting to murder her husband, Eugene Eu-gene H. Grace, centers in the probable prob-able disclosure of her defense. Developments along this line are oxpectod when the status of Rebecca A. Sams, a mulatto dressmaker, was explained. Her name was brought Into the record yesterday, but her connection with the shooting was not Indicated. Also It is Intimated that Mrs. Grace xvlll try to show that her husband Is not paralyzed from the waist down. , During the proceedings vesterday she created a mild sensation when she remarked to an attorney: "Watch Gene's legs move." When questioned about the twitching twitch-ing of his limbs, Grace attributed It to reflex action. "If anyone thinks I am feigning helplessness," he said, "I'll allow them to Btlck a pin In my body. If I bat an eye I'll submit to any punishment." Grace underwent the ordeal of the trial's inltlatlal day better than his physicians expected. His nervous condition, hoxvever, Is indicated by fear of death He has appealed to city detectives for protection In the court room. "I don't trust that woman and I fear her friends still more," he xvas quoted as saying. |