Rich Georgian Strangely Shot": Eugene Grace, "Daisy of the Leopard Spots" and the Great Atlanta Shooting of 1912

Read all about it: the madcap love affair of Gene Grace - an "Adonis from a Georgia town" - and his new wife, Daisy, a glamorous, wealthy Yankee widow. It was all fun and games until her money ran out. Gene was found shot in a locked bedroom inside his locked house. Paralysed, he was later carried into court on a stretcher. "Surely, she shot him," they said. But Gene was blocked by Georgia law from testifying against his wife. Could the prosecutors prove their "diabolical plot?" The Atlanta newspapers--led by the Georgian, under the very new control of Mr. Hearst, that giant of "yellow journalism"--covered the case relentlessly. In 1912, a sweat soaked Atlanta jury had to decide a classic locked door mystery. This is the never-before-told story of a sensational crime and an extraordinary trial that gripped the nation in 1912.