Daisy Grace

{{Short description|American suspected murder}}

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| image = File:Grace 3576203928 0354dda229 o.jpg

| caption = Grace (middle) in 1912

| birth_name = Daisy Ulrich Opie

| birth_date = unknown

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| spouse = {{marriage|Eugene H. Grace||1912|end=died}}

}}

Daisy Grace (born Daisy Ulrich Opie){{Cite news|

url=https://www.nytimes.com/1912/05/07/archives/mrs-grace-is-indicted-glad-of-it-says-accused-woman-who-expects-to.html

|title=Mrs. Grace Is Indicted.;

|date=1912-05-07

|work=The New York Times

|access-date=2018-12-22

|language=en-US

|issn=0362-4331

}} was accused in 1912 of drugging her husband, Eugene H. Grace, and then shooting him for his insurance money in Atlanta, Georgia.{{cite news

|title=Legal Fight Begins for Policies on the Life of Rich Georgian Strangely Shot.

|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1912/03/09/archives/grace-dying-sues-wife-he-accuses-legal-fight-begins-for-policies-on.html

|quote=Daisy Grace drugged her husband and then shot him. Her action was the execution of a diabolical plot to murder Eugene H. Grace for his insurance money, which the woman planned several days before. She says she drugged him before she shot him, and the evidence so far uncovered proves it. ...

|work=The New York Times |date=March 9, 1912 |access-date=2009-11-27

}}{{Cite book

|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1YjgrbGFGVEC&q=Eugene+H.+Grace&pg=PA49

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

|last=Hughes|first=Tom|date=2012-10-22

|publisher=McFarland|isbn=9780786470785|language=en

}} She was tried and found not guilty.{{cite news |title=Mrs. Daisy Grace Found Not Guilty |url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/courant/access/763351612.html?dids=763351612:763351612&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Aug+03%2C+1912&author=&pub=Hartford+Courant&desc=MRS.+DAISY+GRACE+FOUND+NOT+GUILTY&pqatl=google |work=The Hartford Courant |date=August 2, 1912 |page=1 |quote=Mrs. Daisy Ople Grace was declared not guilty of trying to kill her husband by a jury here at 6 o'clock this evening. |access-date=July 5, 2017 |archive-date=October 24, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121024011946/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/courant/access/763351612.html?dids=763351612:763351612&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Aug+03,+1912&author=&pub=Hartford+Courant&desc=MRS.+DAISY+GRACE+FOUND+NOT+GUILTY&pqatl=google |url-status=dead }}

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