Arizona republican., 1917-11-29
TRYING ID PROVE
 MRS. DE SAULLES NOT ACCOUNTABLE
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MINEOLA, N. Y, Nov. 2S.-Takina of testimony in the trial of Mrs. Blanca De Saulles on a charge of murdering her divorced husband, John L. De Saulles condition shortly after the court here today.
 Dr. Smith Ely Jeliffe a widely known alienist, and Dr. Louis c. John- son, styled a physiological chemist" told from the witness stand of diag- noses which they made of Mrs. De Soulles' condition shortly after the tragedy on the night of August 8 at ''The Box" De Saulles Long Island home. Their evidence tended to SUD- port the Chilean womans claim that she was not accountable for her actions when she fired the revolver shots which killed her former husband.
 'Hypothyreosis, the disease of the thyroid gland which her attorneys maintain affected the defendant at the time of the shooting, was frequently mentioned by the experts. Incidental to their examination, an X-ray photo- graph purporting to show that Mrs. De Saulles also was suffering from brain pressure resulting from a frac- tured skull was introduced in evidence. | Miss Suzanna Monteau, Mrs De Saulles' maid, who accompanied her on the automobile ride from her home to that of her former husband just before the shooting occurred, was the only other witness examined today whose testimony is regarded as having an im- portant bearing on the case.
 There were discrepancies in the maids answers today when compared with those she gave in a deposition taken by counsel for the prosecution and defense shortly after August 8. This deposition was read to the jury. | District Attorney Charles R. Weeks pointed out material differences in the two accounts of the scene in De Saulles' living room when the shots were fired but on three main points he was un- able to move Miss Monteau from her | first narration.
 Mrs. De Saulles told me to go with l her-that she was going over to The Box to get little Jack" said the maid in reference to her mistress purpose in making the trip. The prosecution contends Mrs. De Saulles went to her divorced husbands home intending to shoot him.
 Didn't Mrs. De Saulles tell you just after the shooting that she was glad she did it and that she hoped he died?" asked Attorney Weeks.
 That is not so,' replied Miss Mon teau emphatically.
 The third point on which the maids s
 testimony remained firm was her declaration that Mrs. De Saulles said on entering The Box that she had come to take her boy home with her.
 As to the manner in which Mrs De Saulles fired the shots and whether . De SaulleS was facing her or had
 turned away, the witness seemed con-
 fused. Previously she had said her
 mistress took the revolver from her
 pocket and fired in a deliberate man.
 ner; that she shot three times and
 De Saulles did not move" Whereupon she fired twice more. Today she indi- cated that the shooting was done in a flash, as though the defendant was
 actuated by sudden impulse.
 The testimony of Dr. J. Sherman
 Wight, Mrs. De Saulles' physician, dur
 ing her three months Imprisonment s and that of Doctors Jeliffe and John s son, all tended to show she had symp- y toms of marked "hypothyroid condi S tion' when they examined the defend g ant a few days after her arrest. = The doctors said this disease E
 caused by an insufficiency of the se- s cretions of the thyroid gland in tht l blood stream. Without an adequate n amount of these secretions they de e clared the vital processes of the bod! x are retarded and the patients menta 0 functioning becomes impaired.