The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-11-27
MEMORY LAPSED.
SAYS MRS. DE SAULLES
From the Time She Heard Her Husband
Refuse to Let Her Have Her Son
Till She Found Herself in

al Mineola, N. Y, Nov 21.-Contrary t
r predictions, Mrs. Blanca DeSaulles, o.
trial for killing her former husband Aug
, 3, was returned to the witness stand thi
morning for cross examination by Dis
, trict Attorney Charles K. Weeks 1t wa
. believed because of her physical condi
tion special concession would be sough
to postpone the cross questioning som'
days from the gruelling five hours on tn,
stand yesterday.
Attorney Weeks first question was il
relation to her closing statement thai
she remembered nothing from the tim,
she heard her former husband refuse tt
give her the custody Of her SON until she
awakened in jail
The defendant said in answer to other
Questions that she had not suffered any
tlapses Of memory during the time in Jail
She said her finger nails had been very
brittle and that her hair had fallen out
to an appreciable degree in the past few
months. The defense attorneys maintain
that these symptoms indicate the prog
ress of disease of the thyroid gland.
| Mrs. DeSauIles' story of seeing her
husband aboard yacht with the duke
of Manchester, surrounded by bevy of
Broadway beauties, came into the cross
examination.
did you not know that your husband
was associated with the duke in a deal
to furnish horses TO the allied govern
ments and in which your husband cleaned
up S50,000s" asked Weeks. II never
knew that the witness replied.
While en- route to Chile for a visit,
Mrs. DeSaulles testified she believed her
married life was at an end morally. The
witness denied she had told woman
friend she did not care who Jack went
around with as long as he stayed away
from her.
Pathos and humor were mingled in
Mrs. DeSaulles' tale; but the greater
part of the story was so deeply pathetic
that jurors and spectators were visibly
affected.
1t was story in which scenes were
rapidly shifting. The first was luxu-
rious estate in Chile-Vina Del Mar 1.-THE
by the seal where the defend
ant spent her childhood Then followed
a reference to the three years the young
woman spent in the convent in England. |
There was the return to the Chilean |
hom and her acquaintance with De |
Saulles. fresh form laurels won as a |
football star at Yale. Then the witness
told of her brief courtship and the we'd
ding ceremony performed in Paris in
1911.
From this point the story was one of
domestic infelicity, of indifferent neg
ect," and unfaithfulness on the part of
the husband, which eventually led to
The divorce court. These years of un-
happiness for the defendant were de-
,erihed as "a horrible nightmare" in one
If the several letters written by Mrs. De-
Saulfes, which were read to the court.
Next came the climax of the MARIA
.ion-Mrs. DeSaulles' account of the
ragedy at "The Box" her former hus-
,and's home near Westbury, Long Is
and, the night she failed in her endeavor
o secure possession of her son, and in a
moment of mental responsibility, ae-
ording to her claim, fired the revolver ,
hots.
There was no reference, throughout I,
he five-hour recital, to "hypothyreosis,"
he thyroid condition, which her attor-
eys say was partly responsible for her
mental arrangement.