Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1917-11-24
Attorney for Woman Who Slew
Her Divorced Husband Ex-
poets to Win on Defense of
Temporary Insanity,
SEVERAL WITNESSES
TESTIFY FOR STATE
Prosecution Rests and Long
Legal Battle Between Alien
lists Is Expected Before Jury
Takes Case.

Mineola, n. Y, Nov 23.--"Hypothy-
reosisS' which he termed an affection
of the thyroid gland and which even
tually produces state of mental in
trinity was today given by her at
torneys as the disease from which
Mrs Blanca de Saulles was suffering
when she shot her former husband,
John l.. de Saulles at his Long Island
home the night of August 3.
This definition of the cause of the
defendants alleged temporary loss of
accountability was given by Henry A.
Uterhart in outlining the case he will
endeavor to prove in justification of
the Chilean heiress on trial here
charged with murder, The prosecu-
tion rested at noon today.
Causes contributing to Mrs. De
Saulles impaired mental condition.
Mr.. Uterhart said he would show, are
to be found in a history Of his clients
domestic relations with the former
Yale athlete and club man whom she
shot. A fracture of the skull, suffered
several years ago, left bit of bone
pressing upon Mrs. De Saulles' brain
and this served to aggravate her al
legged mental ailment, he said.
Long Battle Aneau.
With announcement by the defense
that DR.. Smith Eli Jeliffe, an alienist,
would testify in Mrs. De Saulles' be-
half, together with DR.. Louis C. John
son, of Johns Hopkins university,
whom Mr. Uterhart termed "physio-
! logical chemist" it seemed certain
that a long battle in which medical
technicalities will figure will precede
/ e To-. Al. l.. IL
| of the Jurors.
| Mr.. Uterhart took more than an
! hour to sketch the defendants early
! life, her marriage to De Saulles, their
marital troubles, which ended in her
obtaining divorce and her version
of what occurred at her former hus-
bands home on the night of the trag-
edy.
y The state rested its case with the
reading into the record of two letters
exchanged by De Saulles and the de-
| fendant purporting to show that four
and one-half year old John l.. De
Saulles, Jr, was legally in the custody
of his father when his mothers futile
effort to regain possession of him led
! to the shooting of De Saulles, accord
! ing to her claim.
|, Several Witnesses Testify.
| Among those who testified were
Marshal A. Ward, self-styled intimate
of John l.. De Saulles, Mrs. Carolina
! De Gener, De Saulles' sister, and his
/ father, Major Arthur b. De Saulles,
all of whom were at the De Saulles
home when the shooting took place.
Their accounts were contradictory
| in relation to Mrs. De Saulles' first
remarks when she entered the home
| Just before De Saulles was shot. Dis
| trict Attorney Charles r. Weeks, for
! the prosecution, sought to snow thN1e
remarks indicated she went to t.,e
place seeking her former husband
This, if established, would ser ~ to
| corroborate the states claim df de-
| liberate and premeditated murd..'.
| The defense on the other hand, at
| tempted to prove that Mrs. De Saul
les said when she entered the resi-
dence, Where's Jack-I have come
! to take him home with me-"
Sheriff Phineas Seaman, and Con-
stable Leonard Thorne, who arrested
the defendant an hour after the shoot
ing, both testified that Mrs. De Saul
les was very pale when they took
her into custody Despite the circum-
stances the young woman was calm
unusually calm" the sheriff said
when she was arrested.
Had Peculiar Laugh.
On cross examination, Seaman de-
ciared Mrs. De Saulles gave "a pecul-
lar little laugh" every few moments
while being taken from the Justices
court to the Jail. Her actions so
alarmed him, he said, that he sent
for clothesine."
isn't this the zoo?" the sheriff said
Mrs. De Saulles asked as she entered
the Jail.
After examining the prisoner the