New-York tribune., 1917-11-19
Mrs. De Saulles
To Help Pick Juc.
Scandal BarreI
Counsel VIII Rely i.
Mother-Love for Their
Defence
Trial Starts To-day
Beautiful Chilean Is Con6d.,,
She Will Soon Be
Acquitted
Trial Starts To-day

MINEOLA, Nov. ls.-Blanquia 4
Saulles, buoyed by a spiritual t,,
guilty more marked than ever "a,
after her months of waiting for %,
and satisfied still in her own hear, 4,
had the saction of higher laws vi.
she killed the man who once exala,.
proclaimed her "the loveliest girl n !,
the world,' will begin here to.mon.
her fight for vindication and life.
Really il is only the first Of h,
equally momentous and equally BIZ,
court battles-the one hingias nj
the outcome OF the other-wh'ch ~
open when Mrs. de Saulles take, 81
seat with counsel in Justice D,,
Manning's courtroom to help piek n
twelve men who must decide whss,
she is TO live or TO die.
Life won, there must next he al
that which alone would MAKE nj
worth while. As much as she en-,
life, as desperately as she q -
pared TO struggle for il, Mrs. de S,ur.
Graves more-and plans TO agat ovs
as desperately for-possession Of a
fve-year-old son whose face isar,
ature of that of the estranged hu,A,.
and jealous father whom ste I-
down.
TO Hold Back Trump
Perhaps it is because Il yers L,,.
TO hold trump in reserve agains, s,
future conflict that the defence M, u.
cided 10 forego the invitation 10 M,
mud that the earlier trial Offers n
any rate, it had been agreed to.rlr.,
and was so announced by Henri 4
Uterhart. of counsel for Ms h
Saulles, that no attack would be uri
upon the character of Jack De Ssulle
This means that evidence brOc,.
out at the private hearings last year 4
the course of which Mrs. De Saulle .
tabIished her right 10 divorce iia|
the erstwhile Yale football star, vi
not. after all, become public propsrv
In one way, with scandal out n
trial loses a measure Of interest. Tkn|
will be none of the revelation. WIZ
at one time promised 10 spice Il
another Thaw case.
Yet in its other aspect the "a
takes on new interest with Mr.. re
hart's announcement. The dstsno
committed 70 stand or fall on the ,s
osition that with Blanca De sEx
(Blanquita, "little Blanca" was Isl
De Saulles's own name for herr mar
love was so strong a passion as
mania, and that she had been ~
irresponsible by the very sweep d /,
when she fred the shots which h.k
the father Of her son.
Lawyers Not Worried
Mr.. Uterhart, who spent mos, of e
day in conference with Mrs. De ssu.s
and County Judge Lewis (. Smith,
associate in the defence, admits y
lack of confidence in the verdict
1--WE aren't worrying about IN. lsT
he said. "If it were necessary. ss.
be willing 70 go 10 trial after psH,G|
into the box the first twelve rs
called"
Nevertheless, lt Is a iact tns' ~
De Saulles herself processes c.s
interest in the matter Of choosing y
jury, and has insisted that she ~
the final word before each talesnr
accepted by the defence.
The courtroom in which Nn
Saulles is TO be tried is in the "
building, but is another than ur
which she sat, an interested spee1
through many hearings OF the TIA
Mrs. Florence Carman. She VIII =
it by way of a passage which eosz
the courthouse with the Nassau w
Jail. in. which she has been coz
since August Z last, the day a'm'
tragedy at "The Box"