Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-08-06
CHILEAN HE|RESS
G0ADED TO MURDER
Mrs. DeSaulles Tells How She
Was Driven to Kill Her
Husband.
MARRIED FOR HER MONEY
For. Years She Is Subjected to
Campaign of Insults
and Neglect.

moment to-day from the cold, unemo-
tional creature who had calmly awaited
arrest after having shot her former
husband. John Longer DeSaulles to
fiery, hysterical, passionate mother de-
prived OF the sight of her child. All
the passion of her Latin blood burst
forth when She was told she could not
see Baby Jack. over whose possession
had occurred the train of events lead
ing up to the shooting at DeSaulless
fashionable country home, The Box"
near Westbury. on Friday night.
The terrible fear that she would be
deprived of her baby let tho Hood gates
OF passion and hysteria loose. And. al
ternately weeping and calling for her
baby she told to her lawyer. Henry
a. uterhart. story which will be made
the basis of her defense for the murder
OF the noted football star and intcrna-
tional club and drawing room favorite
The news that her baby would not be
sent to her. at this time at least. was
first broken to Mrs. DeSaulles this
evening. She awoke early on the
bright Sunday morning in a cell deco
rated with pictures of the four-and-a-
half-year-old boy for whose possession
she killed her former husband.
Before she touched the tempting
breakfast that Sheriff Seamans wife
had prepared for her, she telephoned
Mr.. Uterhart.
FIRST THOUGHT IN MORNING
IS TO SEE BABY JACK
Could she see her Baby Jack? Would
tho lawyer ask Mrs August Hecksher
the lads aunt, in Huntington. to let
him fetch little Jack to the jail for
just an hour, or would they let her
baby speak TO her on the telephone?
1t had been said that the little boy
had been turned over to the care Of
his aunt his fathers sister. on Sat-
urday. the day after the murder
Five hours later Mr.. Uterhart came
tos;the jail. He told the charming
a. young Chilean mother that the boy was
not with Mrs. Hecksher: that he didn't
know where he was: that the family
wouldn't tell. He said he had been
told they feared possible kidnapping:
that they couldn't permit the mother
to see the lad at this time.
Then the storm broke. All the pas
sion of her race seized upon and tore
her. She gave way to hard. hysteri-
cal food OF tears. and then recitcd a
story that brought her lawyer to his
feet. saying:
III I cannot gain your freedom on
to practice law"
And thus Mr.. Uterhart retold her
story:
Three months after Jack DeSaulles
married her" the lawyer said, "she
discovered that he married her solely
for the money he thought she had.
When he learned she had in her own
right only 100000. he began cam
paign OF neglect and abuse that broke
her spirit and heart.
TAKES ADVANTAGE
OF THE CHILEAN LAW
He took advantage Of the Chilean
law-the law that gives to a husband.
no matter how worthless or dishonest,
absolute control of everything his wife
possesses. He sold, without her
knowledge and without her consent.
10000 worth of gas bonds. and
laughed in her face and pointed to the
law when she asked why he had not
consulted her.
she showed me checks indicating
her gifts to him OF money She gave
him $4,000 in cash. and received in re-
turn the receipted bills for clothes for
women whom he entertained in her
own rooms.
Gle did everything except break her
face with his fists. He went SO far as
TO wait until little Jack. Jr.. and the
- servants were present to roar at her:
"'Well. why in the don't you
get out? No one wants you here. any
way And for all this she stood. pa.
tently and dry-eyed. for one purpose
that she might have her baby; that
she might find some way to take her
baby to Chile and have done with
America and Jack DeSaulles.
J.. t11l
day. 1t Is the story she will tell the
Jury IT is the story that she will ad-
vance as her reason for killing the
man who took her, seventeen-year-
old girl. from her home to drag
through the most hdeous five years
that a cultured woman ever expert
enced.
"She was not wealthy. To-day she
has a little more than $4,000. all in
vested in Chile. From that she has
an annual income Of $4,000 Her
grandmother. Madame Vergara. had
millions. but she had too, four sons
who spent those millions. Mrs. De-
Saulles's mother has n fortune, but II
Is not large
"It was about the time when Jack
DeSaulles was organizing the Wilson
college Mems League that he got $685.
900 from his wife. What he did with
it all she does not know, except that
most of 1t was spent on Broadway and
in the white-light district.
BORROWED THE MONEY
FOR WEDDING: JOURNEY
"She refused TO believe that the
dashing American whom she loved had
borrowed the money to take him to
Paris and there marry her. But slowly
the real story of her betrayal broke
upon her He fetched her to America
and took her to 1.-Two with his father
in Bethlehem, Pa. There 1t was he
took her aside and asked her frankly
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