Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-11-29

Mrs. De Saulles told me to go with
her-that she was going over to The
Box to get little Jack" said the maid
in reference to her mistress purpose
on making the trip. The prosecution
claims 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 il and that she hoped he died.
asked Attorney Weeks.
That is not so, replied Miss Mon
teap, cmphatically.
The third point on which the ma id :
testimony remained firm was her dec
laration that Mrs. De Saulles said on
entering The Box that she had come
TO take her boy home with her
Marked Hypothyroid Condition
The testimony Of DR.. ]. Sherman
White, Mrs. De Saulles' physician, dur
Ing ier three months in prison and
that Of DrS .Icliffe and Johnson ali
tended TO show she had symptoms II
"a marked hypothroid condition when
they examined the defendant few
days after her arrest.
The doctors said this disease is caus-
cd by an insufiiciency of the secretione
OF the Thyroid gland in the blood
stream without an adequate amount of
the secretions they declared, the vital
processes of the body are retarded and
the Patients mental function becomes
impaired
The witnesses bore ont Mrs. DE
Sauiles contention that She knew
nothing OF her surroundings in the Jail
several days after the shooting. They
sad that when they eNa mined the de-
PENDANT she showed an irrational con-
Git.oN.
When The trial is resumed Friday
morning Henry W. Iterh;,rt. Mrs DE
SaulteS' attorneNG. is expected 10 have
Te"dy for submission to the aHrnis;s S
VII" We're examined today. lengthy nv
polhetlcaf questions the answers l.,
which he believes, viii further
strengthen his Claim regarding Mrs.
ne SaullAs' mental condition.
District Attorney Weeks has not vet
hulcated whom he viii can Id testif.
~ me attack he is expected 10 make
"h the testimony Of The experts sum
inoned ~ the defense Ii is believed
however, that The testimony will h,,
completed by the cnd of the week. bro
Vlded Justice McManning holds co,,rt
Saturday. In tina, event there Ara Ill
dicatlons the ease will 60 ia thr ,nry
t"r q verdict Monday night.
Few Spectators in Mornino
mere wer" less than 4 score Of spec
tatofS IN the court room when IN, trial
was resumed this morning.
ID. Steward lglehardt. a mem;,e, uf
the firm of W. Il. Grace & co. South
American merchants. was The 0ryt wit .
ness.
iSlelardt said lie received ,ele-
phone call from Mrs De SauIles early
me hlSht of the tragedy. lie de
ciHed she said she was TERRIBLY vnr-
rled bec&HSe Jack" her son. bad
not been returned 90 her home a,,- u.
Saulies and that she wanted b,,, =,
&" with her {" The Box" in AN an
deaNor to get him
islehardt testified that he refused
because TIE service She requested AS
"a delicate matter"
Suffered Fall When Child
Miss Amelia t.rrazuliz Az. ~.
SauilrS sister, corroborated tie 40
lehdaAt story that she suffered a
lali while Child in Chile-a ran in
winch she struck her head againsI j
fireplace and sustained severe in
iurieS.
De Saulles, Mrs. Errazuriz testified
asked her mother to BUY him an ast,t,
in chile. Her mother offered IA .,ir.
her son-in law 4 part Of VIVA Del
Mar, her estate near Santiago. hut Ne
SaulleS insisted upon being given COM
pet" control of the estate ana when
inns VAS refused the young woman
SAID lr treated hcr mother .rudeIy :
IN reference I" an automobile acci-
dent after her marriage in which Mrs
De Saulles claims she sustained an
other injury IT, Ter head, the witness
said iier sister was confined Ia her
bed for four or five DAYS"
Miss Errazuliz also gave testimony
IN support OF the defendants claim
that De Saulles sought ia ALLEVIATE his
sons affections from his mother
through q nurse whom ne engaged for
the boy.
With tn revolver with Will n Mrs.
De SanlleS shot her husband. the Wit
ness then demonstrated the manner in
which ii might he DISCHARGED. Al
though equipped with a safety device
she said the pressure of the hand ON
the grip "f the revolver was snffi-
Gent to release this catch ana that
consequently only one movement vas
necessary to fire il.
Miss Errdzuriz said revo1yers are
commonly carried nv women, in Chile,
Testimony of Maid
Suzanne Monteau, MIS- De Saulles'
maid. who accompanied her on the
tiVe-mile automobile trip across the
Hampstead plains from her home to
The Box lust before the tragedy.
declared
When Mrs De SaullpS entered tha
living room She said She came to take
Jack.
''He made her such an awful face" sh.
continued.
"Ile said: You can't have him now or
never
He was facing her. saw Mrs. De
Saulles get awfully white
Then what happened?" asked Justice
Manning