Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1917-11-27
In FaItering Voice She Says
Something Went Wrong
With Her Head on the Night
Man Was Shot,
DISPUTE OVER SON -
KEPT HOUSE IN TURMOIL
Letters Are Introduced to
Prove Father Endeavored to
Turn Son Against Mother;
BreathIeSS Crowd at Trial.

| 10y sosNrss JOURNAL SPECIAL IsAsro yts.l
Mineola, n. Y, Nov. 26.--Mrs
Blanca De Saulles, drawing to the
close Of a dramatic story of events OF
her life that eliminated in her killing
| her husband, John L. De Saulles, to-
day told the jury that Is trying her for
murder that she did not remember
having fired the fatal shots
When, on the night of August 3
last, she went to the De Saulles home
to get, she said, her son Jack, the
custody of whom was in dispute be-
tween them, De Saulles told her she
testified, you can't have him"
II felt stunned then. Something
was wrong with my head" she said,
speaking with faltering voice
The throng in the crowded court
room hung breathlessly on her next
words: THAT is all remember" she
said.
In contradiction to the claim Of the
prosecution that Mrs. De Saulles went
to her former husbands home DELHI
erately to kill him. the defendant was
emphatic III her testimony that her
sole intention when she went there
was to get her little son.
Tells OF Marriage In Paris.
Mrs. De Saulles told story brim-
ming with dramatic interest, Her
childhood spent in Chile, her meeting
there with De Saulles; their marriage
in Paris and the return to the United
States was the first and happiest part
of the tale.
Then came the defendants detailed
narration of the change in her hus-
bands attitude toward her--of the
| trickery to which she aserts he re-
sorted in order to get possession of the
100000 which she inherited from
her father.
Instances of his alleged infidelity
were related by the witness who spoke
in a calm, unimpassioned manner.
while the throng which filled the court
room listened with breathless interest.
Letters which Mrs, De Saulles wrote
to her husband were introduced by
her counsel with the purpose Of show
ing the jury that she had suffered
from neglect. The pathos of some OF
them drew tears from the listeners.
Asks Husband to Come.
In letter written to Darling Pre-
cious Daddy" Mrs. De Saulles begged
her husband to come to see her with
out fail. "I am so lonesome without
you,' she wrote. The letter was
signed with all the love in the world
| from baby boy and me-"
In another letter she told him she
had put in a telephone call for him
and while she was waiting for him to
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| him She said she had decided not "to
send him word" until he sent word
to her because he had ordered her
out of the room when he was talking
to his mother. but her love overcame
der resolve.
At the afternoon session, Justice
Manning ruled that testimony taken
in the divorce proceedings instituted
by Mrs. De Saulles would be excluded
from the record of the trial.
In his opening statement of the case
last week, Attorney Uterhart indi-
Gated the record of these proceedings
would be depended upon in large
measure to establish De Saulles' al
| legged mistreatment of his wife and his
unfaithfulness to her,
Letter to Nurse Read.
The defense presented letter writ
ten by Mrs. De Saulles in August
1916, to her sons former nurse, Miss
Ethel O'Neil. which read:
Dear Miss Ethel; How glad I was
| to hear from you again and how hap
| ry / feel to know that have a real
| friend in you. You have no idea how
| it helps, We are sailing, my brother
sister and myself, for London the day
after tomorrow and are coming back
| in October. The baby will remain
| here, His father, in every visit he
makes to him, influences him so
against me that he is now very hard
to manage, and Mrs. Mooney had
adopted an extraordinary attitude as
though the child belonged to her, and
! it were a great condescension for her
to allow the child to talk to me, and
when he does, it's only to tell me that
/ his boobie loves him more than I do.
because she has told him that and
he says he would rather be with her.
So you see the whole atmosphere is
an impossible one, and while Mrs.
Mooney is with the child Just simply
can't stand it being there too.
| "As long as his father is allowed
/ to have the child part of the time,
can't let a strange nurse look af-
( ter Toodles so for his good. I'm will
/ ing to make the sacrifice of being
without him, but Miss Ethel, it's just
eating my heart out and of course,
everyone thinks | don't care.
| Always.
"BLANQUITA DE SAULLES.'
"Boobie" 1t was explained, was
| the child's nickname for Mrs. Moon