Arizona republican., 1917-12-02
Chilean HeireSS Is Freed
 Of Charge Of Murder

room, every eye was intently fixed upon her. She stepped briskly. a smile over spreading her features and con- fident air characterized her manner. A moment later the jurors filed into their box. Apparently there was some thing significant in their manner foI Attorney Uterhart leaned over to an associate and was heard to say:
 "Evarything's all right"
 Evefy one stood mp as the justice walked to the bench and without seat ing himself said
 T desire to say that regardless of what this verdict may be, no eXpres- sion of approval or disapproval will be tolerated. & There must be no raising of voices fhd every one must remain seated until.the court is adjourned. No one is to leave the room until that time. Anyone violating these instructions will be remanded to jail"
 Each juror answered in the affir- native when the clerk asked each if he had agreed to the verdict Mrs. de | Saulles was instructed to stand.
 Jurors, look upon the defendant Defendant. look upon the jurors" the | clerk said: Gentlemen, what is your verdict?"
 Not guilty" came in chorus from the jury box.
 The defendant is discharged" an nounced the justice rapping his gavel | to signal adjournment.
 4 short time later Mrs. de Saulles | motored to her home, The Cross | Ways" which she had not visited since the night of the tragedy and which had been prepared in anticipation of l her coming.
 | Attorney Uterhart announced that in | case members of the de Saulles family refused to yield custody of Mrs. de | Saulles' son he will apply on Monday l for a writ of habeas corpus to compel | them to give him into his mothers S | custody.
 l 'The evidence presented to the jury l included plea on behalf of the de- fendant that she was mentally de- ] ranged when she did the shooting. This was supported by mass of tes- | timony admitted through alienists and l other medical experts. Hypothyroesis, a disease of the thyroid gland and af- | tecting the brain and nerve centers. | formed the basis for tne Chilean heir 1 ess' claim of temporary mental ire l sponsilibity.
 A series of ''physchic shocks" result | ing from her domestic difficulties a | skull fracture sustained some years ago and which is alleged to have re- suited in pressure on her brain which was never relieved by a trephining op- eration were other factors which these experts swore contributed to this un- usual condition.
 Other specialties, called by the prose- cution, COntradicted these assertions They maintained the alleged skull fracture was not a fracture at all, but | that the depressed area of the skull | bone shown in an X-ray photograph ot Mrs. de Saulles' head merely marked the healing over" point of what is l commonly called the baby spot" The states experts also said that a hypo- thyroid condition of the defendant such as her lawyers and physicians say existed, would not produce the state ot mind in which Mrs. de Saulles claims to have fired the revolver shots.
 According to the defense's conten. tions, the shooting resulted from a con. tention regarding the custody of Johr L. de Saulles, Jr., aged four and hal years. When the boys mother ob
 tained Q divorce decree in 1916 it wa.
 shown the court stipulated that tn, father was tos have custody of his sor during five months of each year anC
 the mother to have charge of the chilt the other seven months.
 Subsequently, however, the parents agreed they would divide the custody o the boy, each having him during alter
 nate months.
 The defense maintained that ol
 August the date of the shooting d
 Saulles borrowed" the boy, who Wa
 then in his mothers care, explainini
 that the boys grandfather, Major 4. H
 de Saulles of South Bethlehem, Pa
 was going to visit his home on tha
 date The defense declares de Saulle