The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-24
Jurors Weep as Attorney Out
lines Mrs. De SaulIes' Defense.
Testimony May Involve PrOml'
nent n. Y. Women.
HE WAS FORTUNE HUNTER?
Charge He Squandered Her
Money and Deserted Her.
Escapades on Dukes Yacht
With Broadway Beauties.
BY HUGH BAIILIE.

Mineola. L. l., Nov. 24.-Waiting TO
on on the witness stand to tell her
dramatic story of crushed romance
and tragedy Mrs. Blanca De Saulles
was heartened by a visit with her SON
little Jack. in a quarrel fer possession
of whom she killed her divorced nus
band John L. De Saulles-
The lad was brought to her room
in Mineola Jail Meanwhile her at
torneys prepared for the fight next
week to save her from the electric
chair. :.
will be diary of a slowly breaking
heart
When Defense Counsel Uterhart
outlined it in his opening statement,
two jurors wept. The little Chliean
girl is TO tell how, alone in a strange
land after a rosy cOurtShip and mar
RAG. her hopes were bughted and her
spirit crushed when the man she loved
neglected her and Squandered her Tor
tune on other women. 1t Is be1eVeu
the names of prominent persons Will
be brought in. The mention of Miss
J. o." a Broadway dancing favorite,
has already been made in court by
Uterhart More about her may be
heard from Mrs. De Saulles. The
Duke of Manchester, his steam yacht
and his cargo of Broadway's choicest
]
AIIege She Wasn't Responsible.
The greatest alienists in the coun-
/ try, Uterhart promised, will testify
! that Mrs. De Saulles was not respOn-
sible when she killed the man. GOad-
ed by neglect. loneliness and abuse.
suffering from pressure on the brain
from a fractured skull, it is claimed
her mind went blank when as a last
straw De Saulles tried to retain the
| child, her only joy.
There is great interest in the docu-
ments TO be introduced by the defense,
some of these are letters written by
/ Mrs. De SaulleS. A determined e1-
| fort will be made to prove the slsia
man a fortune hunter who married
Blanca Errazuriz for her money and
finally reduced her to the white. frail,
crushed lily that sits in court day
after day, DULY apathetic for the
most part as the fight for her life
goes on.
"On one occasion, while Mrs. De
Saulles was out on August Hecksher's
yacht on Long Island sound" said
Uterhart, they came up to a yacht
the duke had hired and never paid
for, and there. standing on the quar-
terdeck, was the noble lord and John
L. de Saulles, surrounded by a beyy
of Broadway beauties"
Describes Shooting.
The attorney then launched into a
of the shooting. He said that early
the morning of August 8, De Saulles
| borrowed their son in anticipation
of a visit to his home by the boy S
grandfather. The boy was in Mrs. De
Saulless keeping, he declared, by
agreement made a short time pre-
viously between the parents. When
the lad was not returned to his moth
er's home that night, as promised,
Uterhart said, Mrs. De Saulles went 10
obtain possession of him.
Giving his version of the converse
ton that ensued between the parents,
the attorney emphasized the positive
nature of DeSaulles' refusal to accede
to the mothers pleadings that she be
given the boy. He reached the climax
of his address when he declared:
'She saw a peculiar look come over
her husbands face. She knew that
learned its meaning through six long
years of Indifferent neglect. A great
pain shot through her brain. Every
thing became blank before her"
Uterhart said the defense will not
be based upon any hypothetical claim
of 'brainstorm' or emotional insan-
ity," and that there would be no ap-
peal under the unwritten law"
Founded on the written Law"
Our case" he said, will be found
ed on the written law, the law of the
state of New York, which saws that
a person shall not be convicted of a
deed committed when suffering from
such a defective reason as not to
know the nature or quality of the act. ~
There will be no session of the trial
\ tomorrow, the court having taken a
recess until Monday. at the close OF
Uterhart's statement.
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