The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-11-28
Disconcerting Question
Fail to Lead Madame De
=. %>SuuUes into an Ambush


"Why, ----Dr. Wright told me-"
"Did he tell you, you had shot him
in the back?' was the next question.
81 don't remember" the witness
answered after pause. -
There was a reversiOn to this point
some minutes later when the pros
ecutOr asked:
when did you first know that your
husband was shot in the back-he
was, wasn't he?"
WAS he?" questioned Mrs. De Saul
les in return.
"I'm asking you," urged Weeks.
/ why, it was in court last week.
when l heard Marshall Ward testify"
said the defendant finally
S Marshall Ward was an intimate
friend of De Saulles and was called
ny the prosecution as a witness last
week
Recalls Nothing
OF the actual shooting, Mrs. De
Saulles maintained her claim that she
could recall nothing-that her men,
DRY failed to serve her in relation to
what had happened after her divorced
husband told her she could not have
her son. for whom she declares she
went to De Saulles' home the night
of the tragedy. She chung to her pre-
vious assertion that not until her
awakening in the Nassau county Jail
some days later did she again become
rational. f#agas
With Justice Manning's permission,
the district attorney sought to assist
the witness by asking whether she
did not. remember having told officers
who arrested her that they would find
the revolver with which she did the
shooting lying near a hat rack in the
hall of the De Saulles' home. that the
following morning she wrote check
for $4,000 with which TO bail our
her maid, Suzanna ,Monteau, who had
been held as material witness, and
that soon after the shooting she
thought of such things as lawyers,
aids and money"
On none of these points, however,
was the witness able to amplify her
story, she declared.
ulSc HuInDCT III IeLtefS
written by Mrs. De Saulles to her
husband during the time she alleges
he was "inditferently neglectful" and
Ii faithful to her were read into the
record by District Attorney Weeks
during the crOss-eXaminatiOn. Endear-
ing phrases and warm professions Of
love contained in them were empha-
sized by the lawyer as indicating that
Mrs. De Saulles' alleged martial diff
ticulties did not weigh so heavily upon
her as she claimed in her direct testi-
monl. .#
Heart Broken but Silent r."
'My heart was broken, and ! would
not let him knOw-l never told any
one" explained Mrs. De Saulles when
asked why she wrote the love letters
if her relations with her husband were
as unhappy as she had claimed.
A humorous situation enlNened the
proceedings when, just prior to the
noon recess, a juror yawned so loudly
That District Attorney Weeks turned
to Justice Manning and said:
1.-The jury seems TO be tired
~ on can't blame the Jufy--OnyOne
would be tired said Mrs. De SaulleS
in low tone. E.rH
you mean that l am tiresOme?'
asked Attorney Weeks. x,
eyes" answered the witness can
didly.
Prosecutor Explains
When Weeks explained that he
understood he was not exactly center
tanning" but that his duty demanded
that he make the examination he was
conducting, Mrs. De Saulles apologet-
ically sad she meant mo disrespect."
Mrs. De Saulles' examination COM
pleted. her attorney. Henry A. Utter
hart, tonight declared that tomorrow