The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-11-28
DE SAULLES MAID
rs CONFUSED BY
THE PROSECUTION
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evening.
There were less than a score Of
spectators in the court room when
the trial was resumed this morning.
D. Stewart Iglehardt, a member OF
the firm of w. r. Grace & Co., mer-
chants, was the first witness called
by Henry A Uterhart, Mrs. De
Saulles' attorney.
The witness said Mrs. Igfehardt and II
he had been acquainted with Mrs. De /
Saulles for several years, that they
had visited at the Errazuriz home.
Iglehardt said he received a tele- J.
phone call from Mrs. De SaulIes early
the night of the tragedy. He said
she was terribly worried" because
Jack" her son, had not been re-
turned to her home by De Saulles
and that she wanted him to go with
her to ''the Box in an nedeavor to
get the boy.
Iglehardt testified that he refused
because the service she required was
"a delicate matter"
Miss Aynalia Errazuriz, Mrs. De |
Saulles' sister, was next called to the |
stand She gave corroboration of the |
defendants story that she suffered a |
fall when a child in Chile, fall in |
which she struck her head against, |
fireplace and suffered severe injuries. |
De Saulles, Miss Errazuriz testified,
asked her mother to buy him an es-
tate in Chile, while he and Mrs. De
saulles were visiting there. Her
mother said she could not do that,
but offered to give her son-in-law
part of Vine del Mar, her estate
near Santiago the witness declared.
De Saulles insisted on beign given
complete control Of the entire estate
and when this was refused the young
woman said, he treated her mother
~rudely."
In reference to an automobile acct
dent in which Mrs. De Saulles claims
| she suffered another injury to her
head, the witness said her sister was
confined to her bed for -four or five
days following the occ urrence. This
| happened during a visit to Chile While
she was married to De SAulles.
Miss Errazuriz also gave testimony
| in support of the defendants claim
that De Saulles sought to alenfate his
sons affections for his mother through
a nurse whom he engaged for the
boy. After visits at the fathers home,
Miss Errazuriz said, the boy would be
| unmanageab1e when he returned to
his mothers custody.
| 'Jack told me that Boobie CHS nick
name for the nurse) told him to act
bad when he returned to his mother"
the witness declared.
| The defendants sister said that
when returning from these visits with
his father the boy told her a. number
of times of 3gay parties" given at The
| Box, De Saulles' home.
With the revolver with which Mrs.
De Saulles shot her husband the wit
ness then demonstrated the manner
| in, ioI Or he
Errazuriz said the pressure of the
hand on the grip of the revolver was
sufficient to release the safety catch
and only one movement was necessary
to fire it.
) District Attorney Weeks maintains
} that two movements of the hand are
necessary and that this would indi-
} cate that Mrs. De Saul1es was not men
tally irresponsible when she shot her
J husband.
| Miss Errazuriz said revolvers are
commonly carried by women in Chile.
The witness said her mother, who
retired from the court room during
Mrs. De Saulles' cross examination
yesterday, was Every ILL., This was
regarded as an Indication that Mrs.
Flrrazuriz will not testify today as was
expected.
Susanna Monteau, Mrs. De Saulles'
maid, who accompanied her on the
five mile automobile trip across the
, Hampstead plains from her home to
The Box ust before the tragedy, was
the next witness.
The maids French accent and ex>
cited manner on the stand made it
difficult for her story to be heard by
the jury and Justice Manning. She
| WAS freouently interrupted
when Mrs. De Saulles entered
! the living room she said she came to
take Jack" declared the witness.
, "He made her such an awful face"
she continued, after a pause.
"He said You can't have him now
nor never The witness was sc
affected that it required fully min
\ ute for her to regain her self-posses-
sion and continue the tale.
ct was standing right by Mrs. De
Saulles and could see everything -
: she went on finally. "He was facing
4 her. saw Mrs. De Saul1es gel
y awfully white.'
n 'Then what happened" asked JUS
e tice Manning when Miss Monteau
d hesitated again.
o 'She shot him. sobbed the wit
ness, apparently overcome by her
: recollection of the tragedy.
: On cross examination District At.
d torney Weeks seemingly confused the
witness in reference to details of the
shooting. There were discrepancies
In her answer to Weeks question:
when compared with those she sait
7 she made when a deposition was tax
en- from her a few days after August 8
Parts of this deposition were reat
10 by Weeks, apparently to indicate thes,
n differences.
At the time of the previous cues
s. tioning Miss Monteau said Mrs. D.
Saulles shot three times "and D,
Saulles did not move" whereupon sh
fired twice more. Another part o
the deposition read quoted the mai,
il as saying Mrs. De Saulles put he
right hand into her left hand pocket
taking out the revolver and pointin
~ it slowly" in her former husband
direction.
- In answer to Attorney Weeks ques
- lions in cross examination the wit
~ ness had just made statements tina
sontradicted those quoted from tn
- deposition.
20 Didn't Mrs. De Saulles say just at