The Washington herald., 1917-11-26

tomorrow will be the story of her life.
Her life has covered hut the brief span
of twentythree years. IT held much
OF joy during her early years and for
a short time after she married John
Longer DE Saulles at the early age
OF l6.
Her Fight Futile.
Then tragedy entered, casting over
the subsequent seven years a shadow
which has never once lifted. 1t was
tragedy against which she could bat
tie only with her woman's wit and her
young womanhood's winsomeness-and
they proved futile weapons.
Mrs. De Saulles' story, it was stated
today, will be one of the most dra-
matte eXpositions OF life's hopes
shattered ruthlessly which has ever
been told in a court. From her earliest
recollections after her birth of April
., 1894. she will reveal the unfolding OF
her life.
Mrs. De Saulles' testimony will dis
close the fact that, after having torn
from her heart the love she bore for
her husband through years Of suffer-
ing at his hands. she lived for and in
the life of her little son. Jack.
Lived in Misery.
Her lawyer did not hesitate in his
opening address to criticise the stipu-
lation by which the custody of little
Jack was given to the. mother for
seven months and to the father for
five months of each year. Mrs. De
Saulles will declare she lived in mis-
cry and amid unspeakable apprehen-
sions while separated from her 4-year-
old son. She dared not return to Chile.
lest he should need her suddenly, or
she should be granted some brief Pc
riod of reunion not in the agreement.
Her account of the shooting at THE
Box the evening of August is a
matter of which her lawyers has re-
vealed nothing. Not so much as an
inkling has been given as to whether
she recollects what she did when De
Saulles declined to let her take little
Jack from ''The Box" to her home in
Roslyn.
Mr.. Uterhart has made the unquali-
fed statement that proof will be sub
mitted to show an agreement by
which Jack should have been given in
his mothers custody on August and
that the agreement had been violated.
Her Mother u Witness.
Sonora de Errazuriz, the defendants
mother, will be the second witness for
the defense. Through her testimony
Uterhart plans to corroborate such of
the testimony Mrs. de SaulIes will give
and to add much of Importance.
AIienists to be called will testify to
a depressed fracture of the skull re-
sulting from q fall and vet unlimited.
They will also testify to a condition
of the thyroid gland which experts
claim affects the mental processes of
the person afflicted. An X-'Hy photo
of Mrs. De Saulles' head, taken at the
Jail. will be offered in evidence to
prove the fracture.
Uterhart spent part of today in pre-
pairing the hypothetical question to be
submitted to the alienists. The ques-
tion will be from 10000 to 1900 words
in length and will be read from some
seventy-five typewriter pages. The
reading may occupy about two hours.
History Of q Life.
The question will be a succinct his
tory Of the girls life, her marital
troubles. her fall, her condition owing
to the thyroid malady and her har-
assment by her physical and mental
troubles and the complications re-
garding the custody of little Jack.
1t will end by asking whether such
a person could. beyond a reasonable
doubt, know the nature or quality of
her act.
The answer to the 10,0O0-word ques-
tion is expected to be one little word
Of two letters-"no."
Uterhart intends, he declared today.
to read into the record of the case
the testimony taken before referee
Phoenix Ingraham in the divorces
proceeding. Hitherto that testimony
had lain in the courts archives un-l
der seal .