Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-08-06
MRS. DESAULLES'
TRIAL WILDE
A SENSATION
Notable Women Will Aid
Chilean Beauty in Her
Defense.
Robbed Of Husbands Love
and Of Her Drearn-child
She Was Desperate

New York, Aug. 6.-The trial of
the beautiful Chilean heiress, Mrs.
"Jack" De Saulles, for the murder Of
her husband, the former Yale football
star, promises to be the most sensa-
ThaW shot Stanford White.
Notable women who have been
working along reform and suffrage
lines are stalking up the fight for Mrs.
De Saulles.
"The shooting OF Jack De Saulles
was just what might have been ex-
pected," said Helen Todd, secretary of
the International Child Welfare
League of America, in the following
interview with F. M. Kerby, New
York correspondent for The Herald:
Copyright, 1919
"The killing Of Jack De Saulles by
his wife was to be expected: you can't
decree that motherhood and wifehood
shall be the one dominating thing of
importance in a woman's life, then
take that away from her, and not ex-
pect some kind Of an explosion.
"A woman's whele life is her love-
life. Her personal relationship as a
wife and mother, society has decreed
and woman has accepted as the cen
trail dominating influence in her life.
when her faith in her husband is
destroyed and she is shocked into q
realization that her love dream has
crashed into 9nothingness; when in ad-
3dition to that the child that she has
borne is kept away from her by the
husband who. has proved unfaithful;
1t Is no wonder that the mind Of the
woman becomes :, temp mporarily unbai-
Eaefea ana sat slEssiach sasz4 THIS
Eshooting occurs. t,s NJ s8il' "a {.
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from an unfaithful husband ought to
have the custody Of her child or chill
dren. Any other arrangement is only
| an added cruelty. 3
II do not say for q. moment that the
father should not be permitted to see
| the child. Many fathers who have
! been unfaithful to the women they
married love their children as much
| as ever.
| ), "But the mother is the proper pro-
| tector for her child.
Society has exalted motherhood
| and declared that 1t is the supreme
duty of women to be mothers. Then
let society take care that 1t carries
out it's duty to the mother.
The girl-for she is little more
than a girl, beautiful, cultured, refin-
| ed-was wooed and won by De Saul
les, who pursued her to Paris to press
| HIS sI1o 10 TcpOIL6u 10 nave Sa1Q
Of her that he thought her the most
beautiful woman in the world.
"Idealized in this way, she un-
doubtedly believed that she would al
ways hold the affections Of her hus-
band.
'"But few years shattered her
dream. She was compelled to sue for
divorce because another woman had
entered her husbands life.
with nothing left of her love-life
except her boy, she found that she
would not even have him. The court
decreed that the erring father was to
have the child part Of the year.
1.-THE young mother, torn with an
guish at not being able to have her
child with her, with her love-life shat
| tered, simply became temporarily un-
balanced. The tragedy was the re-
suit.
''The lesson Is that man-made in
stitutions, and man-controlled courts,
ought not to try to take children
away from mothers.
| Children were made principally
for mothers. just as mothers were
made for children. Something will
| break down when men try to destroy
this relation.
please do not understand me to
say that any woman is justified in talk
ing a revolver and shooting the per-
son who may happen to stand be-
tween herself and her child, but a
thing Of that kind Is quite likely to
happen IL the provocation Is suff1-
ciently intense. I have deepest sym
pathy for Mrs. De Saulles." #