Arizona republican., 1917-11-24
HYPOTHYREOS|S |S BLAMED FUR SHOT
 KILLING HUSBAND
Republican A.P. Leased Wlref


 MINEOLA, N. Y, Nov. 23.-"Hypo- thyreosis' which he termed an affec- tion of the thyroid gland and which eventually produces a state of mental infirmity, was today given by her at torneys as the disease from which Mrs. Blanca De Saulles was suffering when she shot her divorced husband, John L. De Saulles, at his Long Island home the night Of August 3.
 This definition of the cause of the defendants alleged temporary loss of accountability was given by Henry A. Uterhart in outlining the case he will endeavor to prove in justification of the Chilean heireSS on trial here charged with murder. The prosecution rested at noon today.
 Causes contributing to Mrs. De Saulles' impaired mental condition, MT. Uterhart said he would show, are to be found in a history of his clients do- nestle relations with the former Yale athlete and club man whom she shot A fracture of the skull, suffered sev- eral years ago, left a bit of bone press ing upon Mrs. De Saulles' brain and this served to aggravate her alleged mental ailment, he said.
 With announcement by the defense that Dr. Smith Eli Jeliffe, an alienist would testify in Mrs. De Saulles' be- half, together with Dr. Louis c. John son of Johns Hopkins university, whom MT. Uterhart termed a physiological chemist it seemed certain that a long battle in which medical technicalities will figure will precede the placing of the case in the hands of the jurors.
 MT. Uterhart took more than an hour to sketch the defendants early life, her marriage to De Saulles, their marital troubles which ended in her obtaining a divorce and her version of what occurred at her former hus- bands home on the night of the tragedy.
 The state rested it's case with the reading into the record of two letters exchanged by De Saulles and the de- fendant purporting to show that four and one-half-year old John L. De Saulles, Jr., was legally in the custody of his father when his mothers futile effort to regain possession of him led to the shooting of De Saulles, accord ing to her claim.
 Among those who testified were Marshall A. Ward, self-styled intimate of John L. De Saulles, Mrs. Caroline De. Gener. De Saulles' sister, and bis father, Major Arthur B. De Saulles all or whom were al the be SaulleS nome when the shooting took place.
 Their accounts were contradictory in relation to Mrs. De Saulles' first re- marks when she entered the home just before De SauHes was shot District Attorney Charles R. Weeks for the prosecution, sought to show these re- marks indicated she went to the place | seeking her former husband. This, if established, would serve to coroborate the states claim of deliberate and pre- meditated murder.
 The defense, on the other hand, at tempted to prove that Mrs. De Saulles said when she entered the residence where's Jack-I have come to take him home with me-"
 Sheriff Phineas Seaman and Con- stable Leonard Thorne, who arrested | the. defendant an hour after the | shooting, both testified that Mrs. | De Saulles was very pale when they took her into custody. De- | spite the circumstances, the young woman was unusually calm, '' | the sheriff said-when she was ar rested
 On crosse examination Seaman de- l clared Mrs. De Saulles gave "a pe- | culiar little laugh every few mo- ments while being taken from the i justices court to the jail. Her ac- (Continued on Page Rwo)