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Former Yale Football Star Refused Her Demand to
Hand Over Lad-She Fired Five Bullets Into
His Back at Roslyn Home

came to the persons on the porch. Then
Do Saulles turned slowly away from his
visitor and said:
mo. can't do It, l have a right tn
have him now"
Shooting of De saulles.
There was a slight, awkward pause.
The woman toyed nervously with
handbag that she carried. She hesitated
n moment and then muttered: 'Thsn
there is only one thing to do
Instantly there came the crack OF a
pistol that she had drawn from her
handbag Four other shots followed In
rapid succession. DE Saulles staggered
and fell to the porch. Mr.. Ward seize:
the woman and held her to prevent any
further firing.
The family summoned an ambulance
! from the Nassau Hospital. At the same
! time Sheriff Seaman was called from
! HCmpStead AS the ambulance took the
former athlete to the hospital where lie
was 70 soon to die an automobile went
swiftly to the Hempstead town hall with
Mrs. De Saullea
From the town hall Sheriff Seaman
| escorted Mira. De Saulles to Mineola,
where she was arraigned before Magis-
trate Jones. The Magistrate held her
upon a charge OF murder In the first
degree to await the action Of the Grand
Jury, and in the meantime she was
committed without bail to the Nassau
county Jail
Susanna Monteau, the maid who was
in the automobile with Mrs De Saulles
was required TO furnish bail in the sum
Of $1,000 for her appearance as ma
terial witness.
Constable Leonard who made the ac-
tual arrests. told the Magistrate that
Mrs. DE Saulles and the maid fed from
the De Saulles home after the murder
and that he found them hiding in a
hedge near the rear yard Of the place.
Admitted shooting De saulIes.
when approached the woman"
said the constable, she admitted that
she had shot her former husband and
said I hope he will die"
She said that she was 25 years OF age
and that her husband was 3S and that
she had killed him after a quarrel over
the custody Of their child
He promised me that I should have
the boy on July l." she said, land he
did not keep his promise"
The woman was calm and collected
She recited her part in tho tragedy with
no apparent show OF feeling and went
into some detail concerning the history
of their divorce and the agreement az
, ''Where Is the pistol that you used p
asked the Magistrate.
"oh. It is on a shelf in the house,
she said.
: At the hospital the doctors found tha
l all OF the bullets from the woman
weapon had entered De Saulless back
I At IL o'clock they turned from the op
Grating table and sadly informed tn,
waiting friends that the end had come.
T. n. h.,llA tnI NhA q
Blanca Errazuriz-Vergara In Paris OF
December l9. 1911. The wedding wa
tho elimination OF a romance OF thre
| continents. After leaving college he ha
become Interested In mining, and In ls1
II was sent by the South American Con
cesslons Company. an English corpora
tion. to Chile, The company had a con
cession, among others. TO bore railroA
through the Andes Mountains. and d
SRulles, with his mining and engineern
skill. was to have prominent place /
the actual work.
Ii He bore with him a letter OF Intro
duction to the Sonora Erra=urlZ-Vei
CARA, who was reputed to be the wealth
lest woman in all OF the South Amer
can republic. The young college athlet
met and wooed Blanca. the sixteen-y veal
old daughter Of the mistress OF N
manor. Blanca had Just returned froi
| faris.
Entry into Politics.
When De Saulles came back to Ne
York he became actively identified wit
politics. The college man was just con
ing into his own AS a political facto
and he organised $4,000 young collel
graduates throughout the country in
a compact. useful body during the pr
liminary campaign In 1912 In whi,
william +. McCombs, Jr.. then 4
sponsor for the Woodrow Wilson booI
sought to win the nomination at Bait
more for his then friend. In the ci
III CowttRUsd on Third P0Os.