Arizona republican., 1917-11-27
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MlNEOLA, N. Y., Nov. Z6.-tTom the witness stand in supreme court here today Mrs. Blanca De Saulles told a story upon which may depend her conviction or acquittal of the charge of murdering her husband, John l.. De Saulles at his Long Island home the night of August 3.
 It was a tale in which pathos and humor were mingled. There were mo- ments when the pale, 23year-old Chilean heiress smiled broadly at a part of her own grim narration and when the spectators who crowded the courtroom laughed 70 loudly it was necessary for Justice David F. Man ming, who is presiding, to rap for or der.
 But the greater part of the story was so deeply pathetic that jurors and spec tators were visibly affected.
 It was a recital in which scenes were rapidly shifted. The first was a lux urious estate in Chile-Vina del Mar, The Vineyard by the Sea where the defendant spent her childhood Then followed a reference to the three years the young woman spent in a convent in England. There was the return to her Chilean home and her acquaintance with De Saulles, fresh from laurels won as a football star at Yale.
 Then the witness told of her brief courtship and the wedding in Paris in 1911.
 From this point, the story was one of domestic infelicity and of 'indif- ferent neglect" and unfaithfulness or the part of the husband, which event ually led to the divorce court. These years of unhappiness for the defendant were described as "a horrible night mare" in one of the several letters written by Mrs. De Saulles as read tC the court and which interspersed hel testimony.
 Next came the climax of the nara | tion--Mrs. De Saullles' account of the tragedy at "The Box, her former hus- bands home near Westbury, Long Island, the night she failed in her en- | deavor to obtain possession of her son and in a moment of mental irrespon- sibility, according to her claim, fir-> the revolver shots.
 There was no reference throughout the five hour recital to "hypothyreosis, the thyroid condition which her attor- neys say was partly responsible for he temporary mental derangement. l Mrs, De Saulles' story having beer told, there remain to be examined sev eraS other witnesses on behalf of tn | defendant and then the way will b. cleared for a. long battle of alienists an,
 other medical specialists representing
 the prosecution and defense which i
 expected to be Waged before the cas
 goes to the jury.
 Lawyers connected with the tris predict it Vill continue we'll into nex
 week.
 Mrs. De Saulles, whose paleness an
 lanquid demeanor reflected her thre
 months of Imprisonment, told her stor
 in tone so low it was necessary fo
 Justice Manning to aGmonish her sev
 eral times to speak louder.
 Accompanying Mrs. De SauIles int
 the trial chamber where her mothe,
 Mrs. Blanca Errazuriz, her sister Anna
 lia, and brother William, who cam
 from Chile for the trial.
 At the opposite side of the court
 room were seated Charles A. H D
 Saulles, a-brother of John L. De Saul
 les, his sister, Mrs. Caroline Degene
 and Stephen s. Futile, De Saulles' fol mer secretary. Near them was Julfu 7 Hademek. De Saulles' valet, who test. fled in behalf of the state last weel Among the spectators were many pei
 sons prominent in New York and Lon
 Island social circles.
 When Mrs. De Saulles entered tl
 courtroom she smiled in acknowledge
 ment of her attorneys greetings an
 bowed to the jury as she topk her sea
 Justice Manning took the bench, u jury roll was called and the defendal immediately took the stand. The wi
 ness had finished the fils part of h, story-her marriage at the age of and her return to the United Stat, with De Saulles-when her attorne Henry A. Uterhart, interrupted to req several letters bearing Mrs. De Saulle : signature. These missives brimm, with words of affection. They pictur, r the youthful brides dream of the hal : piness which she thought was to hers. but an occasional phrase such . please don't disappoint us again" al T ''come Tuesday without fail," indicat 8 the negligent attitude which Mrs. ] e Saulles says her husband assumed t S ward her, was asserting itself = A number of instances of De Saul, = alleged infidelities and inconsidera - treatment were <l. When given S
 curities worth S10U,000, which the wi - ness said she inherited from her fat s CT. De Saulles told her 'it is absurd
 call you an heiresS," the defendant d n clared
 Q During a brief stay in London a a later while they were living in N, o York Mrs. De Saulles said her husba e repeatedly embarrassed her by faili
 to appear at social functions whi Q they had arranged.
 T While living with De Saulles' parer
 at South Bethlehem, Pa, where s 'e said she was treated as "an unwelcol
 visitor" her husband spent nearly 70 his time in New York "on bushes Il making an occasional week end visit d the place.
 sr Joan Sawyer, dancer that Mrs. [ 70 Saullwes said she learned her husba le entertained" in an apartment in N, l. York during one winter, and the Du sr of Manchester, with whom she said h Saulles "cavorted about bringing l n distasteful nOtoriety. were mention a uurJ< \