Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-12-04
mrs. DE SAULLES
TELLS Her STORY
Holds Court SpeIIbound by Tale
of Neglect and Final
Vengeance.
HUSBAND SPENT HER MONEY
Recalls Nothing of Shooting Former
Spouse Who Refused to Give Up
Her ChiId-Entertained Stage
Beauties.

II. bC oUuilCo lSSlLdl Uu Tie WlIUeSS
stand of the last words spoken by her
husband, John L. De Saulles, before
she slew him ON the night of August
3, formed one of the most tragic and
dramatic scenes ever enacted in a
courtroom.
The slender little Chilean held the
rOOmful of spectators breathIess as
she nerved herself to speak. The still
ness was broken only by a woman's
sob. The answer finally came from
bloodless lips.
MIR. De Saulles said to me: You
can't have him (ittle jack. You can
never have him. | saw look come
in his facet was stunned-I had
frightful pain in my head"
She paused.
Il still seem to be hearing those
words"
The earlier part Mrs. De SauIles'
testimony bore largely on the alleged
dissipation of the 100000 fortune
by her husband. "When he found out
how much money l had" she said, ''he
was very much disappointed and said
to me: This is not very much"
In one instance the eyes of the wit
ness flashed fire when her counsel
asked her to tell what she knew of
her husbands association with the
duke of Manchester.
1--WE were taking dinner one aft
ernoon," she said, "when De Saulles
received a note from the duke of
Manchester, asking him to 90 on
yachting trip. He went. Later | saw
him on the yacht with the duke, and
there We're many people with them.''
who were these people?" asked the
counsel. Were they men or women?"
Girls she replied
(Which WifeW
Very reluctantly she told of trip
to London, in which, she testified, she
went to hotel to find her husband.
''WhO are your" asked the clerk.
II am his wife, Mrs. de Saulles."
she said.
Which One?" was the query.
Il felt deeply mortified" she said,
land later, when l barely missed COM
ing over on the Lusitania on her last
fatal trip, said to myself 1 was sorry
that l was not on that boat"
She told of being introduced to Jack
De Saulles, early in 1911, and of his
courtship. She became engaged to
him in August, 1911, she testified
MY husband came home very late.
as a rule" she said, many times be-
tween three and four O'Clock in the
morning. He never told me where he
had been"
She then told of her husbands ap-
pointment as minister to Uruguay.
She went to Europe with the baby to
visit friends on her husbands advice,
she said.
He did not take the position" she
said, "because he said he could make
more money in New York"
A copy of Town Topics detailing the
doings of the duke of Manchester was
then introduced.
Lady Godiva Stunt"
The story told of how Jack De
Saulles assisted the duke in entertain
ing prominent dancers and devOtees
of the night life of Broadway, also of
how one woman did the Lady Godiva
stunt by a sans clothes plunge into the
ocean. On another occasion, De
Saulles showed her card from a
woman who was Well-known to the
lower world
81 asked him if he knew her we'll"
she said, "and he told me he did"
'"Then l asked if he ever kissed her,
and he said he did. That made me
feel miserable"
The witness said De Saulles drank
a great deal and was in the habit of
giving parties at home and then alb
senting himself.
Il was very unhappy" she added,
"and asked him if he wouldn't try and
do better"
Not Made to Settle Down.
HE said he could not help the kind
of life he was living, as he was not
made to settle down."
She told him she wished to go home
to Chile, and he permitted it, she said.
She sailed with her baby in 1915,
and as she left the United States she
felt very happy to get away" she
said. She testified she did not tell her
mother or others about the troubles OF
her married life.
ION their return" she declared, 'De
Saulles seemed delighted because the
baby had been frightened by the wild
When she asked the boy what hap
pened, the witness said, the boy re-
piled:
'"The lions roared and Miss 10 and
daddy laughed"
81 subsequently found out who this
Miss Jo' was" she added. "She was
Miss Joan Sawyer"
The witness then told of mental
suffering following this episode.
"When 1 asked my husband later
about his relations with Joan Sawyer"
she said, ''he asked me if l thought I
was the only woman who ever fell in
love with him."