Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-11-27
MRS. DE SAULLES
HEART WAS BROKEN
Woman on Trial For Killing Husband
Tells Of Actions Of Spouse Which
Caused Her to Determine to Leave
Him-Intense Jealousy Revealed.

Tells Of Actions Of Spouse Which
Caused Her to Determine to Leave
Him-Intense Jealousy Revealed.
Mineola, N. Y, Nov. 27.-Mrs. Blanca
De Saulles returned to the witness
stand today when her trial on the
charge Of killing her divorced husband,
John L. De Saulles, was resumed. It
had been believed that because of her
weakened condition the questioning
would be postponed.
District Attorney Weeks has been
quoted as saying he would not spare
the witness while on the stand, altho
1T would be an unpleasant duty"
Weeks first question was whether
she remembered nothing from the time
her former husband refused to give her
the custody Of their son until she
awakened in the Nassau county Jail.
The witness answered in the afIirma-
tive.
Mrs. De Saulles said she had suffered
considerably from the heat during the
three months Imprisonment; had not
suffered any lapses in memory; her
finger nails had been very brittle and
her hair had fallen out to q very ap-
preciable degree.
Mrs. De Saulles' story of seeing her
husband aboard yacht with the Duke
Of Manchester, surrounded with a
i"bevy OF Broadway's choicest beau
ties" came in for examination.
. VA,
Saulles was then associated with the
duke in a deal to furnish horses to the
allied governments, and in which your
husband cleaned up $50,00O?" asked
Weeks
II never knew that" replied Mrs. De
Saulles.
Mrs. De Saulles testified that she was
very unhappy" and very hurt" over
an incident in London, when De Saulles
would not permit her to stay at the
same hotel whereshe was stopping.
But you said nothing of that in this
letter. did you?" asked Mr.. Weeks.
He had just read another affectionate
letter written by Mrs. De Saulles to
her husband
My heart was broken when I wrote
that letter, but I would not tell him
So" replied the witness.
A portion Of this letter told Of a party
Mrs. De Saulles testified that she was
she danced until she "had no feet to
stand on" and some Of the funny
cocktails that taste like dirty water
and look like diluted milk had been
ordered for her.
"One can smile with a broken heart"
was Mrs. De Saulles' answer to an
other question by Attorney Weeks re-
garding the letter in which the witness
made professions Of love for her hus-
band. ~
But were your words of love for
your husband sincere = did you mean
mean them?" Interrupted Justice Man
ming.
II did," replied the witness
While en- route to Chile for visit
to relatives Mrs. De Saulles testified
that she believed her married life was
at and end-"morally."
do you mean that you intended you
would never live together as man and
wife?"
II thought that If was leaving him,
wouldn't-well, wouldn't" was
the reply.
Attorneys for the defense maintain
these symptoms indicate the process Of
the disease Of hypothoyreosia, from
which it is said she was suffering at
the time Of the tragedy and which Is
held responsible for her lapse of ac-
countabifity.
A letter in which the defendant told
her husband that 1T was the greatest
regret of her life" that she had not
been "able to make him good wife, "
was read in the record during cross
examination of Mrs De Saulles.
There were indications that this let
ter will be used by attorneys for to
prosecution in their attempt to break
down the story Of indifferent neglect"
on the part Of her husband told in
direct examination yesterday.
A number of letters written by the
dfendant to her husband which con-
tanned many endearins phrases were
read by Attorney Weeks.
did you mention to the attorney a
number Of times writing some particu-
larly warm messages of love?"
"My heart was brolen-but would
not let him know-I never told per-
son." Mrs. De Saulles replied.
a letter written by De Saulles, in
which he admonished his wife to "turIi
over a new leaf" and saying she ha 4
refused to live with him "for the pas.
four years" was aong those read.