Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-11-28
Mrs. de Saulles Tells of Effort
to Protect Secret of Hus-
bands Sights.
NOT SHAKEN BY PROSECUTION
State Makes Vain Attempt TO
Trap Heiress by Rapid
Cross-Examination.

MINEOLA, Nov. 27-How her feet
had danced. how her face had smiled.
how her voice had laughed. how her
tongue had fibbed and how her pen
had lied to disguise a bleeding heart.
protect the secret of her husbands in
felicity and perhaps win him back to
her. was told by Mrs. Blanca de
Saulles today. The admission was
brought from her during rigid cross
examination by the prosecution who
attempted to break down her story
told yesterday in the trial Of the South
American heiress for the killing OF
her former husband. John l.. de-
Saulles.
Four hours of searching cross
examination. by District Attorney
Charles c. Weeks today failed to move
Mrs. de Saulles from the story she told
from the witness stand yesterday.
The 23-year-old Chilean heiress
reiterated her version of the tragedy
of the night of August at de Saulles'
Long Island home In the same dis
passionate manner in which she testi-
fled yesterday. Her answers were de-
liberate.
Surprise Attack Fails.
When the district attorney In an
abrupt tone asked:
when did you first know you had
shot your husband?" the question
failed of its evident purpose OF taking
the witness unawares for she looked
steadily at the prosecutor. deliberated
for some seconds and finally answered
slowlya>
"Why-Doctor Wight told me-"
Did he tell you you had shot him
in the back?"
II don't remember" the witness
answered after a pause.
There was n reversion to this point
some minutes later when the prose-
cutor asked:
when did you first know that your
husband was shot in. the back-he
was. wasn't he?"
WAS he?" questioned Mrs. de
Saulles in return.
"I'm asking you" urge& Weeks.
'Why, l was in court last week
when | heard Marshal Werd testify"
said the defendant finally
Marshal Werd was an intimate
friend of de Saulles and was called by
the prosecution as witness last week.
OF the actual shooting Mrs. de
Saulles maintained her claim that she
could recall nothing. She clung TO
her previous assertion that not until
her awakening in the Nassau county
tail some days after the shooting did
she become rational.
Sticks to Original Story.
With Justice David +. Manuing's s
permission the district attorney sought
/ TO assist the witness by asking whether
she did not remember having told Of
ficers who arrested her that they
would find the revolver with which
she did the shooting lying near hat
rack in the hall of the de Saulles
1 hnt fnilnwinU nlnFninR she
wrote check for $1,000 with which
to bail out her maid, Suzanna Mon
teau. who had been held as ma
terial witness and that soon after the
shooting she thot OF such things as
lawyers, maids and money
on none of these points, however,
was the witness able to amplfy her
she became rational.
Letters Introduced.
| 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 today.
! There were indications that this
letter will be used by attorneys Tor
| the prosecution in their attempt 10
break down the story OF indifferent
neglect" on the part of her husband
told in direct examination by the
young Chilean woman yesterday. The
letter was written while Mrs. de Saul
les was on ship bound for Chile to
visit relatives in the spring of 1915
prior to the granting Of her divorce
decree.
At that time the witness said she
felt that her married life was ended
morally" Mrs. de Saulles countered
her admission that she wrote the let
ter saving she was to blame for
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