New Britain herald., 1917-08-06

{ tion for the child was reflected upon her to reconcile her again to her life in this country. Her next great blow,
 she said, came on Easter Day, 1915. 1 On that day, she said. young Jack, Jr, then barely able to talk, came 1 back from an autom ob bile ride with l his father and said:
 ] Mamma, daddy took a lady riding
 with us."
 | Did he dear?" replied Mrs. De Saulles, who thought it was probably
 one of his relatives. Who was it 2"
 Daddy called her Jo,' the boy | said.
 Mrs. De Saulles said that she found later that "Jo" was Joan Sawyer a dancer, who was named as corre- spondent in her divorce suit. Mrs. De Saulles said that her boy came home after another ride with
 nls rather and said that he and his
 rather and three women had had
 gay tlme at the Claremont Inn. An
 otncr thing which led to her final
 oreak With her husband she said, was
 that ne took his son with him wher-
 ever ne went, exhibiting him proudly
 Ill the oarroom of the Waldorf-As-
 tor1a and other hotels and in restau-
 rants. She snid that the boy came
 nome telling her by name about the
 barkeepers he had met, repeated fun
 ny things they had said, and describ-
 Ing their white aprons and other
 characteristics
 AL one time, while relations be- tween her and her husband were strained, she said that he took an apartment in East Ffftv-seventh street and begged her to leave her place in East Sixtieth street and to come and live again with him. She consented, doing so once more for the sake of the boy, but this time. she said. she learned that he was receiv- ing women in the apartment which they had started to make their home.
 This, she said. caused her to re- solve finally upon the divorce. She had no difficulty in procuring evil dence. It never occurred to her but that she should have full custody of the child. if she was successful in proving her husbands misconduct The decree, which found the father guilty and yet gave him the child for half of each year, she said, appeared to her so unjust and cruel that it almost deprived her of her reason. An added hardship was, she said, that it prevented the child from leav- ing the country, so that she must either give up the boy for many months or, else forego a trip to Chile 1 to see her mother, now SO advanced in years that delay might prevent l their being with each other again.
 Since this decree was granted. Mrs. l De Saulles said, her life, during the l ~iN 1o rry1,4 $I> from her. was one of unbearable 1 anxiety and emptiness. She felt that 1 she could hardly have lived through l } whole month of his absence, if De 1 Saulles had not been generous in al- ally, privilege which she returned l when 1t was her turn to have the boy
 Attempt to Mislead Boy.
 But one thing which caused a pain o shoot through her heart and filled 1 Ter with dread that she would in ime lose the boy she said, was her discovery, after getting the boy at the nd of month with his father and lis fathers relatives, of evidence that hey were trying to estrange him rom her. One day, when her month with the boy began at her home, The at Roslyn, and while she vas almost hysterical with excitement md joy over seeing the boy again, she said he suddenly interrupted her by saying:
 "Mother, they tell me that don't belong here"
 Do they?" she asked.
 "Yes," he went, according to her story, they say that I belong with my father over there. They say this isn't my home"
 On coming into his mothers pos session during the recent periods, she 1 said that the boy had repeated sinli- lar things which he had been told while under his fathers roof. He told her, too, of the elaborate play ground with chutes, swings, and see- saws, which his father had built for him; how often he went automobile riding with his father; how his father played with him, and how good his father was to him.
 All this led Mrs. De Saulles, she said, to believe that she had no chance to stand against the father in a long contest for their sons affec- lions. De Saulles was prospering 1r business at this time, and she knew of his influential connections and his legions of friends. She had heard him talk frequently of his relations with powerful politicians. She said. that, besides trembling lest the boy should be led to lose his love for her, she had always feared that her for ner husband would find some way through the law to take the boy away from her. ]
 This was the way she felt on Fri day. she said, when she let the boy go to "The Box" because De Saulles had his father and sister visiting him. But she added that she had no idea then of shooting him. She declared that. even when she realized that De