New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-23
He Says Woman Held
for Murder Asked
for Son, Not
Husband
Admits Slain Man
Ordered Him to Lie
Mineola Courtroom Is
Crowded as Di-
rect Evidence
Begins
Especial Correspondence


fesmouhage for julius Hadamek had
occasion to recall this afternoon, in
distressfully public circumstances. one
particular, polite little routine lie out
Of all the hundreds sprinkled back
through his career as gentleman's
gentleman.
That one was lie which in all prob
ability cost the life of Jack De Saulles
and which. nailed, may we'll work more
potently than any other element in
her defence TO save Mrs. Blanca De
Ssulles from paying the penalty for
first degree murder.
Called as witness for the prosecu-
tion. with the jury box at last filled
and the ground work of the states
contention of premeditstion fairly laid,
Hadamek upset the whole careful
framework on cross examination.
On direct questioning his story Of
what he had seen and heard the night
of August 3 last, as he tiptoed through
the tragedy in the De Saulles' coun-
try home at Westbury. had beea IN
detailed corroboration of the testl-
mony of preceding witnesses.
II looked i'll then for Blanca DE
Saulles. She had steeled her mind to
a nurpose, il was plain. Her desperate
anxiety to carry out her plan before
her mood should change was apparent
in the testimony of the garage pro-
prietor and the taxi driver who were
., the stand before the valet.
After ordering machine sne had
twice recalled the garage on the tele.
phone. within an unreasonabiy br1et
iapse OF time. to complain IL had not
arrived. She had promised the chauf-
feur dollar tip il he got her to The
Box. residence of her divorced hus-
band, "on time"
-Tbe implication was plain through IT
all. The defendant had taken loaded
revolver with her on that hasty, I'M
pulsive night ride. Then there was
Jules, the valet, TO add his seek testl-
mony. When she had him on the tele-
phone at The Box, before the taxi was
ordered. il had beeh Jack De Saulies
sbe asked for and didn't get. When
she presented herself in person IT was
again Jack De Saulles whom she de-
manded TO see.
For whom. then, we're the bullets IN
her -evoIver ;ntended? If for Jack De
Saulles. hadn't the little defendant
such a clear. cold intent to kill as con-
stitutes first degree murder in the eyes
OF the law. and for which the lay pro-
vides the inexorable penalty OF death
Jurors Stir Uneasily
The Jurors were stirring uneasily,
exchanging startled glances, when DIS
trict Attorney Charles K. Weeks, with
a cracking "That's ALL" turned over
the witness to the defence. =,
More questions were rapidly asked
by Henry A. Uterhart, chief Of counse!
in the defence, and painfully answered
by Jules Hadamek. With each ques-
ton and each answer the courtroom,
jsmmed for the first time, came 10 a
new degree of breathless attention.
Jules had beer truthful, religiously
truthful, in his replies 70 the District
Attorney But theirs had been dia-
logue az cross purposes. 1t was under
Utcrhart's manipulation that the wnoIe
truth came out.
It had been "Jack" that Mrs. De
Ssulles had asked for, but il was little
Jack she had meant. Jules made this
clear 20 the court, thereby upsetting
Sne hadn't expected 20 see big JACK
al all, 50 she couldn't have meant TO
shoot him, as the defense interprets II.
That was where the lie came in.
That was the reason for the hurry,
for the impatience, for the promise OF
the dollar tip, perhaps for the revolver.
"On time" with Bhnca De Saulles
had meant, when she used the phrase
N her brief directions to the taxi
driver, before big Jack De Saulles
should have returned from the club TO
which he never had gone. Standing at
the Wallets elbow when he answered the
telephone, whispering 70 him what
should be said, De Saulles had himself
been responsible for the misinfOrma-
ton which brought his former wife
pos, haste % The Box from her own
home five miles across the Hampstead
Plains.
Said Master Was Out
"The master is out. madame" jules
hsd spoken softly into the telephone.
lie has gone 70 the Meadow Brook
Club. He will be back in one hour"
And there was the dead line against
which Blanca DE Ssulles was racing
The return Of the one person in the
FTAHFNylA OF Hff blFbANfN
Nhom she felt she could not oyerawe
when she demanded little Jack.
Significant points developed in the
eross-ezsmination Of Jules Hadamek
did not end there. He, whose business
y wsS % be omnipresent, all but
einehed IL that Marshall Ward, boon
companion Of Jack DE SAulles and
prospective eyewitness for the state
H@s not present when the shooting
occurred
And the valet, 700, could have reeited
tts last words Of DE 6sulles before
ne revolver spoke, had the District
"nornsy only ASKED him.
". Uterhsrt did ask.
ne words we're: "EOi MOI hOP'
The day In which developments were
come 20 fast, In which the monot-
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