New Britain herald., 1917-11-27
MRS. DESAULLES
 STILL ON STAND
She Really Believed Flowing Hus1
 band," Was Working Very Hard
WAS TIER DARLING BOY
Testilics That She Thought "the Bcsl
 Way to Hold Love Was to FYattcI Him to Dcath"-POPrtion of Let.


 Him to Dcath"-PoPrtion of Lett
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 Mineola, Nov. 27.-The trial of Mra Blanca DeSaulles was resumed t1liI morning. There was but a fraction o| the crowd which yesterday jammed the corridors outside the court room when the doors to the trial chambe1 opened today. Nearly all who canl| to the place gained admission.
 Contrary to predictions yesterday Mrs. DeSaulles was returned to thl witness stand this morning for cross examination by District Attorne' Weeks, who is conducting the prose, cution. It was believed that hecauS of the defendants physical conditiOl sL special concession of the cOuA would be sought so as to postpone he, ross-examination some days from hd gruelling five hours on the stand yea terday.
 Weeks first question was in reld tion to her closing statement yeste1 day that she remembered nothfn from the time she heard her formd husband refuse to give her custody their son until she awakened in tn county jail. He asked whether sh testified to that effect. The witnea answered in the affirmative.
 Other questions brought stateme1 from Mrs. DeSaulles that she has su1 fered considerably from the heat du1 ing her three months Imprisonment
 The defendant said she had not sud fered any lapses of memory durin the time she has spent in Jail.
 Mrs. DeSaulles said her finger nal had been very brittle and that Ind hair had fallen out to an appreciab1 degree the past few months.
 Attorneys for the defense maintal these symptoms indicate the proce1 of the disease of the thyroid glan1 hypothyrcosis, with which she claimed to have been suffering at t1 : time of the tragedy and which l claimed to have been responsible fd | her lapse Of accountability dufirI 1 which the shooting occurred. 1 After Weeks drew from Mrs. D1 | Saulles a statement that it was ''jul before the war that she first belieV9 her husband was not faithful to hc1 he read letter which the witnel identified as having been written her in which she told her husband n had been such a perfect, loving hul band" and a sweet father.' This le| ter was dated South Bethlehem, Pa just after the birth of their son, Jo1l l.. DeSa jules, Jr., on Christmas da3 1912.
 q sail that because he had staye, with me during the birth of our babyi Mrs. DeSaullcs said after the lettd had been read. 8s
 Other letters, pnrDorting to shol that Mrs. DeSaulles was living in state of domestic tranquility prior the tine she secured a divorce we1 read into the record.
 In one of these she urged her hud band to "get an appointment as min ister to London" She was in Londo' at that time, she said. In answer \ another question, the witness said et ''had a pretty gcod time there."
 In the midst of Weeks questionin' Mrs. DeSaulles interrupted to say: never wrote a letter or said anythin' to any one letting them know I va anything but extremely happy.
 "Whether you were or not?" aske Justice Manning.
 ''Yes, your Honor" answered MT DeSaulles.
 One letter Mrs DeSaulles wrote her husband, "If you don't trust m at least give mo credit for having good head. am very careful wit the invitations I accept and kno when T can go out with a man.
 "Have you found any one ptot4 than your baby girl?" Mrs. DeSaA3lle a sked her husband in another misSiv If continued: I have not found Au one I could place in the same Sphek with you, darling boy. have ses no one as handsome, as sweet and a manly as you" -,
 Did you think all these thing about your husband-that he wa manly when you wrote that?" aske1 ,he attorney.
 "I thought the best way to hold husband was to flatter him to death, was the answer.
 "Your answer is hardly responsive, Justice Manning. "D 7ou wish the jury to understand vol were not sincere in those statements? 'I f1attered him in an effort to hQl 1in", said Mrs. DeSaulles.
 In another letter reference va made to members of the Mauric Hecksher family of New York.
 Are these friends of yours 5! asked Weeks. sr
 '"They are friends of the DeSaulles. was the answer.
 Are they friends of yours?' re peated the attorney.
 "No."
 Were they friends of yours at tha time."
 "I thought they were," replied thi witness.
 Attorney Weeks asked whether De Sa jules did not decline an appoint nent by President Wilson as ministe o Uruguay because he thought hd