Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-11-27

she was treated as IAN unwelcome visit.
Or her husband spent nearly all his
time in New York ION business" making
al occasional weekend visit to the place.
john Sawyer, a dancer, who Mrs. De
saulles said she learned her husband had
entertained" in an apartment in New
YORK during one winter, and the Duke of
Manchester, with whom she said De
Saulles "cavorted about" bringing her
distasteful notoriety, were mentioned in
this part OF the recital
Leading up to the date of the tragedy
the witness told Of efforts which she said
were made by her former husband. whom
sne mad then divorced. to ALLEVIATE the at
rections of her son. This was done she
declared. through a nurse whom De
Saulles had engaged to care for the boy
and who, she testified, told him to act
bad when he returned to her custody
from The Box the fathers home.
A letter bearing De Saulles' sigma
ture and purporting to show that the
BOY John l.. De Saulles, Jr., was in
the custody of his mother by terms
of an agreement between the par
ents when the shooting occurred was
introduced by Attorney Uterhart.
Mrs. De Saulles testified that early
on Aug. 3 her former husband tele-
phoned her to ask her to send Little
jack over to The Box. He said the
lads grandfather was going to spend
the day there. De Saul!es promised
to return the boy early that evening
Failed in His Promise
When De Saulles failed in his
promise to return Jack to me early
that evening" said the witness, Il de-
termined to go to Tie Box and get
him" This was in contradiction to
the claim of the prosecution that Mrs
De Saulles went to her former hus-
bands home deliberately to kill him
She was emphatic in her testimony
that her sole intention was to get her
little son.
Mrs. De Saulles then told what she
claimed she could remember Of the
five-mile automobile trip from her
home to that of her former husband
when | entered the house. | saw
Baby coming doWg the stairs with
Caroline Mrs. DeGenerl' she con-
tinued. Il wanted to take him and
run. Then julius de Saulles' valet)
| arrived. I think ! asked him Where
is De Saulles?' Then he appeared. [
said I think it is pretty mean of
you to keep baby away from me-
don't know what he said. / said Il
have come to take him, home with me-
He looked at me. lie said You
can't have him-you never can have
| him.
II think I was stunned then con-
tinued the witness. after a long pause.
Il had frightful pain in my head.
There was another silence-full a min .
ute in duration. Then the defendant add
ed: 81 still seem to hear those words
Failed to Remember Tragedy
, When Mrs. DeSaulles failed to say any
thing more, during an interval in which
every eye was fixed on the little woman
on the witness stand, and every ear wa
strained in anticipation of an additional
statement, Justice Manning asked; is
that all you have to say"
THAT is all l remember" came the
scarcely audible reply.
when did your senses return?" asked
the justice
| II don't know. Ny head was hurting
me terribly. 1 didn't know where | was.
but I know now it must have been in
Jail. That is all I remember"
! The last part of the story came in 4
faltering. uncertain manner, as though
the speaker was striving vaiuly to recall
something. There was seeming long spa
between the womans words. and her ton>
lowered until the concluding THAT Is all
I remember was almost whispered.
| The witness story told, Justice Man
ming Immediately recessed court until to-.
morrow morning when it is expected Mrs.
| Errazuriz, Mrs. De Saules mother, VIII
| be placed on the stand