The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-11-27
MRS, De sAuLLEs
SKINNED TO KEEP
HUSBANDS Love
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she remembered nothing from the time
she feared her former husband would
refuse TO give her custody Of their son.
until she awakened in the Nassau
county Jail. He asked whether she teS-
titled to that eifed The witness an
swcred in the affirmative
She Suffered In Prison.
Other questions brought a statement
from Mrs. DE Saulles that she had sui
iercd considerably from the hea, during
her three months imprisonment The
defendant said she had not sufiercl
any lapses OF memory while in jail but
that her finger nails had been very
brittle and that her hair had fallen
out to an appreciable degree.
The defense maintains these symp
toms indicate the disease OF the thyroid
gland hypothyreosiS, from which It is
claimed she was suffering at the time
OF the tragedy
"A Sweet Father"
After drawing from Mrs De Saullcs
statement that it was lust before the
war that she first believed her huS.
band was not faithful to her" the pros.
ecutor read letter which the witness
identified as having been written by
her. in which she told her hsubaud
he had been such a perfect, loving huS-
band and sweet father"
q said that because he had stayed
with me during the birth Of our baby
Mrs. De Saulles said after the letter
had been read.
Home Life Tranquil.
Other letters, purporting to show she
was living In state OF domestic tran
guilty prior to the time she secured a
divorce were read. In one OF these
Mrs. De Saulles urged her husband 10
get an appointment as minister to
London" She was in London at that
time, she said In answer to another
question the witness said she had u
pretty good time there"
In the midst of Weeks questioning
Mrs. De Saulles interrupted to say 81
Nhl 1 INNNI WlWlN u lfltNl WI Nhlh hllN
thing to anyone letting them know |
was anything but extremely happy"
answer whether you were or not, ="
asked Judge Manning
"Yes, your honor" answered Mrs. De
Saules
al Can Take Care of Mvself."
In one letter to her husband, Mrs De
Saulles said ::"If You don't trust me,
ht least give me credit for having a
good head am very careful with the
invitations ] accept and know when ]
can 20 out with a man"
Have you found anvone prether
than your baby girl2" Mrs De
Snulles asked her husband In an
other letter. II continued:
II have not found anyone ! could
place In the same phere with you,
Darling Boy--r have seen no one
co handsome, as sweet and as manly
NJ you"
"Did you think all these things about
your huSband--that he was manly
when you wrote that" asked the attor
ney.
"I thought the best way TO hold +;
husband was 10 fatter him to death,
was the answer
She Flattered Him.
Your anSwes is hardly RESPONSIVE, y
interrunted JusNce Manning do you
wish the jury to understand that you
were not sincere in those statements p
u flattered him in an effort to hold
him" said Mrs. De Snulles.
Mrs. De Saulles story OF seeing her
husband aboard a yacht with the Duke
OF Manchester, surrounded with a "bevy
Of Broadway's choicest beauties" came
into the examination at this point
Did you not know that Mr.. De
Saulles was then associated with the
duke in a deal to furnish horses to the
allied governments and in which your
husband cleaned up S500001" asked
Weeks.
81 never knew that" replied Mrs. De
Saulles.
Begged Forgiveness.
Another letter was read in which
Mrs. De SaulleS begrcd her husband,
forgiveness for spending so abSurdh
on clothes"
"Pll not do il again" she wrote.
"You have worked so hard and de