The sun., 1917-08-06
FOUND HUSBAND CRUEL
She Also Accuses Him of
Wasting $4,000 of Her
Inheritance.
SLAIN MAN LEFT LETTER
George NJ. Hecksher, Cousin,
Makes Public Missive
Clearing Athlete.

After Mrs Blanca De Saulles. seate1
IN her cell at the Nassau county jail
st Mneola. had told through her at
torney Henry A. Uterhart, the story of
the wrecking Of her marital life, George
NJ. Heckscher. cousin of John Longer
De Saulles, made public last night n
letter from the slain Yale athlete IN
former wife to be the sole Judge of the
disposition Of their little boy during the
month OF July.
Where Mrs. De Saulles, in the calm
recital that she sent TO the public from
her cell, charged her former husband
with cruelty, inhdelity and attempting
to keep her child from her in violation
Of an express agreement, the relatives
statement, including the letter, was
plainly designed to show that De Saulles
consulted Mrs. De Saulles fully as to his
plans for the boy. and left to her decision
the steps that were TO be taken.
The letter which De Saulles sent to
his former wife was dated June so. 1t
dealt only with the disposition of little
Jack De Saulles for the month of July.
Nothing whatever was said as to what
would be done during the month of
August In the note De Saulles offered
to place his house and servants at the
disposal OF the child for the month of
July, and to remain away from the
[ place during that time, IL the mother
would consent to his remaining with his
toys and pets
Differs From wife's story.
1t was quite another story that the
young woman, clad in her filmy white
1own, told as she sat facing her lawyer
In the Nassau county Jail. She charged
that he had wasted her small fortune
end that he was a hearthSeekeF-with
the startling formula for winning any
girl: "a box OF roses in the morning,
motor ride in the afternoon and din
ner at night"
The long story stretching through the
AK years of her marital life was told in
monotone, with only here and there
rise in voice as she recited some par
tcularly repugnant or repelling chapter
Her eyes looked straight In front Of
her. held, as II entranced, on a small,
oval picture Of her little son, Jack, who
was the innocent cause of the tragedy.
Now and then she would draw her gaze
from the photograph and turning to her
lawyer plead to see her boy. II even for
only a minute.
1t was for this boy that she had
undertaken the wild ride in the night to
his fathers summer home in Hampstead
Plains, eight miles from her own house. Be
fore starting, she said. she had phoned
to the Box, and getting the butler on the
wire had been told that the little chap
had been put to bed and that his father
had gone to the Meadow Brook Hunt
Club and would not return before 8
o'clock Immediately she had started
TO get the boy and return to her home
while her former husband was at his
club.
Accuses Former Husband.
Although for the most part her atti-
tude was that of a woman stunned,
there were times when her bitter feel
ings asserted themselves and her tones
grew hard and cold. At one point she
asserted that her husband had squan-
dered S47, 900 of her 500, 900 inheritance.
minute later she was telling how she
had first come to believe her husband
was unfaithful. when. during the first
year they were married, she found in
his pockets the receipted bills for gowns
bought for other women.
De Saulles's friends last night in
sisted that the story was greatly ex-
aggerated and that the dead man, in
stead Of having squandered his wife's
money, had been generous with her TO a
iault. They scoffed at the idea OF his
having spent her money on other women
After the story had been told by the
prisoner and Mr.. Uterhart had met the
newspaper men and in turn recited the
iacts 10 them, the lawyer added his own
bit TO the dramatic tale that he had Just
finished.
'l have nothing more to say" he an
hounced, except that II fail to acquit
mat poor little woman on the story that
she has given me I'll walk up 10 the
Judge and hand him over my certificate
OF practice. told Mrs, De Saulles that
his afternoon.
:, Contrary to the general belief. Mrs.
ne saulles is not the wealthy woman
uat she is rC. Jrted TO be-" continued
Mr., uterhart. Her paternal grand
mother Sonora Vergara, was at one
u'ne very wealthy, but four sons did
nohing but spend the millions so that
uefe was no vast sum left for the next
generation. Mrs. De Saulles told me this
srernoon that the 100000 she in
"ented comprised her entire fortune.
Says His Attitude Changed.
Shortly after their marriage Mrs
pe Saulles said that her husband dis
covered that she did not have the tre-
mendous fortune that he had expected
uusr 10 bring him. Immediately, she said,
n'A attitude toward her changed. But
y her means we're limited she was more
nan generous with him. Early In their
married life Jack was in pretty tough
financial straits and It is said that he
Sd 70 borrow money TO go TO Paris
nen he married her in 1911. Soon after
e marriage she began giving him
money In all she says that she pre-
@hted him with $4,000 in checks and
mat besides this amount he had with
os' consulting her sold $4,000 worth
stocks that she had in Chile. This
ssahsaction, It appears. was permitted
"vordlng to the laws OF Chile"
Most Of tho $4,000 that Mrs De
ies declared she gave to her hus-
'Sno' Attorney Uterhart said was spent