New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-24

dancer who afterward became core
spondont in divorce suit"
Rules" regardless, Mrs. De Saulles
spent a night with her husband III
the bachelor apartment. He swore on
his honor that no other woman had
STAYED there. but Mr. Uterhart said the
divorce record would show he had been
entertaining Miss Joe" there all
winter. On another night, after Mrs.
De SaulleS had overheard telephone
conversation between her husband and
a woman, she refused to stay.
II was then she decided TO get her
divorce.
after the divorce the efforts to
estrange little Jack from his mother
were clear" Mr. Uterhart went on.
when he was at The Box he was told
that that was his real home; that 1t
belonged to him; that the servants and
the horses were his. In the presence
of his mother he began to develop fits
of passion. One day he permitted him
self to be soothed. then burst out:
'Oh. forgot; Boobie told me ! must
be bad
"'Boobie' was Miss Mooney. a nurse
who had gone from his mothers en-
p.oy to his fathers. At another time
little Jack said he aad been told, Roo
bic loves you much more than Bonn
bey' CHS mother. He came from
visit to his father wearing ring
which he said his father had bought
him when getting a bracelet for "a
lady
again when he returned from an
afternoon with De Saulles he told OF
party in the bachelor az artment. at
which one of the ladies had said she
was his sweetheart"
Just before she pulled lie trigger,
Mr.. Uterhart said, in describing the
actual shooting as the defence hopes TO
establish it in the minds Of the jury,
Mrs. De Saulles saw a look that she
knew well come over her husbands
face
For six years she had known that
look" he said. at meant that her hus-
band was going to do something par
ticularly mean and vicious.
"'You can't have the boy and you're
never going to get him. she said.
at that instant she felt a tremen-
dous pain in her head, as if she had
more until she woke up in Jail. Doc
tors were brought to her. Her tenn
perature was subnormal. They could
hardly find her pulse. She was con-
fused, dazed, listless, almost a dead
woman. DR.. J. Sherman Wight, Of the
Long Island College Hospital, and his
colleague. DR.. Louis c. Johnson, the
county physician, went to work to de-
termine the cause Of this condition,
10 determine why she was so sick and
pale and weak and confused.
Suffering From Disease
"And they found it, gentlemen. They
found out that for some time she had
been suffering from a disease which
affects the nerve centres and the brain,
and which rendered her irresponsible
and brought on the mental confusion
the night Of the shooting. Hypotheo-
sis. the doctors call il, an atrophy or
dying Of the thyroid gland-an atrophy
with which if il proceers far enough.
the patient sinks into a state of hope
less mental infrmity."
Mr.. Uterhart then told Of the skull
fracture which the doctors had found.
After Mr.. Utcrhart had disclosed the
medical end of the case for the defence
obviously surprise to the state
District Attorney Weeks asked permits
sion TO have his own experts examine
Mrs. De Saulles. There was a con-
troversy when Uterhart refused.
The only witness heard at the after
noon session was the states last. He
was CAPTAIN William A. Jones, of the
Sd Branch Detective Bureau, New York
City. A pistol expert, he testified that
the revolver with which De Saules was
killed was equipped with a safety de-
vice and could not have been discharged
accidentally.
Marshall Ward, Jack De Saulles's
crony. was the first witness Of the day.
He insisted. over the contradictory inn
plcation in the testimony Of Jules
/ Hadamek. the valet, that he had been
present when De Saulles was killed.
There was nothing IN his story Of
the shooting which the defence was
anxious 10 refuta little. in fact. that
had not been told already Mr.. Utter
hart's cross-examination took the form
OF an attack on his credit ility as
witness IIe established that Ward
/ had been fined SO after row in
Rcctor's and brought out his connec-
ton with Dond tangle in which he
seemed 20 have come IN FOR considcra-
bic judicial criticism.
Mrs. Caroline Degener, sister Of De
Saullcs. and another eyewitness, fol-
lowed Ward. She said she had pre-
pared little Jack for bed and was about
TO carry him downstairs to say good
night to his father and grandfather
when Mrs. De Saullcs entered. "Blan-
quita," she said. had her hands in the
pockets OF her jacket"
Major De Saulles. father Of Jack,
testified that "a she fired his daughter
in-law cried: "If can't have my boy,
take thisl"
His story of other things said and
done tailed with those Of Ward and
Mrs Degencr He is advanced in pgc
and has been IN broken health since