New Britain herald., 1917-11-30
MAY KNOW FATE BY
 NEXT WEDNESDAY,
Trial of Mrs. DeSaulleS Drawing 10 a Close, With Accused Weary HYPOTHETICAL QUESTION

Contains 15,OOO Words and on the Answer May Hinge the Life or
 Death of Child Woman Charged
 With Murder.
 Mineola, Nov. 3O.-The trial of Mrs. Blanca DeSaulles for the murder of her divorced husband, John l.. De- Saulles, was resumed in the supreme court here today with indications that the case would not be given to the jury before Wednesday, The testi- mony of alienists and other medical experts called by both the prosecution and the defense some to refute and others to substantiate the claim of Mrs. DeSaulles that she suffered a mental lapse at the time and ten days immediately following the shooting of her former husband was expected to consume all of today and probably to- morrow.
 r Henry A. Uterhart, counsel for Mrs DeSaulles, announced the completion of the hypothetical questions to be submitted on behalf of the defense, made known the phrasing of the be- ginning and concluding parts of the 15,O00 word interrogation just before the opening of court this morning. It begins:
 Assume, doctor, that Blanca Err rasuriz DeSaulles was born near San tiago, Chile, April 29, 1894--'
 Continuing, it tells of the fall she sustained when a child-a fall in which she is said to have received severe injuries to her head-the three years she spent in an English convent; her meeting DeSaulles on her return to Chile; of their marriage; their marital difficulties; the automo- bile accident in Chile a few years ago in which Mrs. DeSaulles alleges she received further injuries to her head: the divorce, and finally a resume of the defense's version of the tragedy. The question concludes in these words:
 Assuming all the foregoing facts and having in mind your personal eX- animation of the defendant, in your opinion, was the defendant mentally sound at the time of the shooting on August 3, 1917?
 Assuming all tho foregoing facts and having in mind yorr personal eV- animation of the defendant, in your
 
 nature and quality of the act she was committing?
 Assuming all the foregoing facts and having in mind your personal eX- animation of the defendant in your opinion, did the defendant know that the act was wrong?"
 Shortly after the beginning of court 1t was learned from District Attorney Weeks that because of radical differ ences which, he says, exist in the de- fense's question as compared with the testimony so far given, an entirely new hypothetical question may be prepared and put to experts in SUD- port of the prosecutions case.
 It had been thought Weeks would use a copy of Uterharts question, making slight changes in it's framing.
 Weeks announcement was regarded as indicating at least another day would be required to complete the examination of the expert witnesses
 After the reading of the hypothet. ical question had continued thirty minutes, Juror No. 4" fell asleep 1 He was awakened by a nudge from the juror seated on his left. Several others in the jury box did not seem to be much interested in the reading O1 CHC lOllS l1CcIIOSdllOu. TWO or | three, with closed eyes nodded in their chairs while others looked about ] the court room or through the win dows into the countryside beyond.
 Raymond B. Hamilton, the garage I keeper who testified last week for the 1 prosecution, was the first witness to- day He stated that he wished to cor rect a couple of statements which he previously made from the stand rela- tive to the time he received the first taxicab call from Mrs. DeSaules on the night of the shooting
 The corrections he desired to make seemed trivial and pr. J. Sherman Wight, who has attended Mrs De- saulles while in jail, was requested to take the stand. Dr. S. E. Wight and Lewis Johnson. also called by the defense and Doctors Harris, Charles w. Pilgrim and George K. Firhy. summoned by the prosecution, ---'' ~~"+r roa~ the witness stand so that a repetition of the long ~oulu not be necessary.
 Lewis J. Smith associated with MT. Uterhart began the reading of the Interrogation at 1O:2O o'clock.
 Mrs. DeSaulles seemed wearied by the long court proceedings despite the holiday recess when she appeared in court today. She seemed more de- jected than at any time since the be- ginning of the trial. She sat with downcast stare. apparently without ta king heed of what was going on about her.