New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-27
Tells How Romance
Ended in Murder
On Witness Stand She
Relates Story of Neg
lect; Yearned To
Be Wife In Fact
IStdf Correspondence

sBs told me couldn't have my boy
s-sr!
Z can still hear his words. The next
knew / found myself in jail
This was the dramatic climax of the
he story recited by Mrs. Blanca De
Ssulles this afternoon to the jury be-
fore whom she is being tried for the
shooting of her divorced husband, Jack
De Saulles-
That was as near as she came TO de-
scribing the actual firing of the fatal
shots. From the moment De Saulles
refused to permit her to take her boy
she said her mind refused to work in
is ordinary channels and she was not
herself again until she found physi-
sian bending over her in the Jail the
next morning.
But her mind was far from a blank
on the other subjects that have crowded
her life since she left a convent, six
years ago. During the six hours she
occupied the witness stand in her own
defence, in Justice Mannirg's court to-
DAY: she led the jurors through the
maze Of minor domestic tragedies that
led up 70 the killing Of her divorced
husband.
Jurors Affected by Story
Of the twelve men not one was IN
moved by the story. and scarcely one
vas dry eyed. 1t was a story artlessly
md simply told, without q trace Of the
iheatrical.
The tired, white-faced wife of the
former athlete and idol of Broadway
told everything. She supplied every
detail OF the romantic wooing that be-
gan on a racecourse in Chile. Of her
married life, her repeated efforts TO
persuade her husband to treat her as
wife in fact as well as in name, and
OF the sudden, inexplicable mental
storm that led up to the killing Of her
husband with his gift revolver.
Tells of Shattered Ideals
The convent-bred girl took her audi
snce through every stage Of the disil-
lUsionmeut. the shattering Of ideals
That followed her first brush with the
world a. the year-old bride Of
De Saulles. She told, both orally and
through letters, how her life was being
blighted by her experience. and that
she "trembled that she was becoming
bitter-bitter."
She maintained her calm, apathetic,
almost impersonal demeanor until,
shortly before the afternoon adjourn
rsnt, she reached the point Of the
story that dealt with her hurried trip
% her husbands home, in Westbury.
Long Island-The Box-the night Of
the shooting. For the first time in her
six-hour ordeal, she made an effort to
escape from the inquisitorial search
light that was being played upon her
most intimate domestic secrets.
She turned 10 Justice Manning and
placed hand that trembled slightly
upon the judicial bench, addressing
him in voice that scarcely carried 10
the first juro-
I'm so tired, please"
That IL was a request 20 discontinue
ne hearing was evident, not only in
he words, but the attitude of the de-
isndant. But definite adjourning pc
Rod had been set and the justice was
determined 20 adhere to it unless the
Physical condition Of Mrs. De Saulles
made II absolutely impossible TO pro-
essd. The witness chose 10 continue
rsther than say that she was too i'll TO
sntTer questions, Strengthened herself
N her chair and answered the next
sEsstion.
Relaxes Into Smiles
Several times during the telling Of
Zee story the pale, set face relaxed into
broad smiles One was exhibited when
40 Identified the picture Of a iuil-
cleeksd girl, wita braided hsir falling
egeG her shoulder, as herself the day
es;oyv sho became Mrs. De Saulles.
Aaosbtr same with recollection OF
Ns moment abe had, With inquiring
thgsr discovering the first tooth OF
he infant Jack, long before her neigh
sor. hsl expected him 20 reach the
h.thing age. Even the jurors RELAXED
ssneisniiy 70 smile when a passage
vas rssd from one OF her letters, IN
shieh Ihs referred 20 her discovery 20
n. dariirssss. sbspess, whitess little
NotB 7ou ever raw"
IN m1rksd contrast 20 the serene at
;iigos % tho woman about whom tne
psccccd.ng centred was thnt Of the
tf9Est % men and women--chie1y tne
'.itE-wbc s.orned the courthouse
ssspi tho snail group Of deputy sner,
'as o1 their feet, trampled seyerai
sensn under foot and battled ABOUT
ne courtroom until Justice Manning
SeshIng out Of his chambers before the
stsrnoon session, ordered the room
cleared. The bailifs failed even In
mis, but succeeded in restoring a SEM
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