The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-11-27
mrs. De SAULLES
Is SUBJECTED TO
ORDEAL OF The
WITNESS STAND
Cross-examined On Her
Testimony Regarding
Killing
HAD MENTAL LAPSE
DURING SHOOTING
Remembered Nothing Until
She Awakened in
County Jail
fRx Associated Prsss.l

Mineola, N. z, Nov. "a. Mrs.
Blanca de SauIles. on trial for the
murder of her divorced husband,
John l.. de SauIIes, was returned to
the witness stand this morning for
cross s-examination by District Attor-
ney Charles r. Weeks, who is con-
Quoting the prosecution.
District Attorney Weeks has been
quoted as saying he would not spare
the witness while on the stand, al
though it would be an unpleasant
duty"
closing statement yesterday, that she
remembered nothing from the time
she heard her former husband refuse
to give her custody Of their son
until she awakened in the Nassau
county Jail. The witness answered
yes.
fered considerably from the neat
during her three months imprlson-
ment, but she had not suffered any
lapses of memory.
nails had been very brittle and that
her hair had fallen out to an ap-
preciable degree during the last few
months.
Attorneys for the defense maintain
these symptoms indicate the process
of the disease of the thyroid gland,
hypothyreosis, from which 1t Is
claimed she was suffering at the
time Of the tragedy and which Is
held responsible for her lapse Of ac-
countability.
Letters, purporting to show she
was living in a state of domestic
tranquility prior TO the time she Sc
cured a divorce were read. In one
of these Mrs. de Saulles urged her
husband to "get an appointment as
minister to London" She was in
London at that time, she said. In
answer to another question, the wit
ness said she had pretty good
time there"
IN the midst OF Weeks questioning
Mrs. de Saulles interrupted to say:
II never wrote a letter or said
anything to anyone letting them
know / was anything but extremely
happy"
Mrs. de Saulles said she fiattered
her husband in order to hold him.
Mrs. de SauIles' story OF seeing
her husband aboard q yacht with this
Duke OF Manchester, surrounded with
a "bevy of Broadway's choicest
beauties" came into the examina-
In Deal With Duke.
did you not know that Mr.. de
Saulles was then associated with the
Duke in deal to furnish horses to
the allied governments and in which |
your husband cleaned up S50,0oO?
asked Weeks.
Il never knew that" replied Mrs.
de Saulles.
Mrs. de saulles testified that she
was Every unhappy" and very hurt"
over an incident I'm London when de /
Saulles would not permit her to stay /
at the same hotel where he was
stopping.
But you said nothing OF that in
this letter did you?" asked Mr..
Weeks.
my heart was broken when /
wrote that letter. but / would not
tell him so" replied the witness.
A letter in which the defendant
told her husband that IL was the
greatest regret of her life" that she
had not been "able to make him a
good wife" was read in the record
during cross-examination.
Letter as Rebuttal.
There were indications that this
letter viii be used by attorneys for
the prosecution in their attempt to
break down the story of Indifferent
neglect on the part of her husband,
told in direct examination by the
young Chilean woman yesterday. The
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