Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1917-11-29
DENIES REFUSAL
To LIVE As WIFE
Mrs. De SauIIes Denies Report.
ed Remark to Woman Friend
and Charges in Club
mans Letter.
STATE SEEKS AN EXCUSE
What Woman Evidently Intend
ed as Goodbye Letter, Apol-
ogizing for Shortcom-
ings, Read.

u
ogizing for Shortcom-
ings, Read.
Mineola. N. Y, Nov. 2s.-A letter in
which the defendant told her husband
that 1T was "the greatest regret of
her life" that she had not been able
to make him good Wife" was read in
the record today during cross examina-
tion of Mrs. Blanca De Saulles, who is
OH trial in supreme court here charged
with numbering her divorced husband
John L. DE Saulles. at his Long Island
home the night of August 3.
There were indications that this let
ter will be used by attorneys for the
prosecution i'm their attempt to break
down the story of indifferent neglect
on the part of her husband told in di-
rect examination by the young Chilean
woman YESTERDAY. The letter was writ
ten while Mrs. De Saulles was on
ship bound for Chile to visit relatives
In the spring of 1916. prior to the
granting of her divorce decree
In his questioning District Attorney
charles r. Weeks delved apologetically
into intimate subjects relating to Mrs.
De Saulles' marital relations.
Weeks first question was in relation
20 her closing statement yesterday that
she remembered nothing from the time
she feared her former husband would
refuse to give her custody of their son
lntil she awakened in the Nassau county
jail. He asked whether she testified
to that effect. The witness answered in
the affirmative.
Other questions brought a statement
from Mrs. De Saulles that she had suf-
fered considerably from the heat during
her three months imprisonment The
defendant said she had not suffered any
lapse of memory while in Jail, but that
her finger nails had been very brittle
and that her hair had fallen out to an
appreciable degree.
The defense maintains these symp-
toms indicate the disease of the thyroid
gland, hypothyreosis, from which it is
claimed she was suffering at the time
of the tragedy.
She FIattered Him.
After drawing from Mrs. DE Saulles
a statement that it was Just before
the war that she first believed her
husband was not faithful to her." the
prosecutor read a letter which the wit
ness identified, as having been written
by her, in which she told her husband
he had been such a perfect loving
husband and a sweet father"
Sdlu lllaC because he mad stayed
with me during the birth of our baby
Mrs. De Saulles said, after the letter
had been read.
Other letters, purporting to show She
was living in a state of domestic tran
guilty prior to the time she secured a
divorce We're read. In one of these Mrs.
DE Saulles urged her husband to get
an appointment as minister to London. >
She Caused Unhappiness.
I'm, a NV
Mrs. DE Saulles interrupted to saw:
II never wrote IL letter or said any
thing to any one letting them know
was anything but extremely happy
Whether YOU We're or not? asked
Judge Manning.
Yes. your honor" answered Mrs.
De Saulles
In one letter to her husband Mrs
DE Saulles said:
III YOU don't trust me. at least give
me credit for having good head
am very careful with the invitations
accept and know when / can 90 out
with Il man."
Tried to Hold Husband.
Have YOU found any one prettiel
than your baby girl"" Mrs. De Saul
| les asked her husband in another lei
| ter. 1t continued:
II have not found any one could
| place In the same sphere with you, darl
ing boN. / have seen no one as hand.
some. as sweet and as manly as Won
In response to questions by the at
tornev and Judge as to whether she
was sincere In these statements. the
witness said
II flattered him in an effort to hold
| him."
Mrs. De Saulles' story of seeing he,
husband aboard yacht with the duke
| of Manchester. surrounded with "bevy
OF BroadwaH's choicest beauties" came
| into the examination at this point
Did you not know that Mr. DE Saul.
| les was then associated with the duke
| IN deal to furnish horses to the allied
| governments. and in which your hus-
| band cleaned up s5O.00O?" asked
| Weeks
Il never knew that" replied Mrs
| De Saulles.
Another letter was read in which
| Mrs. De Saulles begged her husbands S
| forgiveness for spending so absurdly
| on clOtheS.' TN not do it again. she
| wrote.
You have worked so hard and dc.
serve success" another part of the
letter said. ~
Thought He Was Working Hard.
did YOU mean time?'
II thought then that he was work
ing hard was the answer
Mrs. De Saulles testified that she was
very unhappy" and very hurt. owe,
| an incident in London when De Saul
les would not permit her to stay al
the same hotel where he was stopping
"But YOU said nothing of that in this
letter. did you?" asked Weeks He had
| just read another letter written to he,
| husband in which words of affection
| We're repeated.
"My heart was broken when / wrote
that letter. but ! would not tell him
| So" replied the witness.
| Heart Broken She Dances.
A portion of this letter told of i
| dance Mrs. De Saulles had attended
| She said she had danced until she ..haL
| no feet left to stand on"
| You had a good time at that dance?'
| asked Weeks
You can dance as though your feet
were alive. even though your heart is
broken" answered Mrs DE Saulles.
In another part of the letter the de
! fendant wrote that at the dancing part,
1 some of those funny cocktails tha
| taste like dirty water and look like di
| luted milk" had been ordered for her.
| While en- route to Chile for yis
| with relatives Mrs. De Saulles testified
J 1 was to blame for everything" was th
reply.
My duty demands that / ask thi
I question" said the attorney. rs it no
: fact that after the birth of your sol
that you did not live with John d.