The sun., 1917-11-28
Defendant Parries All Vital
Questions With II Don't
Remember"
TALEOF BROKEN HEART
Disguised Her Anguish in
Burning Love Letters
to Husband.
DANCED TO DECEIVE HIM
Prosecution Believes It Can
Exhibit "Weak Points,
of Her Story.
DANCED TO DECEIVE HIM

Blanca de Saullcs. under severe but
not harsh csoss-examinstion by District
Attorney Weeks st Mineola yesterday.
vas q good witness for herself. She
DID not break" At any point. Her story
told on the previous day under the
e.ntler auspices Of her own counsel
stands.
She left the inauisition seat confident
tiM she had strengthened her case.
Her lawyers were also pleased. Hut
80 is the District Attorney. for no feels
that weak joints in the defence were
discovered and pieroe0 and that the
YOUNG womans ceGseless "I don't re-
member has touched essential parts Of
her narratiye with the incredible.
The length Of the period during which
all that happened she now recalls only
AZ Z blank---in other words. does not
recall at all--she nxed At ten days. She
ssd that from the moment on the night
Of August when John de Saulles looked
at her after saying she could never have
their boy until she talked with her
counsel. Henry A. uterhart, on August
n. everything relating to the tragedy
had dropped out Of her memory.
fe, all that time. as she was reminded
fy Mr.. Weeks. rehearsing the testimony
Of the states witnesses, her memory for
even trivialities--everythins except the
event at the Box--was perfect She
'eehied not al sii distressed by this line
ot attack. For her part she did, not
remember now, and that was all there
vas TO it. ...,.,-..
Reads Her Love Letters.
The District Attorney also thought
he had scored ~ reading to the jury Z
number 1T letters written by Mrs. Dc
Saulles ~ her husband when she ~As
N England in 1914 and at time when
she had pictured her affection as hsv.
l1g cooled some What because Of his neg
lect. They>were love letters He was
10 her--so she wrote--still the perfect,
ideal husband" She was glad she had
left America because she had learned
10 appreciate her husband and his good
uess.
Justice Manning as we'll as Mr.. Weeks
was interested In thesa letters But
when she was asked " she really be-
iieyed what she then wrote. her ~oman'.,
rsply seemed. for the moment at least.
completely adequate.
II thought the surest way to hold 4
man was to hstter him 70 DEATH" she
ssid. In voice as sweet as her emile.
In London, too. shc went to gay
PARTIES and danced. One night she
danced until she had no feet left to
dance on. she wrote to John de Saulles.
The District Attorney thought II curious
that she could SO disport herself IL her
heart was broken.
Yes, but we don't dance with our
hearts. Mr. weeks"-one Of her many
ready and pointed answers to questions
that did not involve the acts and
episodes that have passed from her
mind
seeking Contradictions.
Through the day ana evening OF
August 8 Mr.. weeks- carried her again
and again; to Chile and back: to Lon
don and back. TO South Bethlehem and
hack, through the happy years and the
darker years. and then again TO the
Box and August 3. searching for the
moment when she might contradict or
tang!e herself Il she were going to do
II But she didn't
When fencing was needed she fenced
well when plain exposition, that was
Ter forte. too. She answered questions
IKE woman who Is very tired. but
bent on seeing the thing through--also
Ike woman who despite physical
ftagilty is able to make the best use
ot an endowment Of intelligence.
That ten day mental lapse interested
most the kindly but persistent and
',ear'h!ns Mr.. Weeks. He wondered
low size could recall everything to the
,econd Of tn. shooting. but nothing
hereafter. though her faculties con-
unued working.
ne told her, in question form. how she
Nad told the taxi driver. after her arrest
W 60 back to Roslyn with the dog and
get his pay, had called Capt. PhiliT
.yais on The telephone and broken the
s"s to him. had arranged bail 70,
h'r maid. a material witness; had
ought OF such little things as q glass
mix for refreshment; had signed
'hecNs; had asked that reporters be kept
way had noticed that q rope had beer
,aken away from the Mineola Jail had
% Mr.. Cterhart the story Of her life
was printed by the newspapers or
nusust s three days after de Saulle.
u,ed--whlch she did not believe. by the
Ndy she thought the story must hay,
come from others.
Don't Remember" Her Reply
All these minutie Of her conduct Mr.
"tehs asked her about. indicating hi,
Ssnel'ef in the possibility OF her havini
he SO many normal things during tn,
zen day lapse" period without recalling
"ny OF them afterward. But she Away
epl'ed Il don't xemember"--that sh,
IeMembered nothing In all that time ex
'ept the face Of DR.. Wight. which "stoot
w. and the fact that the doctors "hur
The pistric. Attorney was sspecia,I.
nh aut In, =, a.
,Aot that de Saulles was shot in tn,
,aHk Repeatedly he asked the witnes
she did not remainder this. but to hi
nson 'shrent she said she never knev
unt'l Marshall Ward, a witness OF tn
'nootinE, so testified last week.
ehe did not recall that tho State
,nea!cal witnesses had given the 50 nj,
..s'mony She explained that shA wa
"ehns terribly" on tho day--ths frs
Continued on Fourth Fose.