Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-11-28
Defendants Self Possession a Topic of Remark Among
 the Spectators.
RECALLS NOTHING
 OF THE SHOOTING
Despite Warm Love Letters Mrs. de Saulles Insists That Her Husband Had Broken
 Her Heart.

Mineola, N. Y., Nov. 27. -- Four hours of searching cross examination by District Attorney Weeks. today, failed to move Mrs. Blanca de Saulles from the story she told yesterday in her trial on charge of murdering her former husband, John L. de Saul les. The 23-year-old Chilean heiress reiterated her version of the tragedy on the night of August 3 at the de Saulles' Long Island home in the same dispassionate manner in which she testified yesterday. Her answers were deliberate, and were frequently made atfer pauses, in which she seemed to be giving them consideration, or striv- ing to freshen her recollection. Her attitude of complete self-possession, notwithstanding the unusual nature of the examination she was undergoing, was topic of comment among the spectators, who crowded the trial chamber.
 No Memory of Shooting. Of the actual shooting, Mrs. de Saulles maintained her claim that she could recall nothing-that the memory utterly failed to serve her in realtion to what happened after her divorced husband told her she could not have her son, for whom, she declared, she went to the "The Box" de Saulles' home, the night of the tragedy. She chung to her previous assertions that not until her awakening in the Nassau county jail, some days later, did she become rational.
 With Justice David F. Manning's permission, the district attorney sought to assist the witness by asking whether she did not remember having told the officers who arrested her that they would find the revolver, with which she did the shooting lying near a track in the hall of the de Saulles home. That the next morning she wrote check for $1 ,O0O, with which to bail out her maid, Suzanne Mon- tau, who had been held as a material witness, and that, soon after the shoot ing, she thought of certain things as lawyers" "maids" and money" i On none of these points, however, was the witness able to amplify her story, she declared.
 Warm Love Letters. Letters written by Mrs. de Saulles to her husband, during the time she alleges he was ::indifferently neglect full" and unfaithful to her, were read into the record by the district attor- ] ney, during the cross examination. Endearing phrases and warm pro- fessions of love contained in them, em- phasized by the lawyer as indicating . that Mrs. de Saulles alleged martial difficulties did not weigh so heavily upon her as she claimed in her direct testimony.
 "My heart was broken, but l would not let him. know. l never told any one," explained Mrs. de Saulles, when asked why she wrote the love letters if her relations with her husband were as unhappy as she had claimed.
 Experts to Come.
 Mrs. de Saulles' examination com pleted, her attorney, Henry A. Uter. heart, declared that tomorrow would mark the beginning of the introduc tion of expert testimony, in suppor, of his clients claim of mental de. rangement at the time of the shooting This is to be adduced thru alienists x-ray specialists and "physiologica chemist" Thereafter, in an effort tt break down their testimony, men o1 equal prominence in the medical pro fession are to be placed on the stand by the prosecution.