New Britain herald., 1917-08-06

mothers Mime. Vergara. noted
 woman in her day, had great wealth
 in silver and iron mines. The iron | mines have since passed into the pos- 1 session of the Bethlehem Steel com l pany. She added that her grand
 mothers four sons had pretty well
 disslpated the millions left by Mme l Vergara, so that the family possessed
 but shell of it's former wealth when 1 De Saulles met her at Santiago in | 1911.
 On the other hand, Mrs. De Saulles
 and her family were led to believe l that De Saulles had plenty of money,
 she said. She admired him at first.
 and soon came to love devotedly the 1 big, handsome, aggressive American | and in telling of this yesterday she ] referred to her enthusiastic praise for l her husband and for all Amerlcans when she landed here from Paris af- ter the marriage. She then said to the ship news reporters:
 Americans are the finest men in the world The Latins and the French
 may have better manners and more
 polish but the Americans are big,
 generous, and trustworthy
 The first inkling she had. she said,
 that Jack" De Saulles was not veal
 thy was when she discovered that he
 had sold stock belonging to her worth
 $1O,0OO and pocketed the money
 without telling her about it. This was
 stock in a gas company in Chile, and
 under the Chilean law, she said. he
 had a right to dispose of his wife's
 property So we'll did she under stand this that the incident made little impression upon her, though it reduced her fortune appreciably.
 Shortly after our arrival in this country early in November" she told her lawyer "he began to treat me coldly, to stay away for long inter- vals, and to appear distant when he returned. I did not understand this for a time. Finally, when I strove to find out why he had changed. it dawned upon me that he had thought I was enormously wealthy and was dissatisfied when he had found out just how much money I really had"
 Waning of the Honeymoon.
 De Saulles spent little time intro ducing his wife to his friends or en- tertaining her after his arrival in this country, but almost immediately sent her, she said, to the home of his par ents in South Bethlehem, Penn. He told her that he was terribly busy" in New York and that she would find it dull and lonely there. This was early in 1912, when De Saulles was l acting as the righthand man of w. F. ] McCombs in working for the nom 1 ination and later for the election of l Woodrow Wilson. Because of his 1 fame as a great football player and l of his genial, bluff personality he | was selected to organize the Wilson l College Mems league, which he did l with great success. He enrolled 72,- 1 900 members and was elected pres ident of the league. Its work had much influence, especially in the pre- campaign for President Wilson.
 During this time, Mrs. De Saulles said, her husband occasionally visited Ter at his parents home in Bethle- lem and told her he was to be ap pointed minister to Uruguay if MT. Wilson was elected president. He said that large sums of money were necessary to assure him of this ap- pointment and asked her to help him, at the same time painting a picture of the ideal existence she would lead when he was appointed to a high l diplomatic office among people of l her own Latin American race.
 The brilliance of this prospect was | enhanced by the loneliness of her life 1 without husband, friends or relatives, l in a town among people with whom | she had no interests in common. Mrs. l De Saulles, educated in London and l Paris, used to many friends and a l gay life, because of her social posi- | ton in her own city, could not help 1 finding it dull and lonely during the ] whole year she spent in South Beth l lehem.
 She was so anxious that her hus- | band should get this appointment, she l said, that she gave him large sums. 1 which totaled $37,O0O for this pur- | pose. She told her lawyers that she | had all the checks which she had made out for him in this connection. l De Saulles received the appointment 1 to Uruguay early in 1913. He accept l ed it, but to his wife's great disap- l pointment refused to serve and re- l signed few weeks after.
 This heavy blow came at the end | of her long stay at South Bethlehem. Only a few weeks before this the first l doubts of her husbands fidelity, she said, had risen in her mind. On one of his visits to South Bethlehem she ] found receipted tailors' and milliners' bills in his pockets for articles which she had not purchased. She said 1 that he told her that he had been asked by a friend to pay these bills. 1
 Later she learned she said, that l the $37,O00 which he had obtained from her for the appointment was being spent on women, mainly the- atrical and cabaret dancers. This in formation first came to her in such form that she could not reject it few weeks after the child was born