The Washington times., 1917-11-20
Two More Jurymen Are Accepted to Pass the Fate of
Jury OF FATHERS
SOUGHT TO TRY
MRS. DE SAULLES
~ MARGBRY REX.

MNEoL-A. L l., Nov. 2O.-Youth, in
the trial OF Mrs. Blanca De saulles, is
holding out her fragile hand to age
and experience.
No matter how eagerly the young
may seek youth in the lighter mo-
monts OF life, when the hour comes
Tor the Journey through the shadow
It Is the guiding hand OF experience
that is sought. and Is I watched the
slow and tedious selection of the men
who are to say whether pretty Blanca
De Saulles shall live or die / was
struck with the pathetic appeal that
ehildhooo-Rnd she is nearer the child
than any person who ever was ar
raigned for murder in this State
makes to age In the hour of struggle.
OF the four men who remained in
the trry box today when the judicial
mill resumed its grind. there was
none who had not known the seams
Of life as time brings them to all men.
The average age of the selected is 55
years. Men OF less experience have
been avoided by the defense with
painstalxing care that seems to say:
Please Judge me in the light of
such suftertngs as mankini knows in
the years which have brought knowl-
edge concerning human fraiIty."
From All walks Of Life.
And there is a psychology that
leads one. In handling the affairs of
q girl, to choose judges who may pos
sibly have little girls of their own
and whose perspectives carry their
mental views back over sundry young
persons they would not see in the
same plight as the little defendant
who sits so pathetically awaiting
Judgment
Thirty-eight men came to the bar
TO be tested yest srray as to their
fitness for the Jury There came
men who worked IN banks, one who
raised bees, a printer, a farmer
men from all the known walks of
hfe- But the attorneys who sat
guarding the listIes,. little creature
who Is making her fight for life
never for one moment trusted her
fate to a man xhc had not vet had
time TO feel the real virfle elements
OF living that bring with them sad
ness and which .emDer criticism in I
the light Of personal experience. 4
One must be impressed by the un-
usual stage setting o. the courtroom;i
BY the loneliness the strange family
from o. far off land among people |
whose manner, custom and ideas, they II
do not understand. It Is a little fam
fly apart, transplantea without time :
or opportunity co know or under-l
stand the new folk who are to make |
the most terrible and momentous de-
cision for them that can ever come
10 mortal
Family Aloof In Court.
An aristocratic aloofness is the |,
property OF the whole family. Senor-
sta Amaliee ErraEuriz, seated with the !
two daughters of th4 sheriff.. wear \
ing 4 black tailor suit and q black
natin turban, watcued the slow work
Of the court with a pained express
sion. She had the well-bred poise 1
Of q woman Of the drawing room.
Not once did she say one word to |
her little sister, VIII. sat before the |
court. making the most striking con-
trast to the big men who sat near I
her. to guide the course Of her de- |
fense. She wanted to reach out and |,
take the lily-like being in her arms !
and hold her from her ordeal. but her |
training showed in the stern discip- |
line that kept her in reserve as thor
oughly as though she were watching
q polo game at the country club in
her loved Chile No friends. Think
of It'll To be tried for your life in a
strange land. by strange people. with
none of the incoming spectators to
send q nod or a smile toward one. and
no eye to flash its wireless OF conf
dence or OF hope. is not the least part
OF the fearful ordeal through which
Blanca De SRulles must pass.
Brother shows Restraint.
For the other part of the family |
group that set apart from the world
there is william. the brother. a pale |
and earnest young man, with all of
the marks of breeding and refinement, |
he has watched with Suzanne. the !
faithful maid. for a chance to serve. |
He does not wish to transgress the |
slightest propriety of the court be- |
fore which his sister stands, and his |
restraint IL greater than an American
would show under like conditions.
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