Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-08-07
CHILE TAKES HAND
IN W0MAN'S FIGHT
Tells State Department. Mrs. De-
Saulles Is Still Subject of
Native Country.
BAIL MAY BE REQUESTED
Physicians Examine Prisoner to
Determine if Health Is
Being Impaired.
BAIL MAY BE REQUESTED

MINEOLA, l.. J.. August 6.-Three
physicians late to-day examined Mrs
Blanca DeSaulles. at the request of her
attorney, Henry a. Cterhard,. to de-
tcrmine IL her health was being i'm
paired by confinement in the Nassau
County Jail here. where she is await
ing action by the grand jury on Il
charge of killing her former husband.
John l. DeSaulles. The physicians will
report the result of their examination
tomorrow. it was announced. If it
shows the woman's health to be en-
dangered. Mr.. Uterhardt said he would
go Immediately before the Supreme
Court in Brooklyn in an effort to have
her admitted to bail.
Mr.. Uterhardt stated that he feared
Mrs. DeSaullcs was near a physical and
mental collapse as a result of brood
ing over separation from her four
year-old son. the custody OF whom leo
to the shooting at DeSaulless summer
home on Long Island.
RECEIVES FIRST BLOWS
IN FIGHT FOR LIFE
Mrs. DcSaules received the first
blows to-day in the bitter fight she
will wage for freedom and her beloved
son. Jack. Jr. The first blow came
early in the afternoon. and It buried
her in grief SO poignant and rack
ing that her attorney called for the
physicians. 1t was delivered by Major
Arthur 3. DeSaullles, father Of John
l. DcSaulles, her divorced husband
"hom she shot TO death last Friday
night in his home in Westbury.
The father. ovcrhearing reporters
ask Mrs. August Heckster. mother Of
the business partner of DcSaulles,
where little Jack was hidden. cried:
I'm the legal guardian of that child
I'm his grandfather. Nobody else need
know where the boy is-nobody''
Most of the night and all during the
day, the imprisoned mother had been
imrloring her attorney. Sheriff Seaman
and whoever else she chanccd to see
to do something-anything make it
possible for her to see or at least
communicate with the lad. for whoee
! possession She murdered her former
husband.
The bitter words Of the father OF
to the Jail.
Il know. know" the weeping wo-
man moaned. They will take nay baby
II yin loIcNtI. am mere una ole 10
fight. 1t is cruel cruel II they only
could understand how much it would
mean to me to see the babys face
and hear his voice"
HEARS OF ATTACK
on HER CHARACTER
Thus the first blow crushed her
The second came later in the after
noon. Through mysterious channels
il was learned that Mrs. DeSaulles had
agreed. when she had obtained her
divorce from the most popular man
on Broadway" to let her husband have
little Jack for five months in the year.
The story wen. on TO say that she
had scorned her husbands demand for
the hoy for a length oi time until his
attorneys informed her attorneys that
unless she agreed to surrender the boy
FIVE months a year her husband would
institute courtersuit Tor divorce
naming the dancing partner of the
woman whose name was mentioned by
her in her successful suit against De-
Saulles
Whether accurate or inaccurate. the
story was relayed to tho grief-stricken
woman in the Jail. She understood
that it was to he the first retaliatory
gun in the battle she will wage 1t
was impressed upon her that she might
expect the hitterest opposition to her
fight for vindication and her boy. And
she realized fully that for every one
of her attacks upon the man whom she
slew. counterattack would be made
upon her.
But to-day's fight was not all one
sideo. IT became known that the gov
ernment of Chile had taken up the
womans fight. Gustave NJ. Varola,
charge d'affaires of the Chilean en-
bassy in Washington. notified the state
Department that his government re-
ga.ded Mrs. DcSaulles as Chilean
subject.
1t is said the Chilean ambassador
Don Santiago Aldunato. has left Wash
ington for New York
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STEEL-BOUND CELL
Twice to-day Attorney Uterhardt
visited his client. Sne has added an
other picture of her little son 10 the
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