New Britain herald., 1917-11-24
HOLDS DESAULLES
 DROVE WIFE MAD
Her Defense Is That Continued CrQeldeS Made Her Mind a Blank

Mineola, L. l., Nov. 24.-Henry A. Uterhart, chief counsel for Mrs. Blan- ca De Saulles, in his statement at
 Mineola yesterday, after the prosecu- ton had rested. reviewed the life of
 Mrs. De Saulles since she, at the age
 of 16 years, married John Longer De
 Saulles, the Yale athlete, in Paris in
 1911.
 The lawyers story was filled with incidents illustrating the humiliations which the young woman was alleged to have suffered. A typical one oc- cured. the lawyer said, on Easter Day in 1916, a short time after Mrs. De Saulles had returned from Chile and become reconciled to her husband legged, by De Saulles' addiction to all-night cabarets, to stage heauties, and to drinking bouts with boon companions,'I MT. Uterhart said:
 "On Easter morning De Saulles came over to the apartment occupied by Mrs. De Saulles at 10 East Six tieth street, and said he would like to take little Jack for a walk. Mrs. De Saulles readily allowed the boy to go. A few minutes later she received
 
 note attached, saying: TO our one and only sweetheart, from Big and Little Jack
 '"This was very pleasing to Mrs. De Saulles, and she was more than happy when De Saulles and the little boy returned. He told what great fun they had had. He said that he stirred up the lions with his cane and made them roar, sometimes frightening the little boy and sometimes sending him into peals of laughter.
 After De Saulles had gone, the boy told more about 1t. He said: "Oh. how daddy and Miss Jo did laugh at the lions.'
 "'Who is Miss Jo?' the mother asked.
 ''The boy replied: oh, Miss Jo is B lady who was with us. Daddy called her Jo and told me to call her Miss Jo and not to tell you anything about her."
 This was Joan Sawyer, the core spondent in the divorce suit which Mrs. De Saulles later won against her husband. Other stage favorites and many characters, some notorious and some of considerable social standing, igured in MT. Uterhart's unsparing of the late John L. De Saulles. One of these was the Duke of Manchester incident. It was told IS follows:
 This was in 1914, the summer when the Duke of Manchester was sensation after sensation 1e and De Saulles. became insepar- Lble companions-so much so that 1 De Saulles' mother wrote to Blanca l nd asked if she could not do some | hing to end their companionship. She 1 yrote that Town Topics had had cry scandalous article regarding ack, and that something had to be one.
 "Blanca got Town Topics and read 1 |, and you will hear the article read, 1 and I think you will agree ] with me that 1t was not pleasant read ny for any wife. let alone girl only 70 years old, who had given up every hing she had in the world to fol- ow her husband to a strange country
 "Shortlv after she had read this article, Jack was one one of his infre- 1uent visits to their home on Long island, While he was there on this short trip he received message from he Duke of Manchester. who said hat he wanted to see him at once. He promptly left her on receiving this 
 "The next time Mrs. De Saulles saw her husband was some time later. when she was on a trip on the yacht ,f her husbands relatives, the Heck ,chers. In the Sound they passed the yacht which the Duke had hired. There standing on the quarterback were the noble Lord and John De 5aulles, surrounded by bevy or choicest beauties. This vas not a very pleasant spectacle for , young wife. De Saulles went away ,fter that and she saw nothing more of him that summer"
 "She was in Chile from late in 1915 o February, 1916, and was planning % take trip to China when she got , letter from De Saulles asking her % come back to him for the sake or he boy. This was an appeal that she could not resist. She returned, ana ,rrived shortly before Easter. When Ter steamer came in and she saw De ,aulles at the pier her heart sank, be- ,ause he looked so dissipated.'
 Uterhart then told of the episode if "Jo' and the lions. He went on to ,av that De Saulles was then nV1ng with his brother, Charles A. H. De saulles. in bachelor quarters at West street. She found that De saulles had provided that she should live at 10 East Sixtieth street, while he and his brother remained together. She suggested that, his brother Charles being away she should live with him, but De Saulles, accord ing to the lawyer, objected. some time later, after 0 party which De Saulles had given in his bachelor