The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-28

cident in which Mrs De So Jules
claimed she sustained another injiry
to her head, the witness said her SIS
ter aas confined to her bed for -four
or five days following the occurrence.
This Happened durIre a visit to Chile
after her marriage;
Miss Errazuriz also gave testimony
in support of the defendants claim
that De Saulles sought to ALLEVIATE his
sons affection for his mother thru
nurse whom he engaged.
After visits at his fathers home,
Miss Errazuriz said the boy would be
unmanagea when he returned to
his mother
Told Boy TO "Act Bad
Jack told me that Boob.e (his
nickname for the nurse) told him to
act bad when he returned to his
mother" the witness declared.
The defendant says the boy told her
a number of times of gay parties"
given at The Box" De Saulles's
home.
With the revolver with which Mrs.
De Saulles shot her husband, the wit
ness then demonstrated the manner
in which it might be discharged. Mis-
Errazuriz said the pressure of the
hand on the grip of the revolver was
sufficient to release the safety catch
and that only one movement was nee
essary TO fire it
District Attorney Weeks maintains
that two movements of the hand are
necessary to discharge the revolver
and that this would indicate that Mrs.
De Saulles was not mentally ire
sponsible when she fired the five
shots at her husband. Miss Errazuriz
said revolvers are commonly carried
by women in Chile.
Suzanne Monteau, Mrs. De Saulles's
maid, who accompanied her on the.
automobile trip from her home to
The Box" Just before the tragedy.
was the next witness Her French
accent and excited manner made IL
difficult for the judge and jurors to
understand her story and she was fire.
quently interrupted.
Describes Shooting Scene.
when Mrs. De Saulles entered the
living room she said she came to take
Jack" declared the witness. He
made her such an awful face" she
continued after pause.
He said. You can't have him, now
or never " The witness was so at
fected that it required fully a minute
for her to regain her self-possession
and continue the tale.
'I was standing right by Mrs. De
Saulles and could see everything" she
went on finally. He was facing her.
I saw Mrs. De Saulles get awfully
white"
Then what happened?" asked JUS
tice Manning, when Miss Monteau
hesitated again.
"She shot him." sobbed the wit
ness apparently overcome by her
recollection of the tragedy
On cross-eXamination District At
| torney Weeks seemingly confused the
witness in reference to the shooting.
/ There were discrepancies in her
/ answers to Weekss questions when
! compared with those she made when
a deposition was taken from her a few
| days after August 3.
Denies She Said Hope He Dies"
Parts of this deposition were read
| by Weeks, apparently to indicate these
| differences. At the time OF the pre-
| vious questioning Miss Monteau said
Mrs De Saulles shot three times ''and
| De Saulles did not move" whereupon
she fired twice more. Another part
of the deposition read quoted the maid
as saying: :'Mrs. De Saulles put her
right hand into her left hand pocket,
taking out the revolver and pointing
it slowly in her former husbands di-
rection.''
Did not Mrs. De Saulles say just
after the shooting. I'm glad I did it;
hope he dies?' " asked Weeks.
THAT is not So" snapped the wit
ness.
Miss Monteau decl~red she had no
recollection of seeing District Attor-
ney Weeks in the Nassau county Jail
the day f flowing the shooting. She
maintained she had no memory of
relative to securing bail.
The id was held as a material
witness in $1,000 BAIL it had previous
ly been brought out in the trial.
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