The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-30
WOMAN NOT OF
SOUND Mind AS
Z She FIRED SHOT
Trio of Mental Experts Testify
for Mrs. De Saulles.
2O,OOO-WOrd Hypothetical Ques-
ton Read to Witnesses.
PUTS ONE JUROR TO SLEEP
Attorney Reads for Hours
Question Reviews All Case.
Doesn't Suit Prosecutor; He'll
4 Frame New One.
Trio of Mental Experts Testify
for Mrs. De Saulles.
20, OOO-WOrd Hypothetical Ques-
ton Read to Witnesses.
PUTS ONE JUROR TO SLEEP
Attorney Reads for Hours
Question Reviews All Case.
Doesn't Suit Prosecutor; He'll
Frame New One.

! Mineola, Nov. 30.-Mrs. Blanca De
ssauIles was not mentally sound, did not
know the nature or quality of the
act and did not know that 1t was
. wrong when she shot her former
husband, John L. De Saulles in his
Long Island home according TO ex-
3perts who testified today in her be-
half.
This opinion was given in response
ito a 20,000-word hypothetical ques-
ton put by attorneys for the defense.
, It. in brief, summed up the evidence
given during the trial by witnesses
for the defendant. 1t recited each oc-
currence and circumstances during
: Mrs. De Saulles' life, which he at
storney maintained may have in
fluenced her mind on the night of
August 3, the time of the shooting at
the Box, De Saulles' home near West
: bury To brain pressure resulting
: from a skull fracture received in
childhood, and to hypothyreOsis, a
I disease of the thyroid gland which af-
fects the brain and nerve centers, was
ascribed Mrs. De Saulles alleged
lapse of accounta bility. 1t was dur
ing the BLANK space" that the de-
PENDANT claims she fired the revolver
shots.
Because District Attorney Charles
r. Weeks did not approve of the franz
ing of the hypothetical question put
by Mrs. De Saulles' attorneys, he
served notice that he would prepare
one to his own liking which ne will
submit TO alienists called in behalf OF
the state.
81 Law Leaves LoOphoIe.
2 This is expected to Iengthen the
taking of testimony considerably and
At is believed the examination of ex-
pert witnesses win not be ended be-
fore Monday or Tuesday. In refer
ence to the phrasing of the hypo-
thetical question put today, it was
pointed out that the New York laws
provide no person shall be convicted
81 a crime committed while the de-
PENDANT was suffering from such a
defective reason as not to know the
nature and quality of the act or as not
to know that it was wrong"
ATTORNEY Uterhart announcing the
Completion of the hypothetical ques-
ton to be submitted in behalf of the
defense. made known the phrasing of
the beginning and concluding parts of
the 10000 word Interrogation just be-
fore the opening of court this morn
ing. It begins:
Assume. doctor that Blanca Err
razuriz de Saulles was born near
Santiago. Chile, April %, 1S94--"
Continuing, it tells of the fall sus-
tanned when a child in which she is
said to have received severe injuries
70 her head: the three years spent in
an English convent; her meeting De
Saulles on her return to Chile; of
their marriage; their marital diff
culties; the automobile accident in
Chile a few years ago in which Mrs
De Saulles alleges she received further
ipjuries to her head; the divorce and
finally resume of the defense's YER
sion Of the tragedy
The question concludes in these
words:
Assuming the foregoing facts and