The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-11-27
WOMEN TAKES
STAND Barring
HER L|FESTORY
Mrs. Blanca de Saulles, on
Trial for Murder, Gives
Statement to Jury.
STORY BRIMMING
DEEPEST INTEREST
|. Tells of Life in Chile, Meet
! ing and Marriage of Man
She Is Accused Killing
BY ASSOCIATED PRESS

BY ASSOCIATED PRESS
Mineola, N. Y, Nov. 26.-Mrs
Blanca de Saulles, on trial here for
the murder of her husband, John l..
de Saulles, today from the witness
stand told the story of her life.
It was a story brimming with
dramatic interest Her childhood
spent in Chile, her meeting there
with de Saullus, their marriage in
Paris and the return to the United
States was the first and happiest part
of the tale.
Then came the defendants detailed
narration Of the change in her hus-
Lands attitude toward her-of the
trickery to which she claims he re-
sorted in order to get possession of
the 100000 which she inherited from
her father.
Instances of his alleged infidelity
were related by the witness, who
spoke in a calm, unimpassioned man
ner, while thethrong which filled the
court room listened with breathless
interest.
Letters which Mrs. de Saulles wrote
to her husband were introduced by
her counsel with the purpose of show
ing the jury that she had suffered
from neglect. The pathos of some
of them drew tears from the listen
ers in the court room.
Court Room Jammed.
The corridor leading to the court
room was janmed with persons eager
to gain admission before court opened
The crowd was so dense that those
connected with the trial had to be
conducted through an underground
passageway to the trial chamber.
Most of those who gained admis-
sion were women. A long line of
court house. Every train stopping al
those from New York, brought per-
sons hopeful of getting within ear
shot of the court proceedings.
Accompanied bv her mother, Mrs
Blanca Errazuriz, her sister, Miss
Analia Errazuriz, and her brother
William, Mrs. de Saullus walked
briskly into the court room, smiled q
grteting to her attorneys and nodded
to the jury as she took her seat at
the sioe of Mrs. Phineas Seaman, wife
i of the county sheriff.
She seemed even more pale than
during the preceding days of the trial
but the same composure marked her
attitude.
| A moment later Justice Manning
took the bench, the roll of the jury
was called, and Mrs. de Saulles i'm
mediately took the witness stand.
T, Mrs. de SauIles testified that in
early childhood she fell while playing
in her home, striking her head against
fireplace. Next, the defendant, in
reply to questions, told of her meet
ing with de Saulles at race meeting
near Santiago, Chile, in 1911; of his
subsequent visit to her mothers
home, Vina del Mar. "the Vineyard
By the Sea- near Santiago; of their
brief courtship and marriage in De-
cember of the same year in Paris.
Mrs. de Saulles said she inherited
securities worth 100000 from her
father, who died when she was a
child. and that shortly after her mar
riaoe SIZE gave them to de Saulles.
what did he say to you when YOU
gave him those securities?" asked
Attorney Uterhart.
"He said: why, that's nothing:, it's
absurd to call you an heiress,'" re-
piled Mrs de Saulles.
The witness then told of her return
to the United States with de Saulles
and of his buying her q revolver
while they were residing at Larch-
mont, N. Y. She said her husband
told her that since she would be alone
at home great part of the time, it
would be best for her to have the
revolver for her protection.
Mrs. de Saulles identified the
weapon, the same one previously in
troduced as an exhibit by the prose-
cution, as the revolver with which
de Saulles was shot. Continuing her
story, she said they next went to
South Bethlehem, Penn, where her
husbands parents, Major and Mrs.
, Arthur B. de Saulles. resided. and
where her son, John L. de Saulles
Jr., was born.
"Were you happy there?" Mrs. de