The Washington times., 1923-03-02
ADMITS HOPING
To WE'D MAN
SHE SLEW
Mrs. SaIudes ImpIored Wife OF
Martelliere to Give
Him Up.

NEW YORK, March 2.-Paulette
Saludes made no effort to divorce
the husband she claimed had desert
ed her. And yet repeatedly she Inn
plored Oscar MarteilieTe TO free nlnl
self of his wife, so that he might
marry her, and, when he cast her
off, shot and killed him.
Upon this mental discrepancy.
drawn from the little Frenchwoman
under q searching cross-exan>hation
conducted by Assistant District At
torney George w. Brothers, the
prosecuting attorney centered his
attack yesterday in general sessions,
where Mrs. Saludes is on trial for
the Staying.
Resists His Questions.
Brothers penetrated the past life
of the defendant with questions and
drew from her reluctant answers.
She stubbornly resisted the Ques-
tons intended to draw from her adj
missions damaging to the defense.
isn't you right name FRANCHISE
Marie Paulette AISLE, and weren' t
you born In Abby in 1888, and aren't
you now thirty-five years old?" he
asked.
mo" she said, declaring her
maiden name to have been Del
orme.
Isn't your husbands right name
Leon Hubert %Escoipe?" Brothers
next inquired.
She again answered in the neg
alive, insisting she had married
James Saludes in Paris in 1910.
He was a peddler, she admitted.
And she, at the time, was making
dainty French lingerie and study
ing stenography. She came to this
country from Barcelona, Spain, in
1918, stopping at Havana. Her hus-
band arrived in New York six
months later.
Her Story Attacked.
Brothers asked her why she had
signed the name "Assie" to the
deed for the house she claims Mar
telliere stole from her. After a
moments silence, Mrs. Saludes de.
clared she could not remember.
Then Brothers developed his as
sault upon Mrs. Saludes' story.
sobbed from the witness stand, that
she had been betrayed by Martel-
liere after having given him every.
thing she possessed, including her
love, in the expectation of becom'
ing his wife.
us the reason you signed the
name AISLE because you were never
married to Saludes?" he snapped.
ct was married." she replied.
@. What have you ever done to
secure a divorce from your hus
band? A. Nothing.
Q. Did you try to get divorce
from your husband2 A. No. l.}s I
@. Then how were you going to
marry Martelliere? "A. 1t was only
a matter of few months.
Asked for Husband. @aTt
did You meet Mrs. Martelliere
in Gimbel's store and ask her tc
give up her husband?"
Unwillingly, slowly, Mrs. Saludes
replied:
st asked her if she loved him and
she said she was not attached tc
that man. Then I asked her tc
give him up"
@. Were you the cause, so far a.
you know, of Martelliere's leaving
his wife?
The defendant shrugged with tn,
familiar French spreading Of palm!
as she answered.:
ST don't know"
The defendant recalled that Mar
telliere, accompanied by Mrs. Mar
telliere, had called to see the
Saludes in October, 1920, and hac
introduced the attractive blonde, wht
has not appeared at the trial sine,
the opening day, as his wife.
Q. Why did you tell this jury Mar
Lelliere had not lived with his Wit,
since 1915? A. Because he told m,
so.
Admits Her Jealousy.
Mrs. Saludes denied that, durin,
the amazing conversation between
the two women in the department
store. Mrs. Martelliere had said.
You should not encourage al
American man." =
The dark-eyed defendant admitte,
that she bad been Jealous of the wife