New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 6, 1917, Page 9

MRS, DE SAULLES TELLS LIFE STORY Describes Cruelty of Former Hus- band Which Led to Shooting New York, Aug. 6.—Sitting in cell in the County Jail at Mineola, L. I., Mrs. Blanca De Saulles, ¥he 23-year-old wife who killed her divorced husband, “Jack” De Saulles, for fear that he would get their child told yesterday the story of her sufferings which had led to the act she committed on Friday yight. She described him as a man who kept all his good qualities for the zeneral public and displayed only his bad ones in his home. While he was accepied by his men companions and nearly all who were only casually acquainted with him as the finest type of a good fellow, as a big, generous man who radiated cordfality and #od-fellowship, she and a few others she said, were acquainted with the re- ide of the picture—the side presented mainly to his her Nassau aw; from her, b by !les married her believing she s, she said, neglected her on he found she had less than he returned to his Broadway Tien the honeymoon was obtained $47,000 from h and false pretenses, in- oduced his women companions into s own home in her absence, drove i baby oy about the city in automo- vith these women, took the boy into barrooms, expressed empi for her in brutal lan- ront of their son and their and. after she had obtained a . attempted to poison the mind inst her. aulles told her story In a hemotional tone without change . as if stunned into a sort of apathy by her act. She used no bitter language in talking of her former hushand, but spoke as if she were reciting the commonplace. The el in which she is confined does not difer from that of other prisoners, exeept that it contains a small table, which was furnished by Mrs. Phineas Seaman, wife of the sheriff, when Mrs. De Saulles asked for a stand on which to place a large picture of her son, John Longer De Saulies, Jr. She was clothed simply in a gingham dress with a laree white collar, which em- phasized her youth. Her lawyer, Henry A. Uterhart, had difficulty in getting at the facts of her case, be- cause <he continually besought him to concentrate his efforts for the present upon ‘one thing only—procuring a visit of her som to her cell. The hoy's whereabouts are at pres- ent unknown to Mrs. De Saulles and he lawyer. Her representative called at “The Box". where John L. De Saulles was killed on Friday night and asked about the boy. but was told he was being cared for by relatives of the father, who would not tell where he wes then. Other relatives sald the hoy had heen taken “to the moun- tains”. Mr. Uterhart will seek today to reach an agreement with the rela- tiv#s of De Saulles for permitting the boy to visit his mother occasionally Fears Boy's Mind is Poisoned. The greatest dread of the mother now is that if the boy is kept away from her she may find he has been taught to look upon her with horror. Tt is not likely that legal steps will be taken to obtain the custody of the boy for She mother while she is in Jail, but tHe question of allowing her fre- quent interviews with the boy may be taken to court if there is opposition to of the mother. Should Saulles said she had exactly $100,000 { which has now been reduced to a | littje over $50,000 by the inroads of i De Saulles. She said that her grand- mothers; Mme. Vergara, a noted woman in her day, had great wealth in silver and iron mines. The iron mines have since passed into the pos- session of the Bethlehem Steel com- pany. She added that her grand- mother’s four sons had pretty well dissipated the millions left by Mme. Vergara, so that the family possessed but a shell of its former wealth when De Saulles met her at Santiago in 1911, On the other hand, Mrs. De Saulles and her family were led to believe that De Saulles had plenty of money, she said. She admired him at first, and soon came to love devotedly the big, handsome, aggressive American, and in telling of this yesterday she retferred to her enthusiastic praise for her husband and for all Americans when she landed here from Paris af- ter the marriage. She then sald to the ship news reporters: “‘Americans are the finest men in the world. The Latins and the French may have better manners and more polish but the Americans are big, generous, and trustworthy.” The first inkling she had, she said, that “Jack” De Saulles was not weal- thy was when she discovered that he had sold stock belonging to her worth $10,000 and pocketed the money without telling her about it. This was stock in a gas company in Chile, and under the Chilean law, she said, he had a right to dispose of his wife’s NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, MONDAY, AUGUST 6, 1917. tion for the child was reflected upon her to reconclle her again to her life in this country. Her next great blow, she said, came on Easter Day, 1916. On that day, she said. young Jack, Jr., then barely able' to talk, cams back from an automobile ride with his father and said: “Mamma, daddy took a lady riding with us.” “Did he dear?” replied Mrs. De Saulles, who thought it was probably one of his relatives. “Who was it?” + “Daddy called her ‘Jo,” " the boy said. Mrs. De Saulles said that she found later that “Jo” was Joan Sawyer, a dancer, who was named as corre- spondent in her divorce suit. Mrs. De Saulles said that her boy came home after another ride with his father and said that he and his father and three women had had a ®ay time at the Claremont Inn. An- other thing which led to her final break with her husband, she said, was that he took his son with him wher- ever he went, exhibiting him proudly in the barroom of the Waldorf-As- toria and other hotels and in restau- rants. She snid that the boy came home telling her by name about the barkeepers he had met, repeated fun- ny things they had said, and describ- Ing their white aprons and other characteristics. At one time, while relations be- tween her and her husband were strained, she said that he took an apartment in East Fifty-seventh street and begged her to leave her property. So well did she under- stand this that the incident made little impression’ upon her, though it reduced her fortune appreciably. “Shortly after our arrival in this cduntry early in November,” she told her lawyer, ‘“he began to treat me coldly, to stay away for long inter- vals, and to appear distant when he returned. I did not understand this for a time. Finally, when I strove to find out why he had changed, it dawned upon me that he had thought 1 was enormously wealthy and was dissatisfied when he had found out just how much money I reaily had.” Waning of the Honeymoon. De Saulles spent little time intro- ducing his wife to his friends or en- tertaining her after his arrival in this country, but almost immediately sent her, she said, to the home of his par- ents in South Bethlehem, Penn. He told her that he was ‘“terribly busy” in New York and that she would find it dull and lonely there. This was early in 1912, when De Saulles was acting as the righthand man of W. F. McCombs in working for the nom- ination and later for the electlon of Woodrow Wilson. Because of his fame as a great football player and of his genial, bluff personality he was selected to organize the Wilson College Men's league, which he did with great success. He enrolled 72,- 000 members and was elected pres- ident of the league. Its work had much influence, especially in the pre- convention campaign for President ‘Wilson. During this tlme, Mrs. De Saulles said, her husband occasionally visited her at his parents’ home in Bethle- hem and told her he was to be ap- pointed minister to Uruguay if Mr. Wilson was elected president. He said that large sums of money were necessary to assure him of this ap- pointment and asked her to help him, at the same time painting a picture of the ideal existence she would lead when he was appointed to a high diplomatic office among a people of her own Latin American race. The brilliance of this prospect was enhanced by the loneliness of her life without husband, friends or relatives, in a town among people with whom she had no interests in common. Mrs. De Saulles, educated in London and Paris, used to many friends and a gay life, because of her social posi- tion in her own city, could not help finding it dull and lonely during the whole year she spent in South Beth- t! De Saulles be acquitted. she au- jcally zains complete possession of the child, wh has been the main object of her life since she separated from her husband. Mrs. De Sanlles had not much hope before her She coun- for an acquittal yesterday conversation with her lawvyer. said that her experiences in th try, and particularly in the courts, which save De Saulles more rights than she had over the boy, in spite of his proved misconduct, together with her knowledge of the powerful friends of De Saulles, made her tremble when she dhought of her own future. She feit more cheerful, however when her lawyer, after she had finished with her story, said: “I will throw away my license to e law if any jury which hears does not free you.” st part of the ¢ bearing agaipst the dead man was supplied vesterday by John E. Bleekman, an acquaintance of De Saulles and his former wife, who called at the Nas- cau County Jail to offer his services to Mrs. De Saulles and her lawyer for the purposc of zetting evidence corrobor- ating her own statements against her husband Mr. Be man was not able to see Mr De Saulles, but said he could prove that De Saulles had boast- ed in 1911 that he was going to marry 2 woman for her great wealth and that he borrowed the money with which to go to Paris to marry her. Further allegations by Mr. Beekman went considerably beyond anything 4 hy Mrs. De Saulles against the dead man Believed Love Impelled Marriage. 2 said she had be- Meved that De Saulles married her for love, and no mention of money yme from him until af- ter their marringe. She said that she, who was then Miss Blanca Errazuriz, gaughter of one of the most famous families of South America, was living at a magnificent house owned by her mother near ntiago, Chile, and that she h since come to believe that De 82118 was so dazzled by this ap- pearance of wealth that he credited her with possession in her own right of the millions formeriy possessed by the family Wher she was married, r De Saulles purel Mrs. De lehem. She was so anxlous that her hus- band should get this appointment, she said, that she gave him large sums. which totaled $37,000, for this pur- pose. She told her lawyers that she had all the checks which she had made out for him in this connection. De Saulles received the appointment to Uruguay early in 1913. He accept- ed it, but to his wife's great disap- pointment refused to serve and re- signed a few weeks after. This heavy blow came at the end of her long stay at South Bethlehem. Only a few weeks before this the first doubts of her husband’s fidelity, she said, had risen in her mind. On one of his visits to South Bethlehem she found receipted tailors’ and milliners’ bills in his pockets for articles which she had not purchased. She said that he told her that he had been asked by a friend to pay these bills. Later she learned, she said, that the $37,000 which he had obtained from her for the appointment was being spent on women, mainly the- atrical and cabdret dancers. This in- formation first came to her in such form that she could not reject it a few weeks after the child was born and shortly before she started on a trip to visit her mother in Chile. Her maid first told her, she said, that she ought to know that her husband was constantly with other women, some of them well known to theatergoers. Friends of Mrs. De Saulles later con- firmed this to her. One of the wom- en named at this time later figured in the divorce suit. Mrs. De Saulles declared that she said nothing at this time, but went on her trip to South America and re- turned several months later. For a while she was happy with him again, she said, until evidence of his infidel- ities began to accumulate. Then she refused to live with him and took an apartment, where she remained by herself with her child, but allowed De Saulles to visit them. Because of the great affection which both had for the boy, she said, she was anxious to re-establish the family and ,consented to live with him again upon his promises of re- form. She was happy again for a while, for “Jack” was so wrapped up { in the boy that enough of his affec- anxiety and emptiness. she could hardly have lived through a whole month of his absence, if De ally, from her. with the boy began at her home, The Crossways, was almost hysterical with excitement and joy over seeing the boy again, she said he suddenly interrupted her saving: place in East Sixtieth street and to come and live again with him. She consented, doing &0 once more for the sake of the boy, but this time, she said, she learned that he was receiv- ing women in the apartment which they had started to make their home. This, she said, caused her to re- solve finally upon the divorce. She had no difficulty in procuring evi- dence. It never occurred to her but that she should have full custody of the child, if she was successful in proving her husband’s misconduct. The decree, which found the father guilty and yet gave him the child for half of each year, she said, appeared to her so unjust and cruel that it &lmost deprived her of her reason. An added hardship was, she said, that it prevented the child from leav- ing the country, so that she must either give up the boy for many months or else forego a trip to Chile to see her mother, now so advanced in years that delay might prevent their being with each other again. Since this decree was granted, Mrs. De Saulles said, her life, during the periods when the child had been away from her, was one of unbearable She felt that Saulles had not been generous in al- lowing the boy to visit her occasion- a privilege which she returned when it was her turn to have the boy. Attempt to Mislead Boy. But one thing which caused a pain to shoot through her heart and filled her with dread that she time lose the boy, she said, was her discovery, after getting the boy at the end of a month with his father and his father's relatives, of evidence that would in were trying to estrange him One day, when her month hey at Roslyn, and while she Traveling farther and faster than any human being ever has traveled on land, sea or air in 24 hours, Joe Dawson in a Chalmers has smashed all Speedway records by covering the astonishing distance of 1,898 miles in a twice-around-the-clock race against time on the Sheepshead Bay Speedway. The old record of 1,819 miles the Chalmers bettered by 79 miles. The old one-hour mark of 77 miles the Chalmers bettered by 6 miles. The old 100-mile mark was 80 minutes, 21.40 seconds. Chalmers covered the distance in the amazing time of 70 minutes, 45.98 seconds. 1,898 miles in 24 hours: that is by “‘Mother, they tell me that I don’t belong here.” “Do they?” she asked. “Yes,” he went, according to her story, “they say that I belong with my father over there. They say this isn’t my home.” On coming into his mother’s pos- session during the recent periods, she said that the boy had repeated simi- lar things which he had been told while under his father's roof. He told her, too, of the elaborate play- ground with chutes, swings, and see- saws, which his father had built for him; Thow often he went automobile riding with his father; how his father played with him, and how good his father was to him. All this led Mrs. De Saulles, = she said, to believe that she had no chance to stand against the father in a long contest for their son’s affec- tions. De Saulles was prospering in business at this time, and she knew of his influential connections and his legions of friends. She had heard him talk frequently of his relations with powerful politicians. She said, that, besides trembling lest the boy should be led to lose his love for her, she had always feared that her for- mer husband would find some way through the law to take the boy away from her. This was the way she felt on Fri- day, she said, when she let the boy g0 to “The Box" because De Saulles had his father and sister visiting him. But she added that she had no idea then of shooting him. She declared that, even when she realized that De Saulles had violated his promise to return the boy early in the evening. she did not conceive the idea of shooting him. When the boy did not return according to the agreement Mrs. De Saulles said she first called up “The Box” and asked for her di- vorced husband. The butler an- swered the telephone. His words were, she said: “Mr. Jack, Jr., has just gone to bed upstairs. Mr. Jack has gone to dine at the Meadowbrook Hunt club and won't be back until ~after 9 o’clock. Mrs. De Saulles said she feared aft- er this that the boy might have been taken to Pennsylvania by his rel- atives, cr that he might have been killed, or that any one of a hundred things might have happened to him. She resolved to go after the boy, but she said that she did not like to go on the mission alone, and she called up the residence, short distance away, of Mr. and Mrs. D. Stewart Ingle- hardt, with whom she was well ac- quainted. Mrs. Inglehardt was born in Chile while her husband had been acquainted with Mrs. De Saulles in that country. “I told him,” she went on, ‘“that Jack had promised to return the boy and was keeping him and that I in- approximately the distance from New York to Denver way. via the Lincoln High- Temporary Office — CHALMERS SMASHES 3 SPEEDWAY RECORDS 1898 MILES IN 24 HOURS In the first hour the Chalmers cov- ered 83 miles; in twenty-fourth hour, over 81 miles; and for the entire dis- tance the average was 79 1-12 miles per hour. Any motor that could run at this terrific speed for a whole day and night and still keep cool and properly lubricated is beyond question a mar- 'vel. And yet it is a regular stock Chalmers motor, 3 1-4 inch bore by 4 1-2 inch stroke, with a piston dis- placement of 224 cubic inches. It merely remains for the Ameri- can Automobile Association Contest Board to O. K. this great performance at the Board’s next meeting to have it stand as an official record, for the trial was made under Official Contest Board Supervision and timed by the automatic electric timing device. H. S. MOELLER CHALMERS REPRESENTATIVE IN NEW BRITAIN FOR THE A. C. HINE COMPANY OF HARTFORD 119 Church Street Telephone 706 tended to go after him. I asked him if he would go with me but he said that he would rather not take any part in the matter.” Gun Was Gift From De Saulles. Mrs. De Saulles then telephoned for her taxicab and started away with | her maid. She took her revolver with her, but she did this. according | to her lawyer, because she was trav- eling over one of the loneliest roads; on Long Island. This revolver was a relic of the honeymoon and a gift from De Saulles. Both husband and wife were marksmen, and for a while they frequently practiced revolver shooting together. Her call upon Mr. Inglehart for as- sistance was pointed out by Mr. Uter- hart as evidence that Mrs. De Saulles time. Further evidence that the kill- ing was the result of a sudden impulse developed yesterday. Constable ' Thorne said that on Friday afternoon, probably a short time before she al- lowed the boy to go to the father, she telephoned to him, told him that an attempt had been made by marauders to enter her garage, and that she would like to see him that evening. The constable said that all his time was occupied for the evening, but they made an appointment for an in- terview regarding the burglaries on the following day. Expected De Saulles to Be Out. i thing that Mrs. ald not premeditate murder at that | lin his escapades. Mrs. De Saulles hurried over to “The Box,” she said, believing the butler’'s story that her husband was at the Meadowbrook Hunt club. She said that she did not want to see lrer husband, and that she hoped to take the boy away before his return home. On walking up the step of the house, she said, she saw the boy playing in the room with his father and realized the deception that had been practiced upon her by the butler. This will probably be represented by the de- fense at her trial as the last straw which broke down her reason and | caused her to use the revolver. When he was asked if temporary | insanity would be the defense, Mr. Uterhart said that it probably would be. The insanity plea will enable the defense to enter in evidence every- De Saulles heard or: learned of her husband and, many | names of friends, women ard men, | are likely to be brought in. The wo- men reported to Mrs. De Saulles as intimates of her husband are numer- ous, and several well-known men have been mentioned as companions One of the things that Mr. Beckman told Mrs. De Saulles’ lawyer yesterday was that it could be proved that De Saulles had boasted that he could win any given woman with flowers in the morning, a ride in the afternoon, and a dinner in the evening. The boy is too young to be called as a witness, but servants in the home which the De Saulles cccupied a year ago will be called to testify that in their presence and the boy's presence De Saulles said to his wife: 'Why don’t you get out of here? Nobody wants you here.” Mrs. De Saulles was visited yester- day by Miss Helene White, a daughter of Archibald White, and by two wo- men, evidently Latin - Americans, whose names were not given. Her brother, Guilmar Errazuriz, has been in this country representing Chilean business interests, but left for Chile a week ago. Rev. Dr. George M. Brewer, rector of the Trinity Episcopal church at Roslyn, who lives near the home of Mrs. De Saulles, said yesterday that he did not remember ever seeing the woman unless she was accompanied by the boy. Joe Tagliabue, a house boy at the Crossways, said that Mrs. De Saulles spent all her waking hours playing with the boy and his dogs, talking with him, and telling him stories in the arbors on the grounds of the country place, and taking all her meals with him. Buy an Indiana truck.——advt. FOOD ARMY INCREASED. ‘Washington, Aug. 6.—Eight hun- dred thousand workers have been as- sembled in food and garden clubs as one of the steps in a nation-wide home economies movement. In addi- tion 200,000 more are enlisted in theo emergency food production and con- servation work of the department of agriculture. They are engaged for the most part in home gardening or canning campaign. 1 a OPTOMERTIST CORN SUPPLY SPLIT. Amsterdam, Aug. 6.—According to the Nord Deutsche Allgemine Zel- tung of Berlin the stocks of corn found in Rumania after the invasion by the German army have been dis- tributed among the Central Powers including 90,000 tons belonging to the former Bureau Brittannique. USE OF COAL BY RAILROADS. Washington, Aug. 6.—Railroads of the country used more coal last year than in 1915, the total having been 142,735,000 tons, or 24 per cent. of the entire output, according to the geological survey's figures today. CALL FOR FARM WORKERS. New York, Aug. 6.—The shortage of farm labor throughout New York state has prompted the state indus- trial commission to issue a call for men to work in the country. It Is As Much Your Duty to SaveYour Eyes As It Is Ours S. STANLEY HORVITZ, K OPTICIAN 327 MAIN STREET