The evening world. Newspaper, November 27, 1917, Page 3

‘QE EVENING WORLD, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1017. ' MRS. DE SA ULLES’S LIFE STORY UNDER PROSECUTOR’S FIRE “ Peeee ern See eee “May I Go Now?’ the Quer ery ‘Blanca De Saulles as She Told the Mrs.DeSaulles Asked Judge Of Her Shattered Life Romance to Jury — And the Jury Must Answer a Staff Artist for | eenbenee bee eneeeenenbhiees | Dance, Her Reply Story Tried to Hold Love of Husband She Shot By Praising Him, Swears Mrs. De S PEPE ET EET CECT *IES IETS Seorntully Denion Lanity in Her Wifely Devotion Asked About Having Good Time at « “You Don't Dance With Your H Saullee rt; | Wa Broken- Hearted" Asked About Endearing Letters to De Saulle Neither the Judge, Jury Nor Spectators Ever Saw Such | She Says She Was Seeking to Touch His Vanity, an Intensely Moving Drama as Was Presented by the a. _— ae aaa Slayer of John De Saulles When She Told the Story her home, Whe was afraid to make fer tte fewars he nent. tte alan) Men, De kaullen of Her Extraordinary Married Life With the Man ‘n lone. On hee return trom | read the Setter wha sent from the eam 814,00 1 $19,000 4 Lr tp i went wItD steamer ne herself r ne and the be * " Who Took Her Money and Her Love—The “White te w cottage at|teing @ belier wife, Mer newer to| Mr, Hachenor had given he Sphinx,” Who Looked Like a Madonna, Revealed a Hunting o Neckohere, Bho! a question about thle was that aha | fined to take ta | under “Jagk” «ave up MM lwaye taking the Mame for] @ OF ' one Secret of Almost Incredible Humiliation and Mis- fete ge inte a tute with Neb lervinas bea PR tht igh ay nk A treatment. | wher, which was more profitable @ Mrs. De Seulies, ien’t ie true | than 96,000 1 $4,000 and anne to tHe in oon t ie ~— that einoe the birth of your child ke of wu <? A. t don't kmow, bes lanohanter'a re Led " a you Never lived os wife with yeur rinst LEARNED OF SHOOTING ““ sy ou innot have him now. You cannot have him—ever’ 1 m the deck of the yacht with the at alg ow tell Mra, Meckaher aierse aie sedotniy, “on heard him say. 1 think I hear him still “funny people”—Hrondway beauties, Q. Why? A. Mecause, Gand Mera.) you fir n that you had shot Almest, it s cand we all heard him, 9 vividly had Blanca de Saulles FSS SPS RSSSS 555963565 HF5. 5 99R 0950656650000009000099008 Mra, De Maulion was quite mure that De Haullew’s manner wan deliberate) | your husband?" he was on deck with the Duke O04] stom, Mocksher wae alwaya “1 learned . 2 ‘ | ' or wan alwa prying | irned it from Or. Wight) lived over again the most terrible hour of her lifo— the boautian and not tn a motor Bost] inty my married affairn replied the defendant without anal the last hour of John De Saulles | bg Mauricn Hecksher, She sald Q. Didnt mM De Saullo hesitation " st @ | Mra, Heckaher wan with her Nain that th Q On the you 0 Unguided, uninterrupted by her counsel, she told complain that this was the case? Q On ou shot Mw. De Areva aces wast frees train | KNEW HUSBAND WAS IN HORBE| A, If he did, he told a lie. Savion you had a talk with Me, De the most pitiful story I have ever heard from humai 4 DEAL WITH DUKE, Q. But did you not talk with |Hauiles? A. You: lips—told it simply, in a voice which, like her flawless Sho testified ehe know her husband) him on the matter? A. Never. Q Also with your attorneys, Prine@ face, is one sweet monotone, | Wiesel tots Riper tetiel ee IB SAUEUES TW LETTER SOUGHT |& Nathan? A. No, I don't romomber ; in the a rble of UNION, any much conversation, ) Her brown eyes set in the chiseled marble Allies and that the Duke of Man-| ‘The copy of a totter from De | Q. Whore did you got the revolvet her cold, white face, looked upon the men and women chester was representing the Allies. | saution to the witnens, dated May 20,|that you took with you? who crowded the courtroom at Minegla and saw them as weanek oe Fie Lindeintg be 1916, telling her that he hoped the| Mrs. De Saulles couldn't remombet not. For they were fixed on John de Saulles. | Hay little family could got together again, | Juet where sho took weapon from, Turned back upon the past they saw again every incident of the fatal night of Aug. 3 when she, Blanca de Saulles, went to the home of, the man she had divorced to claim her. child. 46] SAW tho bapy on tho stairs,” she told us. “I wanted to take the baby and run away. And then I beard not to blame her becauno she liked| Ne Weeks went muddenty to the) AWE TFET HOME IS KILLED Mr. Do Saulles"— from the letters of this little mother pretty dremes, She couldn't resist|AMt of the shooting and asked you gathered that there never had muying th Sb t bad to b whoxe money had furnished the bat! There were long pauses Detween the | buying them, She just bud to have . soft, slow sentonces in which Blanca | been annie! Nata sede them. = sdeoory vate her Aiea Mrs. McGuran, Who Had Ning e 4 wlllen > 1s held ax ’! “7 7 mi an ' De Saulios related “all that she re-|a wonderful boy us Toodles, In one | HER LETTERS FILLED WITH] 7A Dold as & witness, Mrs Flint! Boys, Sees God’s Will in Death membered" of the night she killed her | letter there was at least a page about furnished {t," she said. She was ? Praga rusband. @ tooth that Toodles had cut. ENDEARING LANGUAGE. told 60. of Lad Not Called to Army. All faces were turned toward the| All of them showed the utter pre- Mr, Weeks took up Mr, De} Mr. Weeks produced her cancelled! ormcaco, Nov. 371—Mr. and Mra! Sight, swaying figure in the witness occupation of a woman with a genius | Saulles's second trip to London, in| check drawn in favor of Mra, Flint,| Richard A. MoGuaran ar, who have ‘ for motherhood. Some of the letters box. At last the White Sphinx, whose tors, lived only to hear tt. The palo rays of the November sun @tole through the arched windows of the court room and made @ slender atrip of Nght at the parting of Blanca Except when ahe told “all that she remembsred” of the shooting, Mra De Saulles's manner was collec ed, almost sereno. Sho showed neither embarrassment nor fear at any time, , sho put her hand to times, and there Bethlehem, Pa her eyes several | language not her own, Whatever the reason, they dealt orfly with John De Saulles, the baby and herself. And | “May—I—go now?” she said. Judge Manning nodded, She #0 full of love and tenderness for her “dadaboy” that 1t ts no wonder tho gay, philandering John De Saultes put them in his pocket and forgot to answer them rose | if she were leaving an opera box, stepped down and walked from the) courtroom | from the witness chair as calm!y as| 7 Q. When you were at Huntington wann't there alwaya an automobile at your disposal? A. There was not. Mr. Weeks read from another letter to “Dinky” in which the wife praised him for his work and declared he waa entitled to mcceas, She asked him December, 1914, when the hotel clerk » | “Twas offended,” she replied She wrote to “Dicky” after her re- turn from London on the Lusitania and she complained of the little room DEED DOE REO cards, heanl volcas like hers on the| touched with scorn. And scorn tipped her identifications of the many checks she had given her husband, I have said that her voice 1s a monotone— MRS, DE SAULLES'S studied the Mttie figure with a look that was serious but very kind. In that this was the case, She told her so because “Mrs. Hecksher was al- | | greateat regret ORDER FROM YOUR GROCER, able to make him a good Tnstst on “Sunbeam.* had not be Ll They wore nearly always brit the defendant replied, down to the time when sae re menbered being in jail under the bridge, saying that whon inked him to the Errazuris wealth, ver, “And you never told him how badly you felt over the scene in the Berkely Hotel?” Mr. Weeks asked, "| never did.” ‘This was not the vistt on which k of the Horkeley Hotel asked hieh wife of De Saulles she was. was read to her. In ithe auld he would @ive her one more chance, and that she must “turn over a new leaf’ and be a wife to him again, She iden- tified the copy as containing the con- tenta of one whe had received. “It was insulting,” whe aafd drawn on Aug. 1%, for $1,000, which or Mr, Uterhart on the day following the shooting, She had no recollection of who ree- ommended Mr, Uterhart as her attor- hoy, She had not met him before Aug Juror No. 12, the retired New York fireman, yawned at thin junoturo. Tho Judge looked up in ourprise and Mr. Weeks turned around to gaze at Juror Behnetder. |Bhe remembered wearing a sweat and taking with her her dog and h maid, Suzanne, tn tox! to The | Box, her trusbend’s home. SIX SONS AT FR FRONT LIVE; the kiven aix of their ning sons to the war, riddle We had all tried to guess, waa|from South Bethlehem contained | asked “which wife she was.” she (dentified, but had no recoliec- |lost one of the remaining three to-day telling her dreadful secret, and for| What Mrs, De Saulles thought were | "You were humiliated?” the prose-|tion of signing. She had no recol- |!" &n_ @utomoblie accident, Mr, Mes the moment, Judge, jurors, specta-|Teproaches, But they were eo gentlo, cutor asked. lection of talking to either Mr, Weeks |@UaFan ar. and two other men in the automodilo were seriously injured whem Mt collided with a street car, Mr, and Mra. McGuaran recently re oetved a letter from President commending them for giving six sons othe war. “It's God'a will, but who would have big soa struck the vessel she didn't |14, =| thought that the ‘boy back home De Saulles’s bronze bair, Seeing tt a| P DOUBT tf Blanca De Saulles knows, “May I 90 now?* linked nim to the Mrrasuris wealth. | big eeu strack the vessel she didz't |14 ‘Ube signed the Piint check and an- | PemRent con te fu, UEh Mine rome young woman beside me asked me if} to-day what an altogether extraor-| That practically ts what Blanca de} oa perbape. Hut the drama un+| isso ron ie fact Me cing: (heen now me x ie ae es i tied of De veer whe | as she viewed the body of her son, ‘ rh ol before them yesterday was . a or on her feet. entified is told her that there were ot think the defendant looked | ainary married life sho led. Waa) Saulles will ask her jury. What will nist ~ es, | ius « eraaenni with an aureole about tee ever before a husband who| that jury say? probably the greatest drama that has | Understanding of Blanca De peel % | She wrote of a man who assisted some expenses which would have to be Pavia, her ‘head, and as this was a llttle}would tell the wite who loved him,| ‘The life of that pale, horror-| touched thelr lives mere on lsat SSHUne meet Rare Sh Nie HORE Re eye aoe re ee PARIS, Nov. 27.—Bread cards will be further than f eared to go, I made] and whom he was supposed to love, {haunted girl rests In the hands of| Pr tt not ikely that these men ofl creryening Mele Jack to whom eho] 21ee” him. Much attentions meant) Mr, Weeks gought to toarn just] inaued shortly, They will be In the forms no apswer. 2 that they must occupy separate! those elderly men—all men of ttle) A good and narrow ways will Nave! give tite and for_whomn who togk (so much to men of “that clans," she! when Mra. De Buulleg came to her| of woke Tht detachable coovens, = a aitent Mgure nad| Hotels, Was there ever bofore a man| Ventures, Httle sorrows, little lives. | condonation or even understanding of| | nowho heard the dreadful |/@dded. Hor letter wae fe tiont | bane AMAT the Milling. He asked Nor | Sct Mrs; De Savlloe.a allen’: Ae ad) who roplied when his wifo questioned| To somé of theso men Blanca de) John De Saulles, a man who took « peated yesterday: eadearing language and she waa 90 | how who felt. She said that her héad| ii" 4 for a background a buge American) te et love affair, “Do you} Suullos {9 perhaps tho first girl of| woman's monoy, apent it on other cannot him now—or| sorry that he was not with hor and |hurt her very much. She had @ con-| 0 unces) per capita. | Men enanged tH ad behind Judge Manning’a| 1 About a love affair. al [may pout! ; little « “Poodles” to make the family com- | stant pain In the head. Bie Sueneen lane CCl BEre! S flag drape blood-red stripes of the) ®¥PPo#e you are the only woman who| great wealth and position they/ women and w littlo child, Jacks) “ana tnat Jury must decide whether “a allowance monk, TB) Blots ae tua| ever fell in love with me?” have observed closely, They have|was at the time Blanca De Saulles| the last words of John De Saulles| plete, She “would be eo happy that | “ONE OF THE JURORS 18 TIRED,"|= national banner Raney ehits Laas When that last phraso fell from| seen fucea like hors on Christmas| shot her husband the last thing whieh | spoko truly. she must die’ and “everybody epoke| COMMENTS THE PROSECUTOR. : subly white. Jest Sees fi Chien gist agony doubly Blanoa De Saulles’s ips it was — ——— #0 well of her ‘Dicky’ boy. Hint You pay less for “L never o whether I mplat happy to anybody | or was not"! but that she wrote in the manner de- scribed to hold the love of her hus- De Sau’ Jack was Mr, Weeks took Mra. where the trip on the Lusitania and her re- mark that she wished he had been 4 an agreeable Wngiish trained voice | Mr. Weeks read a letter from her at} @ You tol im in Tandon about! none of the fu te tired,” Gulden's Mus- Sho smiled sometimes, once she Al! with here und there an English tdiom | this time to “Jack," in which whe was |it? A. Yen, Ms West nomena “Ol Diese thee far most laughed, when one st share not used in this country. »vyidently much in love with him for] "| WAS BROKEN ~ HEARTED,” “I don't dlamo him," the witness a 4 i err serotted her ’ ea He, a naa keop from| . But this cool, autet voice grew soft, o regrotted her aration from MRS. DE SAULLES REPLIES. | euid, with @ einile grad imen sauces. babes ats mothor-n-law's hair, |d¢ep, round and tender when It aa — {him and upbraided herselt for her Q. Well, were you as happy Then followed the cvlloquy already pong de | breathed two words—the baby. In- . a | apse of memory and her condition of | Selflvhn On that trip sho Was! after that as you say you were in | described. Bhe did not esem to be trying to| deed, whonever the mother spoke of (Continued from First Page.) mind nnd body, having a fine time ot the races, the letter? A. | wae broken- Mr, Weeks had another big bundie make a favorable iinpression on the] little Jack her words \ ce kisses, Teiters ahe haa} MF do Saulles,” began the pros-| theatres and other entertainments,| hearted, ‘et checks: sith which the houschad fury which holds her life in its hands.| When the voice told of what sho} °¥ 4 times. no letters # 44] curor, “you testified yesterday that|expertencing the joy of living. rs. De maulles hata hee haas expenses at No. 22 East Tith Street Often during her examination she} knew of the killing of John De|WFitten to De Saultes at times when] you had a lapse of momory after you] HAPPY TO BE WITH HER OWN )..24 about the Christmas party they | had been paid, 1t was alleged, by Mra. A coceet blend af would answer her counsel's questions| Saulles it grew falnt—faltored,| she said his acts had made her very| saw your husband at the lox, which PEOPLE AGAIN. Thad at the Hooksher home at Munt-| De suuule the purest ingre- fp monoryliables, and it would take| dragged, ceased altogether, And! unhappy were read to her, They were Jnsted for some time, and that You) she wrote that “Suck” must get 4/ ington, and how Maurice cane “off} ‘who paid the bills, Mrs. De Gents. At grocers two or threc othor inquiries to draw| those who Ustened to Blanca Del anag with tender passages, redotont | Nt Temember anything Util YU) post in London, when he had md] tho wagon" for the occasion. BRO} gaullest” anked the prosecutor. and delicates. from her tho facts he sought. Once, | Saulles hung on that silence and drew v' i fove, | vore tm Sih” |monoy to afford it and Louise (Mrs. Hooksher) “danced| +1 pata them while I hud money, biped even when Mr, Uterhart led her to| from it more than they had gathered | Of happiness and expressive of love was the answer. | Q. You were enjoying yourself? A.| their foot off and bad # «reat time.” Jang when I had no meney he paid tell of John Do Snulles’a diasipated | from her frequently inadequate words,| She said that she didn’t write as she) Q. And you told in dotuil about your) 7 was, Q. Were you happy then? A them,” wus her reply. e1 | ; ife? A, Yeo, 2 appearance on meeting ber at the | THAT silence waa masterly. Thave| felt. All her married life, she said, vs Be cat pemecios: ai7ona! weal: uae cube epeyt (A Lies 1 was not. WOULDN'T DISPUTE OVER pier after ber return from Europe, | known nothing in life or on the| she “had taken the blame for every- | syle enor nee sae happy to be with my own people Q. You were still broken+ AMOUNT LIKE $4,990.80. abe did not anawer at ali, And when| stage that equalled It In dramatic ten-| thing.” She did her best to hold| Yesterday? A. T think # again. hearted? : 3 Preesed to tell how he looked, revliod | gion. Without a word, without a ges-| Jack De Baulles's love by flattery. TRACING PROGRESS OF MRS.DE|) Mr. Weeks pursued the mubsect and Q. Can you dance when you Mr, Weeks eaid tho vouchers in a faint voice: . | ture, one frail white girl held the| She said that De Saullos Hed if he SAULLES'S AILMENTS. Mr, Uterhart objected that Ne Wa! Heere te broken? A.) do not [emounted to $4,990.80, and Judge On the shopping list “1 would rather not sy." courtroom tn her slender hand. The| sald that aie hat refused to live with 7 arguing with the witnens dance with my heart. Messing asked ere re Baulles if she the economical. | ew. n ebr trict A 0 Yeok ne or 7 mugen ith Mr. thought tt too much, , twelve jurors were one pair of eyes | him as a wife after the birth of thelr] District Attorney W asked bh Judge Manning disugreed with Q. Well, oy dance with ending 0 ette im as a . Well, can you “ ‘1 REI Ne ean Oe tee a | fixed on the defendant. Judge Man-| child, how she had fared since she went to Uterhart and asked Mrs, De Swulles| soot geet when your heart ie bro ‘Oh, 1 wouldn't dispute’ a email had left her with his parents at South | "lng, Swung around from his desk,| She had told Mra. Loulse Hecksher Jail; if her natls were still brittle if she meant all she gaid in the letter.| yan gy g amount ike that,” she returned, showing her pretty teeth, “When you went to Chill tn 1916 OMe Yosavave tle wifo” was read into the record to-day. | in “august, was the anawer weir Faery AS Oe Ne cis Oo ite Anatin, wiapel Ka Ces Toes New York, There were indications that this] wtrs, de Saulles could not reme | "You wanted to hold him by flat-| Uterhart on the #tand yesterday, but letter will be used by the prosecution] whether she had aeen Henry A.| tery?" asked the Judge. whe replied that she couldn't rememn- n ite attempt to break down the] uteriart, her counsel, before sbe inet} “Yes, by flattery.” ber having sud it before, story of “intifferent neglect” on the| Dr, J, Sherman Wight or not Q. At that time dtd you Q. You, yesterday, ald that part of her husband told in direct ex-| Mr, Woeoks asked Mr. Snulles|Mr, De Saules had mi when you eailed from here for amination by Mrs, De Saulles yester-| when she firat became u y Wity| {or your money? A. Yes, 19 & ¥UY:| Chile you were very happy. her former husband, and trie fix Q. Mr. De Saulles w writing to AY. was written whilo Mrs.| 9 date when sho was liv! uth] you ut that thme? A, He was ulwayy Q. And did you think then that De Saulles a4 on chipboard bound | Bethk Pa ‘The District Attorney tters, you were lesving your husband tae teeter FG lfor Chil! visit relativ nm thel}read @ |«t'er from her ¢ ilies In ono of her lettera Mra De forever, your married life ut an oi fe are of chopped tnarehy fring of 183—prior to the granting | shortly after the birth of on! Sa wrote of Mauri 1 Loutee,| end? A. 1 did-—morally. sew ~ s mate ns May ererair 7 ‘ ree Christ Duy, 112 und sho said they were Mr. uid Mr*.| Oewies VO« Vantis. ok i tous hols& Oh pan cies : ; ; mae c SLUR ON HER DB phi A ONC gcd n.Nicholsé s i Attornay Week 9 Sauies bad been a 4 teoks) They wore friends of SEE slapece Kew vor 4 examini as develop j husband and was provi then, but not now TION AS le us he t 5 4, kind of a father. added Weeks read a note sent from was to toot Mro de Saulleg on ber Who said her unhappiness bewan im) When sue oalled for "Jack eve maid) the steamer Calomaris, on which ehe | were some persona who said they saw|the audience the possessora of easy | ways trying to pry into my married| @ Yes, and has your hatr been fall- | ine matt peeks bt mana Whether thiajaiaat your husband pay your fare?” tears on her cheeks, I did not. tears shed them. The rest of us held | affairs.” ing out? A. All women’s halr falls yoy said that you were glad that] a ee is a ee which he made| t!# Prosecutor asked. ‘Phe lettera were the letters of a] our breath Mrs, De Sauiles, if this were her true | CUF (with a smile), your hushund’s trong arma were here Me got feveloped, It waa]. “Ponsibly.” admitted Mra, De very sweet, loving, limited girl. Of| It was Blanoa de Saulles who broke | ntate of mind when sho wrote the tet-| @ Yes, but wo are confining our- | y ating for your” ankod Mr. Weeks. | ee va eck had obtained Beuultes, course, one could not tell from them| the spell. Turning, she swept the |terg flattering Jack, who spent so much snives to your hair, A. Ye Aiea Ciatacte gnawhr Hee en da tn do, Later he got|_@ Didn't Mr. Hecksher give you a whether the limitations were inherent | Judge with @ amilo which seemed en- /ttme away from her and so much of her], Mrs. De Saulles the ned! Q. You went to Ostend and to @ al abainers credit for $2,000? A, I don't remem- in the writer, or whether they arose! tirely the product of social training |money, showed hérself the thorougu- heen her finger natla had been very | since, Did you enjoy yourself? A Cie PE rrr UT s Poy + from the fact that she employed a and altogether without mirth: | prod that whe has appeared to be ever mae gear a e te |e _ Towns bored. |e Sauiton oan ie Jak, whe beiny;| @ De you deny it? A. T don't deny om | Sos the inl Rew while her eart {last few montha A i ress . e ;]atill tn London, that she loved him \ _ | eo feet hi * na ~ id torney: nial ” . me y e ery) | was lead, and she danced while she w Astorneys for the datense malpia tell him how “ha ’ ye a ee het Me “The e World’ s Best hored for the sake of appearances and | ‘hese symptoms Sha IDRS a TAO BEES ee ho was and how much} yi oy broke away from tho Te¥eIEy a 900 sea ees [he Yoved him, “Not UESTS gathered—old friends and new—con- fas sho could with decency to soctal|¥Pothreonis, | with w | Q. Were you etncers when you} "it" be maid ole eneant 2 en M NEY BACK IF DISSATISFIED claimed to have been suffering MIDE with thone letters? A. In a Why, fo ‘the court ehe aes abe versation lively — early courses take off the etiquette time of the tragedy, and which 1 what she said when she sald that she nn [| STATE HOPES TO BREAK DOWN (10 ° UN UAaty, ® ¢ tor| TRIED TO HOLD THE LOVE OF | wan happy with him. sho eald aha| keen edge of hunger —then the dessert to crown Won't this guarantee tempt you to try it | py STORY Ohloh the detendant|2F, 4780 of wecountabilty dun Under (eR HUSBAND... |aidn't othermiee moun what eho had the feast —delicate, delicious, different. The dessert | A. lettel fendant| wich the ahooting ooourrid. inder the questioning of the Judge| written, i i in comparison with the coffee you now use? Bitola her busban 1 t 4 it wan th an sepet Aived FN etidomtlaharselacshe Alanit teal aa iana: wrath | be Meese: aueatiaand: han aeat is the heart of a dinner, of her Ife that sho