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Show HBS. DE SAULLES DECLARED il GUILT! BY JURY One Hour and 43 Minutes Consumed in Reaching a Verdict in Favor of Accused Woman. t j EVIDENCE IN CASE FAVORED DEFENSE Mental Derangement Plea Supported by Testimony ! of Alienists and Other j Medical Experts. M I K d,A, N. V-. lAv. I. It re-oiiirf' re-oiiirf' l only one ho: rr 3nd fort three j tin -. '.:tc s for a ju r v in supreme court , I hen- tot.ihl. t. reach a verdict of not I LM.Lt y in th trial of Mr-. Hlanr a do S.tuii'-s fur the murder of h r divorced liUM-and. .lohn I.. d' S;i n Hi . t'orniGr Vale jonTbalt star and club man. at hi? h tt'ii e mar West bury, Loi: 1 --laud, liie t,il.t tif August 3. hi the lerb't no rfcrn waf made to inajii y. It va a pl'-a ot' teuijor-arv teuijor-arv In? of Hi-cnii nt abilii v nhith formed the la is of the iet"t ndaat ca-e. Mrs. de ".t,i l!o. who h.id ir.r in ;ti nfld i a n air of eif .pn. i-ion throughout the two weeks of the trinl. r"eeie,-i the ver-j ver-j 'ii- t smilingly. She .'H'H'k bands with ' r;i. h of the jurors thry Uft the bor. S(atrgered by Tlashlight. ! As Mr-, de Saulles left 'the court I rn.iin n newspn pir photographer touched I off a flashlight. The shock of the explosion, ex-plosion, co ii led with thf young woman's wom-an's heightened nervou? tension, caused her to stMg-v. but she was .prevented from falling by I Jr. J. Sherman Wiyht, her physician. She was taken into a nearby room, here she soon rer uv-I uv-I cred. j ''I'm 5 happy." was her only com-j com-j mer.t. according to her attorney, Henry t A. I'tertiart. The case went to the jury at 5:50 ; o'clock. Justice David F. Manning' im-I im-I mediately annonnce-1 a recess until S:30, ' during which the jurors were taken to a hole! for dinner. They returned at 7:1" o'clock anil were at once closeted ; to licgin their deli bei atiouj. Will Claim Child. Mrs. do Seniles has stated heretofore hereto-fore that as soon as she has cleared up all right to the. possession of young .lack dc Jfaniles she will take him back. I to Chile. At Vina del Mar, "The Vine-! Vine-! yjird of the Sea, ' ' as her mother 's estate es-tate near Santiago, (.'hile. is called, Mrs. de Saulles inti-nds making her home for the present. It was this palatial home which she left in 19 11 to become the wife of John L. de ISaulles. She was then J(i years old. There were not more than fifty perse per-se ns aside from press representative? and persons con ec ted with t he trial, : who heard the announcement of the verdict. ver-dict. Mrs. Blnnca F.rrazuri., mother of M rs. de Sau lies, was. not in the court room. She hns been on the verge of a nervous breakdown for several da vs. j according to Dr. Wight. M iss Amalia I Krruzuriz. a sister, was the only mem-j mem-j her of the defendant's family present hen the jury 's finding was made known. Her brother, William Krrazuriz, was said to be at his mother's bedside. The mother, two daughters and son will soon return to Chile, accompanied by John L. de Saullcs, Jr., according' to a statement by A t torncy L'terhart tonight. to-night. " i Return of the Jury. When it was an no uncoil a verdict had been res ched and M rs. d,v Sau lies was brought from the jnil to the court room, every eye whs intently fixed upon her. She stepped briskly, a smile overspreading her features and a confident con-fident air characterizing her manner. A moment later the jurors filed into their box. Apparently there was something significant in their manner, for Attorney Attor-ney l'terhart leaned over to an associate associ-ate and was heard to say : ' Everything Every-thing 's all right. " Every (ui e stood up as the just ice walked to his bench and without seating seat-ing himself, said: "t desire to say that regardless of what this verdict may be, no expression expres-sion of approval or dsaproval will be tolerated. There must be no raising of voices and every one must. remain seated until tho court is adjourned. No one is to leave the room until that time. Any one violating these instructions instruc-tions will be remanded to jail." Each juror answered in the affirma- f Continued on Pae Tnree.) J t IS. CE SUES 15 F01HD NOT GUILTY (Continned from Page Or.e.) live when tho dork asked e.T-h if lie hH,l agri'r.l tn thn venlirt. J i f. tic Saullea was iriMtni.-tpl to stand. '.lurnrs. look upon the ilpfeml.liit. I lefondant, look upon the iurors. " the Hcrk snirl. " Gcntleinen. what ia vour ver.ii.-t " " Xot fru'ilty - cnnic in cliorus f roiu the .jury tto "Thn ilcfo.ixlant is discharged, ' an-noiineed an-noiineed tho justice, rapping his oavrl to signal adjonnimont. A short time Jator Mrs. do Snulles motoro.l to her home, "Tho Cross-nays," Cross-nays," whieh she had not visited sinre the night of the tragedy ami which had lieen prejiared in anticipation or lier eoniint;. Attorney t.'torhart announced that in ease members of tho Be Haulles family fam-ily refused to yield custody of Mrs. de Saalles's wn he will apply on Monday tor a writ nf habeas corpus tn compel them to give him into his mother's custody. Argument of Defense. A series of "psychic shocks," resulting result-ing from her domestic difficulties, a skull fracture, sustained some. years ago and which is claimed to have" resulted in pressure on her braiu, whieh was never relieved hv a trephining operation, opera-tion, were other facts which those experts ex-perts swore contributed to this unusual condition. Other specialists, called by the prosecution, prose-cution, contra, lic.ted these assertions. They maintained the alleged skull fiae-jture fiae-jture was not a fracture at all. but that the depressed area of skull bone shown iu an X-ray photograph of Mrs. de faulles' head merely marked the " heal-ling heal-ling over" point of what is commonly called "the baby spot." The state's ejperts also said that a hypothyroid condition of tho defendant, such as her lawyers and physicians say existed would not. produce the state of mind in which Mrs. do Saullcs claims to have fiicd tho revolver shots. Contention Over Child. According to the defense's claim, the shooting resulted from a contention re- ; gurding the custody of John L. do j Saullcs. .Jr., aged four and a half years. When the boy rs mother obtained "a di- ; voree decree in HMti. it was shown the court stipulated that tho father was to have custody of his son during five j months id' each year and the mother to I have charge of : lie child tin: other scien I norths. j JtubsoqriBiit t , however, tho na rents I I ;i u cc j thrv n-. ' i.f tlf .-li-Iody (.f . l.t.v, ;. h !i;iii hi-m iv.iririt' fll ; t '" n:ii i- lino. ; h -i. 'I'lic iWit i:v mainS.ni!' ll;! on An- ' t ,!;,'.' ,,f !! r(i.;. ' .-;i,iH-- ' ' hi' rrn 1 ' ' Hi- t.i., vnn war , t'i'-n in In u.f! . -:(', rpin i"i !i::it !h' Ki.v ' -rn : ! .. ' h r . Vr.wr V. I II. tr aoll.-H of ..uil. It. lid.di.-m, I'm.. n lis "iii- t.. i-.t hi- Ih'mi.- .mi t hat -Int.. Th d-f. n- d.-da I atrl. ' ; rmiUfd t.i n turn di l"y U, h: o.othrr h !r.. -a-ly lhi -am n'nin; , I ailed to Keep Promie. j Mr.. d au!I", un th" wiinr- tm.d. dr. -Inr.'d that v h'-n lor fr.rmrr hif-t-Hiid f.td.'d to kni-p this iromihO, r I J an an t 'ntnd'11" and d r c n'Tnr f i r : mile- of t-mnt r o- to In m 1 1 H - 9 ? h.vn.-, lotpin tu r"';iin K'cn of ; her nn. V.'b'-n --hf rT-hrd T - S;iu!)- ' r"-i-.,.-., tin- i-rv-.- n'-s Mm- moth'-- fintnd I1" Saulli'-. whum a -tjrant. h;d , i!it..rmd h-r over tin1 t Imi,.- a htnt t i mr prt'vion'lr. wan md at him'; -h ', (iomaivl. 'd Imt h'.v In r'turm'd to her ! ni'-tndv and that upon th ;"a!h.T s re-f:i-jl to B.'rr.p, n menial Ida n V. ms 1 (U'Ti-oiiiP ho r. during lii' h h.1 com I mi Mod th-1 -tMintiii-. ! Mrs. dr S:uiil" t't'f iod 'hat whr rf i rnv rrod i'(.n',)oii'-in's to find h-'r-tdf a ;prison.T in the Njipmi i ''mnty jail. tn ( days latrr. Evidence of Witnesses. VitnP-;p? .-alh-d h tin d-dno said Mvm. d' Saulif s V art ion si i n m-d in t .M v afi'T thr trapndy o c'mnds for h1-lif h1-lif vhip pho whs put i a 1 iona 1. Shei it t ' Phinras Seaman unid her roudin-t 'alarmed him And that he was afraid -iir I would harm herself. I When the jail physician examined the i prisoner the morning follow 1 he ! -d i noting, he addressed a note to the sheriff declaring it would "not he I wise" in view of Mrs. de Sanlles's !"mental condition and extreme nervousness' nerv-ousness' to confine her to a cell. Witnnsfirs railed hy t ho prosecution, however, testified that ly yiviuyr attention atten-tion to .ucli thinus as "lawyers, maids i-nd monev"'aud hy statiue; "I'm iad that I did it J hope lie die."! M and ly fci vin instructions that the poln-e ho called. Mrs. de SauHes indicated she was of sound mind immediately after the tracedy. These witnesses also said that on entering en-tering Pe Saullrs's home the defendant icnorcd her son, who was then eomin? down .stairs near her. and passed on to the room in which she found her former husband. This test irnony was in! ro-iluce'.l ro-iluce'.l to offset the claim of the defense that Mrs. do Saulles went to tho Box ' ' for the one purpose of obtaining possession pos-session of her boy. The jurors returned from the hotel where dinner was had at 7:10 o'clock. Tbev immediately were locked up to begin their deliberations. |