EDITOR SHOT DEAD.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2010, 18 March 1914, Page 7

EDITOR SHOT DEAD.

BY EX-PREMIER'S WIFE. SENSATION IN PASIS. ANGRY CROWDS IN THE . BOULEVARDS Bj Telerraph—Pcess Assoeiation-CoDyriEM < Paris, March 16. Madame daillaux fireJ sevc-rnl shots at and critically ffounded 51. Oaeteii Oahnette, editorof tire "Figaro." It is supposed she was incensed afc the paper's attacks en her husband's policy. . (Rec. March 17. 10.80 p.m.) Paris, March li , . M. Calmette is dead. > Tho "Figaro's" amimts agaitist M. Caillaux dates from the Mproeeiii iweident of 1010, .when M. Caiilaus was again returned. The "fi&aro" daily attacked the Minister, pol'tticalt.v and personally, and accused him of bribery, notably over the Kec'tettc etiso of-1010, in which stops tt-ere taken by the Duties for tho production of the Fublsu I'losecutor's conMential report dreelosins the action of M. •Cnillatix. It had been reposled that tlsfe "Figaro" intended td-feptoduco a facsimile of the report, and it is supposed that this impelled Madame Oniliaux to visit M. Calmette. ' She bought « revolver during the afternoon. As 31. Oalmettee ■ fell she said: "I-only did tn.v dtity." M. Caillaux heard the nort'3 at the Senate and hastened to the police station, where hi a wife told her story to the Magistrate, aneniotiohall;?. She was then conveyed to 'St. Lazsife Prison. It is rcpsfted that M. Caillaux resisted. • The mob outside, the polite station rushed at him, shouting: "Down with tho -assassin!" Crowds during the evening promeiiaded the Boulrvartfe, shouting: "Down with Caillaux!' , M. Gastoii Calniette, editor *f the "Figaro," was a ilistingnfehed FreMjimuu. Ho was a Clievali.er of Hie Ix?gio.u of Honour, and wore the Graml Ores'* of Ciia.fles 111 of Spain. Hβ made a hobby of eoiiedniff gruvurcs and carisntnrea oi the pcfiod of the First Umpire. M. Caillaux first entered the Chamber of Deputies at Hie getiernl eleciien of 1898, ddfentiiig Hie rctfruig ■Monarchist caitdi(late, the Duo de la Eo«tefouEau!<l; «t Mamers, in his native department U : the Sartlic. He joinwl the Pi-owdssßts, a Centre party, but latcj- transferred himself to the liadical Left. Ho entered the Übinet the year aftes his cleelipn tiv tiio Chamber, ifoeivini; Site portfolio of Finance in tho g.r*at 'Ui»ish\V of M. Waldeck-Rousseatt nt the eivrly ago of thirty-six. Ho tarried thraugh Variowg reforms in tlie nntfenjal finances, and took a leading part irt tho Ba'nsaels Confereec!?, winch .suppressed the system of stigar bounties in most; of tire ppmntries of E'lropo. S[. Cailltiux toft oiSics ffitli M. waldepk-Houssean in JSOS, n.tid retiirßttl to the Finance Ministiy in 190S under M. Clemenceau, holdiiig the same noi-tfblfo a tliird tune iu the Ministry of S.f; Jtoiiis. He is recognised as fthe of tlie kading authorities on finaftee in the Fren.ch nu ; . Imiiient. _ Towards the end. of MH.I certain reveln.tions cojicerning the Franco-Ge.fma!i Agreement about Morocco aroused great public indigiiutiofl., s\M led fiwlv in Jaivitary to a heatefl altercation between Hie Premier, M. CaiHma, n «tl the Foitsivn Minister, M. de Selves, which resulted /Jii tho resignation of th.f> tatter.' If. Caiilaus. finding great difficulty in iearrtii»> <"S hl A. Cn b' n et, tad to rwijrn also Ijaijnary 10). I[. CaiHanx ond JL do feli*fe blamed each other. «iul tto ecumtry Humed them both. The erisis, avos flimiiy brought about by Jf. Ctempnceau's hostile ,cross-exaniiiwitio.n of ' the . ' ForoiVa- ■ Minister in the SfeHate ComitiiUec. ■ ■