EX-PREMIER ON THE RACK

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2119, 9 April 1914, Page 7

EX-PREMIER ON THE RACK

? |i|||AMIRE CALMEHE " s S;; : £aillaux lays bare " w;ms private life ' • . || THREE 'STOLEN LETTERS . By.' .TalegraDh—Press" Asßocintion-CoßyriEiit -j}'>X (Ree. April 8/10.30 p.m.) ■s.~- '. ■ _ '_ ' : -\*y b Paris, April's. ' At the inquiry' into the circumstances surrounding tho' murder of M. Gaston Calnictte, late editor of the- "Figaro," by Madame Caitlairx, wile of the French ex-Minister of Finance, M. Daillaux, during a sensational cross-examination that.lasted throughout the day, laid bare the who-Jo of Jiis private fife. He- said that he was married in 19Q6, irat- the marriage had been unhappy from the beginning, nnd_ after the fail of tho Clomeneeau Ministry, marital discord became acute. His wife stole three letters which fee had written to his present wife, who had lately been divorced from j\L Ckretie. Oiks af the letters was that which JI. palmetto published) and was signed, "Yours, Jo." Another rail to sixteen pages. M. Caillmw explained that for private and political reasons he was unable to divorce his wife-, but when ho discovered the-theft ho offerer! his wife- tho alternative of a divorce or a reconciliation, on condition that she restored the loiters. She chose a- reconciliation, and the letters wore burnt in his presence-, and she solemnly deßhwed Chat sirs had no copies. After the divorce he- learnt that this statement was untrue, and that the letters were going to be published.