THE CAILLAUX ENQUIRY.
M. POINCARE'S EVIDENCE. By TeleKrach..—Press Association.—CopjTlsttt Received Tuesday. 11.45 p.m. i Paris. Tuesday. M. Poincara informed the magistrate that M. Caillaux asked for an interview on the clay of Calmette's assassination. Caillaux told him he feared Figaro would publish letters involving his wife. He said "If Calmatte publishes our letter, I'll kill him." M. Poincare endeavoured to calm Caillaux, and later conferred with M. Doumerague with a view to dispelling M. Caillaux's fears. He had just arranged to use his influence to prevent tha publication when he heard of the murder.
M. Reichep, sub-editor of the Figaro, gave evidence that M. Caillaux a month before the crime told a member of the staff of the Figaro that unless M. Calmette ceased the campaign he would kill him in a duel.
M. Latjarus, a journalist, danied that M. Calmette interdsd to publish the letters. Their contents had been bandied abnut on all sides, and no newspaper dared sully its columns with them.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 658, 8 April 1914, Page 5
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164THE CAILLAUX ENQUIRY. King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 658, 8 April 1914, Page 5
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