Figure of Suffering.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 77, 22 July 1914, Page 5

Figure of Suffering.

THE CALMETTE MURDER.

PROGRESS OF THE TRIAL.

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Times and Sydney Sun Services

Paris, July 21

A tremendous tumult occurred round the Palace of Justice in connection with the Caillaux trial. The President’s table was littered with articles used in the crime, including a revolver and the bloodstained clothes of the victim.

Municipal guards 'and the police were everywhere, and numbers of detectives dressed as barristers sat with members of the bar.

One hundred and forty journalists were present.

Madame Caillaux, stylishly dressed, and flushed with excitement, looked a dignified figure of suffering. She replied to questions from the judge in a low weary voice, and every now and again her eyes sought her husband who was seated in the well of the court.

She frequently burst into tears as she told the story of her life ending in thq Figaro campaign which was implacable. In ninety-five days it published 138 articles and caricatures attacking her husband for using dishonorable means to achieve his personal aims. ACCUSED’S HARANGUE. [United Press Association.] Paris, July 21. Madame Caillaux’s harangue, a masterpiece of rhetoric and emotion, occupied sixty-five minutes. Its whole tenor was one of palliation ; her manner was assured, and her pleading skilful, occasionally theatrical. She told how the campaign against M. Caillaux had caused her to hear denunciations against her wherever she went. She feared the publication of the letters because they set forth intimate relations that could ho used to ruin the chief of the Radical Party and strike all the Republicans through him. His daughter was also aimed at. Madame Caillaux sank sobbing at the conclusion of her recital. FURTHER EVIDENCE. Paris, July 21. Burget, the novelist, gave evidence that he believed Calmette did not intend to publish Madame Caillaux’s letters. He believed he saw her in order to assure her that her name would not be brought into the campaign.

M. Caillaux, in his evidence, gape a detailed story of his married life.