A Paris Sensation

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 52, 22 July 1914, Page 5

A Paris Sensation

THE MURDER op M. CALM KITE. I'.Y A STATESMAN'S WIFE. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright 'Paris', .Tiilv 20. There is intense? interest in the trial of Madame Caillaux for tho murder of M. Calmette. Maitrc labor! i„ dr.Vnding Madame Caillaux, who ;>:uv eviden ■■ throughout tlie day. It v.-',is jiracthtUv a long and discursive speech. The president was almost unable to ask questions. Madame deseriocd how she and her husband expected other letters after the publication of the one signed "Thy Joe," and she would then have been the object of the innuendos of society. She had suffered so much that she lost her head. She did not want to kill !M. Calmette, she said, but to give him a lesson. "If I had not gone," she said, "my husband would, as the day before lie threatened to 'break M. Caliiiette's head. As I went a vqice seemed to tell me to take a revolver."' She added: ''Monsieur le President, you cannot realise how terrible revolvers are. They go off without being pressed."

| THE ACCUSED'S DRAMATIC HARANGUE. HER PERSECUTION AND HER EEARS. Received 21, 11.55 p.m. Paris, July 21. Madame Caillaux'B .harangue, a musterpiece 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 be used to ruin the chief of the Radical Party and strike all the Republicans through him. Her daughter was also aimed at. Madame Caillaux sank sobbing at the conclusion of her recital.