"Assassin!"

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 59, 30 July 1914, Page 5

"Assassin!"

AX EXTRAORDINARY TRIAL. IIITE. CAILLAIX ACQUITTED. SCENES AT THE TRIAL. iy Cable. —Press Association. —Copyright I'aris, July 28. Madame Cailiaux lii'.s been acquitted. During the trial of Madame Cailiaux M. Cailiaux asserted that M. Calmette had derived most of his fortune from the mistress of the founder of the Magasins du Louvie. M. Kernjtein, the playwright, declare.! that Jf. Cailiaux had mounted on tho collin nailed down by his wife in order to make his voice heard. M. C'aillaux produced M. Calmcttc's will, bequeathing .ti'yfljOOO, and suggested that large gums had been obtained illegitimately. M. Bernstein, dramatist, in reply to M. C'aillaux's charges of shirking military service, retorted that he now belonged to the army. He did Lot knjw whether M. Cailiaux would join the colors, but if so his wife would not be able to do the shooting foi him.

M. Chenu said that Madame Caillaux feared the Fabre report and also the publication of intimate letters. He emphasised her ealmnt ss on the day of j the murder and contracted her repeated faintings with her coldness in the presence of the body of the man she shot. The crime was undoubtedly premeditated. A SUBSIDISED PAPER. New York, July 28. Count Michael Kroyli, interviewed, confirmed his part in the Caillaux case. He admitted that he furnished M. Caillaux with the papers presented in the Paris court. These letters furnished proof that M. Calmette was actually in the Hungarian Government's pay. Supplementary disclosures would be made at a more suitable time. Hungary possessed a large fund for subsidising editors. The Figaro bad supported Count Tisza's Government for eighteen months. THE VERDICT POPULAR. A PERSONAL TRIUMPH FOR M. CAILLAUX. Received 29. I<V> p.m. Paris, July 29. Extraordinary procedure at the trial continued till the enl. M. Chenu closed In alluding to the European situation, tuning that Franc must rid herself of corrosive influence!. Mr. Labori's emotional appeal declared that Madame Caillaux was under the dominating influence of sub-conscious impulse. He concluded: -"Let us keep our anger for our enemies outside our gates, and march as one man against threatening dangers."

The Public Prosecutor asked for a verdict of guilty under extenuating circumstances. The jury was away for fifty minutes. The verdict was loudly cheered. Madame Caillaux was brought in, ami wln-n told the verdict she fainted into M. Labori's arms. Severn' fights occurred among the barristers, fine crying, "Assassin!" as Madame Caillany left the Court. | The verdict is regarded as a personal j triumph for M. Caillaux. There were, demonstrations on the boulevard 3, and many collisions, number* of the demonstrators and police being injured.