New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-03-22
Meals Sumptuously Pre-
nared in Jail for Slayer
of CASTOR Calmette.
Foil AIR AND FILTH
ARE NOT FOR HER
6, .premier's Wife, Tastefully
Dressed, Tells Her Story to
Examining Magistrate.
rRy cable to The TribuneI

paris March 2l-Mme. Caillaux passes
time in her cell in 81. Lazare prison
-,,ding novels. and is kept in total liz
,orapce Of what is going on outside. She
.o,,nues 10 receive her meals sumptu-
,,.lv prepared from "A ncishboring res
lsurant.
voung prisoner. released after serv-
ing two months sentence, said to re-
oor,er. we get dctestable food at La
ave The dormitories are filthy and the
Dir is foul and awfully cold. 1t is no use
.orplainlng. because if we did so We
would De put into the punishment cell,
Inn, when we poor wrctches of girls heard
shout the favors accorded to la Mere
r,ilaux' We AN began TO boil over with
rase
Nine CaillauX underwent her first
,udicial intcrrogatory this afternoon. She
vas brought I'm a taxicab from Saint La
rare prison 20 the Palace OF Justice,
which she entered through the courtyard
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black silk dress. a black straw hat sur
mounted with a tall. black aigrette, a
black astrachan cloak and large skunk
skin mun the same which last Monday
concealed her revolver. Her Venetian
chestnut hair was tastefully arranged in
the prevailing fashion.
Her face flushed with emotion as she
narrated the history of her life since her
marriage with NJ. CaillauX, in 1911, then
Prime Minister. She occasionally burst
into tears.
She said she became Infatuated at the
abomnable attacks on her husband, par
tcularly when he was accused of secretly
seding a part of the French Congo to
Germany after the Agadir crisis. She
felt Inundated and indignant at the cold
shoulders turned against her husband and
herself al certain social receptions when.
she declared. that persons withdrew when
she and he entered the room. "All this
excited me beyond measure she said
for | was convinced of the absolute in
iesrity of my husband.
She added that she had been accus-
toned to read lie Figaro" since she was
Young girl and when lie Figaro pub
lshed on Friday, March 10, a letter signed
Your 10. she knew that the same lady
aho wrongfully had possession of that
eitsr also held two other letters writ
ten BY NJ CaillauX TO herself before she
became his wife. and the possible pub
lcation Of which in lie Figaro" she
wished to prevent.
on consulting her lawyers she found
she had no adequate means Of prevent
ing NJ Calmette from publishing them,
and. becoming Infatuated. she took JUS
tce into her own hands.
TIE examination Of Nine. CaillauX will
he continued next week. Upon her return
to her cell in St IaZare prison at
p. m. Nine Caillaux received visit from
her husband and her maid and had for
dinner a roast chicken and spinach
Before being taken before the examining
magistrate Nine Caillaux received big
batch Of letters, as well as great bou-
quets OF flowers. baskets or fruit and
looks. Her friends and acquaintance,
having partly recovered from the shock
caused by her act, are now showing their
Interest in her fate.
The sharp watchfulness OF the prison
vardens and the attendant nuns, which
had been called forth by rumors Of the
Prisoners intention 10 commit suicide, has
now relaxed. Nine Caillaux gives no
indication OF being morbid or depressed.
She now has three cells. one of them serv-
mg As bedroom. another as a dining
loom and third as workroom. All
opeh into the same corridor, which is In
closed by finely meshed wire netting.