Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1914-07-23

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village trustees are trying to induce
the prisoners to explain how the trunk 8
came to be there
Many robberies have been reported
| i'll the village since last fall. when sum
mer residents closed their houses for
the season. The deprcdations culmi-
mated recently in the robbery of Arnold
Husser's general store. just across
| Main street from police headquarters.
4 MIR. Husser recently identified some of
4 his stolen property Worn on the streets
4 by negro residents of the village and
\ obtained information which resulted in
/ the arrests.
noise had somewhat subsided Maitre
\ Chenli replied:
| II take the entire responsibility. You
l cannot menace me here. You doubt
less do not know the temper of the
man YOU address.
The disorder IN court was SO great
that Judge Albanel threatened to clear
| the chamber if the manifestations
We're repeated.
I When quiet had been restored.
| Georges f'romentin, a sales clerk in
4 the gun store where Madame Gail
lauN purchased the weapon with which
she killed calmette. was called
He took an automatic pistod from
the package in front of the judges and
explained its action. Maitre Chenu
said:
Madame Caillaax did not say when
she loaded the pistol"
Madame Callaux: AS soon as got
get F'romentin's directions
Woman Tested Pistol.
| Madame CaillauN added: Il had
never fired a pistol. but 1 had hunted
with my husband i bought a gun at
| the same place"
Another gunsmith's employe said
Madame CailauN had practiced i'm the
range under the store. Three of her
six shots struck 4; target the size of
| a human figure.
1 Madame Caillaux II tried the pis-
| tol solely at the request of the employe
| He wanted me to be sure | knew how
| it worked
4 Yes Delbos. editor i'm chief of lie
Radical. testified he had met Mime
He said: She seemed depressed and
aged and was like Il beaten hunted
1 thing
i Nine. Louisa DE Mesagne- Estradere,
formerly society editor of the Figaro.
amid profound silence. testified she had
dined i'm company with Mime. CailauN
about two months before the shoot
| ing. She continued:
\ Mime. CaillauN said Mime. Gueydan,
the former wife of NJ Caillaux, was
going from one newspaper office to
another hawking letters of hers. tried
to assure her by saying that my in
formation was that Mime. Gueydan
had refused to sell the letters to Call
mette for $4,000. | know nothing of
the Thy Joe letter
will ymi not give more precise tes
timony abou, Mime Gueydan's let
ters?" interrupted Madame Caillaux.
The witness did not reply and a mo-
lmpnt later left the stand
Defends His Wife.
NJ caillaus completed his testimony
late Yesterday He vigorously defended
his wife. regretted that he had not
punished a'almette himself and took up
the political phases of the great tras-
edy.
II should have acted myself" he said.
but absorbed by public affairs. failed
to realize the ravages Calmette's cal
amnics had made on the soul of m@
Wife.
When he married Nine Raynouard
he knew for the first time what true
happiness was. When he spoke of her
Mime. cailaux bushed crimson and
bowed her head in her hands and
sobbed silently,
She VAS the most tender. affection
ate Wife said NJ. C'aillaux We lived
and live in the closest communion OF
heart and mind. My Wife. however. took
alarm at the dangers my political cam
paign exposed me to. She tried to dis
suadc me from entering Doumergue $
cabinet The income tax. she said. had
formidable atlNersaries and should
be the object of first press campaigns
As she foretold, the attacks recon-
menccd with redotbled fury, but | re-
fused to adopt the means employed by
other politicians to stop them, ptlr-
sued my MAY lindeterred could not
believe that anyone would publish tn.