The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-21
In Dramatic Manner De- fendant Tells of Causes that
 Led to the Editors Death
PACKED COURTROOM
 HEARS TESTIMONY
Vivid Picture of Protracted Anguish Because of Ever Feared Disgrace ful Exposure Given by the
 Accused Woman

Paris, July 20.-Mme Henriette Call iaux, wife of Joseph Caillaux, once premier of France and former minister of finance, occupied the prisoners en- closure in the assize court at the palace of justice today and recited in a dra- matic manner the circumstances leading up to the shooting on March 1s of Gas ton Calmette. editor of the Figaro, with whose murder she is charged.
 Judge Louis Albanel acted as president of the court; the procurator general Jules Herbaux. had charge of the prose- cutlon and Fernand Labori, the noted advocate who was closely identified with the Dreyfus case, was chief counsel for tpe defense.
 Mime. Caillaux held the attention of the crowded courtroom for three hours. She told her story in short disconnected sentences, but showed remarkable skill in marshalling her facts so as to repre- sent them in the best light for her cause.
 Mime. Caillaux was willing witness throughout. After she had concluded her narrative and was asked if there were anything she would like to add, she thrilled her listeners when she described vividly the protracted agony she had endured because of calumnies against herself and her husband
 Months of Anguish
 For three months I mounted Cal vary" she said Such l don't wish to my worst enemy. No one can imagine what went through. I feared for my self, for my husband, for my child feared for myself because if part of those letters were published, my deepest secret would be displayed before the world. my woman honor stand stripped and naked
 T had always been taught that womans honor consisted in having her life as open as possible. My poor father, who last year told me that a wife who had lover was a woman without honor, never would have set foot in my house had he known of my laison with M Caillaux.
 We were reproaehed with being of the bourgouise. It is true. l am bour- gouise. When the letters were purloined, M Caillaux and myself felt alike; we would have preferred to renounce our great happiness r1ther than see our in- ner life blazoned to the world.
 ''I feared the publication of the letters. We had many friends especially among J the embassies, and in those circles peo- pie wished to humiliate and cast ridicule upon my husband by the publication of two letters, addressed to two different women, signed Thy Joe" They wished to throw contempt upon the head of a minister of the republic, the chief of the radical party, and strike through him, the republic.
 Regrets Present Misfortune
 "F'inally, I did not wish to blush before my daughter; that is one thing a woman must not be asked to do I deeply gret the present misfortune, and l would have undergone anything in the world rather than have been the cause of it.
 Her impassioned preroration was ac- companiedkby eloquent gestures.
 Mme Caillaux told of the shooting in the Figaro office. Prior to this she had been asked by the judge regarding her interview with Fernand Monier. presi- dent of the Tribunal of the Seine from whom she had sought information as to whether the attacks of M. Calmette against her husband could be stopped.
 M Mcnier told her, she said, that this would be impossible; that one could only put up with it or defend oneself by ones own means. He had added. the witness asserted, that it was astonishing that with the French temperament there were not more heads broken.
 Maurice CneHu, attorney TOT M. cal mette's relatives, arose and said that M. Monier, before the examining magistrate had denied giving utterance to anything of the sort.
 Mime. Cailaux then told of events on k day of the tragedy.
 ,A Uniformed M. Caillaux at lunch, she < testified. what NJ. Monier had said. He was very indignant ard exclaimed. if that is how things are then I will smash his ,''' Mime. Calaux hesitated a moment and added face"
 Smash His Shout"
 Up jumped Chenu. "Oh. you can say the word snout It has been said 20 times during the investigation.
 Yes replied Mime Caillaux, but there are words that are not uttered in public"
 The judge repeated the expression- tcontinued on Page Nine,