The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-07-21
KEEN INTEREST
IN FRENCH TRIAL

Paris. July 21.-Mme. Caillaux up at
Z o'clock preparing for the second day
Of her trial on the charge of the muir
der of Calmette. The wife Of the
former premier and minister of finance
took an early breakfast n before 5
O'Clock was waiting for her husband.
The prisoner looked through a mass
of morning papers and found that she
had generally been sympath1caliy
treated. The stenOgraphic report o.
her testimony filled sixteen columns In
a number Of papers. besides this there
we're many ap~preciations of her dex~
ferrous Arrangement Of facts n tho
feeling she put into the description OF
her agony.
The court was a little late in as
sembling. Meanwhile Nine. CaillauE
talked over her case with Fernand
Labor. her advocate. She entered tho
prisoners enclosure dressed precisely
as yesterday. The dark circles under
her eyes were heaVier and she appear
ed weary.
Joseph Calliaux. the prisoners hus-
band then entered the court and took
his place among the witnesses. He
was accompanied by two detectives.
Office boys from Figaro were the first
Witnesses O6SSIlDllS III Au4ASSS oSN0AA
the shooting Of Calmette.
Arrouses Great Interest.
Paris, July 21.-The proceedings at
the opening of the trial of Nine. Call
laux for the murder on March 16 of
CASTOR CaImette, editor of Figaro,
started yesterday in the palace Of JUS
tice with Judge Louis Albanel acting
as president Of the court.
The dramatic setting of the affair,
involving political intrigues, in which
the prisoners husband, he former
French premier and minister or
finance, is a prominent hgure,. has
made the case extremely sensational.
| Added to his is the rumored threat
Of royalist hotheads to create a dis
turbance during the trial, and extern
siVe precautions were taken by the
government to prevent an outbreak.
Long before the opening of the pal
ace of justice, crowds, defying a
drizzling rain, assembled in the vicin-
ity n special forces OF ponce We're
called out to keep them in order. From
an early hour until after oon long
lines formed on the Place D'Auphine
and the Boulevard Du'Palais, hoping
to be lucky enough to secure the few
places left for the general public in
the courtroom, which for the most
Fart have been allotted to press rep
ITGSRnJGllNSS anu
Newsboys took up their position
outside the building last night with
the object of selling their places to
those willing to pay high prices for g.
chance of admission. The police, how
ever, refused to permit a night line,
Nine. CaillauX was conducted from
her cell to the courtroom by a secret
passage. Other leading figures in the
case, however, were objects Of demon
STATIONS. Among them was the pros
ecutor general, Jules Herbaux, in
charge Of the prosecution, and Fer
nand Labor, the famous advocate,
whose face is known to every ne ow-
ing to his connection with the Drey-
fus trial.
The Figaro came out today with a
violently worded article on the open
ing Of the trial. 1t is from the Zen
of Alfred Capus, recently chosen ace
demistan or Immortal, who now oc
cupies the editorial chair formerly
held by Calmette. In it he declares:
1.-THE party which assassinated Cal
mette is doing its best to defle his
, stopped at nothing n has not scrup-
led TO violate condolences, thus giving
t a. foretaste of what is in store"
The article continues with a pane
gyric on the lead editor, concluding:
"Those who have slain him from be
l hind would like to transform him int
!, a. man involved in shady finances
) pirate. Caillaux, go on-do not put
yourself out. You have well sharpen
ed teeth, a heavy jaw, an appetite ex-
cited by the smell of blood; but tn,
t honor of Calmette is wrought In mar.
9 BILE. You will not bite into it."