Norwich bulletin., 1914-03-23
Had Engaged in Target Practice
ALLEGED EVIDENCE AGAINST
 MIME. CAILLAUX,
SPECIAL MASS FOR HER
Did Not Attend Service With Other Prisoners-Charees of FaVoritism Toward Her Continue to Be Made.

Paris. March 22.-The killing last
 week of Gaston Calmette, editor of the
 Figaro, by Mne Caillaux, the wife of
 the former minister of finance, con
 ttnues to absorb both the public and
 the newspapers to almost the total
 exclusion of all other topics. The in
 tereSt in the case which had been di-
 verted from her by the investigation
 into the reasons for the postponement
 of the trial of M. Rochette, charged
 with extensive swindling operations,
 today again was focused on Mime. CaillauX's prison life.
 Alleged Favors Shown Woman.
 The protest that Nine Caillaux is the recipient of excessive favors and
 comforts in Saine Lazare prison to-
 day assumed formidable proportions. The chief of the penitentiary depart
 ment of the ministry of the interior,
 while declining to discuss the matter
 at length, declared today that Mme. Caillaux was being treated in accord
 ance with the prison regulations. He
 added that the prison doctor was the sole judge of many of the details of the prisoners regimen
 Prisoner Has Bad Night. All WAS quiet today along the ap-
 breaches to Saint Lazare prison. In spite Of the fact that the novelty of
 seeing M. Caillaux entering the jail to see his wife has virtually ended, a strong force of police was kept on duty in the vicinity of the jail to ore vent possible disturbances.
 Mime. Caillaux passed a bad night in the jail following the lengthy ex- animation which she underwent yes terday before Magistrate Henri Bou- card. The occupant of a neighboring cell said she heard Mme. Caillaux moaning and complaining of a head ache during the night, but that about ? o'clock she seemed to fall asleep. Mime. Caillaux rose at s o'clock. The other prisoners are up at 3. Special Mass for Her. She had little appetite for the rolls and coffee that were served. She de- ciared that she was suffering from
 a severe headache. but declined to see the prison doctor.
 While the other prisoners were at mass, Mime. Caiflaux dressed herself in the clothes which she wore on the day shs shot M. Calmette and at S.SC o'clock went into the chanel where few nuns. Mime. Caillaux followed the service with the deepest devotion. re- Daaining most of the time on her knees with her face buried in her hands. Engaged In Target Practice. After the shooting of N. Calmette the Figaro said that witnesses would be called to prove that Mme Gail idOA nSQ dL WlIn a revolver on the shooting range of a well known gun maker in the Champs Eiysees quarter.
 A newspaper tonight says that the Viscount De Tredern authorized it to state that he was in the shop of the gunnnaker in question on the afternoon of the shooting of M. Calmette and that while he did not actually see Mime Caillaux practicing with a pistol she | had just bought, he met her coming up from the basement of the shop where there is a target range She
 was accompanied by a gentleman, ac- cording to the statement: her hands were soiled from handling the weapon and she requested permission to wash them
 Libel Suits Threatened. The Figaro announces that 1t iS about to start libel suits agail-Sr <
 number of leading London, Berlin 1 Vienna, Geneva. and other newspapers which, it declares. have given prom 1 thence to a report that the Figaro pos sesses private letters ref1ecing on M and Mime. Cailiaux which it intends to publish