New Britain herald., 1914-07-29

witness after witness speak in praise of the late M. Calmette. There has been only one discordant note and that came from M. Caillaux. What connection with the case has the for tune of the murdered man (referring to yesterdays testimony that M. Cal- mette left large fortune. which his enemies charge he received illicitly) How many millions must man have in order to permit his b.
 mated with complete impunity?"
 Renders Cutting Speech.
 M Chenu, whose sarcastic com ments on the, testimony of the de- fence have more than once discon- certed M. Caillaux and his support CTS, followed M. Seligman with cut ting speech. This was too much for the prisoner and court had to be ad- journed to allow her to regain her composure. She fell in a heap on the floor just as M. Chenu was say ing:
 1T will speak of nothing except the assassination of M. Calmette. I will ask the accused woman whether, when she spoke of her love for her daughter, she thought of the two children of M. Calmette. whose pictures never left him. I shall not attempt to go into the biography of Mme. Caillaux. She is a cool, sensi- ble woman without emotion or pity. She has tears only for herself
 Mistress Triumphed Over Spouse.
 "She worked with tenacity to break up her lovers home. You see the result-the mistress triumphed over the lawful spouse. They are bound up in each other in their hap piness, in their hopes, even in their murder plans.
 "M. Caillaux is man of inordinate ambition and limitless ambition, whose power rests on his audacity and on the fear he inspires. M. Caillaux omitted to tell his wife of the assur- ances given by President Poincare that Calmette was incapable of printing private letters They did not fear that. What they feared was the pub- ication of Victor Fabre's report on the Rochette swindle.
 ''The husbands violent words at the lunch table decided the wife to sub stitute herself for him and she pre- pared the assassination with as much calm as a society woman fitting in calls between two tea parties"
 Mme. Caillaux tainted, and was carried from the court room. When she had partially revived court was reconvened.
 Synopsis of Tragedy.
 Gaston Calmette, for twelve years editor of the Figaro, was shot down in his office in he Rue Drouot on March 16 Mme. Caillaux, wife of the then minister of finance, drove to the Figaro office after having purchased a revolver and practised with it in a shooting range She waited about an hour in the outside office of the news paper for her victim. When her card was sent in M Calmette was busy talk ing with M Paul Bourget. the aca- demician. He counselled the editor not to see her because of the> bitter campaign which the Figaro had been making against her husband. But it's a woman I must see her. replied M. Calmette.
 The woman was then admitted to the editors office and almost without a word. drew the revolver from her huff and emptied it at the man stand ing before her. He died that night. Mme Cailiaux was immediately ar rested and her husband resigned from the cabinet She gave as her excuse for killing M Calmette that he had published letter from Caillaux to his wife signed Ton Jo,'' in which Caillaux told her of his double faced position on the income tax question 1t was brought out at the trial that NJ. Calmette suppressed the personal