Norwich bulletin., 1914-07-21
Mme. CaiIIaux Thrills Listeners
WITH NARRATIVE ON OPENING
 DAY OF TRIAL
ON STAND THREE HOURS
Cast Restraint Aside and in ImPas- stoned Manner Told of Events Lead ing Up to Shooting of calmette.


 Paris, July 20.-Mme Henrfette Caillaux. the wife of Joseph Caillaux, once premier of France and former minister of finance. occupied the prss- oners' enclosure in the asSize court at the palace of justice today and recited in a dramatic manner the eircum- | stances leading up to the shooting of l Gasten sCalmette, editor of the Figaro, with whose murder on March Is she Is l charged.
 1 Judge Louis AIbanel acted as presl- dent of the court; the procurator gen. ! eral, Jules Hereaux, had charge of the prosecution, and Fernand L.aberi, the | noted advocate who was closely ideni- | fled with the Dreyfus case, was chief counsel for the defense.
 Spoke With Great Assurance.
 Mime. Caillaux held the attention of the crowded court room for three l hours. Slight almost insignificant in i appearance, and possessing none of | the outward characteristics of a figure | O. romance, she spoke with great as | surance, addressing herself in turn to each part of the room like a lecturer. 1 She told her story in short, disconnect- ed sentences but showed remarkable
 kill in marshaling her facts so as to represent them in the best light for her cause.
 Described Agony She Had Endured.
 The judges role was a simple one. l confined to encouraging her with brief questions as she came to each success sive phase of the drama Mime. Call faux was a willing witness througho Ut and showed great self control. It vas
 only after she had concluded her nac- 1 rative and was asked if there was any
 thing she would like to add that she
 cast restraint aside and with accents
 of genuine emotion thrilled her listen
 CTS and elicited murmurs of applause | Then she described vividly the pro-
 tracted agony she had endured be-
 cause of the calumnies against her
 self and her husband.
 Feared for Her Honor.
 For three months I mounted CaI-
 vary" she said. Such I do not wish
 inc what I went through. I feared fol
 myself, for my husband, for my child
 I feared for myself because if part ol
 those letters were published my deep
 est innermost secret would be dis f played before the world; my woman honor stand stripped and naked. 2 Her Father Was Son of Rich Bour' aeois.
 T had always been taught that woman's honor consisted in having he ; life as open as possible. l was reareN by aged parents. My father was tn l son of rich bourgeois of the perio' of 1880, devoted to the ideas of tina l epoch. My poor father. who last yea told me that wife who had lov-s
 was a woman without honor, neve : would have set foot in my house ha, he known of my laison with M. Gail laux.
 We were reproached with being o } the bourgeoisie. It Is true. I do no blush for it. l am a bourgeoise. Whe . the letters were purloined M. Caillau
 and myself felt alike; we would hay r preferred to renounce our great happi
 ness rather than see our inner If
 blazoned to the world.
 Letters Would Cast RidicuIe on Illus band
 "I feared the publication of the let ters on account of the society we fire
 quented. We had many friends, espe
 cially among the embassies, and those circles people wished to hu q initiate and cast ridicule upon my huS ,, band by the publication of two letter addressed to two women, signed ri. e Joe They wished to throw contemI e upon the head of a ministry of the It t public, the chief of the radical part Il and strike through him the republic. i Did Not Wish to Blush Before H. . Daughter. e Finally, did not wish to blush bt n fore my daughter; that is one thing
 woman must not be asked to do.
 deeply regret the present misfortuu
 and l would have undergone anythir |. in the world rather thansh have bee
 the cause of it"
 :. Her impassioned peroration was a, n, slender hands, from which sine hs
 slipped her gloves. The spectato
 hung on every word and movemer Ie frequently expressing discreet appr le bation, with which the presiding jud! Ie made no attempt to interfere. l- Told of Shooting in Figaro Office. | Mime. Caillaux told of the shooti. m she had been asked by the judge v m garding her interview with Fernal al (Monier, president of the tribunal a the Seine, from whom she had soug
 information to whether the attac
 of M. Calmette against her husbaI - could be stopped.
 NJ. Monier told her, she said, tn
 this would be impossible, that ol n could only put up with it or defel ed ones self by ones own means. Jf had added, the witness asserted, that n, was astonishing that with the Fren- st temperament there were not mo as heads broken.
 a- Maurice Chenu, attorney for of Calmette's relatives. arose and sa D- that M. Monier before the examinil
 
 of the sort.
 's' Episode on Day of Tragedy. ih Mime. Caillaux then told of what to .' i.' place on the day of the tragedy. 20 informed M. Cainaux at lunch" s ne testified, what M. Monier had sa Is He was very indignant and exclaim io If that is how things are then I " e smash his" Mime Caillaux he. Is tated a moment and added face 's Up jumped Chenu "Oh, you e
 say the word .snout It has been sa = twenty times during the investigate n Yes" replied Mme Caillaux, "b ed there are words that are not utter n- in public
 ne The judge repeated the expression e. smash his snout'' and 5he. audien es laughed.
 O. Voice Trembied. Mime. CaiIlaux went on in trembli ~voice: 'f my husband had said me There is nothing to be done nl should have looked upon him as e. coward I asked him When. todal en He said: No. at my own time n- She raised her clasped hands a as cried: My Godi My Godl If you on turning to the jury-'knew what
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