Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1914-07-27
Mysterious Diplomatic Papers
and Anonymous Love Let
ters Show Interest That Is
Felt in Case,
DUEL OF JUDGES HAS
NOT YET BEEN FOUGHT
Best Descriptive Pens in All
France Are Engaged in
Writing Story of Most Sen
SationaI Case in Years.

Paris, July 26 --parisians look upon
the trial of Madame Caillaux for the
killing Of Castor Calmette as a daily
melodrama. There have been mys-
terious diplomatic papers, which most
persons still think exist in the foreign
office archives. and elusive photo
graphed love letters TO give touch of
mystery to the case.
In the foregoing two women have
striven with each other-Mme. Call
laux who thrilled the audience in the
court room with a confession Of her
thoughts and emotions before she shot
Calmette, and Nine. Gueydan, who
moved her hearers still more strongly
by the tragic testimony of a deserted
wife
Joseph CaillauX, a former premier
of France. and now the leader Of the
radical groups which govern the re-
public, sprang at once into the breach
in defense Of his wife and during the
PROCEEDINGS has been confronted by
another former premier, Louis Bar
thou.
Another Duel. Perhaps.
Most remarkable things have occur
red at this trial and not the least Is
the threatened duel between the presi-
dent Of the court, Judge Louis Alba
net, and one of the other judges
Louis Dagoury. The duel awaits the
decision of the minister Of justice.
meanwhile the Judges pass each other
scornfully. NJ. Caillaux himself called
the counsel for the Calmette family To
terms for suggestion made in the
court room and people are now Won
dering whether the expremief and NJ.
Chenu. who declared that he was not
TO be menaeed, will also meet at the
swords point.
A heated suggestion of Germany
was brought into court. NJ. Calmette
had charged M, Caillaux with having
betrayed French interests in the Nor
rccan affairs and NJ. Callaux told the
jury that the Figaro, of which Cal
mette was the editor, was owned
across the Rhine. that Calmette had
been the instrument of Frances enc
mics in causing dise0rd to the French
capital What with the Fabre doeu-
ment in the Rochette banking frauds
and the influence Of the ministers up
on the courts and prosecutors, the re-
publican government has in some
sense been IN trial
"Oh, it is only letting cats out of
II Transparent DdbSi tHt AloHOl NHlsts
say. I'VE knew it all before, but now
the squalling of the cats makes every
body look
High Finance Figures.
High finance has had its place in
the proceedings through the insistenee
of CaillauXs radical partisans that it
was his pressing of the income tax
that caused influential interests to use
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esteem.
The best descriptive pens in France
are recounting the daily thrills, re-
touching the perspectives and deepen
ing the shadows, Paris vibrates with
them. Cabast.s and music nails laugh
nightly over freshly turned skits and
burlesque on those most prominent in
the trial
There is a cynical disposition in
Paris to take the trial lightly. as some
thing pre-arranged. The aged EN-
press Eugene, at a dinner party of
imperialists recently, having listened
10 much talk about dirty republican
linen, how the ministers and their
wives and their mistresses lived; how
the stage was set for the acquittal of
Nine. Caillaux rebuked the gossipefs
by saying:
No, j can not imagine that the
judges of France will act otherwise
than according to their intelects and !
No Limit Imposed.
The procedure within the court /
would be the source Of amazement to
the American or English spectator
accustomed to the restraint the law !
Of his country imposes, and the strict !
adherence to evidence relevant to the !
charges. Here apparently the privil- I
ege is accorded of exploring all the I
by-ways and hedges leading TO the I
scene of the crime.
The impression around the palace of /
Justice, quite without the suggestion I
)f improper influences, is that Nine. |
Taillaux Will be acquitted or receive /
a short suspended sentence.
In France a decision by the major
ty is conclusive or If the ballots stand /
'iX 10 siA results in an acquittal. The
decision of the jury is communicated
o the presiding judge without any
-eference being made to show how the
"a llots stand.
The jurors have complete liberty ex-
,ept while the court is in session. All
# them complain of having received
etters threatening them with death If
hey free Nine. Caillaux They have
ilso received letters arguing that they
lught to acquit the defendant. Tn
Ter their instructions they do not read l
he reasons. arguments or pretended
acts; their duty as jurors requires
hem to destroy the letters
Caillaux Not Popular.
In the background. and often in the