The Sentinel=record., 1914-07-21
MIME. CAlLLAUX RELATES HER REASONS FOR KILLING EDITOR
 OF THE FIGARO.
FEARED RESULTING SCANDAL
If Compromising Letters Written by Her Husband Before Marriage Were Published--Dramatiea Re lates Her Suffering and Fears.

Paris, July 20.-Madame Caillaux, wife of Jose Caillaux, cnce premier of France and former minister of | finance, occupied the prisoners en- closure in the assze court at the pal ace of justice today and recited in dramatic manner the circumstances | leading up to the shooting on March | l6 of Gaston Calmette, editor of the Figaro, with whose murder she is charged. Judge Louis Albanel acted as president of the court; the prose cutor general, Jules Herbaux, had nand Laberi, the noted advocate who was close,y identified with the Drey- fus case, was chief counsel for the defense.
 Mime. Caillaux held the attention of the crowded court room for three hours. She told her story in short disconnected sentences but showed remarkable skill in marshalling her facts so as to represent them in the best light for her cause.
 Mme. CaillauX was a wiling wit ness throughout After she had con icluded her narrative and was asked if there were anything she would like to add, she thrilled her listeners when she described vividly the pro tracted agony she had endured be- cause of the calumnies against her. self and her husband.
 For three months I mounted Cal. vary" she said. Such l do not wish to my worst enemy. No one can i'm agine what I went through l feared for myself, for my husband, for my child. l feared for myself because if part of those letters were pub- lished my deepest secret would be man honor stand stripped and naked.
 q always had been taught that a lwoman's honor consisted in having her life as open as possible My poor father, who last year told me that wife who had a lover was a woman without homer, never would have set foot in my house had he known of my laison with M Cailaux.
 We were reproached with being of the bourgeoise. 1t is true. I am a bourgeoise When the letters were purloined M. Caillaux and myself felt alike, we would have preferred to re. noulce cur great happiness rather ! than see our inner life blazoned to the world.
 "I feared the publication of the let ters. We had many friends, espec- ialy among the embassies, and in those circles people wished to humili- ate and cast ridicule upon my hus- band by the publication of two let ters, addressed to two different wo- men signed. Thy Jo.' They wished to throw contempt upon the head of the minister of the republic, the chief of the radical party and strike through him the republic.
 Finally l did not wish to blush before my daughter; that is one thing a woman must not be asked to do. l deeply regret the present mis- fortune and I would have undergone anything in the world rather than have been the cause of it."
 Her impassioned peroration was accompanied by eloquent gestures. i,
 Mime. Caillaux told of the shooting in the Figaro office. Prior to this she had been asked by the judge re- garding her interview with Fernand IMonier, president of the Tribunal of the Seine from whom she had sought Information as to whether the at Jacks of M. Calmette against her hus- band could be stopped.
 M. Monier told her she said, that this would be impossible; that. one could only put up with it or defend ones self by ones own means. He had added, the witness asserted, that it was astonishing that with the French temperament there were not mere heads broken.
 Maurice Cheau, attorney for M. Calmette's relatives, arose and said that NJ. Monier before the examining magistrate had denied giving utter ance to anything of the sort.
 Mime. Caillaux then told of events of the day of the tragedy.
 T informed M Cailleaux at lunch, ? she testified, what NJ. Monler had lsaid. He was very Indignant and ex