Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-07-23
PROOF
OF CAILLAUX'S
TREASON EXISTS
Rumor That Grave Charges Are
to Be Made in Court
Persists.
Ex-WIFE DENIES PEDDLINc
LETTERS TO NEWSPAPERS
Labor Expects TO Show caI-
mette Could Have Lived,
Despite Shooting.
speclnI % the Esenlng star.

Special to the Evening Star.
PARIS. July 2s.-stiH playing on
the strings Of political discord. the
Joseph Cainaux for the murder OF
CASTOR calmette opened today with
reports of an impending sensation.
Despite the statement Of Prosecutor
Herbeaux yesterday that documents
rejecting on the honor of Caillaux DO
not exist, reports we're circulated to-
day that an employe on LIE Figaro
read a document charging that the
former prime minister planned to be-
tray France to Germany.
At the same time reports we're cir
culated that Maitre IsabOri may soon
introduce a witness. a physician. who
is prepared to declare Calmette did
not die as direct result OF the wounds
Inflicted by Nine. Caillaux, but be-
cause of the negligence of physicians
who attended him. With the "brain-
storm" defense which is being butt
up by the noted attorney. the physi-
clan promises to stir all Paris.
The physician who may be called
has declared that Calmette's wounds
we're not fatal: that had the most
elementary precautions been takens
his life might have been saved, and
that he would have been discharged
from the hospital within ten days or
two weeks.
The testimony Of the first three
witnesses today concerned the two
private letters which the defense
seeks to show CASTOR Calmette In
tended to publish
Testfmony on Private Letters
CASTOR Dreyfus. a banker and .
friend of the murdered editor, came
to the stand and explained that the
scientist, Paul Painleve. who had
yesterday testified that NJ Dreyfus
had told him the Figaro was going
to publish a number Of private leE-
! ters. must have misunderstood him.
| He had referred TO the Victor Fabre
report on the Rochette swindle aHasr
and not to private letters about whicn
he knew nothing.
An official Of the treasury nepaft-
nent. Aurire fSaiss1ers restiHeo 70
being present during a converse ton
of a group of journalists in the lobbx
of the Chamber Of Deputies, when 4
/ was stated that letters shortly would
be published.
Francois Desclaux, chief private
secretary of M. Caillaux when mif1~
ister of finances, declared that Andre
] yervoort, editor of the Paris Journal
/ came to him and told him Nine
Gueydan had proposed to him to pub
/ llsh two lettens which she produceq'
He had. he said. informed NJ Gait
/ laux of this and he exclaimed: But
| those are letters which were stolen
| from me. | hope no newspaper man
can be found to publish them.
cniIlaux's Ex-wife's Denial.
/ Mime. Gueydan was called following
vervoorts testimony. She again de-
MED having any connection with the
publication of the Ton Jo letter by
/ Figaro and denied that she sent for
/ yervoort so that he might have cer-
/ tain letters published. The statement
/ that she did not show them to Ver-
WORT at the Hotel Astoria was NOT
| confirmed.
/ The witness asked if she might re-
/ fer to her notes. but the request was
/ refused bv the judge.
sThere have been SO many lies
! told said Nine. Gneydan, that my
notes are absolutely necessary IL onty
! 10 Az dates. Was not NJ Caillaux al
lowed to read from papers? ! am
confronted with A mountain OF lies
which 1 must climb and break =
pieces one by one am alone
| have no husband to defend me
In saving this she cast long
glance at Nine. Caillaux. who, how
ever, did not look at her.
The court was as crowded as ever
when the fourth hearing started to-
day. Many of the people had come 10
see Joseph Caillaux confronted. &C
cording to the practise of the French
courts with former Premier Louis
Rsrthou. who had been subpoenaed
as a witness.
The arguments of Procurator-Gen-
eral Jules Herbeaux for the prosecti-
| ton and OF Fernand Labor. c0un-
/ sci for the defense, would, 1t was an
| nounced. probably begin late in the
day.
Nine. Caillaux took her place in the
prisoners enclosure punctually st
i noon. She carried in her right hand q
little vial of smelling salts and q
notebook.
Ten minutes afterward the red
i robed judges filed in and an expect
ans hush fell over the crowded masses
q In the courtroom. Here and there a
Japanese paper fan gave a striking
note of color to the scene
Joseph Caillaux and his friend Pas
cal Ceccaldi had visited the prisoner
in the conciergerie before the hearing
began. They found that the long
strain was beginning to tell on her
an6 that she felt exhausted and i'll,
but she showed strong determination
to face her ordeal with calmneas
IN an editorial today lie Figaro de-
fends itself against certain charges
which have been brought out since
the trial opened. The editorial de-
clares:
I'VE never said that Nine. Cali
laux's pearl necklace was bought At
the price of the loss of the French
Congo. We never said that Mime.
= Calllaux's private letters were un-
printable We never mentioned tha
rumors of divorce We never attacked
caillaux's private life. We have only
dealt with Caillaux's political and
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