The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-07-27
CAILLAUX
TRIAL IS
RESUMED

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laux took her seat for the seventh
days session of her trial for the muir
der of CASTOR Cafmette, she. appeared
calmer than on the preceding days.
| She had, however, suffered from two
fainting spells last night as the result
Of the severe strain she underwent
and his three associates had taken
| their seats, Caillaux demanded to he
heard. He said:
"The Figaro, having accused me of
suborning witnesses, I should like to
submit to the court some authentic
papers concerning the late CASTOR
! Calmettes relations with the Hun
to use them, but have decided to do
SO in view of The Figaro's attitude.
desire also to read the late M. Cal
mette's will
Maitre Chenu: How did you get
| it?"
CailIaux: "In the same way that
you get my letters"
record.
After reading the will, Caillaux
said: 1--WE may we'll be astonished at
the singularly rapid increase of M.
Calmette's fortune. In our middle
class families it takes $50 years for
such a fortune to accumulate"
Resume of Case.
The impression around the palace Of
Justice, quite without the suggestion
of improper influences is that Nine.
Caillaux, who for a week has been on
trial for the killing of CASTOR Cal
mette. will be acquitted, or receive a
short suspended sentence. That is the
opinion of old functionaries, who, as
it were, smell out what jurors are
likely to do.
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Parisians look upon the trial as a
daily melodrama. There have been
mysterious diplomatic papers, which
most persons stil think exist in the
photographed love letters to give
touch Of mystery to the case.
In the foreground two women have
striven against each other-Mme
Caillaux, who thrilled the audience in
the courtroom with a confession Of
her threats and emotions before she
shot Calmette, and Nine. Gueydan,
strongly by the tragic testimony of a.
deserted wife. E-G
joseph Caillaux, former premier
of France and now leader of the rad
ical groups which govern the republic,
sprang at once into the breach in de-
fense of his wife and during the pro-
ceedings has been confronted by an
other, Louis Barthou, another EXPIRE
mier.
Most remarkable things have occur
red at this trial and not the least is
the threatened duel between the pres
idept of the court, Judge Louis Alba
mel, and one of the other judges, Louis
Dagoury. The duel awaits the deci-
sion Of the minister of justice; mean
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scornfully. M. Caillaux himself called
the counsel for the Calmette famil- to
terms for suggestion made in the
courtroom, and people are now won
dering whether the ex-premier and M.
Chenu, who declared that he was not
to be menaced, will also meet at the
swords point.
A heated suggestion of Germany
was brought into court M. Calmette
had charged M. Caillaux with having
betrayed French interests in the Mo-
roccan affair and M. Caillaux 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 discord to the Frenchs
capital What with the Fabre docu-'
and the influence of the ministers
upon the courts and prosecutors, the
republican government has In some
sense been on trial.
"Oh, it is only letting cats out Of
transparent bags" the monarchists
say. 1--WE knew 1t all before. but now
the squalling of the cats makes every
body look"
High finance has had it's place in the
proceedings through the insistence Of
Caillauxs radical partisans that 1t
was his pressing of the income tax
that caused influential interests to use
Calmette to break Caillaux in public
esteem.
The best descriptive pens in France
and fifty or more Of them are at
work-are recounting the daily thrills,
retouching the perspectives and deep
ening the shadows. Paris vibrates
with them Cabarets and music halls
laugh nightly over freshly turned skits
and burlesques on those most promi-
nent in the trial.
There is cynical disposition in
Paris to take the trial lightly, as
some thing prearranged. The aged
Empress Eugene, at dinner party of
Iimperialists recently having listened
to much talk about dirty republican
linen, how the ministers and their
wives and mistresses lived and how
the stage was set for the acquittal of
Madame Caillaux, rebuked the gos-
sipers by saying:
"No. cannot imagine that the
judges of France will act otherwise
than according to their intellects and
Iconsciences."
The procedure within the court
would be the source Of amazement to
the American or English spectators,
accustomed to the restraint the law of
his country imposes, and the strict ad
herence to evidence relevant to the
charges. Here apparently the privi-
Ilege is accorded of exploring all the
byways and hedges leading to the
scene OF the crime.
M Laborie has several times scored
a telling point for the defendant by a
clever turn of the tongue; NJ. Caillaux
| has spoken for hours on all the polit-
Iical ramifications Of the case; his
strong supporter, DEPUTY Coccaldi ad-
dressed to the jury an impassioned de-
fense of the Caillaux family amid a.
continuous murnlur of protest or ap-
Iproval, to which he replied on one oc-
casion:
eIf defend M. Caillaux It ia-lbss