The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-27
.PAR|S|ANS LOOK ON CA|LLAUX TRIAL AS A DAILY MELODRAMA Mysterious Papers and Flu sive Photographs Add
 Fest to Case
CATS RELEASED FROM TRANSPARENT BAGS
We Knew It All Before, ABuh al- ling Cats Make Every body k" Says Monarchists-Best AS lp.
 tive Pens Recite the 9 o9als

 Paris. July 2e-Perisianso o . uponAt trial of Mime. Henriette for the killing of Gaston -almette es daily n,elodrama. There have been mysterious diplon atic papers and elusive photo- graphed love letters 70 give mystery to the case.
 Two women have striven against each other-Madame Caillaux, who thrilled the courtroom with confession of her emo tions before she shot Calmette, and Madame Gueydan, who moved her hear CTS still more strongly by the tragic tes- timony of deserted wife.
 Joseph Caillaux former premier, now leader of the radical groups which gov- err the republic, sprang at once to the defense of his wife, and has been con fronted by another former premier, Louis Bsrthcu.
 Remarkable Things Occur Remarkable things have occurred al this trial, not the least being the threat ened duel between the president of the tt JuuSt fAiDdlti, dilu one oI lnt other judges, Louis Dagoury. The duel awaits the decision of the minister of Justice; meanwhile the judges pass each otter scornfully. M. Caillaux himself called the counsel for the Calmette fam ily to terms for a suggestion made in. tho courtroom and people are now wonder ing whether the ex-premier and NJ. Chenu. who declared that he was not to be menaced. also will meet ct the swords point.
 A heated suggestion of Germany was brought into court. M. Camette had charged M. Caillaux with having be- affair, and M Caillaux told the jury that the Figaro. of which calmette was the editor, was owned across the Rhine; that Calmette had been the instrument of Frances enemies in causing discord to the French capital. What with the Fabre document in the Rochette banking frauds and the influence of the ministers upon the courts anl prosecutors, the republ- can government, has in some sense been OF trial.
 '1t is only letting cats out of trans- parent bags" the monarchists say We knew it all before, but now the squallng of the. cats makes everybody look
 Finance Had Place
 High finance has had it's place in the proceedings through the insistence of Gail 1auxs radical partisans that 1t was his pressing of the income tax that caused influence to Calmette to break CailIaux in public esteem.
 The best descriptive pens in France 50 or more of them--are recounting the daily thrills, retouching the perspectives and deeping the shadows Paris vibrates with them. Carbarets laugh nightly over freshly turned burlesques on them.
 There is cynical disposition in Paris to take the trial lightly. as something pre- arranged. The aged Empress Eugenie, at dinner party of imperialists having ls- tended to much talk about how the minis ters and their wives and mistresses lived and how the stage was set for the ac quittal of Mime. Cailaux, rebuked the gossipers by saying: No, I cannot inn agine that the judges of France will act otherwise than according to their in- tellects and consciences.''
 Court Would Amaze American
 The court procedure wouh amaze the adherence to evidence relevant to the American spectator, accustomed to strict charges. Here, apparently. the privilege is accorded of exploring all the byways and hedges leading to the scene of the crime.
 M. Labori has scored telling points for the defendant by clever turn of the tongue. M. Caillaux has spoken for hours on all the political ramifications of the case.
 The impression around the palace of justice quite without the suggestion of improper influences Is that Mime. Cailaux will be acquitted or receive short sus- pended sentence.
 One American spectator at the trial thinks the French jury system might. with good effect, be adopted by the United States on one point at least. that is, a decision by the majority, or Tiff the ballots stand six to six acquit tai.
 Jurors Have Liberty The jurors have complete liberty ex- |cept while court is in session. All com plain of having received letters threat ening them with death If they free Mime. Caillaux, and others arguing they ought to acquit the defendant.
 In the background and often in the foreground of the trial is Caillaux. He is ever in the popular imagination as mysteriously controlling things of which there has not been the slightest evidence. Caillaux is not popular, but he is strong in the organization of political expedients and leadership among leaders rather than of the peo- pie. His enemies-and there seems to be no man in France who has more vfo- lent enemies-view him as dangerous figure.
 Personally, he is small, nervous, |baldheaded man of 50 with short, black moustache and black eyes and Il manner that invites conversation He Is careful in his dress and is something oi a specialist in figured waistcoats.
 Mme Caillaux. much worn, spent |ouiet Sunday over her mail and the newspapers. She declined to attend mass in the prison chapel. Her husband talked with her for sometiHnt