The Oskaloosa herald., 1914-07-30
W|FES LIFE OR
HIS OWN HONOR
Caillaux'S Predicament in Matter
of the Love Letters.
MAITRE LABoRI oUTWITTED
Nine. Gueydan's Strategy Deals Heavy
Blow to the DEMONSTRATION
and Bernstein Call Witness
Ceccaldi a Liar.


Paris, July 25.-The Caillaux love
letters remain unread and Joseph Gail
laux is still at bay. Paris is asking
whether he will make the supreme sac
rihce by Internationally consenting to
the publication Of all eight letters. BY
so doing he may obtain his wife's &C.
quittal of the murder of Editor NJ Cal.
Ihette, but only at the expense Of his
own Punishment from political and So
cial life. If he continues his des-
perate efforts TO keep any or all of the
letters secret he will undoubtedly help
convict her of the crime she admits
she committed principally to save him.
Asked in open court whether he
would agree to the letters being read,
Caillaux eluded the question by
throwing himself upon the discretion
and wisdom of Maitre Chenu," lawyer
for the Calmette family.
Nine. Gueydan Bests Labor.
Meanwhile amazement grows at
Nine. Gueydan's brilliant coup in con-
fiding these fatal letters to the counsel
for the defense. Labor, after falling
into the trap, vainly tried to get her to
take them back and to assume the re-
sponsibility for the handing of them to
Chenu, but the Calmette lawyer
blocked the game and Labor has final
ly undertaken to "collaborate" with
Chenu to find out what is to be done
with the letters.
While retaining the name OF an I'M
willing witness, Mime. Gueydan has
plunged the man who divorced her
into terrible predicament and has
struck heavily at the woman who
ruined her first married happiness.
Says Read All or None.
Maitre Labor stood nonplussed and
beaten before the court when Nine.
Gueydan confronted him and refused
to take back the fatal letters. Labor
came into court with the letters in
his possession. Nine. Gueydan, who
as a witness for the prosecution had
thrust them into his hands for a pub
lie reading, did not appear on time
and gendarmes were sent for her.
AS she took the stand Labor handed
back the sheaf of discriminating letters
she had tricked him into taking for a
public reading.
only two OF these letters have a
bearing on this case" said Labor. II
return them to you, madame"
No, refuse to take them back,
cried Nine. Gueydan and she con-
tinued her refusal, demanding that La |
bori should read them before the court !
The famous lawyer fell back upon his |
rival. NJ. Chenu. The latter took the |
letters and read them, to decide |
whether they should be given in public |
to the court. Nine. Gueydan retired |
from the witness stand in triumph and |
amid the cheers OF the audience. I'm |
queStionably she had turned the tide |
of the case and had done more than all |
the rest of the witnesses of the prose
Cution to harm the case of the woman |
who had succeeded her as Caillauxs |
wife
5srthou and Bernstein In Rage.
NJ. Barthou, former premier and |
noted statesman OF France, took the
stand and told that his friend the muir
dered Calmette, had never paid for
mer princess to get evidence against
NJ. Caillsux. Henri Berstein, the au-
thor. also a friend of the slain man,
gave opinions to the same effect
Both became enraged at the testi-
mony of NJ. Ceccaldi OF the chamber of
deputies. who declared that Nine. Gail
laux had been bereft during the two
days preceding the shooting and had
told him she mnst In some way get
from Calmette the love letters of her
husband which he was about to pub
Iish.
After the shooting" he said, she
told me that she had been kept wait.
ing an hour when she went to see Cal.
mette and had become so nervous at
hearing employees of the paper telling
about the scandalous Caillaux story
10 be published in the morning that
she lost her mind completely and did
not know what she was doing when
finally admitted to the editors Office"
Barthou and Bernstein arose from
their seats during the testimony of
Ceccaldi and cried: You are lying,
you know that you lie"
Prospects OF duel between at least
one Of the authors and the Caillaux
witness are very bright, though they
were separated when they left the
courtroom for the day.
GaIesbura Gets Central Franchise.