Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-03-25
Tells Motive of Killing.

My fear of the consequences of the
publication of some private correspon.
dencc in the Figaro led to my assassna-
ton of CASTOR Calmette,' Nine. CaillauX
told the examining magistrate yester-
day.
Il also had been obsessed with the
idea that my husband might be driven
to commit the crime, she said, land
so decided to do it myself"
While Nine CaillauX was being led
to the court of the investigating magls-
trate NJ Boucard. she saw a group OF
newspaper photographers and exclaimed:
Let them photograph me. Then l hope
they will be satisfied.
When placed on the stand the prisoner,
! at the request of the court. gave an ac-
count of her actions the day she killed
CASTOR Calmette. She told first OF her
interview at o'clock in the morning
with Fernand Monier. chief judge of the
civil tribunal of the Seine who told
her he could suggest no legal means
of preventing the publication OF her pri-
vate letters by the Figaro.
Planned Dinner for Herrick.
Nine Caillaux then said she told Pierre
de Fouquieres, assistant minister of cere-
monies at the foreign OH y. who tele-
phoned to ascertain when she and M
Caillaux would attend the dinner that
evening at the italian embassy, to ar
range places at a dinner she planned to
give March % at which the American
ambassador, Myron T. Herrick and Mrs
Herrck, were to be present.
The prisoner then said she made an
appointment with her hair dresser for
that evening, was manicured, visited her
dentist, then drove to the ministry of
finance and told her husband what
Judge Monier had told her
hIJS nd
serted. He exclaimed: Then there is
nothing else for me to do except to go
and break his neck
Il did not doubt at that moment that
my husband intended to commit some
act of extreme violence
Throughout the luncheon at home,
which Nine. Caillaux described as
.'wretched" because of the carelessness
of the cook. who was leaving, the fear
aroused by her husbands threat of vlo-
lence and the fact that she could not
prevent the publication of two other per
sonal letters she feared would appear in
the Figaro. unstrung her SO that she felt
it impossible to attend the dinner at
the Italian embassy and telephoned she
was i'll.
Feared Husband Would Act. 8.
Then more than ever 1 became OBJ
sessed with the desire to see Castor
Calmette. l felt the imperious necessity
of taking some action against him. A
terrible fear clutched me lest my hus-
band, who is a remarkably good shot.
should kill NJ. Calmette. In my delirium
already pictured my husband on the
prisoners bench. What added to my an
guish was the knowledge that l would
be the involuntary cause of this terrify-
ing drama.
Nine Caillaux then traced her move
ments the afternoon of the crime, among
them her visit to the gunsmith to buy a
revolver She refused one weapon, she
said. because the trigger worked too
hard. Replying to a question by magis-
trate, the prisoner denied that she plan
ned her act of violence against NJ. CAL
mette at that moment, admitting. how
ever that 1.-The idea then began to take
root
After buying the pistol. which she ex-
planned was for protection on nights IN
the country during the campaign OF her
husband, whom she Intended to accom-
pany. she went home and later left for
the office of the Figaro.