Omaha daily bee., 1914-07-21
CAILLAUX TRIAL STIRS PARIS
Opening of Famous Murder Case At
tracts Throng.
PRISONER DRESSED IN BLACK
She Announces Her Name In Indis-
tinct Tone and Jury IL sworn
Indictment Charging Muir
der of Editor - Read.

PARIS July 2O.-The thoughts Of all
Parisians today were occupied solely by
the opening of the trial of Nine. Call
laux for the murder on March 16 of Gas
ton Calmette, editor of the Figaro. Pro-
ceedings sta arted at noon in the Palace OF
Justice, with Judge Louis Albanel acting
as president of the court The dramatic
! setting of the affair. inovlving political
intrigues in which the prisoners husband,
/ a former French premier and minister of
| finance, was a prominent figure was just
to the taste of the French public Added
to this was the rumured threat Of royalist
| hotheads to create a disturbance during
the trial and the extensive precautions
! taken by the government to prevent an
| outbreak.
| Long before the opening OF the Palace
of Justice, crowds defying the drizEling
| rain, had assembled in the vicinity and
| special forces OF police were called out
to keep order. From an early hour long
! lines formed in Place Dauphine and the
Boulevard du Palais, hoping to be lucky
enough to secure the few places left for
the general public in the court room,
which had been for the most part allotted
to press representatives and barristers. A
few homeless waits had even taken up
their positions outside the building last
night, with the object OF selling their
places to others willing TO pay highly for
the chance of admission. The police, how
ever, eventually chased them away, tell
ing them there was no hope of securing
entrance to the court
Nine. Caillaux herself had been con-
Quoted from the Prison of the Con-
ciergerie to the court by a secret pas
sage, so that those outside had no op-
portunity OF cheering or kissing her. The
other leading figures in the case, how.
ever, were the objects OF demonstrations
Among them were the procurator gen
eral Jules Herbaux, in charge of thu
prosecution, and Fernand Labori, th'
famous advocate, whose face Is known t.
every owing to his connection with
the Dreyfus trial.
Defendant Brought In.
As soon as the Jurors who had beer
drawn by lot in a private room, and the
four judges composing the court had
taken their places, President Albane
called out loudly, Bring in the accused '
Republican guards then opened a small
door in the wall Of the court room and
Madame Caillaux stepped into the
tribunal.
The strong light from the windows OPP
posite seemed TO startle the accused
woman, or perhaps it WAS the absolute
silence in the court room, and the masses
OF faces turned toward her that made heI
hesitate on the threshold and reach out
unsteadily to catch the arm OF the repub-
lican guard standing at her right He
spoke a word TO her and she entered the
prisoners enclosure directly in front OF
her.
Madame CaillauX there stood with hel
eyes downcast and her shoulders bent q
timid looking figure in black. She wore
a cloth packet suit small black hal
with blackbrd wing cooked on one
side, a white linen collar edged with lace
and held together by an unobstrusive pin
The prisoner then sat down, but all IN
the court room except the judges wer,
standing She hastily arose again anC
did not reseat herself until all the otheri
did.
A moment later Judge Albanel asked
, What is your name?'
Madame Canlaux stood up and her lip
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