Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1914-07-23
CA|LLAUX AGAIN
CENTRAL FIGURE
Formal Declaration That No
Documents Exist to Stain
His Name.
EX-PREM|ER TRIUMPHANT
Opposing Counsel Wakes Sar.
castle over Incident and
Plunges Court into
UprOar.
EX-PREM|ER TRIUMPHANT

! CpIOdT.
Paris. July 22.-The ex-premier. Joseph
! Caillaux was again the central figure
to-day In the proceedings in the court of
assize, whore his wife Nine Henriette
CaillauX is on trial for the killing of
castor Calmetto editor of the Figaro.
The court room was crowded in the ex-
poctation Of sensational revelations aris-
ing from NJ. Labori's closing ultimatum
OF last night when he declared he would
refuse to plead unless a full statement
was made by the government regarding
documents 1T was alleged, were impor-
tant enough to crush Caillaux.
On the opening of court this morning
the procurator- general said that he was
authorized by the government to declare
that the documents referred to in yes
terday's testimony did not exist. In
stead, therefore, of utterly discrediting
the ex-premier, the incident ended in his
triumph as his brilliant antagonist NJ.
Chenu, counsel for the Calmette fam
lily, was Obliged to acknowledge.
| When the procurator-generalr resumed
his seat, NJ. Labori, counsel for Nine.
| CailauX, said:
I'VE consider the incident closed"
NJ. Chenu replied sarcastically:
THE incident is closed to the satisfac-
tion of NJ. Caillaux. but to my mind it
| was nothing but a clever diversion most
| opportuney arranged and | admire the
| skill with which it was arranged It has
| pleased NJ. CaillauX to transform Grim
| lnal trial into the trial OF political
| cause. Somehow, as the result of cir
cumstances which escape my comprehen-
sion we reach this paradoxical issue tha
Caillaux comes out of the proceedings
with certificate OF disinterested pa
| triotism."
The radical leader followed the case
with the closest attention. Twice to-day
there were exciting scenes. On the first
occasion NJ. Chenu, having declared that
1t did not become NJ. Calllaux to come
there and endeavor to soil the grave
which his wife had made, the ex-premier
sprang forward and exclaimed: "Since
must take notice of what this lawyer
has said, I will ask him II he will take
personal responsibility for his words"
When the uproar which this utterance
occasioned had subsidized NJ. Chenu re-
pied: u take the entire responsibility.
You cannot menace me here"
| NJ. CaillauX did not intcrpose further In
the proceedings until Auguste Avril. po-
litical editor of the FiGaro, in his deposi-
ton declared that carly in November.
| 1915 NJ. CailauX had stopped him in tho
| LOBBY OF the chamber and asked how
| much longer Camctte was going to con-
tihue his campaign. He gave an evasive
answer, and NJ. Caillaux then said to him:
fcu know am crack shot. go every
day TO the shooting gallery and get a
| bulls-eye every time"
The ex-premler Immediately jumpcd IN
and demanded TO he confronted with the
witness. The two stood face to face at
the bar. NJ. Cailaux affirmed that he
had no recollection of ever saving such n
thing; NJ. Avril maintained with equal
determination the exacttitude of his tes
timony. Finally the two men withdrew
and the matter resolved itself into A
question of reliability
As NJ. Caillaux left the court at tho
| close OF the hearing, many hands were
| outstretched to him. some those of ac-
quaintances. others of total stra ngars
lie seemed to he deeply touched by these
manifestations Of sympathy and OK.
clalined In voice shaken with real emo
ton II see I still have some friends
| left"
small crowd assembled outside the
| main gates OF tho palace Of Justice IN
see NJ Caillaux depart. They gave him
a rousing cheer mingled with few
Kisses. NJ. Cailaux. accompanied bv
Deputy Pascal Ceccaldi went to the
| Conciergerie and spent an hour with his
wife, Meanwhile. on the opposite side
OF the palace, close to the statue Of
Henry ~ on the Pont Neuf, a small
crowd. waiting in vain to see the ex-
| premier began to discuss the case and
soon came to blows. II required deter
mined police interference to disperse the
| rioters.
Pierre Mortier, editor Of Gil Bias cor
roborated previous evidence as to the
oVerwrought nerves of Nine Caillaux
and to her knowledge that the Figaro
was about to publish sensational revela-
tions. He was followed by three other
journalists, NJ. Dubarry. editor of
Journee Repubicane. Albert Livet, nan
ager of the Radical, and Robert lie Court,
editor OF the Courier Du Parlement, who
declared they had been Informed that
the Figaro intended to publish other let
ters ater the Thy Joe" letter, but when
pressed by the presiding judge and NJ.
Chenu for the names of their informants
they sheltered themselves behind the
plea OF professional secrecy"
| Witnesses followed each other In rapid
succession. The distinguished scientist,
Paul Panleve, declared he had been told
by the banker. CASTOR Dreyfus that the
Figaro was going to publish a number
| of private letters.
Leon Bailby. editor OF the Intransigeant,
related how NJ, Calmette had read the
Fabre report on the Rochette affair at
a dinner OF a few friends, saying as he
replaced It in his pocket book: II always
keep it on me; one never knows what
| may happen"
| Nine, Madeleine Gulllemard. a lifelong
| friend of Nine. Caillaux, who saw her
| the night before the tragedy, said
"she was quite calm In my opinion
her act was unconscious. She never in
Itapdsd to kill" ~