Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-17
ED|TORSLA|N
BY WIFE Of
OFFICIAL
French Minister CoIIapses as He
Visits Wife Who Killed His
Prosecutor.
Special Gable to The Atlanta Georgian.

Special Gable to The Atlanta Georgian.
PARIS, March 17-Mme. Henriette
CaillauX, wife of the French Minis
Ter of Finance, was formally charged
to-day with the murder of CASTOR
Calmette, the brilliant editor of FL
caro-, whom she shot to death last
night in retaliation for that news
papers attacks upon her husband
and for publishing, in violation OF an
"unwritten law" OF France, love let
Ter written to her by NJ. CaillauX
during their courtship.
While the formal charges were
estrs fled against Nine CaiilauX,
mobs parading the streets Of Paris
demanded the arrest of the Minister
himself and his execution.
There was pathetic and dramatic
scene when the Minister Of Finance
was allowed to meet and talk with
his wife. Tears rolled down the
cheeks of the statesman as he en-
hraced Nine. Caillaux The Minister
was in a. state of almost complete
collapse as he repeated over and over
again:
why did you do it? You have
ruined my life, but | forgive YOU
Nine. Cailaux also broke down and
sobbed. AS the couple embraced and
wept, they heard through the barred
10 hp CHI of
mobs in the streets
Crowd in Frenzy.
Aroused to frenzy by the crime
and bv the eulogies of the dead man
printed in the morning papers, nun
dreds Of persons clamored about the
St. Lazare Prison and the CailiauX
residence, screaming
"CaillauX is a murderer; CaiIlauN
should be killed."
So menacing became the hostile
crowds that the Project Of Police
provided additional guards for the
prison and a bodyguard for the Min
lister.
When M. Caillaux arrived a the
womans prison in an automobile ne
showed that he had spent a sleepless
night. His face was pale and lined,
his hair was rumpled, and his cloth
ing was wrinkled He tWitched with
nervousness. and was manlteStly
glad when the iron gates Of the prison
separated him from the mobs which
we're moving restlessly through the
streets.
In view Of the public uproar which
vas aroused by the shooting it was
expected that the resignation Of NJ.
Caillaux would be accepted at Cab
met meeting held at the residence Of
President Poincare Georges Cocnery
was regarded as the most probable
successor Of the unhappy CaillauN
when the meeting began.
Minister Morally Responsible,
While Nine. Caillaux was the ac-
tual slayer. and did not deny it, yet
the newspapers generally held that
the Minister was morally response
BILE
NJ. Calmette. who was shot at $50
last night. died at 12:4o o'clock this
morning. Four of the five bullets
hred at the journalist had taken ef-
feet.
The body was removed early in the
morning from the residence OF Dr.
Hartman. where death had taken
place. to the Calmette home.
Mime. Cailaux admitted that there
was a double motive. Her anger had
been aroused by the personal political
campaign that the editor was carry
ing on against her husband, but TINS
as increa sed TO frenzy when N. cal
mette published part Of a love letter
which NJ CaillauX had written MIS-
wife during their courtshlp Gays.
This had been violation Of am un-
written law, which is regarded as Inn
mutual BILE in French circles.