Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1914-07-24
CAILLAUX TRIAL
IS NEARING THE END
First Wife Plays Leading Trump by
Producing the Much Talked-of Let
ters and Handing Them to Attorney.

catealls greeted ex.Fnanee Minister JO'
sepa Caillaux today when he stepped
from his automobile at the palace of
justice to attend the trial of his wife,
Henriette, on charge of numbering Edi-
tor CASTOR Calmette OF "Le Figaro.
There was no question that strong
feeling was aroused against him by the
charges his divorced wife made against
him ON the witness stand at yester-
days session of court. II was generally
agreed that the former Nine. Caillaux
behaved with dignity and good taste,
and that by turning over to Fernand
Labor, Nine. Caillaux's s lawyer, the
two letters, il was said the Caillauxs
feared Calmette would publish, she had
placed the defense in most awkward
situation.
The letters were supposed to be part
of the same series as the "Ton 10
communication, which actually appeared
in Gle Figaro, with Calmette s kill
ing as sequel.
If these letters were. i'm fact, as dam
aging to Caillaux and his wife as they
professed how, it was generally asked,
could they afford to have them made
public in connection with Nine. Gail
laux's triall If, on the otner hand,
they could be read in open court with
out running the Caillauxs, it would be
impossible for the prisoner to contend
longer that they constituted an excuse
for killing Calmette,
a CJlever Attornev
From this dilemma Attorney Labor
resOrted to clever maneuver today to
extricate himself.
Recalling the former Nine. Caillaux
to the witness stand, he said:
Madame, you played me trick yes
terday. ! return our letters to you.
All three are uninteresting and only
two might be relative.
And he offered the witness the let
ters. The former Nine. Caillaux flushed
and with a dramatic gesture refused to
accept them. Then she left the stand
The success of this move by Labor
was considered problematical 1t ap-
peared to have relieved him of the ne
cessity of making the letters public,
but many believed the impression would
be that he had done so because he could
not have acted otherwise without dam
aging either mis- client or her husband.
The police and military precautions
against any disturbance about the pal
ace of justice were made more thor
oughly than ever today, and the viO-
lence OF the demonstration against
Caillaux indicated they were needed
The prisoner, though very pale, was
calm. Her enemies maintained that
the violent fit of weeping she had
Thursday was feigned.
Pascal Ceccaldi, a member of the
chamber of deputies and friend of
Caillaux, testified in defense of the ex-
minister's record.
4 Ceccaldi S testimony was given in an
impassioned tone and with many ges-
lures. Despite the fact tnat they were
in courtroom, Caillaux s enemies burst
into ieering and Kisses, while the wit
ness was speaking, and the disorder
finally became so great that Judge Al
banel threatened to arrest the disturb
ers.
! Caillaux s friend having finished his
story, supporter of Calmette took the
stand-Etienne Grosselaude, of the
staff of "Le Figaro"
4 The editor, he asserted, never thought
of publishing Uaillaux's personal let
\ ters. In fact, said the witness, he
eliminated all purely personal passages
when he published the "TOn 10" epis-
/ tie, printed only what was of political
import and good for the public to know.
4 Henry Bernstein, playwright, author
and intimate lriend of Editor Cal
mette, testified, that from things Cal.
mette said to him, he did not believe
the latter offered money to Nine.
Estradere as she said he did to ar.
!. range a meeting between himself and
Caillaux's first wife.
He added that he judged from what
the e iitOr told him Just before he was
shot, that he held Nine. Estradere
former society editress of "Le Figaro
in somewhat low esteem.
Sporting Editor Franz Reichel, OF
lie Figaro, said he spoke with Cal
mette the Sunday night before he wa:
killed, referring to the "Fabre docu'
ments', which Calmette said he woulC
iAht " phhiSh bub COuAu uOl utNduSt
he had promised not to.
cit is all have left,' Reiehel testi
fled Calmette told him. The purpos,
of Reieheps story was to disprove tha
) Calmettc still had letters by Caillaul
in his hands.
DR.. Albert Calmette, the late editor !
brother, related that after the latte
was killed his wallet, containing abou
30 papers, was placed in the doctor :
hands; that some of the document
were important, and that he and an
other brother, DR.. o. Calmette, CAV
them to- President Poincare, VIII
thanked them warmly, but that tn
letters referrel to by the Calliaux
were not among them.
"Gaston told me the day before h
was killed. said the witness, "tha
1e was at the end of his campaigi
against Caillaux because he had pub
lished everything he had except tn
Fabre memorandum which he prom
4 Used not TO print.