Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1914-07-21
PRISONER TELLS HER
STORY OF THE affair
Dramatically Describes the
Scenes Leading Up to the
Shooting of CASTOR Cal
mette and of the Tragedy
in the Figaro Office.

Paris, July 21-The introduction of
testimony in the trial of Madame Call
laux, charged with the murder of Gas
ton Calmette, began today. Two Figaro
office boys described Madame Caillaux
entering the newspaper office, told of
hearing shots fred and how Calmette
appeared when hiding behind his desk.
The scene of the shooting was then
reconstructed by the succession Of
Figaro employees Different employees
testified as to what they saw and
heard. The prisoner took exceptions to
some Of the testimony and questioned
witnesses while they were on the
stand. The witnesses detailed that
While 10 editors stood about her after
the shooting she was calm, clear eyed,
and her face was normal. She had
been held by the wrists by one of the
editors until she told him to let go as
she did not intend to attempt to es-
cape.
Nine. caiIIaux's Story.
Nine. Caillaux yesterday recited In a
dramatic manner the circumstances
leading up to the shooting on March
16 of CASTOR Calmette, editor of the
Figaro, with whose murder she is
charged.
Judge Louis Albanel acted as presi-
dent of the court the procurator gen-
eral, Jules Harbaux, had charge of the
prosecution and Fernard Labori, the
noted advocate who was closely identi-
fed with the Dreyfus case, was chief
counsel for the defense.
Nine. Caillaux held the attention of
the crowded court room for three hours.
Slight, almost insignificant in appear
ance and possessing none of the out
ward characteristics of a figure of ro-
nance. she spoke with great assurance,
addressing herself in turn to each part
of the room like a lecturer. She told
her story in short disconnected SEN
tences but showed remarkable skill in
marshaling her facts so as to repre-
sent them in the best light for her
cause.
The judges role was a simple one
confined to encourag ging her with brief
questions as she came to each success
sive phase of the drama. Nine Call
laux was a willing witness throughout
and showed great self control 1t was
only after she had concluded her mar
rative and was asked If there was any
thing she would like to add that she
cast restraint aside and with accents
Of genuine emotion thrilled her listen
ers and elected murmurs of applause
Then she described vividly the pro-
tracted agony she had endured because
of the calumnies against herself and
her husband.
For three months I mounted Cal
vary" she said. mo one can imagine
what 1 went through. feared for my
self, for my husband, for my child.
feared for myself because II parts of I
those letters were published my deepest
innermost secret would dis displayed I
before the world, my woman's honor
stand stripped and naked.
Life Must Be Open.
had always been taught that a
woman's honor consisted in having her
life as open as possible. l was reared
by aged parents. My father was the
son of a righ bourgeois of the period
of 1880, devoted to the ideas of that
epoch. My poor father who last year
told me that a wife who had a rover
was woman without honor, never
would have set foot in my house had
he known of my liason with M Call
laux.
I'VE were reproached with being OF
the bourgeoisie. 1t is true l did not
blush for it. I am a bourgeois. When
the letters were purloined NJ Cailloux
and myself felt alike; we have prefer
red to renounce our great happiness
rather than see our inner life blazoned
to the world.
Il feared the publication OF the let
ters on account of the society we fire.
luented. We had many friends, espe-
cially among the embassies, and in
those circles people wished to humiliate
and cast didicule upon my husband by
the publication Of two letters addressed
to two different women, signed Thy
Joe They wished to throw contempt
upon the head of a minister of the re-
public, the chief of the radical party.
and strike through him, the republic.
Finally, ] did not wish to blush be-
'ore my daughter; that is one thing a
must not be asked to do. /
ieeply regret the present misfortune
md I would have undergone anything
n the world rather than have been the
,ause of it,"
Her impassioned peroration was ac-
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