Las Vegas optic. (East Las Vegas, N.M.) 1908-1921, 1914-07-20
FIGARO IN BITTER 0UTRURsT
cAi-METTE's HONOR is WROUGHT
IN MARBLE, SAYS FRENCH POI
LiTlcAL PAPER
DEFENDANT PlTIFULLY SHAKEN
WEEPs AND LOOKS FOR KINDLY
FACE WHEN "WILFuL MUIR.
DER" IS MENTIONED c

Paris, July 20.--Tne thoughts of all
Parisians today were occupied solely
by the opening of the trial of Madame
Caillaux for the murder on March 16
of CASTOR Calmette, editor of the Fig
aro. Proceedings s,arted at noon in
the Palace of Justice, with Judge
Louis Albanel acting as president of the
court. The dramatic setting of the af-
fair, involving political intrigues, in
which the prisoners husband, a for
mer French premier and minister of
Just to the taste of the French public
Added to this was the rumored threat
of royalist hot heads to create a dis
turbance during the trial and the ex-
tensive preparations taken by the gov
ernment to prevent an outbreak.
Leading from the PaIace of Justice,
crowds. defying the drizzling rain, had
assembled in the vicinity and special
forces of police were called out to
keep them in order
From an early hour long lines FORM
ed in Place Dauphine and the Boule-
ward 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.
Madame Caillaux had been conduct
ed from the prison of the conciergerie
to the court by a secret passage, so
that those outside had no opportunity
of cheering or Kissing her. The other
leading figures in the case, however.
were objects Of demonstrations.
Among them were the procurator gen
eral Jules Herbaux, in charge of the
prosecution, and Fernand LaBori, the
famous advocate, whose face is known
to every one owing to his connection
with the Dreyfus trial.
The Figaro today came out with
a violently worded article on the open
ing of the trial from the pen of Alfred
Capus, the recently chosen academi-
clan or Immortal, who now occupies
the editorial chair formerly held by
Cslmette. In it's he declares.
"Th6barty which assassinated Cal
mette 7swgoing to do its best to defile
his memory for which purpose it has
stopped at nothing and has not
scrupled to violate condolences, thus
giving a foretaste of what is in store"
The article concludes: yAQ9ldy
slrThose who have slain him from
behind would like to transform him
into a man involved in shady finance
"a pirate. Caillaux, go on-do not
put yourself out, You have well-sharp-
ened teeth, heavy jaw, an appetite
excited by the smellypf blood; but the
honor of Calmette is wrought in mar
BILE. You will not bite into it."
AS soon as the jurors who had been
drawn by lot in private room, and
the four judges composing the court
had taken their places, President Al
banel called out loudly:
Bring in the accused"
Republican guards then opened a
small door in the wall of the court
room beneath the bust of the Goddess
Of Liberty and Nine. Calllaux stepped
into the tribunal
The strong light from the windows
opposite 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 her hesitate on the thres-
hold and reach out unsteadily to catch
the arm of the republican guard
standing at her right. They spoke a
word to her and she entered the pris-
oner's enclosure directly in front OF
her.
Madame CaiIIaux there stood with