Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-07-21
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N CA|lAUX Trial
FRENCH IMMORTAL IS CALLED
TO STAND BY PROS.
EcurioN.
DEFENSE SCORES WHEN
souRcET NOVEL IS QUOTED
Writings Of Witness in contradict'o"
with Sentiment Expressed at Trial
Madam cai,Iaux Shows Creator
composurs But Effect Of Nervous
Strain 10 Visible.

ing preparing Tor the Secono uay
hearing of the charge against her OF
the wilful murder, on March l6. OF
CASTOR Calmette, editor Of the Figaro.
The wife OF the former premier ana
minister Of finance took an early break
fast, and before o'clock was waiting
for her husband who, however. did not
call at the prison Of Conemergerie till
between 3 and 10 o'clock. The prisoner
and her husband conferred for half an
hour, and afterward she iunched.
II feel better than did yesterday"
Madame Caillaux said to the solicitous
prison warden, when he inquired today
about her health.
The prisoner had previously looked
thru mass Of morning papers and had
found that generally she had been
treated sympathetically. The steno-
graphic report Of her testimony filled
sixteen columns in some Of the news
papers, and besides there were many
appreciatipns of her dexterous arrange
ment Of facts and of the feeling she
had put into her description of her
agony.
Prisoner 10 More at Ease.
The court was q little late in assem-
blying today. and Madame Caillaux
talked over her case with Fernand
Labori, her advocate, in a private wait
ing room. After Judge Louis Albanel
and his associates had taken their
places on the bench. Madamoiselle Call
laux entered the prisoners enclosure
with an air of making herself at home.
She was dressed as on the first day of
the trial. She took on her coat and
looked quietly around the crowded
court. Dark circles under her eyes and
her quick. nervOussgeStures seemed to
betray the strain she 10 undergoing.
Joseph Caillaux. the prisoners hus-
band, then entered the court and took
his places among the witnesses. He was
accompanied by two detectives. owing
to the fact that q group of bystanders
had hooted him and shouted insults at
him as he left the prison after visiting
his wife.
Two Office boys from the Figaro were
the first witnesses. They described the
arrival Of Madamoiselle Caillaux at the
Offices OF the Figaro on the day of the
crime. They told how she waited and
gave details of her entrance into the
room occupied by CASTOR Calmette, and
OF their hearing shots. One Of the boys,
Adrien Meet, crouched down on the
witness stand, and uttered series Of
low cries to show how he had found
Calmette, who was sheltering himself
behind his desk.
Paul eourgst Among Witnesses.
Paul Bourget, 'the immortal" who
was with Calmette in his Office at the
moment when Madamoiselle Caillaux's
card was brought in. then told of the
incident.
"'You will not see her. said"
"I can not refuse to receive a wo.
man. he replied"
Maitre Labori then thrilled the over
crowded court room by reading dialog
from Bourgeois novel, "The Demon of
the Midi" in which the characters dis
cussed and condemned the publication
of the heroine's love letters. Coming
Immediately after Bourgeois eulogy of
CASTOR Calmettes. with which he had
closed his testimony, the reading of
the dialog by Maitre Labori was re-
garded by observing lawyers as a
master stroke.
Maitre Labori's voice was musical
and full of dramatic feeling. When he
had concluded Paul Bourget remarked:
IL terature is not life" He agreed,
however, that private letters ought not
to be published and said he did not be-
lieve Calmette had intended to publish
the Caillaux letters.