The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-21

poste seemed to startle the accused wom- Tan or perhaps it was the silence m the 1 courtroom, and the many faces turned l toward her that made her hesitate on 1 the threshold and reach unsteadily to catch the arm of the republican guard standing at her right side. 1 He spoke to her and she entered the 1 prisoners enclosure. l Madame Callaux stood with her eyes downcast and her shoulders bent, tired 1 looking figure in black.
 One moment later Judge Albanel asked | her name.
 1 Madame Cailaux arose and her lips | moved. The words "Genevive Caillaux could scarcely be heard. l The judge reminded Madame Caillaux that at her examination she had referred | to the Thy Joe letter as one of three forming a sort of ;rioloey.
 "I shall be obliged" the prisoner an swered, Ito bring into the case my hus- bands first wife. I am forced to re call the fact that Madame Gueydan her l self told my husband that she had pur- | Joined those three letters and that she 1 h tended to make use of them against l him, and against me, and even to com nunicate them to my daughter and to my l family"
 l M Albanel, judge. questioned the pris- orer She said she was born october 6 l 1874
 During your examination by the mag istrate you gave some information about your past life; do you wish to recall for I the jury what you said then?' the judge 1 asked.
 The prisoner made long version, re- ferring frequently Q memoranda. tier voice was firm.
 'I was married at l9 to NJ Leo Clare | tie she declared. I've had two daugh- | ters
 One of them died when only six months of age. The other :s now 10. A di- sorce was granted in April, 1sos in my favor and the guardianship of our daugh- l ter was given to me. | Madame Cailaux spoke of her marriage to M. CaillaLx with pride. 1 She contnusd
 M Caillaux was premior and in mar rying him I found complete happiness. thought all would be happy but alas. my | life began to be poisoned by calumnles. | The campaign of the Figaro against my husband began. All the people in the saloons that l frequented received mo with smiles that were intended to wound | me. One person said that my husband had taken money from Germany to cede 1 the Congo.
 These slanderous rumors penetrated every part of society. l was no longer able to go to sittings of the Chamber of | Deputies because l was the object of
 
 day there was q cry behind me TO Der l lin, 'Caillaux.' Congo.
 'I was forced to leave"
 Painful Incidents l Madame Cailaux added that painful in- | cidents were taking place all the time among her acquaintances when she was shopping and even in her home. | She added The attacks of Tine Figaro were implacable. They had nothing to 1 1p vi nal suffered. I lost my head l Madame Caillauxs voice sank and she seemed greatly moved. The judge waited a moment, and then inquired
 "Why do you say that the poeymic of The Figaro had nothing to. do with pol | itics?"
 1 The prisoner raised her clenched hands and said passionately, T will tell you why"
 She then searched among her memo randa and began to read passages from 1 The Figaro articles. These" she shouted, ''are some among the 13S articles published against my hus- band These criticisms are not attacks upon his policies but upon him. No one | could be mistaken"
 Several times the prisoner asked the presiding judge if she could do on.
 Take as much time as you want" replied the court You have the fullest freedom to say anything You like Judge Albanel asked Mime. Caillaux to | give the purport of the letters and to say why she feared to have them pub lished.
 "He said in them" replied the pris- cner, "how happy he was to have met | me, what disappointments he had ex- l perierced and how strongly he desired l to obtain his freedom. He also spoke 1 os is scruples in breaking off connec- | liens which had been source of happi- | ness for him. He told me about the 1 political reasons which had prevented hirl obtaining a divorce six months be- fore the elections. In these letters M. Caillaux spoke to me about myself l '1t is almost impossible to separate tho portions of the letters which were rri, ate from those which were politi- cal M Caillaux explained in the sec- end letter that he had just made an adv. ntageous investment"
 But before the publication of the let ter signed Thy Joe cn March Is. you did not know they were in the hands of <, M. Calmette?" asked the judge.
 Yes. l had every reason to suppose he had them. l repeat we were aware that the Thy Joe letter with two oth- CTS had been offered to certain newspa- pers which had refused them.
 Reality of Fears The mass of horrible things I am re- counting is proof of the reality of my fears All these Nnsinuaticns. all these IT ockeries, these publications of letters and threats of publcation--all these things made me lose my head" The first witness of the day was Louis Carpin. police commissioner. who had iri-