MURDER OP M. CALMETTE

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 117, 19 May 1914, Page 7

MURDER OP M. CALMETTE

MADAME CAILLAUX COMMITTED FOR TRIAL. \Zj Telegraph,— Press Assoeiatlon.--Copyri|ht.) PARIS, 18th May. Madame Caillaux, wife of the exMinister for Finance, has been committed for trial on a charge of premeditated homicide of M. Gaston Calmette, editor of the Figaro, in March last. [Madame Caillaux, on the 16th March last fired caveral shots at nnd fatally wounded M. Calmette. It was supposed she was incensed at the Figaro's attacks on her husbandjs policy. It was stated that M. Calmette s animus against M. Caillaux dated from the Moroccan incident 'in 1910, when M. Caillaux was again returned to, office. The Figaro daily attacked him politically and personally, and accused him of bribery, notably,, over the Rochette case in 1910, in which steps were taken by deputies for the production of the Public Prosecutor's confidential report, disclosing M. Cailhvux's action. It was reported that the Figaro intended to reproduce a facsimile of private correspondence between Madame Caillaux and her husband, and it was supposed that this impelled Madame Caillaux to visit M. Calmetter She bought a revolver during the afternoon. As M. Calmette fell he t said : "I only did my duty." M. Caillaux heard the news at the Senate, and hastened to the police station, where his wife told thp story to the magistrate. She was then conveyed to St. Lazare prison. It was reported that M. Caillaux resisted a mob outside the station, who rushed at him shouting : "Down with the assassin !" Crowds during the evening piomenaded the boulevards, shouting: "Down with Caillaux !" The Fiargo, in its leading article on 23rd March, denied indignantly the truth of the suggestion which had been made in defence of Mme. Caillaux that it was going to publish certain confidential letters addressed by M. Caillaux to _ her, It has been said that Mme. Caillaux overheard in a drawing-room some wouls which gave her good reason to believe this.]