CAILLAUX TRIAL

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 25, 29 July 1914, Page 8

CAILLAUX TRIAL

- ADDRESS BY PROSECUTING COUNSEL. . THE INTIMATE XETTERS. ' (By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright) (Received July 29, 2 p.m.) ' ' PARIS, 28th July. At the trial of Madame Caillaux for the murder of M. Calmette, editor of the Figaro, the counsel for the Calmette family, M. Chenu, said that Madame Caillaux feared the fabre report, not the publication of her intimate letters. He emphasised her calmness on the day of the murder and contrasted her repeated faintings with her coolness in the presence of the body of the man she shot. ,The crime was undoubtedly'premeditated.[A message published on the preceding page states that Madame Caillaux was acquitted.] . > - COLLISION IN MID-OCEAN MISHAP 'OCCURS DURING "A FOG. „.„...,... .NO PARTICULARS.. - 3y Telfgraph.— Press Association.— Copyright.) ... -c v... . Y<)R £. gf^j^ ; News comes by wireless of a collision in mid-ocean between the Red Star liner. Zealand, -11,005 tons, andj-the'-Northern Michigan Transportation Company's Missouri, 2434 tons. ' The mishap occurred during a- fog, and 'the 'Zealand was Slightly damaged, but was able to proceed to London., The /extent &i the -Missouri's damage is un-< known. N.S.W. BUTTER YEAR?S.. EXPORTS. (By Telegraph^PreßS Association,— Copyright,) (Received July 29, 40.25' fwm.) SYDNEY, This Day. The^ yearns- butter -exports, totalled 65,321,0691b, valued . at £3,136,146, a ■"decreasEf of j 192 tops; valued at £148,016. TRIAL OF WILMART *• • ' HEAVY' SENTENCE. ' * _^_ ' i (By Telegraph.— Press Association,— Copyright.) (Pieceived July 29, 2 p.m.) BRUSSELS, 28th July. The trial Of Nestor Wilniart, manage* of the Ghent-Terneu2ien, Railway, who absconded in October, 1912, after ten years of ffatld. inVolvihg huge surrts, haS concluded, - "WilmiU't' was sentenced to ten years', .imprisonment, and fined £4000. His six confederates were sen* tenced to from three to seven years' impuisoament. • > . . , , * [ vVilmart was arrested at Rheims in March oftest year. He was accused of having^ sold blocks of shares in the Crhent-Terneu!Sen*ita.ilw»y several times over, and '£d",'< hav"e.^issued bogus share certificates; '^Hrjj'&r algd alleged to have perpetrated* •forgeries 'extending over a period of ten years. ' A ' stockbroker and ' his wife who lOstf £28,000 in consequence of Wilmart's operations committed suicid'ei Sixty-one thousand forged bonds ''were traced, on 'which Wilmart and his 'Confederates, borrowed twenty million franca, "flic accused hoped to make re- * dress out o£ the 'profits of the. salo of . the Terneuzien Rajlvvay' to the Belgian Government.]