DEATH OF M. CALMETTE.

Mataura Ensign, 21 July 1914, Page 5

DEATH OF M. CALMETTE.

ACCUSED'S QUARTERS CHANCED. BT M.SCTRIO TKLIOKAPn COPTRIOHT PKB UNITED I'BKSS ASSOCIATION PARIS. July 20. Madame" Caillaux has been transferred to the Coaciergerie and quartered near" Mario Antoinette's dungeon. She is conveyed to the courtroom daily hy a subterranean paf-sace. It has now been decided to admit, a few privileged women To. the trial behind an' iron railing and out Of sight of the.prisoner. v MADAME CIVES EVIDENCE. . "SHE LOST HF.R. HEAD." • - - Received July 21, 11.20 a.m. PARTS. July 2ft. Intense interest is being taken in the trial. iYf. Libori (who has taken part in many famous eases)' is defending. Madame Caillaux gave evidence throughout the day in practically a long discursive speech, the president being ahnct unable to ark a question. She described how she and her husband oxpected other loiters after the publication- of the "Thy Jo" letter. She TS.nt'd then ho the object of innuendoes in society, and suffered so muck that slie lost .her head. She did not want to kill if. Calmette, lv.it to give him a lorson. "If I had not gore mv. husTyuid wolild, as the day before lie threatened to break Calmette's head. Aril went a voire seemed to tell me to ttJpg; a. revolver." She added, "Mop'nror President, you cannot realise how terrible revolver,", are. They go off without being pressed."