THE CAILLAUX INQUIRY.

Manawatu Times, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 12752, 26 March 1914, Page 5

THE CAILLAUX INQUIRY.

Press Association. —By Telegraph, ciation —Copyright. • PARIS, March 24. At the enquiry Princess Mesagne Estredert, a contributor to the Figaro, gave evidence that when Madame Caillaux was Madame Dupree three letters were destroyed. Madame Dupree, however, kept photographs of them, and when M. Calmette heard it he offered 20,000 francs for the photographs, whieh was declined. When the letter signed by "Jo" was published in the Figaro Madame Dupree was justified in supposing thst the two others were in M. Calmett' 's possession. Isidore de Lara, the well-known eomposer, and Madame Chartran, the painter's widow / confirmed the Princess's evidence. Received 10.35 p.m. PARIS, March 25. Madame Caillaux interrogated said at lunch on the day of the murder) her husband was exasperated on hearing a judicial opinion that there were no legal means of stopping the Figaro's attacks. He said, "I'll smash his mug." Her husband's words frightened her and anally she was worked up to sueh a state that she decided to see M. Calmette fearing her husband would kill him, in which case she would be the cause, as she was the author of the letters, the publication of which she feared. At 3.30 she went to a gunsmith and purchased a Browning revolver. She tested it on the spot. She said she shot M. Calmttte in a moment of mental aberration. She reiterated that she bought the revolver as a precaution gainst electioneering journeys.