THE PARIS TRAGEDY.
AN UNHAPPY MARRIAGE.
(Press Assn. — By Telegraph — Copyright.) PARIS, April 8. M. Caillaux, m th^ course of a day's sensational cross-examination, laid bare the whole of his private life. He said he was married m 1906, and was unhappy from the beginning. After the fall of the Clemenceau Ministry discord was acute. His wife stole three letters to his present wife, who was lately divorced from M. Claretie. One letter was that which M. Calmette published, signed "Yours, Jo."' Another consisted of sixteen pages. M. Caillaux explained that for private and political reasons he was unable to divorce his wife. When he discovered the theft he offered hia wife a divorce or reconciliation on condition that she (restored the letters. She chose reconciliation, and the letters were burned m his presence. His wife solemnly declared that she had no copies. AfW- the divorce he learned that this was untrue, and that the letters were .going to be published.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 13352, 9 April 1914, Page 3
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