CALMETTE MURDER

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 144360, 26 March 1914, Page 3

CALMETTE MURDER

EVIDENCE OF MADAME CAILLADX. ELECTION DAY FIXED. pr HBCIBIO TELEGRAPH—COPYRIGHT. PARIS, March 25. Madam© Caillaux, interrogated, said that at lunch on the day of the murder her husband was exasperated on hearing of the judicial opinion that there were no legal means of stopping the Figaro’s attacks, and said. “I'il smash his mug.” Her husband’s words frightened her, and finally he was worked up into such a state that shh decided to see Calmette, fearing her husband would kill him, in whicli case she would be the cause, as the author of the letters the publication of which was feared. . , At 3.30 p.tn. she went to a gunsmith and purchased a Browning revolver and tested it on the spot. She shot M. Calmette in a moment of mental aherration. , , , , She reiterated that she bought tho revolver as a precaution against electioneering journeys. Paris is filled with excited political rumours. There is acute tension in the Cabinet, four Ministers being credited with tho intention of resigning. The elections have been fixed for April 26.