Front matter
Reading edition
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THE CAILLAUX DRAMA
Waiting.
THE CAILLAUX DRAMA
BY
JOHN N. RAPHAEL
LONDON: MAX GOSCHEN LTD. 20 GREAT RUSSELL STREET W.C.
MCMXIV
TO MY MOTHER
CONTENTS
Chap. Page
I The Story of the Drama 1
II Cell No. 12 44
III The Crime and the Public 64
IV Monsieur Caillaux’s Examination 87
V The Campaign of the “Figaro” 102
VI Calmette v. Caillaux 114
VII The “Ton Jo” Letter 143
VIII Agadir 150
IX L’Affaire Rochette 179
X “The Truth, The Whole Truth ...” 230
XI About French Politics 251
XII Before the Last Act of the Drama 267
Index 307
ILLUSTRATIONS
“Waiting” Frontispiece
Offices of “Le Figaro” on the Evening of the Murder 4
Gaston Calmette in his Office at the “Figaro” 4
M. Boucard (the Examining Magistrate) and the Doctors leaving the Private Hospital where M. Calmette died 8
M. Victor Fabre, the Procureur Général 36
The Funeral of M. Calmette 40
The Brothers, Sons and Relatives of M. Calmette at the Funeral 42
Mme. Caillaux (and Detective) on her way to the Law Courts to be examined 44
SŒur Leonide 47
The Corridor Outside the Pistoles 49
“Jeanne,” the “Soubrette” of Pistole No. 12 51
The Lorry which Paris Journalists thought was full of Mme. Caillaux’s Furniture 54
La Cour Des Filles in Saint Lazare 54
Madame Caillaux’s Cell exactly as it is 62
Monsieur Caillaux in his office at the Ministère des Finances 68
President Poincaré gives Evidence on Oath in the Caillaux Drama before the President of the Appeal Court, who waited on Him for this purpose at the Elysée 80
Monsieur Caillaux leaving the Law Courts 86
M. Privat-Deschanel who witnessed the Destruction of the Letters by Mme. Gueydan-Caillaux 92
M. Barthou mounting the stairs of the Law Courts on his way to give Evidence in the Caillaux Case 99
Monsieur Caillaux’s Friend, M. Ceccaldi 127
The “Ton Jo” Letter from the “Figaro” 144
Rochette in Court 186
Monsieur Barthou 242
Mme. Caillaux in the dress she was to wear at the Italian Embassy on the Evening of the Murder 279
M. Joseph Caillaux 288