The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-12-02
THE AGITATION IN THE DREYFUs
CASE IN PARIS BREAKS
OUT ANEW.
c0MTE ESTERHA.Y IN TROUBLE.
Figaro Publishes Letters Purport-
Ing to Have Been Written by
the Compile, Containing
ScurriI0us Passages.

sensation today IN connection with the
Dreyfus affair by publishing several let.
ters purporting to have been written by
Comte Ferdinand Walsin Esterhasy,
who has been accused by NJ. Scheurer-
Kestner one of the vice presidents of the
senate. of being the author of the I'M
signed letter which led to the condemna.
ton of Dreyfus.
In one of them, after expressing his in
tention to enter the Turkish service,
Comte Esterhasy is reported as saying:
Il shall not leave without having
played a trick of my own on those
amiable Freuchmen."
Other passages of the letter follow:
"Our Cowardly and ignorant great
chiefs will 20 once more to people Ger
mar prisons"
81 should be perfectly happy if | were
told l was to be killed tomorrow as Il
captain of uhlaDs saberng Frenchmen.'
Il am capable of great things or crimes
if that could avengn Inc. l would not
harm a little dog. but | would have n
hundred Frcnchmen killed with pleas
ure."
Comte Esterhasy proceeds to say that
"Frenchmen are not worthy of the
cartridges intended to kill Them. and he
conjures up dream of festivity" in
the shade of the pillars of Paris ''by a
hundred thousand drunken soldiers
Interviewed by reporters today as to
the publications in the Figaro of the let
tiers purporting to be of his authorship
Comte Esterhasy displayed great indig-
nation and declared that they were
forged by the friends of Dreyfus, who,
he said, had taken words and sentences
from his speeches.
Shortly after the Figaro appeared the
appointed by Gen. Saussier, the military
governor of Paris, to conduct the investi-
CATION of the charges which have been
brought against him and protested
against what he alleges is fresh
calumny."
A semi-officia note tonight says that
Gen. Pelileux's investigation was almost
finished, but that he was now examining
into the authenticity of the letters, then
he will act with absolute impartality
and see to it that satisfaction is given to
the honor of the army and to justice
and truth.
Gen. Pellieux this afternoon interro-
gated Col. PicQuart, who was summoned
from Tunis in connection with DreytuS
and whose statements were reported to
be the basis of the accusations originally
brought against the Comte Esterhasy,
As cabled to the Associated Press Sat
urday, the Figaro of that day said that
Gen. Pellieux had seized the letters
written by Comte Esterhasy to several
persons. in which the writer had insulted
and violently attacked the heads of the
French army. According to the In,
transgant of Saturday, Col. Picquart had
been sentenced to thirty days detention
in fortress for his reflections on Comte
Esterhasy.
Prior to the Figaro's publication of
the letters referred to in the foregoing
dispatch il was understood in Paris
that the result of Gen. PellieuX's inquiry
would be announced tomorrow CTuesday)
to Gen. Billot. minister of war.
Tomorrow the Figaro will print fac
SMILES of the alleged EsterhaSy letters
and will maintain that they are genuine.
The Echo de Paris will say tomorrow
that Comte Esterhasy is the victim or
the horrible vengeance of the widow OF
former superior officer" The paper as
serts that she sold letter to the Dreyfus
syndicate for 1900 francs. and then
the work of elaboration.
In letter referring to an actress
romte Estcrhasy is represented as writ
ing
II am quite at the mercy of this drolies
'contemptible) creature. if | make the
mistake toward her. | wish
were in Siam and could make her follow
me there One of my spahi's musk.ts
going off. ms if by chance. would cure
her forever