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BS7ERHAZY'S IUFAMY.
Dreyfns May Not Be Inno-
cent, But the Count Is
Certainly a Villain.
THE "FIGARo's" REVELATIONS
Strange Reluctance of the French
Military Authorities to Bring
Out the Truth.
THE "FIGARO's' REVELATIONS

[By Cable to The Associated Press.1
PARIS, Dec. l, 1S97.-Major Count Fer
dinand Walsin Esterhazy, the retired
French army officer who is charged with
having written the letter which led to the
Imprisonment on Devils Island of Alfred
Dreyfus, the former Captain of French
Artillery, who was convicted by court
martial of selling military secrets to the
agents of a foreign power, is said today
to have acknowledged the authenticity Of
the letters recently published by the
Figaro with the exception of the one
in which the Count is said to have ex-
pressed the following sentiments
IF tonight I were told that I should
be killed tomorrow as Captain of
Uhlans, while sabring Frenchmen, /
should certainly be perfectly happy.
would not harm a dog, but 1 would see
a hundred thousand Frenchmen killed
with pleasure
1t is understood that the report of Cen
eral Pallieux, who was appointed by the
Military Governor of Paris, General Saus-
! sier, to investigate the charges brought
against Count Esterhazy. states that he,
the General, is satisfied as to the guilt
OF Dreyfus. But there is general indigna-
tion here at General Pellieux's statement
that he has not inquired into the pos
sibility of Esterhazy having written the
memorandum upon which Dreyfus was
convicted, which is one of the charges
brought against the Count, the General
simply remarking that he considers the
court-martial definitely settled that point.
The Figaro" caused a sensation on
Sunday last by publishing several letters.
purporting to have been written by Count
Esterhazy, who is alleged to have been
the author of the unsigned letter which
led to the sentencing of Alfred Dreyfus
to Imprisonment for life. In one of these
letters, after expressing his intention to
enter the Turkish service, the Count Is
represented as saying:-'I shall not leave
without playing trick of my own on
these amiable Frenchmen'
Others extracts from the letters pub
lished read
"our cowardly and ignorant great
chiefs will once more people German pris-
ons."
81 am capable of great things or crimes
if that could avenge me-"
'F'renehmen are not worthy of the
| cartridges intended to kill them.''
In another of the letters published the
Count depicts dream of festivity," in
the shape of the pillage of Paris by a hum
ufeu thousand drunken SOlulerS.
Referring to a certain actress the Count
is said to have written
I am quite at the mercy of this
drolesse, if 1 make the slightest mistake
toward her. l wish I was in Siam and
could make her follow me there. One of
my spahis' carbines going off, as if by
accident, would cure her forever,
When interviewed by reporters as to
the publications in the Figaro" of the
letters said to have been written by him,
Count Esterhazy was very indignant and
declared they were forged by the friends
of Dreyfus, who, he said. had taken words
and sentences from his letters and had
pieced them together by a process with
which he was acquainted. The Count also
said that he had been warned some days
previously that snch a publication would
be made.
Countess Esterhazy, wife of the ac-
cused Count, has written a letter to the
Figaro" upbraiding that paper for lay
ing bare the recesseS and human weak
nesses' of her husbands private life,
regardless of the fact that it may break
a wifes and a mothers heart"
The Countess in conclusion wrote to the
'.Figaro" -
An this is my concern alone; but, con-
fident that my husbands honor will
emerge intact, l forgive and forget all'