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'OF DREYFUS CASE
A Chief Witness Admits FORGERY
and Kills Himself.
FRANCE is AROUSED AGAIN
Col. Henry's Confession and Death
Soon After-A Resignation-Ester
hazy-To Be Rehearing.
FRANCE is AROUSED AGAIN
FoRGER AND SUICIDE.

NEW YORK. Aug. 31.-A Sun cable
| from Paris says: A day of anguish to
| the vast majority of Frenchmen, ended
| today in indescribabIe emotion, caused by
the news that the author of the army 5
| latest disgrace had committed suicide in
| the cell he occupied in the fort at Mont
| Nalerian. Col Henry, who was arrested
yesterday on a charge of having forged
| a letter that had an important bearing on
! the Dreyfus case, was found lying in a
pool of blood, having cut his throat with
| a razor he had taken to prison with him
| in bag containing clothing. His con-
| fession of the forgery was Immediately
! reported to Cavaignac Minister of War
1t is a bare. terrible fact, that an Off
| Ger, holding one of the most responsible
| and most delicate positions in the French
army, head of the department concerned
in procuring secret information, should
have stopped to forgery in the pursuit of
an obscure, underhand plan, that fills
Frenchmen with despair of whom to
trust, whom to believe among all officers
concerned in the trial of Dreyfus For
the moment, anti-Dreyfusftes and Drey-
fuSiteS among tho Partisan public main
tain their previous contentious more We
hemently than ever. The former are now
cursing both Col. Henry and Dreyfus. but
y
tions are working momentous changes
There is authority for stating that Ca
Valgnac has decided to grant a revision
OF DreyfuS' sentence. True, he maintains
that Col. Henry's forgery does not affect
the proofs of Dreyfus' treason, but his
speech in the Chamber of Deputies, which
was rapturOusly applauded and placaTded
throughout France. in which he pro-
claimed his possession of proofs of trea-
son, was based on Henry's forgery.
What HenrY's motives were can only be
HeVed to have been that. being sure Of
Dreyfus guilt and determined not to pub
trial, he invented his forged letter to cut
short the agitation for the revision OF
Dreyfus sentence of life Imprisonment.
THE MOTIVE.
PARIS. August 31.-During the late Zola
trial Col. Henry accused Col. Picquart Of
faIsifying kilograms. A duel followed in
which Henry was wounded. The next
scene occurred in the Chamber of Dep
uties. where Col. Picquart proclaimed the
letter q forgery. and as q result was ar
rested. while Henry's viIIainy was re-
Warded by his being appointed Col. Pic
quarts successor in the intelligence de-
partment.
1t is now evident that Henry forged the
letter with the express object of paralYz-
ing Col. Picquarts efforts to expose Major |
Esterhazy. and to. get a revision Of the |
bad French, a fact which first led it to be |
regarded as spurious.
SUPERIOR RESIGNS.
PARIS. Aug. 31.-10 p. m.-Gen. Ie AIou- |
ton de BOisdeffre, Chief of the General |
Staff of the French Army, has rendered |
his resignation to the Government
Gen. de BOisdeffre, in his letter Of res !
ignatiOn, explains that he resigned owing
to his misplaced confidence in Lieut.. Col.
Henry, which led him to present as genu-
inc what was forged evidence
NJ. Cavaignac the Minister of War in |
reply, asked Gen. Boisdeffre to remain ito
see justice rendered in the matter
CAVAIGNAC MAY RESIGN.
PARIS, Aug 31.-It is said that if the |
Cabinet decides upon a revision of the /
Dreyfus case, NJ. CaVaignas, Minister Of |
War, will resign.
DREYFUS REVISION INEVITABLE.
LONDON, Aug. 31.-AH the newspaper |
in London, Berlin, Vienna and |
elsewhere regard a revision Of the Drey- |
fus case as now inevitable