New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-09-26
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ESTERHlZY'S CONFESSION.
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,,r s,vs HE FORGED THE BoRDEREAo'
AND TT ALONE CONVICTED DREffo'
,,sor Sent % THE Observer THIS morn
too o,o,es Count Esterhazy as saying 'ha' n'
,,.ns Tho author OF the famous Dreyfus oofoe.
$3.50, ,,hich no wrote lat the request OF Coio"s'
sandherr. now dead
r, uos intended" he said. Ito constitute 'h.'
,or,a, ,,roof Of Dreyfus's guilt. 1t was khomA
,,ro,oh a French SOY in the service al perm"
,ho, certain documents had reached the "e.
80, General staff which Dreyfus alone cou's
,ayo obtained II was list OF these oo'u'
,,o,,s which constituted the bordereau
"Drevfus had been tested in several way
For instance. plan for the concentration u
,roons on the Southeastern frontier hao oe'.
a,c,ated 10 him which was quite fan'asoc' a
short time afterward our spies In ltaiy ihiorn'e"
rs that the Italian staff was making mounts.
,ions I'm the Notifications around Nice WHY"
corresponded to the changes ennounoeo III '"'
imaginary scheme dictated TO Dreyfus'
..rhen Dreyfus managed TO spend long ho''-
davs In Alsace without being apparently iou"u
ont by the German authorities-a very SUB
n,cious sign for IL was almost imPoss'
= French officer 70 remain for any length Oh
time in the conquered provinces withou, oe,nS
found ont In fact there was consioerao'e
,,oral nroof against Dreyfus before the tria'
took place but no material PROOF
.coIo,el Sandherr who was an Alsatan' IKE
nravfus but intensely ant-Semitic, determiieu
IN forge this proof. He was convinced OF inc
accused mans guilt. hut 1t was necessary '0'
rho purposes OF the court martial tha' uoeu'
ments should exist. l was attached 70 the Az
telligence Department. my duty being 10 "aN.
the movements OF military attaches ace'eue~
bv the Powers OF the Triple Alliance ""e"
Colonel Sandherr told me 10 write out inc wv
dereau | did so without the slightest compu"e
ton. am one Of those men who soiu'e' "
profession. cling to old medieval tradi''o"' ',
military discipline When l received an ORDER
| obeyed it implicitly and without Question
wrote the bordereau because Colonel sandher
told me 70 do so. knew, Of course the pu'''
noses II was intended 10 serve; knew "as
committing forgery; but also Kne" '"a' a
intelligence departments in all countries "e''
run on precisely the same lines, ana Una.
was impossible to achieve results In any othe'
way. T.. ....anc.
I'm the case OF Won Tausch. FOR lnstanev'
which made 80 great sensation IN ues,,a a,;,
Major Won Tausch confessed 10 having .o .h;n.
ted forgery adding that that crime was ho'nnS
TO the infamies the Berlin staff had forceu M.
to commit in connection with other ha' 80
Therefore, the Court attempted 10 siehNe n.@
ment prescribed, and has since Deen reIeas "s
long before his time 1t is nearly Always 80.
sary to manufacture material evidence asa'nss
spies because otherwise they wouid never Nv
punished. ,.. 4, he.
The bordereau having been written IL ~ Al,
came necessary 10 give II the indispeisa, :. was
OF an authentic document as you Kno" ~ 80
supposed to have been stolen from tne G. Car
Embassy Colonel Schwarzkoppen tlorHs'H ~
man military attache in Paris) denied eve. eve, Una
ing seen 1t. What he said was perIeSu' our
The bordereau was handed by an ageh' y, ,hs
Intelligence Department 70 the porter ~.
German Embassy. who was spy IN our sea Ee-
The porter gave il to another agent na" IN,elli-
nest and by him IL was brought 10 'le rum.
gence Department, and there docketeu any Sa,man
bered as a document obtained from the ca,vs6
Embassy In the usual course. IL thus
official baptism ,,o,.s ~ the
1T was exclusively upon the evioen.a The
bordereau that Dreyfus was condenii'Te -
letter containing the phrase canaie us ~ Colo
which is genuine and was really writtrn =, a,
mel Schwarzkoppen did not refer 10 D, o,ars NJ
all The general staff was absolute! ,ema,,
the fact that D was certain ps. -
building contractor. who years before ma" ~ 80
piled the German attache with plans vi VIC i''
tincations near Nice" ,,s, him
The Count added that the case agahs. III"
was auashed in defiance OF all law anu Jus' ~.
He said the yelled LAZY who appeared ~, M w.,
case was no other than the wife or Coiohei D~
Patty de Clam.