The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1898-02-09
WANTS JUSTICE. NOT LAW
Zo|Q D}nQndS Ine Some TIeQInenI
QS The ASSASSIN or 1hIe[.
INDIGNANT PROTEST TO THE COURT
Trial Of tho Novelist Attended by
Great Eacitcmcnt-X XnIn barely Es>
cnPes Rough Handling by tho Mob
-Pericr Says II Is Not Eais DUTY to
Toll the Truth.
INDIGNANT PROTEST TO THE COURT
paris. Feh- s. $50

paris, Feb s, 1898.
When the trial of Nj. Emile Zola and
NJ PerrieuX, manager OF the Aurore.
growing out of the formers denunca-
ton OF the EstcrhaZy court martial In
letter to the newspaper mentioned,
was resumed in the Assizcs Court or
the Seine To-day, Scenes similar 10
those of yesterday morning were Wit
messed.
When the court opened there was a
teFriNc struggle TO enter, people fight
ing their way with blows and kicks
toward the court room. The entrances
OF NJ Iola was the signal for nm ont
nurst, during which the few cries of
wye Zola were drowned by shouts of
y pas Hola." When the Judge enter
ed the scene was 50 aum,1ltuous thnt
he directed the municipal guards IN
force the crowds from ,Ihe doors onl
10 remove some Of the people from thn
oVer-crowded halls
rhe court admitted the claims Of tbo
detense and decided that General Ntor-
cier, the former Minister of War. and
MAJOR Paty du Clam should be re-
summoned. The court also dnctdnd
that the other witnesses alleged 70 ho
III should be visited by doctor, and
mat II found able to appcar they
should be resunmoned.
"lauame Dreyfus was the first Wit
ness To-day. NJ. LaborIe, who examin-
ed her, asked what She thought of NJ
Holas good faith and whether she could
say under what circumstances shn
was Informed by Major Patty du Clam
IN 1881. of her husbands arrest The
Juage declined to put the last question
~. Ao4a here rose and cried: "I de-
sire the same treatment as the assassIn
or the thief They have always tho
rlsht TO defend themselves, but I am
,ueprNeo or this. 1 am Knocked and
insured In the streets, and tho OH
scene press drag me in the mud Ynu
see. gentlemen of the jury, the posi-
lion am in. l wish to have nv wit.
hesSes heard, but I am prevented"
Sut do you not know the law" the
Judge asked Zola.
NO, do not know and l do not
want TO KNOW" was Zoln's reply.
After n long and heated nrrn,,on.
the court decided that no onestion
NOT contained In the indictment, could
be allowed.
NJ lie Blois, lawyer and 4. witness
LOT the defendants. testified that he
ana colonel Picquart were old fr,ends,
ana had studied together. consequent
~ wnen Picquart was connected with
the war Intelligence Department. he
.o1.suiteo ,,oa,.. tne witness on certain grave
matters he had uncarthed In connec
ton with the carrier pigeon afroir nj
Nancy, and i'm regard to which he had
received menacng letters. When
aoupts on the Dreyfus matter arose NJ
ocheurer-kcstner questioned the wifi
ness on the foregoing matter. and the
witness gave him certain information
ihciuuihg letters which General Gonz
wrote TO Picquart, which convinced N
Scheurer-Kestner of the Innocence nc
brey1us The witness urged NJ. Scheu-
fer-Kestner TO apply to the Minister or
Justice to annul the Dreyfus Judgment
In view of the secret document sub-
m1tted to n court martial, but as he
was lacking in material proofs, NJ,
scheurer-kestner had not acted i'm
| mediately.
NJ Scheurcr-Kestner who was ncxt
| examined, said he learned last July
| mat colonel Picquart had discovered
| that the bordereau had not been writ
ten by Dreyfus and he submitted
| Major Esterhazy's handwriting to NJ.
hertlllon. who agreed that 1t was in
| the same hand as the bordereau wit
ness suggested to General Gonz that a
| fresh expert examination be made. but
~ General dissuaded him from so
doing. %
! VI. Scheurer-Kestner sketched the
| contents of the letters in which Col.
| Plcquart wrote that fresh facts had
been discovered which would be "eap-
| criy seized upon by the Dreyfusians.
who would create a great scandal -
General Gonz replied that "it was too
late to stop the matter now."Col. Pic
quart. in another letter according IN
the witness. urged that the whole affair
| be exposed, or there would be a scan
| dal
Continuing. the witness said: II went
to General Billot the minister for wary
| and told him what knew, I offered
to communicate General GonZ's letters.
but he refused. Then it was agreed
that the Interview should not be divulg
ed. Nevertheless the government news
papers published an account of It. / had
interviews with the premier (M. Meline)
and told him everything knew"
NJ Scheurer-Kcstner further said that
he ne"er mentioned the name Of Ester
hazy, except to the government. But,
some time later, Matthew Dreyfus,
tbrother of Alfred Dreyfus) came to him
and declared that he also had discoy-
cred that NsterhaZy was the author OF
the bordereau, whereupon the witness
| told Matthew Dreyfus to write to the
Minister OF War. which he did, de-
Eouncing Es:erhazy.
There was much stir In court when it
was announced that NJ. Casimir-Perier
the former president of the French re-
public. would be the next witness.
When he was called the presidine o