The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1898-02-19
GREAT UPROAR IN COURT
DISASTER THREATENS FRANCE.
The Trial of lola Brings Forth
striking DeveIopments-rhe Gar
rison of Paris Has Been Rein
forced-The Republic ImperiIcd
by the Recent Disclosures.

Paris, Feb. l5.--When the trial of lola
and Perrieux was resumed yesterday,
Jeuris, the socialist member of the cham
Der of deputies, was recalled. He reiter-
ated his belief in the culpa bility of Ester
hazy.
The examination of NJ. Bertilon, the
handwriting expert, was then resumed.
He said he thought it impossible to ask
the minister of war for the discriminating
documents seized at the residence of Drev-
fus in 1894.
Laborie, counsel for lola, thereupon
protested, and twitted Bertilon with be-
ing unwilling to testify in court while
giving interviews to newspapers. Bertil.
lon said the interviews Were false Being
pressed by Laborie how, unless he had
seen the secret documents, he was able
to prove at the court-maltial that Drey-
fus wrote Bordereau, BertillOn answered
that he could not explain without the
documents which were no longer in his
possession.
This statement caused sensa ton in
court, and Laborie demanded that the adj
vocate general compel the witness to re-
ply. The advocate general made no an
swer Finally Bertillon, who persisted in
not answering questions, left the witness
stand amidst considerable uproar, Laborie
remarking, "And that is the man upon
whose evidence Dreyfus was convicted"
The garrison of Paris has been rein
forced by troops from Versailles.
Disaster Threatens.
New York, Feb. ia dispatch to the
Herald from Paris says:
What will be the upshot of the whole
business is u question chat may be asked
with some profit at this juncture of the
lola trial. Gravest anxiety obtains and
the Gaulois goes so far as to complain,
editorially, that anarchy prevails in the
army, in the law and in the street." and
calls upon Nj. Felix Faure to exercise his
constitutional power and put stop to
this state of things.
Following are the views of well-known
Partisan journalists, experienced in read
ing the signs of their times
CASTOR Calmette of the Figaro said:
"A fault has been committed fault
which should be attributed to the court
of affairs rather than to the men who
have brought about this campaign of re
vision. The proper position to take is q
strictly legal one, and to ask but one
question in the parliament, which com
bined against Dreyfus without his knowl
edge, to the court martial. If he has beer
convicted in connection with a documen
+ which he knows nothing about and o
t.vl,,a h = 10,
the law, no matter what was the faul
of Dreyfus, has been violated and tn
matter should be revised. The who'll
: question is wrapped up in that. Ever,
one could associate himself with the cam
paign, so far as justice is concerned, blu
no one could do so properly before tn
revision takes place, nor with certaint
have set in motion the question of tn
o innocence of Dreyfus. If the matter ha
been viewed in this light France woul
q have avoided one of the most terribl
p crises she has undergone since 1870.
q speak of the republic, and this is the frs
n danger to the republic which can involv
such inealculable consequences. | refe
e to the danger of the antagonism nov
o springing into existence between the il
4 dicial system and the army, between tn
@ gown and the sword, the antagonism be
5 tween the political world and our arm
n staff"
lola VIII he Convicted.
l. Henri Rochefort said: Cola will
convicted. There is so great pressure {
public opinion acting on the jury that on
can not expect anything but conviction
On the other hand, lola does not seem
+ me to be we'll defended. and his couns,
seems to be dragging the affair out a
long as possible. / do not think lola wi
n go to prison, nor do l think he will
Y obliged to pay a fine. After the trial
l. over its conclusions will be considered b
the court of cessation; but supposin
l. lola is acquitted, he will not be able [