The San Francisco call., 1898-02-10
Violent Affray Follows and One BarriSter Is Put
 Under Arrest.
RELEASED SHORTLY AFTER
Soldiers of France Determined to Tell Nothing to the Detrinent
 of the Army.
Special Dispatch to The Call.


 PARIS. Feb. 9.-In spite of special precautions, there was a repetition of the scenes witnessed yesterday, when the trial of Emile Zola and M. Perieux, who are being prosecuted by the Gov ernment for denouncing the EsterhaZy court-martial, was resumed to-day in the Assize Court of the Seine.
 Over two hundred barristers, in their robes. gathered at the public entrance and indulged in horse play. When the presiding Judge ordered them not to obstruct the passage, the barristers made demonstration against him. Thereupon the commandant of the Re- publican Guards sent a detachment of troops to quell the disturbance.
 The intervention of the military was III received and led to a violent affray. The barristers rushed upon the Guards and struck them. One of the young lawyers was arrested, but after quiet had been restored he was released. General Boisdeffre refused emphatf- cally to testify, under the plea of pro- fessional and State secrecy. M. de la Gorgue, the presiding Judge, consented that Mime. DreyfuS should be allowed to testify on the condition that hersevi- dence be restricted to the ESeerhazy case. q
 M. Laborie protested against the limitation of the evidence of Mime. Dreyfus and denounced the scenes in court, the biased reports in the news papers and the attacks on his client as being unworthy of France.
 General Boisdeffre, replying, ad- mitted that as Minister for War before he had testified at the Esterhazy l court martial he had received from i Major Esterhazy a certain document 1 which concerned the Dreyfus case, but he refused to give any further particu- i lars on the ground of professional se- crecy.
 The general admitted that Colonel 1 Picquart had been transferred to Tu- | his owing to his being favorable to 1 Dreyfus and the witness added that he; personally, was convinced of the guilt of Dreyfus, while other facts be- fore and after the court-martial, which had come to his knowledge, made this conviction unshakable. This state ment made a sensation in court.
 General Gong followed and had violent altercation with M. Laborie, in which the general public joined. The tumult reached such pitch that the Judge ordered the court cleared, and the municipal guards promptly obeyed orders The court resumed it's session five minutes later and General Gong explained that he had not meant all he said. Thereupon the incident was allowed to drop General Gong then spoke of the investigation of Colonel Picquart, whom he had encouraged, but the general added that he told the colonel to avoid arresting Major Els terhazy, which the colonel wished to do
 General Mercier, the former Minister for War, who was next examined, de- clared that he believed the documents extracted from the War Office had been communicated to the newspaper by the Dreyfus family. M. Laborie immediately asked that Mme. Dreyfus be allowed to confront General Mercier and deny his statement, but the Judge refused to allow 1t.
 General counsel for M. Zola pressed General Mercier to say if it were true that a secret document had been con- municated to the Dreyfus court-mar- tial. but the general refused to reply. At the conclusion of his examination l General Mercier was cheered.
 M. Traireaux, who was Minister of Justice at the time of the Dreyfus court martial, was the next witness. After his evidence, which did not con- vey any startling facts, the court ad- iourned. The crowd outside the court