The age-herald., 1898-02-12
DEATH ID LOLA
 YELLED RUFF|ANS While from His Carriage He
 Called Them Cowards. COLONEL. .PlQUART TESTIFIED In a Way to Annoy tssylgh Military ''''x!!I
 MOVED BY PELo sXS TESTIMONY 
 The Novelist Exclaimed, Posterity Will l Be My Judge.
The Novelist ExcIaimed, Posterity Will
 Be My Judge.
HE IMPLICATED A SUPERIOR OFFICER
Power-Defended Himself Against the Imprecation of PelIfeux That He
 Had Divulged Private Affairs.

Paris, Feb n.-There were the usual crowds about the assizes court of the Seine today when the fifth day of the trial of NM. Zoia and PerTeux commenced M Zola and Colonel. Picquart were greeted with hostile cries on their arrival. The court was thronged The proceedings was opened with the recall of General PelIeux
 General Pollieux testified that General Saussier, the former military governor of Paris, desired a public trial for Major Es- terhazy, but General Bfllot the minister of war, ordered that the trial be secret. Nevertheless. the witness added, the court martial refused to keep the entire proceed- llgs scret, therefore, it was impossible to contend that Major Esterhazy was acquit- ted by order of the authorities
 On General Pellieux leaving the stand. M. Zola rose and exclaimed
 Posterity His Judge
 There are several ways of serving France. You, general, made your cam- paigns; but l will bequeath to postertty the name of Emile Zola, andI posterity will be my judge"
 Colonel Picquart was then caaled, and narrated how he had acquired fragments of telegraphdc card dn 1896 and concluded therefrom that Major Esterhazy was cor- responding with suspicious characters. He procured some of Major Esterhazy's hand WrIuISy WHICH, cOInpdTSu W1Cn cerIdln uOcT uments, led to the conclusion that Major Esterhazy was improperly using official papers.
 General Pe,iiex then said If the mem- bers of the court martial who spilled their blood on battlefields while others were no one knows where tprolonged uproar), had been heard here they would have indig- nantly repudiated the accusation against them. l. their chief, will be their mouth- piece, and I affirm that the court martial was regular"
 Refer to Carrier Pigeons
 Referring to the papers examined at the war office by unauthorized persons, the general said they referred to carrier pigeons and not to Dreyfus
 The Dreyfus papers, added Gen. Pellieux, were sealed after the sentence of Dreyfus in 1894 and wre not opened until quite re- gently, when the witness opened them in order to re-examine the writing of tho Bordereau. The papers had since been sealed up and had not been reopened He said he would emphatically deny the statement of M. Leblers that M. Leblers and M Henry held a two hours confer ence with him in a private room.
 Col. Picquart said further: T was struck with the resemblance of Major Esterhas zys handwriting to that of the Borde- reau, and submitted photographs to M. Bertilon and Major Paty Du Clam, and M. Bertillon declared it was exactly the same as that of the Bordereau, and adding The Jews would do anything in the world to procure that writing Major Paty Du Clam said it was the handwriting of Dreyfus."
 A Superior Officer
 Continuing, Col. Picquart said he knew g. superior officer whose name was mem tfoned as furnishing documents to a. for eign power, adding that he did not wish to further disclose secrets while he, the colonel, was still Investigating.
 "The newspapers began an agitation and interpellations commenced in the cham- Der, adding to my difficulties. Then was sent to Ts,ss,si.s. where all letters reached opened. V len I was summoned back from Tunis to attend the Esterhazy inquiry, Gen. Pellieux treated me as the real defendant, refusing to listen to my charges against Major Esterhazy."
 Col. Picquart pointed out that while the anti-Dreyfus papers published fac similes of the Bordereau they did not publish fac simile of the letter written by Dreyfus at Maj. Paty Du Clam's dictation, "as it witness implying that a comparison would have tended to show that Dreyfus was not the author of the Bordereau.
 Entered Denial
 Col Picquart emphaticalyy denied Gen. Pellieux's statement of yesterday that he had divulged an espionage affair to out siders. He candidly admitted sending an agent 10 MaJ ESterndZyS s apartments, put he pointed out that at the time Maj. Ester- hazys flat was advertised to let, and his agent only brought him an unimportant letter, which, however, served for a conn parison of handwriting. The agent, how. ever, reported that a number of letters had been burned in the fire place.
 Col. Picquart added that he communi- cated his suspicious of the guilt of Maj Esterhazy to his chiefs, who never said they had additional evidence of the guilt of Dreyfus beyond what he himself knew. The witness concluded with stating that the intrigues of the officials of which he had been the victim had been aimed to prevent him from demonstrating the guilt of Maj. Esterhazy.
 M. LaBorie then questioned Col. Picquart regarding the secret document and the witness said: 'I knew of the existence of the secret document, but I only saw 1t when Gen. Pelleux showed 1t to me"
 Professional Secrecy
 The witness could not give any further particulars on account of professional se- crecy. The witness was then asked by M I.aBorie if he saw the original Bordereaus