The Anaconda standard., 1898-02-10
JUSTITIA DOESN'T FIAT
Poor Zola Gets the Worst of 1t
All the Way Through.
ROW IN THE COURT ROOM
A Detachment of Troops Called In to
Quell the Disturbance-As Usual I'M
portant Witnesses Refuse to Tes-
tify-zola's Enemies Cheered.

Paris, Feb. 9.-In spite Of special
precautions, there was a repetition of
the scenes witnessed yesterday when
the trial of NJ. Zola and T.. Perrieux
| was continued to-day. General Bois-
endeffe refused emphatically to testify
under the plea of professional and
state secrecy. The presiding judge
consented that Mime. Dreyfus should
be allowed TO testify on condition that
I her evidence be restricted to the Es
| terhazy case.
over 200 barristers in their robes
| gathered at the. public entrance and
! INDUCED in horseplay. When the pre-
siding judge ordered them not to OBJ
| sfruct the passage the barriSters made
| demonstration against the judge.
| Thereupon the commandant of the re-
publican guards sent a detachment of
| troops TO quell the disturbance. The
| Intervention of the military was i'll re-
ceiyed and led to violent affray. The
| barristers rushed upon the guards and
struck them. General Gonz refused to
testify and the court was cleared.
NJ. Laborie protested against the linn
itation of the evidence of Nine. Drey-
fus and denounced the scenes in court.
the biased reports in the newspapers
and the attacks on his client as being
unworthy of France.
General Boisendeffe, replying, ad-
mitted that as minister for war, before
he had testified at the Esterhazy
court-martial. he had received from
Major EsterhaZy a certain document
which concerned the Dreyfus case. but
he refused to give any further particu-
lars on the ground of professional Sc
crecy.
The general admitted that Colonel
Picquart had been transferred to Tunis
owing to his being unfavorable to
Dreyfus, and the witness added that
he, personally, was convinced of the
guilt of DreyfGs while other facts be-
fore and after the court martial, which
had come to his knowledge, made this
conviction unshakeable. This state
ment made a sensation in court.
General Gonz followed and had a vio-
lent alteration with NJ. Laborie, in
Which the general public Joined The
tumult reached such a pitch that the
judge ordered the court cleared. which
the municipal guards promptly did.
The court resumed its session five min
utes later and General Gonz explained
that he had not meant all he said.
Thereupon the incident was allowed to
drop. General Gonz then spoke of the
investigation of Colonel Picquart, whom
he had encouraged but the general add
ed that he told the colonel to avoid ar
resting Major Esterhazy, which the
colonel wished to do.
General Mercier, the former minister
of war, who was next examined, de-
clared that he believed the bordeau and
other documents extricated from the
war office had been communicated to
the newspaper by the Dreyfus family
NJ. Laborie Immediately asked that
Mime. Dreyfus be allowed to confront
General Mercier and deny his statement
but the judge refused to allow It,
Counsel for NJ. Zola then pressed Cen
eral Mercier to say that 1t was true that
secret document had been conveyed
to the Dreyfus court martial but the
general refused to reply. At the con-
clusion of his examination General
Mercier was cheered. NJ. TraiuX. who
was minister of justice at the time of
the Dreyfus court martial. was the next
witness. After his evidence, which did
not convey any startling facts, the
court adjourned
The crowd outside the court cheered
General Mercier, Boisendeffe and Gonz,
while M Zola was left almost unno-
ticed.