The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1898-02-10
ZOLA'S FARCICAL TRIAL.
Witnesses Answer Only Such Cues
lions as They Please.
RIoToUs SCENES IN THE COURT.

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Cleared-A Crowd OF Barrlsters At
tack the Guards who Are Called
Upon to Suppress Them.
Paris, Feb. 10.-Yesterday over 200
barristers, in their robes, gathered at
the public entrance to the court where
the Zola trial is in progress, and in
dulged in horse play. When the pre-
siding Judge ordered them not to OBJ
struct the passage the barristers made
a 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-
ceived and led to a violent ARRAY. The
barristers rushed upon the guards and
struck them. one of the young law
yers was arrested, but after quiet had
been restored he was released.
The arrival of the officers in uniform,
including Generals Boisdeffre and
Gonse, Major Esterhazy, General Mer-
cier and Major Patty du Clam, who had
been summoned, was the signal for
cheers for the French army. M. Zola
entered by the private door unobserv-
ed. The deafening chatter in the court
room was silenced by the entrance Of
the presiding judge.
M. Laborie, counsel for M. lola, pro-
tested against the limitation of the
evidence of Madame Dreyfus. and
scathingly denounced the scenes in
court, the biassed reports in the news
papers and the attacks on his client
as being unworthy of France.
General Boisdeffre, replying to NJ.
Laborie, admitted that as minister for
---- $780, - II A..
Esterhazy court martial, he had re-
ceived from Major Esterhazy a certain
document which concerned the Drey-
fus case, but he refused to give any
further particulars on the ground of
professional secrecy.
M. Laborie protested that in a court
of justice professional secrecy could
not exist, w%hereupon General Bots
deffre retorted: professional secrecy
cannot be separated from state Sc
crecy."
The general admitted that Colonel
Picquart had been transferred to
Tunis owing to his being favorable to
Dreyfus, and, the witness added, that
he, personally, was convinced of the
guilt of Dreyfus, while other facts, be-
fore after the court martial, which
had come to his knowledge, made this
conviction u~nshakable. This statement
made a sensation in court.
General Gonse followed, and at the
outset of the examination had a vic.
lent alteration with M. Laborie, In
which the general public Joined. The
tumult reached such a pitch that the
presiding Judge ordered the court to bt
cleared, which the municipal guards
promptly did. The court resumed its
session five minutes later, and Genera
Gonse explained that he had not mean
all he said. Thereupon the inciden'
was allowed to drop.
General Gonse then spoke of the in
vestigations of Colonel Picquart, whom
he had encouraged. but the genera
added that he told the colonel to avoic
arresting Major Esterhazy, which thu
colonel wished to do.
General MERCER, the former ministe
of war, who was next examined. de
clared that he believed the borderea,
and other documents distracted from
the war office had been communicated
to the by the Dreyfus fam
fly.
M. Laborie Immediately asked tina
Nine. Dreyfus be allowed to confron
General MERCER and deny his state
ment, but the presiding judge refuse,
to allow her to do so.
Counsel for NJ. Zola then pressel
General MERCER to say if it was tru
that a secret document had been com
municated to the Dreyfus court mar
tial behind the backs of Dreyfus an
his counsel. The general refused t
reply.
AT the conclusion of his examinatio,
General MERCER was vociferousl
: cheered.
M. Trarieux, who was minister o
Justice at the time of the Dreyfu
court martial, was the next witness
!, After his evidence, which did not con
vey n startling facts, the court ad
journed.
A crowd of from 10, 1000 to Is, 900 per
son noisy and inclined to eXcesse!
was in the neighborhood of the Palai
de Justice at 5 o'clock yesterday al
ternoon, but IT. was kept in a sem
blance of order by large bodies of pc
lice and was obliged to be content wit
Y shouting against Nj, lola, who left tn
court almost unobserved. General
! Boisdeffre, MERCER and Gonse wer
!, loudly cheered.
4 M. Yves Guyot, leaving the court o
foot, was recognized and hustled nee
the Pont Neuf, the crowd threatenin
> to throw him into the river. Two pC
lice sergeants rescued him.
There was sporadic fighting betwee
both men and women on the outskiri
of the crowd