The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-02-12
FAVORABLE FOR DREYFUS
EVIDENCE DAMAGING TO SU-
pERIOR OFFICERS.
RIOTERS SMASH WINDOWS OF JEW STORE
The Police Dispersed Thousand People Who
Were Burning Pro ZOIa Journals. Many
Persons Were Arrested But Were
Quickly Liberated.
Quickly Liberated.

Paris. Fen. 11.-Thcre were the usual
crowds about the Assizes court Of the
Seine when the first day of the trial
of Mn. ZOla and Perreux commenced.
Nj. Zola and Col. Picquart were greeted
with hostile cries on their arrival. The
proceedings opened with the recall of
Gen. Pellieux.
Gen. Pcllieux testified that General
Saussier the former Military Governor
Of Paris, desired public trial for Ma
ior ESterhazy, but General BillOt, the
Minister for War, ordered that the trial
he in secret. Nevertheless, the witness.
added, the court martial refused to keep
the entire proceedings secret therefore
it was impossible to contend that Major
Estcrhazy was acquitted by order Of the
authorities.
General PellieuX also said:
IF the members Of the court martial,
who spilled their blood on battlefelds.
while others were no one knows where
prolonged uprOar)-had been heard
here, they would have Indignantly re-
pudiated the accusations against them
/, their chief. will he their mOuthpiece,
and | affirm that the court martial was
regular"
referring to the papers examined at
the War Office by unauthorized persons,
the general said. they referred to car
rier pigeons and not to Dreyfus.
The Dreyfus papers, added General
PellieuX, were sealed after the CON
viction Of Captain Dreyfus. in 1894. ANA
We're not opened until quite recently,
when the witness opened them in order
to re-examine the writing Of the Bor-
dereau. The papers had since been seal
ed up and had not been re-Opened. Gen
eral PellieuX also said he desired to
emphatically deny the statement of NJ.
lie BlOis that Mn. lie Blois and Henry
held Il two hours conference with him
in 4 private ROOM
Col. Picquart was then called and
narrated how he had acquired fragments
Of a telegraphic card in 1896, and con
cluded therefrOm that Major Esterhazy
was corresponding with suspicious char
acters. HIS chiefs ordered him to con-
time his Investigations. and he pro.
cured some of Major Esterhazy's hand
writing which. compared with certdin
documents, led to the conclusion that
official papers.
Colonel Picquart said further:
Il was struck with the resemblance of
Major Esterhazy's handwriting to that
of the Bordereau, and | submitted pho-
tos to NJ. BertillOn and Major Patty Du
Clam, and NJ. BCrtilIOn declared it was
exactly the same as that Of the Border
eau, adding: The Jews would do any
fhiOOs i'm thu 70
ing. Major Patty Du Clam said it was
the handwriting of DrPyfus."
Continuing, Colonel Picquart said he
knew a superior officer whose name
was mighty, mentioned furnishing docu-
mentS to foreign power, adding that
he did not wish to further disclose Sc
crets, while he. the Colonel, was still
investigating. Continuing. he said:
The newspapers began an agitation.
and Interpolation commenced in the
Chamber, adding to my difficulties.
Then l was sent to Tunis. where all
letters REACHED me opeItad. When
was summoned back to Tunis to attend
the ESterhazy inquiry General Pellieux
treated me as the real defendant, re-
fusing to listen to my charges against
Major Esterhazy."
COlonel llcqlElrt pointed out that
while the anti-Dreyfus papers published
fac SMILES of the Bordereau, they did
not publish Il fac simile of the letter
written by Dreyfus at Major Patty Du
CLAIMS dictatiOn, las it would have been
too embarrassing" the witness implying
that comparison would have tended to
show that Dreyfus was not the author
OF the BOrdereau
Colonel Picquart emphatically denied
General PellieuX's statement of yester-
day that he had divulged an espionage
affair to outsiders He candidly admit
ted sending an agent to Major Ester
bays apartments, but he pointed ont
that at the time Major Esterhazy's fiat
was advertised to let and his agent only
brought him an unimpOrtant letter
which, however, served for a comparison
Of handwriting. The agent reported
that number Of letters had been burn
ed in fire place.
Colonel Picquart added that he COM
municated his suspicious of the guilt of
Major 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 vic
tim, had been aimed to prevent him from
demonstrating the guilt of Major Ester
hazy.
NJ. Iaborie then questioned Colonel
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