The San Francisco call., 1898-01-09
GUILT OF
 DREYFUS YET
 IN DOUBT Publication of the Re- port Made Four
 Years Ago. Although Not 6 BombsheIl It Is in Favor of the
 Prisoner. Basis of the Accusation BrOuqht Against the Ex-
 Captain. QUALIFIED FOR THE CRIME Much Comment as to What Count Esterhazy Has Had to Do With the Notorious Case.
Basis of the Accusation BrOuqht Against the Ex-
 Captain.
QUALIFIED FOR THE CRIME
Much Comment as to What Count Esterhazy Has Had to Do With
 the Notorious Case.
Copyright. 1898. by James Gordon Bennett.

Copyright, 1898. by James Gordon Bennett.
 PARIS, Jan. S.-The publication was made yesterday of the report drawn up against Captain Dreyfus on the occasion of the court-martial of 1894, a document which friends of the pris- oner on the He du Diable have all along been expected to make public, and which his enemies have been endeav- bring to discredit in any case. While the effect of the publication can scarcely be said to be equal to that of a bombsheu, it has been in Dreyfus' favor. It is weak arraignment. Its summing up shows its character well. After referring to the former captains relation with women, married and un- married, and his Representation of gambling houses, which it is to be noted the prisoner denied, the docu- ment concludes:
 ''The basis of the accusation brought against Dreyfus is a double one, con- sisting of a moral element and a ma terial one. The first we have exam ined; the second consists in an incrimi- hating letter, which in lhe opinion of the majority of the experts, as well as that of the witness and ourselves, pre- sents but for an intentional unresem- blance complete similarity with the authentic writing of Dreyfus. In ad dition to what we already stated Drey- fus possesses, as is we'll known by his companions, remarkable memory. He speaks several languages, notably German, which he knows thoroughly, and Italian, which he pretends to know only slightly. He is endowed with a very supple character, and he rt-tni ninln i- we'll suited to the work of espionage. Everything therefore points to Drey fus as fitted for the miserable and shameful mission which he accepted, and which, happily for France, his discovery put an end to-"
 The authorities are much exercised as to how a copy of the document has been obtained by the newspapers, and we shall probably have another inquiry grafted on the Dreyfus tree. Rather more attention is paid to a letter ad dressed by Senator Trarient. former Minister of Justice, to the Minister of War in regard to the case. Senator Trarient voices the opinion of large section of the community when he argues in favor of making the court martial, which meets on Monday upon Commandant EsterhaZy, public. Sen ator Trarient, after pointing out that all the evidence, except the famous bor dereau, against Dreyfus consisted of more or less vague reports about his morality, declares that there is still a reasonable doubt as to whether Drey- fus was really the author of the bor- dereau.
 However" concludes Senator Ira rient, it matters not whether the Gov ernment have in their possession ire futable proofs of the guilt of Dreyfus or not. The question is whether Drey- fus and his counsel saw those proofs or whether in violation of law he was condemned without having seen them
 In regard to the forthcoming court martial it is asserted that while the letters alleged to have been written by Commandant EsterhaZy to Mme. de Boulancy will be brought forward as a subsidiary feature, great stress will be laid on the secret document pro- duced at the trial of ex-Captain Drey- fus. In point of fact, although Presi- dent Cornell declared in the parlia- mentary tribune that there was an EsterhaZy case, but no Dreyfus affair, the whole matter will practically hang on the guilt of the prisoner of the He du Diable.
 The people. indeed, are logical when they argue that if serious evidence has been forthcoming against Esterhazy, he would have been promptly arrested. As for the notorious memorandum, it is affirmed on good authority that all ex- perts are of the opinion that it was not penned by the officers whom Mathieu Dreyfus formally accused of having written it. and inquiry has, moreover, demonstrated that Count Esterhazy could not possibly have had cognizance of four of the papers mentioned in it. The defenders of Dreyfus argue that the commandant might have received information from an official at the min istry of war, but although they have repeatedly been urged to be more ex- plicit they have not mentioned a single name CT furnished the slightest proof
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