Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1898-09-26
ESTBRHAZY' FORGERY
He Says lie Wrote the Bordereau In
the Dreyfus Case.
KNEW THAT 1T WAS A LIE,
pid 1t mt the InstiEntion of His su-
perior Ofiicer to Fasten Guilt on
Drcyfus-Had Moral Proof
of His Guilt.

London. Sept. 26.-The Observer con-
tinues it's Esterhazy revelations in q
long article, the most salient feature
Of which is Comte Esterhazy's disclo-
sures made, 1t is asserted, in the pres.
snce of more persons than one, that he
was the author of the famous Dreyfus
pordereau, which he wrote lat the re-
quest of Colonel Sandherr, now dead"
1T was intended" he said, Ito con-
stltute material proof Of Dreyfus' guilt.
1t was known through a French spy in
the service at Berlin that certain docu-
ments had reached the German general
staff which Dreyfus alone could have
obtained. 1t was a list of these docu-
ments which constituted the bordereau
Dreyfus had been tested In several
ways. For instance, plan for the con-
centration of troops on the southeastern
frontier had been dictated to him, which
was quite fantastic. A short time aft
erward our spies in Italy informed us
that the Italian staff was making modi-
hcat1ons in the Notifications around
Nice which corresponded to the changes
announced In the imaginary scheme
dictated to Dreyfus
Then Dreyfus managed to spend long
holidays in Alsace without being appa-
rently found out by the German au-
thor!ties, very suspicious sign, for 1t
was almost impossible for q French off,
Ger to remain for any length Of time in
the conquered provinces without being
found out In fact, there was consider
able moral proof against Drey&us before
the trial took place, but no material
proof
Colonel Sandherr, who was an Asa
tan like Dreyfus, but intensely anti
Semitic, determined to forge this proof.
He was convinced of the accused mans
guilt. but it was necessary for the pur-
poses of the court martial that docu-
ments should exist.
Forged without Compunction.
Il was attached to the intelligence
department, my duty being to watch
the movements of military attaches ac-
credited by the powers of the triple al
lance. When Colonel Sandherr told
me to write out the bordereau, l did so
without the slightest conjunction. l
am one of the men who, soldiers by pro-
fession, cling to old medieval traditions
of military discipline. When l received
an order, I obeyed it implicitly and
without question. I wrote the borde-
reau because Colonel Sandherr told me
to do so. / knew, of course, the pur-
poses it was intended to serve. / knew
l was committing a forgery, but I also
knew that all intelligence departments
in all countries were run on precisely
the same lines and that it was impossi-
BILE to achieve results in any other way.
1T is nearly always necessary to
manufacture material evidence against
spies, because otherwise they would
never be punished. The bordereau hav-
ing been written, it became necessary
to give it the Indispensable air Of an
authentic document, as you know 1t was
supposed to have been stolen from tie
German embassy. Colonel Schwarz-
koppen, formerly German military at
tache in Paris, denied ever having seen
it. What he said was perfectly true.
The bordereau was handed by an agent
of our intelligence department to the
porter of the German embassy, who
was spy in our service. The porter
gave it to another agent named Gemest,
and by him it was brought to the intel
ligence department and there dccket"d
and numbered as document obtained
from the German embassy in the usual
course. 1t thus received official bap-
tism."