The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1898-02-17
PECULIAR JUSTICE.
Proceedings in the Trial
Of M. Zola in Paris.
WITNESSES MAKE ARGUMENTS.

Although NJ. Zola's Evidence Is EX-
cluded by the Judge, His Opponents
Are Permitted to Make Speeches to
the Jury From the witness stnnd.
Paris, Feb. 1.-THE approaches to the
palace of justice and the Hobbies show
ed no evidence Of unusual excitement
yesterday just before the opening of
the ninth day of the trial Of NM.
Zola and Perreux. There was no dem
o%nstration upon NJ. Zola's arrival. The
court was crowded, as usual.
The presiding judge rejected NJ.
Clemenceau's request of Tuesday hat
he appoint a magistrate to question
Madame De Boulancey If among the
letters she has from Major Esterhazy
there is not one containing the follow
ing expressions: General Saussier
(then commander-in-chief of the French
army and military governor of Paris)
is a clown. In our country the Ger
mans would not show him in a circus"
IF the P%russians got as far as Lyons
they might throw away their guns and
keep only their riding whips to drive
the French in front of them"
M. Laborie, counsel for NJ. lola, re-
nounced the examination Of the mem
bers of the Esterhazy court martial, but
he theoretically demanded that General
Billot, the minister for war, be called.
The presiding judge, NJ. Delegorgue,
invited NJ. Laborie to present a con-
clusion to tina effect.
General Pelleiux, who conducted the
investigation into the charges brought
against Major Esterhazy, created a
sensation by protesting against the ac-
ceptance of the evidence Of the anna
teur experts who have not seen the
original bordereau," adding hat he
also desired to raise his voice lin the
most emphatic manner against ISLANDERS
which are calculated to destroy con
fidence in the heads of the army, at a
time when danger is perhaps nearer
Than people believe"
Continuing General PellieuX said he
considered the proceedings showed that
the defense attached no weight to the
evidence of the sworn experts who had
seen the original bordereau and had
compared it with the acknowledged
handwriting of the accused.
For some time there has been much
talk Of handwriting, people discussing
who could have written the bordereau.
"a 4 WIN bAoNS w g'u ~ III
papers in my hand, thai the officer who
wrote the bordereau was an artillery
man.
Nj. Laborie here interrupted the wit
ness, saying:
81 ask that Colonel Picquart, who at
the present moment is at the hous of
Magistrate Bertulus, be summoned to
heal this evidence"
1T is not your turn to speak," re-
piled the presiding judge.
M. Laborie, however, returned to the
charge, protesting and insisting that
Colonel Picquart be called. When Gen
eral Pellieux was allowed to continue
his evidence he laid
IAN ANALYSIS of the bordereau in
dicates that only an artillery officer, at
tached to the war ministry, could have
known the facts recited, or have used
the technicalities employed in the Dor
dereau. An infantry man could never
in his life la spoken of the things
of which the bordereau speaks"
And now" exclaimed the general,
raising his voice, what remains of all
this fabric? Not much. Yet they ac-
cuse officers of acquitting a guilty mar
in pursuance of orders.
81 have not a mind of pure crystal,
but 1 have the sou of a soldier, which
revolts at hearing the infamous asper-
sions showered upon us, and 1 can keep
silence no longer. ! cannot stand still
and see men trying to detach the army
from it's chiefs, for If the soldiers cease
to have confidence in them what will
the chiefs do in the day of danger,
which is perhaps nearer than people
Think"
In conclusion General PellieuX said
I'VE should have been glad if the the
court martial had acquitted Dreyfus,
as it would have shown there was nc
traitor for the army, for all of us to
mourn for"
On leaving the witness stand the gen
eral was long and loudly cheered.
The presiding judge refused to allow
NJ. LabOrie to max a reply to Cen
eral P~ellieuX, and NJ. Laborie lodged a
formal protest.
AT the request of the defense Colonel
Picquart was then sent for. In the
meanwhile NJ. Scheurer-Kestner the
former vice president of the senate,
called attention to alleged inaccuracies
in the evidence of Nj. TeyssOnniere, the
handwriting expert. He said it was
quite impossible that he, NJ. Scheurer-
Kestner, nae ever spoken to M. Teys-
~sonniere of Major Esterhazy, because
at the time referred to he had never
heard Major E~sterhazy's name.
M. TrarieuX, the former minister oil
justice, was recalled, and he accused
the general staff of connlving with NJ
Teyssonniere in order to paralyze the
action of Colonel Picquart.
NJ. Laborie r]eproached General Pei.
lieux with telling the jury that they
might shortly have war, and added.
1--WE do not fear wal with such soldier.
as we have, but if they are led by Ger,
tain officers"
Here the presiding judge stopped NJ
Laborie, and General PellieuX, resum'
ing his evidence, criticized the reports
of the amateur experts in %handwrit'
Ing" whereupon M. Meyer, director o.
the French record office, who was II
court, rose and retorted that profes.
sional experts were no better thar
amateurs. He said that If Genera
PellieuX would bring the negative o.
" H. l.