The age-herald., 1898-09-25
THE BORDEREAU
 WAS FORCED Esterhazy Admits He Wrote the Document tOConVict Dreyfus' CONVINCED OF HIS GUILT But No Material Evidence Could be Secured Against Him. MANY SUSPICIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES Dreyfus Managed to Stay in AIsace for Months Without BeIng Ordered Out. IDENTITY OF THE YELLED LADY Ex-Major Esterhazy Declared Her to Be None Other Than the Wife of
 Colonel Paty du
 Clam.
Dreyfus Managed to Stay in AIsace for Months Without Beng Ordered Out.
OF THE YELLED LADY

London, September 24.-The Observer this morning continues it's Esterhazy rev. alations begun last Sunday in a long ar- ticle, the most salient feature of which Comte Esterhazys disclosure made,.,or. asserted, in the presence 9f fantbor of tbe tnah one that t, h6ordereau which he wrote at the request of Colonel Sandherr, now dead.'
 It was intended, he said, ito constitute material proof of Dreyfus' guilt. It was known through e French spy in the service at Berlin that certain documents had reached the German general stan Whlcn Dreyfus alone could have obtained. It was a list of these documents which cons ,itut- ed the bordereau. Dreyfus had tested in several ways. For instance, plan for the concentration of troops on the southeast- ern frontier had been dictated to him which was quite fantastic. A short time afterwards our spies in Italy informed us that the Italian staff was making modifi- cations in the Qualifications around Nice which corresponded to the changes am nounced in the imaginary scheme die .ated to Dreyfus.
 "Then Dreyfus managed to spend long holidays in Alsace without being appar- enty found out by the German authorities "a very suspicious sign, for 1t almost impossible for a French officer to remain for any length of time in the conquered provinces without being ordered ou,. In fact there was considerable substantial proof against Dreyfus before the rtial took place, but no material proof.
 Sandherr an Alsatien
 Colonel Sandherr, who was an Alsatien. like Dreyfus, but intensely anti-Semitic, de- termned to forge this proof It was con- Vinced of the accused mans guilt, but 1t was necessary for the purpose of the court- martial that documents should exist
 'I was attached to the intelligence de- partment.
 "When Colonel Sandherr told me to write out the bordereau, I did so without the slightest compunction. l am one of those men who are soldiers by profession who cling to old traditions of military discipline. When l received an order l obeyed it im- plicitIy and without question. 1 wrote the bordereau because Colonel Sandherr told me to. I knew, of course, the purposes it was intended to serve. knew l was com mitting forgery; but I also knew that all intelligence departments in all countries were run precisely on the same lines and that it was impossible to achieve the re- suits in any other way
 "In the Von Tausch case for instance, which made so great a sensation in Ger many, Major Tausch confessed to have committed forgery, adding that that crime was nothing to the infamies that he had been forced to do in connection with other matters. Therefore the court decided to since him. He ultimately received the minimum punishment received and has since been released.
 Tt is nearly always necessary to manu- facture material evidence against spies be- cause otherwise they would never be pun- ished. The bordereau having written 1t be- came necessary to give 1t the indspensa- ble air of an authentic document as you know it was supposed to have been stolen from the German embassy.
 "Colonel Schwarzkoppen, (formerly Ger man military attache in Paris), denied ever having seen it. What he said was perfect ly true. The bordereau was handed by an agent of our intelligence department to the porter of the German embassy, who was a spy in our service. The porter gave it to another agent named Geniste, and by him it was brought to the intelligence depart ment and there docketed and numbered as a document obtained from the German em- bassy in the usual course. It thus reserved official baptism.
 "It was exclusively upon the evidence of the bordereau that Dreyfus was condemn ed. The document privately shown to the officers of the court material was fetched from the war department during the Huis Odes with the obejct of convincing judges should they show signs of wavering It was the letter containing the phrase ID" Camille D."
 The general staff was absolutely aware of the fact that ID was a certain Dolfuss, a building contractor who years before had supplied the German attache with plans of the Notifications near Nice.
 Ex-Major Esterhazy added that the case against him was quashed in defiance of all law and justice. He said the yelled lady
 who apeapred in the case was no other than the wife of Colonel Du Paty de Clam.
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