The San Francisco call., 1898-02-15
CHANGE OF
 THE FRENCH
 SENTIMENT Greater Regard Is Shown the Perse- cuted Novelist. Some Fresh Sensations Sprung Daily at the
 Trial.
Disappearance of Document Upon Which Dreyfus Was
 Convicted.
TESTIMONY OF EXPERTS.
One Declares That Friends of the Convicted Captain Offered Him
 a Big Bribe.
Copyrighted. 1898. by James Gordon Bennett,

Copyrighted. 1898, by James Gordon Bennett . PARIS, Feb. 14.-A remarkable . change is manifest to-day in the } . demeanor of the public toward q Emile Zola. In the crowds of q people who collected outside the } q Palais de Justice there could not } q have been more than a dozen q or so at most who went with the , q intention of making demonstra- q tions in favor of or against Zola. . The impression obtained by the q Herald correspondent, who was } . present outside the court from q the time of Zola's arrival until Q his departure at half-past 5, was q one of calm-such absolute calm . that one almost wondered if hos q tile intentions had ever been q shown by the public toward the q novelist. At 10 o'clock there were q few people in the Galerie de Q Harley facing the Place Dau- . phine, and when Zola arrived q at 12 o'clock at Quai des Orfev- . riers the number was not percep- q tibly increased. He was greeted . q with a few cries of "A bas Zola" } q and 'Vive Zola,' with an accom- . paniment of whistles from a . small body of anti-Semites, q but it is notable fact that there Q were no cries of ''Vive Tarmee" q when the military witnesses ar , q rived. o A a yIyn ~, In q Der of people increased, and , . there must have been at least , . 10000 on the various quays and . Place Dauphine. To-day being , q a Paris workmen's holiday, a , q great part of these were arti- q sans, who sauntered along the } Q boulevard with glances of curi- } . osity through the large gilded q gates at the main entrance to } . the Palais, then along Quai de . PHorloge, where a company of . soldiers were on picket duty, 0 back to the Place Dauphine, , . and thence to Quai des Orfe- . vriers. thus making a complete , . circuit of the Palais de Justice. . An incident in the afternoon pro- q vided a matter of much gossip. c Prince Henri dOrleans pre- , q sented himself at the court, but , U was refused entrance because he {, q was not provided with a special /, q permit. Q As Zola left there came from q Quai de la Messagerie the sound } U of whistles. About dozen anti q Semites had taken up position . on the parapet of the quay and . did not lose this opportunity of } q demonstrating, at a distance. q against Zola- Now the question } q arises to what can we attribute } q this change from the vociferous q demonstrations of last week? It } o is suggested that the answer can } . be only one of two things-either q the police previously employed , . agents or provocateurs who are , q now withdrawn, or the public , q feeling toward Zola has been in- , . fluenced in his favor by the } . reading of the reports of the , q trial. !,
 PARIS, Feb. 14.-When the trial c M. Zola and Perreux was resumed to day M. Jaures, the socialist member c the Chamber of Deputies, was recalle and reiterated his belief in the culpabil ity of Major Esterhazy.
 The examination of M. Bertillon, tn handwriting expert, was then resumed He said he thought it impossible to as the Minister for War for the incrimi mating documents seized at the resi- dence of Dreyfus in 1894. which, accord ing to the testimony of the witness O Saturday last, would enable him t prove that Dreyfus wrote the border eau.
 M. Laborie, counsel for M. Zols thereupon protested, and twitted N Bertillon with being unwilling to tes tify in court, while giving interview to newspapers
 M. Bertillon said the interviews wer false.
 Being pressed by M. Laborie to te how. unless he had seen the secret doc uments, he was able to prove at court martial that Dreyfus wrote the border eau. M. Bertillon answered that b