The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-09-25
ESTERHAzY REVELATIONS
The Comte Said to Be Author of
Dreyfus Bordereau.
HOW 1T WAS ALL PLANNED
h Ex-Major Wrote the Document Be-
cause Colonel Sandherr Told Him
to Do So, and Upon 1t Drey-
fus Was Condemned.

London, Sept. 5.-The Observer this
morning continues its Esterhazy reve-
l~ations, begun last Sunday. in a long
article, the most salient feature of
which is Comte Esterhazy's disclosure
made, it is asserted, in the presence of
more persons than one, that he was
the author of the famous Dreyfus Dor
dereau, which he wrote "at the request
of Colonel Sandherr. now dead"
1T was intended" he aid ito con-
stitute material proof of Dreyfus' guilt.
IL was known through a French spy in
the service at Berlin that certain docu-
ments had reached the German general.
1t was a list of these documents which
constituted the bordereau. Dreyfus
had beer tested in several ways. For
instance, a plan for the concentration
Of troops of the southern frontier had
been dictated to him, which was quite
fantastic. A short time afterwards our
spies in Italy informed us that the Ital-
ian staff was making notifications in
the Qualifications around Nice, which
cOrresponded with the changes an
nounced in the imaginary scheme die
tated to Dreyfus.
Then Dreyfus managed to spend
long holidays in Alsace without being
apparently found out by the German
authorities, a very suspicious sign, for
II Is dlilloSl lHipOSSlDlt lOT d fTOHCH
officer to remain for any length of time
in the conquered provinces without be-
ing found out. In fact, there was con-
siderable moral proof against Dreyfus
before the trial took place, but no ma
terial proof. Colonel Sandherr, who
was an Alsacian like Dreyfus, but in
tensely Semitic, determined to
10 form his proof. He was convinced of
the accused man. guilt, but 1t was
necessary for the purposes of the court
martial that documents should exist.
/ was attached to the intelligence de-
partment, my duty being to watch the
movements of the military attaches
accredited by the powers of the triple
alliance.
"When Colonel Sandherr told me to
write out the bordereau I did so
without the slightest conjunction. l
am one of those men who, by profess
sioin, cling to old medieval traditions
of military discipline. When I re-
ceived an order / obeyed II implicitly
and without question. / wrote the
bordereau because Colonel Sandherr
told me to do SO. l knew, of course,
The purpose it was intended to have. l
knew ii was committing a forgery; but
1 also knew hat all intelligence de-
partments of all countries were run on
precisely the same line, and hat II was
impossible to achieve the results in
any other way.
I'm the von Tausch case, for instance,
which made so great a sensation in
Germany, Major Won Tausch confessed
to having committed forgery, adding
that that crime was nothing to the in
famies the Berlin starf had forced him
to commit in connection with other
matters. Therefore, the court attempted
to silence him. He ultimately received
the minimum punishment prescribed
and has since been released, long be-
fore his time.
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 IL the Indispensable air Of an
authentic document. As you know, IL
was supposed to have been stolen from
the German embassy. Colonel SchwarZ-
koppen, formerly German military at
tache in Paris. denied ever having seen
il. 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
vas a spy in our service.
The porter gave 1T to another agent
named Genest, and by him 1t was
brought to the intelligence department
and there docketed and numbered as a
document obtained from the German
tAAlbdSSN III itC unudi IOuiSts II mus
received official baptism.
1T was exclusively upon the evidence
Of the bordereau that Dreyfus was con-
demned. The document privately shown
to the officers of the court martial was
fetched from the wal office during the
Huies Odes, with the object of convinc-
ing the judges, should they show signs
of wavering. 1t was the letter contain
ing the phrase DE canaille.'"
Now this letter, which is genuine and
was really written by Colonel Schwarz-
koppen, did not refer to Dreyfus at all.
The general staff was absolutely aware
of the fact that ID" wasea certain Doll
fus, a building contractor, who years
before had supplied the German at
tache with plans of the Notifications
nea Nice. The ex-major added that
the case against him was quashed In de-
fiance of all law and justice. He said
the yelled lady who appeared in the
case was no other than the wife OF Col.
Patty du Clam.
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