Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1899-08-31

the first week in Octobeq, On wtinesS
return from two weeks absence,
Colonel Sandherr banded him copy
of the bordereau. They discussed the
matter, Sandherr considering it ample
evidence of treason. An investigation
was opened, resulting in suspicious
against Dreyfus being aroused. Octo-
her the suspicious of the prisoners
guilt became definite. Witness be-
lieved the bordereau was handed Sand
herr by Colonel Henry. Cordier then
explained what was the "orelinary
channel by which information
reached the office. The "ordinary
channel" the witness said, by which
information was received was very
clever spy attached to the intelligence
department who had a habit of visit
ing great houses, but who preferred
the company of servants to the COM
pany of their masters.
Cordier then described the method
of piecing documents and showed how
the bordereau was pasted together by
Henry, who was usually entrusted
with such work. Referring TO the spy,
dubbed Ordinary channel,' Cordier
said the former did not directly re-
ceive documents from the embassy
from which they We're distracted. \
woman served as intermediary and the
ordinary channel having been closed
+ LAS found necessary TO negotiate di-
rectly with the woman, with whom Il
rendezvous was usually made in
churches. Such was the situation at
the moment of the reception of the
bordereau. Cordier said he asccrtained
that leakages We're occurring at Bour-
ges. Witness recalled the fact that an
officer named Thomas was sentenced
for treason in 1894. A letter addressed
to him was intercepted and a reply
sent. This letter asked for the plans
OF she'll. The headquarters staff OBJ
tanned the plans and sent them to
Thomas correspondents. The latter
replied, thanking Thomas, enclosing
bank notes. Whatever had been said
to the contrary witness maintained
that the leakage at Bourges could not
be ascribed to Dreyfus. This also was
the opinion of Sandherr.
Colonel Cordier then described
various leakagcs He especially re-
ferred to very serious case desgnat-
eNl dS lUC vi ~. LHOhido .ASl wv
mas" in which clerk of the church
of ST. Thomas, Aquinas, Paris. was
mixed up in espionage and a serious
leakage in the ministry of marine. Wit
ness recalled how information of the
leakage of 1894 had been received pri
marjly. The name mentioned was that
of gentleman 40 years of age. deco.
rated, who used to convey documents
to an embassy, which witness de-
stribed as a house with large garden.
Corder emphasized the fact that the
description did not bear the slightest
resemblance to Dreyfus. but resemblcd
much more closely another officer
whose name has been mentioned, but
who could no longer be prosecuted or
convicted. Referring to what he styled
the huge undertaking of Richard
Cuers, Lajoux q Co.. the colonel de-
clared the object was nothing less than
the recruiting of German spies for the
service of the French government.
One of Cuer's special services was
furnishing Germany with false infor.
nation. He, therefore, was sometimes
Obliged to say he had succeeded il,
suborning a French officer, and, in this
had obtained the collaboration of an
officer of the headquarters staff. Proof
of this could be found at headquarters
i'm the dossicr of false documents deliv-
cred to Germany.
Cordicr then described events prior
to the arrest of Dreyfus, and showed
that only single real leakage, name.
ly, the plans Of fortresses. occurred at
the time of Dreyfus' arrest. Cordier
declared that the leakage of HE plans
of fortressess was facilitated by the
carelessness of the headquarters staff
and maintained that the leakage was
still occurring when witness left the
war office.
Cordier declared that at the famous
dictation scene before Dreyfus' arrest
there was an arrangement of mirrors
and witness and another listener were
concealed behind a curtain. III Drey-
fus looked in the mirror. il was be
cause he saw another head there.