The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-08-09
MRS. CRAWFORD'S REVIEW

OF the Case = Many Sensations are
Promised by the Defense Rld the
Prosecution - Dreyfus Hasn't Got
Over his Rip Van Wrinkle Feeling
copyright. 1889, by The Associated Press)
RENNEs, August S.-Maitre De-
mango. the principal counsel for Capt.
Dr.yfus, expresses himself as well sat
isAed with yesterdays proceedings.
Colonel Jouaust had to play the part of
Il severe Judge, but II his voice was
rude and his manner commanding to-
ward the prisoner, his eye was kind.
and there were no attacks to press
home the points raised by the IndIct-
ment.
NJ. Chanolne, the custodian of the ia
nous secret dossIer, said 1t would take
four days to examine It, as the exami-
nation would be behind closed doors,
and most Of the witnesses have gone to
the seasIde-General De BOIsdeftre to
Dlnard. and General Dionne to Huram.
General MercIer remains here, the guest
Of General Saint Germaln, who tells his
friends to be prepared for sensational
evidence that must crush Dreyfus and
many others with him.
NJ. Cavalgnac talked Mt lie Mnns on
his way here. He said he expected two
Coups dthentre. We now hear that one
will be nn nvownl by General Billot that
he said on his soul and conscience
Dreyfus was a traitor because he was
miSled, The other will be Mercicr driv-
en- to bay. The latter will Issue from
this trial ruined II Dreyfus is acquit-
ted. hear he intends to throw
searchHEht on the secret councils OF the
Dupuy government, OF which he was
member in 1894. and to show what Dip
lomatic wires were pulled between the
arrest OF Dreyfus and his embarkation
for Cayenne. MercIer refuses to be In
terviewed. He looks bowed down from
care.
seems to have taken out new lease
OF life. He also is extremely Teticent,
as indeed are all the witnesses OF note
A shame to Human Nature.
N. Jnures arrived last night. He
claims to know much that is in the Sc
cret dossier. An intercepted cores
pondence between two military at
fair, is said by JauTeS to be shame to
human nature. These two officers
wrote under feminine names and In n
strain that might not have shocked the
young courtiers OF Nero or the Tlbald
crowd TINT gathered around Lots
house in the doomed city. Possibly,
nay probably, the attaches In question
never wrote these scented anncreontlc
bInets. for such they are. lie Mercier
Picard was equal to the task OF forging
them and he possibly did forge them
FOR pecunIary consideration. Hence,
perhaps. the mystery in which his sui
eide Is shrouded.
The counsel for Dreyfus met to-day
at his wifc's residence, the heads OF the
DreyfuHItc party. and consulted on
the present aspect Of the affair. They
went there after they had examined the
documents Of the secret dossier In the
Judges room. They do not see any
lS9I.
Dreyfus was greatly fatIgued nftcr
yesterdays ordeal. He asked anxious
y to-day what the press and public
Thought, and was led TO think that
opinion Is generally favorable. This Is
true. The representatives OF national
iBt journals who Judge harshly IN print
GNpTtAh hulUlINtlbu LOT Int utlllUCHlHk
ConBtnnCy he has displayed.
LCndlng'p g'pcrsOnnRes here for the trial
have much to say about the late Gen.
Annenkoff and Baron Frcderlcks I'm
connection with Dreyfus, but General
MercIcr and NJ. HanOtaux. former min
lister Of foreign affairs. refuse TO speak
on the subject. NJ. HOnotaux looks
detected. Il viii bc curious 10 seo
whether he and Mercier contradict each
other.
There seems danger thnt all the evil
dence relating to foreign dlplomnti8ts
will be given with closed doors. Tho
public trial Will be resumed on satur-
day.
DrcyTls' PItiablo Condition.
Dreyfus, n member Of his family tells
me. has not yet got over his Rip Van
winkle feeling. He was lost, as he puts
II. He remarked to his wife that he
was aStonlshed 10 1nd himself ycster-
day wntched by the whole world or its
proxies. though he showed no sign Of
nstGnlshment. He was thrown In n
heap by the searching and. ns ho
thought. unfricndly examination by tho
president of the courtmnriinl. He had
expected mere formal proceedings.
Nm. Dcmange and Labor did not
prepare him for n hostile tribunal and