The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1899-08-31
TODAY's SESSION sEuRET
Dreyfus Had the Best Of Trial
Yesterday All Kinds of
RumOTs.

Rennes. Aug. S0.-The air Of Rennes this
evening is filled with rumors Of conspira-
cies and predictions OF coups de theatre.
but nothoing precise can be ascertained.
General Meceiers attitude during the last
few days has mysuhed his followers 10
the case. He is extremely clever and the
general feeling i8 that he Is preparing
something, The existence of which will be
| revealed in few days. 1t is now accept
ed as beyond question that there is a ser
ious division Of opinion on the part of the
generals. While the case was running
smoothly against Captain Dreyfus they
all pulled together. but since the tide OF
| evidence began 10 turn IS his favor. and
was notably the case during the testi-
mony Of Captain Freystatter and Colonel
Coriier which proved much more olm-
aging TO the general stan than the latter
anticipated. certain dividing lines have be
come manifest between the various cliquts
General Roget, Major Lauth. Captain Cui-
gnet ana NJ. Gribeln the pprincipal ] eep-
er of the archives Of the war office. form
one coterie; General Mercier and eneraI
Gonse form another and General Bilot
anu NhNliNl al A%G D0A14tnIt q AlllUs AG=
cording to one report. the first two coter-
les intend to throw over eneral De Bois-
deffre, whomG they feel to be faltering,
ana declare that re Is responsible for all
the errors anu nlegaities of the court
martial of 1894 thus making him the
scapegoat According to another report
General Roget. who was not Implicated
in 1894 and who even sought against
Dreyfus because he inherited from his pre-
decessors the responsibility for 50 doing
and placed over confidence nthe accounts
o fthe matter furnished him by thexgen-
eral stan. will cut himself loose from Gen.
Meroer, Gonse and De Boisdeffre
This is plausible hypothesis, since Ro-
get has assumed throughout the role of
defender of the army, thus making him
self popular with the army and with a
large section Of the nation. and he pro-
badly would not lose by separating him
self from the wrong doers of 1894 and de-
claring that his opinion had been changed
by the evidence given during the present
trial.
Yet another story is that the gener-
ais are going TO give way to the author
ship of the borsderea In view OF the strong
expert evidence and will admit that Ester
hazy wrote it. alleging however. that
Dreyfus furnished the informauos. not
direct TO Esterhazy but TO a third person,
who acted as Intermediary without Drey
fus knowing Esterhazy
In this connection Il was asserted this
afternoon that Madame Rastian who was
housekeeper for Colonel Schwarzkoppen.
the German military nttache IN 1894 and
who Is understood to have acted sa
French spy has been seen in Rennes and
will bee summoned as a witness concerning
Schwarzkoppens espionage system.
DREYFUs DAY TODAY.
These rumors may be without founda-
tion. but in event they are symptom;c of
the feelings in Rennes that something Is
going on under the surface and that the
complexion OF the trial may De altered by
some coup at any moment
In the matter of evidence. today was
quite a Dreyfus day. only the deposition
o fthe last Witness General De Loye be-
ing unfavorable. The testimony Of NJ.
Picot "a member Of the institute. Is little
likely, however TO serve the cause of the
accused materially If at all because his
] llAAAbuhtlA0A "a AbANNtA afElAutAh1lf lUE
Austrian military attache, as a champion
Of Dreyfus, was rather - calculated to
arouse re,entment and adversely 70 in
huerc- TIE judges especially as It was
followed by General Rogets tactful pro
test against Colonel Schniders uucompll-
mentary illusions to French officers.
Tomorrows proceedings behind closed
doors will deal with the question whether
Captain Dreyfus was ma position TO di-
vulge the Information regarding the ar
tillery which was promised in the bbore-
dereau. The session will be very impor-
tant and Is bound to have a tremendous
influence upon the judges one way or the
ether. because they are all artillery Of
heers and viii be able to appreciate such
evidence betterthan the cryptographlc IN
tricacies that have been laid before them
by the handwriting experts.
The OreyfusaFds express confidence thai
their artillery witnesses, Major Hartman
and Major Ducros, will effectively satisfy
the judges that Dreyfus was ignorant o
the matters mentioned IN the bordereau o.
as an artillery officer, would not hav,
bbeen guilty OF stating the errors whiol
II contained
The court roomcontinues crowded an(
quite o number OF ladies now succeed
IN obtaini"g admission Town loafers ar
making a regular business OF forming
queue outside the entrance to the pu5li
park and court room ms early as 2 or
O'Clock IN the morning and selling place
al from three TO five francs according
10 position The ordinary public, arrive
at 20 in the morning, must purchas
these places. because only limited mum