The Portland daily press., 1899-08-19

fided to tine general the probable reasops
for II and his belief in the Innocence Of
Dreyfue. General lie Clero thereunon
ordered Picquart not to 60 beyond Gabes
In the meanwhile the campaign In
Paris Was continued. -
Essernazy appeared among the witness
es and eocusers.
Picquart here created q sensation by in
cidentally remarking that the Judges In
1894 were shamefully deceived In having
the document containing the words sscotts
canaille de d." communicated 60
them.
Witness then bitterly recIted the dc.
tails OF the various machinatious with
the view Of discriminating him, instieated
by Henry and Ksterhazy and Patty du
| Clam.
Col Jouaust, president OF the court,
having been asked for explanations on
certain points, Picquart said;
"If tell you all this, gentlemen, Il IL
to show whit must have been the mental
attitude towards me of the members Of
the court martial which tried Esterhazy. :"
(Murmurs Of asssnt.) When he resumed
his deposition. the witness said he
regretted he had not been given the OPP
portunity 10 contradict his accusers at
that court martial
II have almost finished my task, ="
added Picquart. "but ask permission TO
refer +, the way the bordereau came to
the war ofiice- have doubts in regard
TO the person who brought the bordersau
Two quite different persons could GER
tainly have delivered the bordereau In
1894, But n an Intelligent person had
delivered IL he would certainly have in
sisted upon the value Of its contents
Generals Roget and Meroier having
intimated desire to speak, Col. Jouaust
| asked Dreyfus II he had anything to sfy
and the prisoner replied In the negative.
General Roget then mounted the plat
form and asked Col. Picquart for expl. :
nations regarding the Quenelli affair.
"Col. Picquart," said General Roget,
ATTACKED me this morning in regard to
my speech for the prosecution yesterday
on the subject of the Qaenelli case. He
said he was not present at the ministry
when the case was in progress and he
aseribed its conduct to Col. Henry. That
Is quite incorrect. ask Col. Picquart If
he denies that he wrote Capt. Mareohal
an order 10 connect him with Galanti;
that he wrote to the public prosecutor of
the closing documents and that he wrote
to the public prosecutor second time,
July 10. II he denies this ask tho cou
to send for Mareschal and the dossier
the Q lenelli affair."
Col. Picquart replied that there was no
need to threaten to produce the dossier In
order 20 make him reply. He added:
II did not say 1 was absent during the
Qaeneli affair. | said was absent pars
Of the time and that painful duties did
not permit me to participate in 1t as
would otherwise have DONE"
"Did you write those letters?'' asked
Col Jouaust
YES" replied Picquart. ST remem ber
writing letters in the case though do
not remember exactly their terms or
dates.
Col. Jouaust then said: "Gen. Roget
asks it you deny you wrote letter send
ing Gilanti to Swltzerlani."
"Gilanti," replied the witness, swas
an agent who gave us Information about
the Italian forts in the peighhorhood of
Belfort Finding ourselves on the point
Of being discovered we naturally took
measures TO avoid 1t. That Is why Gilanti
was sent TO Switzerland"
"Then you wrote the letters?" said
General Roget. land add that Col.
Her ~ ~
He was sent to Belfort against his will
by Col. Picquart."
The witness ACKNOWLEDGED writing some
letters, but wanted to know their tex.
He said he would like to see them, So
that he ,ouid be more precise.
"You must have sesn." he sai1,
how much falsehood there has Lesn in
this affair"
In reply to further questions. Picq lart
admitted sending documents to BelfoIt
for the use Of the QusneIli case.
"But. Pioquart added. "they were
handed to the public prosecutor
General Roget's questioning was evil
IDENTIFY with the view of eliciting the con-
fession from Col. Picquart that in the
Quenelli case he commune ated to the
judges documents unknown to the de-
Tense as he now accuses the general staff
Of doing In the Dreyfus case
The general concluded angrily repelline
various statements of Picquart.in regard
to his connection with the press, and
dialogue, apparently wholly unconnectsd
with the present trial. followed.
Gen sral Mercier promptly replaoed
General Roget.
"Col. Picquart." MercIer said, "has |
stated that ordered him to convey doeu-
ments to Col. Mauret That Is ia lse. 1 |
never handed any packet to Col. Picq uart
for Col. Mauret. l never mentioned
secret documents to him.
In reply. Col. Picquart said: ST re-
member perfectly handing packet to
Col. Mauret.''