The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1899-08-17

second shortly afterward. when he
returned radiant to announce that he
was to be saved-by his own su-
periors. The French Government,
who have refused to let Panizzardi
give evidence, cannot be heard to
say that declarations are not evidence
or are incredible. The declarations
are confirmed by the report from
their own police that on the 22nd
October Esterhazv did visit the Ger
man Embassy, and by the admission
of the War Office itself that about
that date Esterhazy had an evening
interview at Montsouris with Col.
Henry, the head of the Intelligence
Department, Gribelin, the archivist
OF the same department. and Col. du
Patty de Clam, of the staff. two of
them being in disguise-one with 4
false heard, the other in blue spec
tacles-and the third, Henry, skulking
in a cab; all three. conspirators, come
to assure ESterhazy of protection
from headquarters in his approach
ing trial for writing the bordereau
and for other reasonable communica-
tions with Schwarzkoppen-
ABUNDANT PROOFS OF DREYFUs' INNo-
CENCE.
AS the Esterhazy dossier provides
also other particulars to which Drey-
fus may appeal. Item: Esterhazy's
boast that he had long been the
man of the headquarters staff, and
his own account of himself, in
writing. to the first President of the
Court of Cessation, that in 1894 and
1895 he was engaged by Sandherr to
communicate secretly with Schwarz-
koppen and sell him State docu-
ments: only EsterhaZy asks the court
to believe that the business was to
sell worthless documents, in order to
obtain valuable ones in exchange.
Item: The petit-bleu, which in March,
1896, is stolen from the German En-
bassy, and is found to be a request,
! addressed to Esterhazy by name,
asking whether relations with the
house of R-may be resumed.
Item: The bordereau is not only
identified by War Office experts as
being in the hand of Esterhazy, but
he admits it himself, only he and they,
acting IN proved collision, pretend
that it was decalque, whilst all in
dependent experts proclaim that it is
no decalque, but Esterhazy's natural
hand. Item: The bordereau was
written Oh peculiar paper-papier
pelure quadrille, very rare in the
market-and there are now in the
possession OF the court at least two
letters written by Esterhazv on the
very same paper, one of them of
about the same date as the bordereau.
When these letters were produced in
the Court of Cessation. EsterhaZy
swore that for his correspondence he
always used tracing paper of this
kind; but at his own court-martial,
before those letters had come to
light, he had sworn that he never
did. Lastly, Dreyfus can now prove,
what he was prevented by the Judges
at his court-martial from proving, that
the concluding words of the bor-
dereau, ''Je vais partir en- manoeu-
vres," could not have been written
propriately used by Esterhazy.
These proofs are abundantly sutfi-
cient to demonstrate that Dreyfus
was in fact innocent. | am bound to
add that he was known to be SO at
the time by those who prosecuted
him, and, since then, by those who
have upheld his conviction. The
per Jury of Henry at the court-mar-
tial that a trustworthy agent had
denounced Dreyfus as the traitor of
the second bureau; the suppression,
if not the Justification, of the telegram
of the 2nd November, 1894; and the
clandestinc communication of the
secret dossier (whatever its contents)
to the court by the War Office, betray
the consciousness Of the perpetrators
that they were accusing an innocent
man. The subsequent forgeries and
frauds of Henry and others to fix the
crime on Dreyfus: the gross collusion
of the staff in their mock proceedings
against Esterhazy for the offense of
| which Drevfus had been convicted
writing the bordereau; the malignant
persecution Of Picquart for honestly
seeking the true criminal; the whole
I conduct of the War Office, their con-
stant use of falsehood and their
systematic suppression of the truth,
all show that they screened Ester
hazy, knowing that he was guilty,
and kept Dreyfus in prison, knowing
that he was innocent.
Nevertheless, Zurlinden has told
the court that revision will be of nc
use. If Dreyfus is to be tried again
he will be condemned again.