The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-09-05
DARK FOR DREYFUS.
TESTIMONY THAT MUST DE MET
WITH REBUTTAL OR DREY-
FUs CASE FALLS
TEST IN a SECRET SESSION

Perjury, and VIII Absent Himself
to Look Very HagGcrd.
RENNES, Sept. 4-As the end eff the
Dreyfus court-martial trial comes with
in sight. the French government is be-
ginning 10 display fear that the verdict
may give rise to trouble, and orders
have just been received for two regi-
ments of infantry and one of cavalry,
already within hail of Rennes, to hold
themselves in readiness to proceed to
that town at the first manifestation of
trouble at that place.
The -Dreyfusard organs, by their
anti-foreign articles. have added to the
enemies of the foreigners. ana there is
no doubt the foreign journalists will be
the first victims of the mob-not so
much Anglo-SaXons as Austrian, Ger
man and Russian Jews, who form ma
jority of the representatives of their re-
spective countries.
The feature of the trial today was the
testimony of Eugene Cernuschi, who
came out with a fiat-footed denunciatioa
of the accused, which, even though it
may eventually be proved a fairy tale,
is bound for the moment to exercise a
malignant influence upon the French peo-
pie, who have not seen Cernuschi and are
thus unable to form a personal opinion
of the man who hurled these accusations
against Dreyfus. Cernuschi's appear
ance is undoubtedly against him. No.
body even suspects that he is what he
claims to be--a scion of the royal Servian
house. On the contrary, one would
take him to be a groom, dressed in his
best Sunday suit. 1t was remarked that
as soon as he had delivered his testi-
mony and M Labor had asked him to
be examined in session behind closed
doors, in orGer that he might be pun
ished If guilty of perjury, he left the
court room and was not seen again.
BAD FOR DREYFUs.
Cernuschi's testimony, which was in
the form of a letter to the president of
the court-martial, Col. Jouaust, was
most uneQuiv0cal. He claimed that on
three distinct occasions, twice in France
and once at Geneva, he was told by
high-placed foreign officer that Dreyfus
had communicates reasonable documents
to a foreign power. In the third In
slant Cernuschi said the officer had
shown him q document emauating from
Dreyfus and that this officer left France
hurriedly two days prior to the arrest OF
Dreyfus
The allusion was evidently to Col
Schwarzkoppen, the military attache OF
the German embassy in Paris in 1884,,
whose movements were coincident with
those described as the movements of the
officer of CernuschPs deposition. Now
this evidence is of transcendental impor-
lance to the prosecution, and it is in
credible unless Cernuschi is proved to
be a humbug, that the governme mt COM
missary, Maj. Carriere, should have adj
mitted that he received a letter from
him offering important testimony and
thrown it aside on the grounds Of 1t
coming from political refugee.
The deposition evoked expressions OF
thcredulity. One suspicious feature was
the fact that, although the witness said
he could not speak French 1uently, his
letter to Col. Jouaust, asking an oppor-
tunity to testify, was drawn up in per-
feet French. He explained that he had
been assisted by his wife in writing the
letter.
FOREIGN CHANNEL OPENED.
The introduction of a foreigner as
witness for the prosecution gave M. La
bori an opportunity TO submit the most
important request he has made through
out the trial, request which, If granted
by Col Jouaust, though this is extremely
doubtful, would certainly have moment
Gus consequence. NJ. Labor announced
his intention, in view of the step taken
by the prosecution in calling foreign evil
dence to ask that inquiry should be
made through the regular diplomatic
channels as to whether the documents
mentioned in the bordereau were actually
lo,,r Il, ~,
involves an application to the German
government which the court-martial Is
scarcely likely TO approve In any case,
the application means the lengthening of
the trial for several weeks. The intro
duction of Cernuscni and the other de-
vehpments of the day, 1t is predicted,
imply another fornight's sitting at least.
Cernuschi will be heard tomorrow be-
hind closed doors At the same time
there will probably be an examination
OF the secret dossier to which Capt Cuig-
net referred this morning, and which NJ.
Labor Immediately asked to have pro-
duced in court. This dossier consists of
twetve or fourteen documents, and it is
difficult to see why, if they had any
value, the etat major have not had them
produced earlier. The etat major are not
in the habit of holding back documents
calculated to prove of the slightest serv-
of the note concerning M. Hadamard s
doubts of the innocence of his cousin
which was incorrect, but was neVeTthe-
less included in the secret dossier, while
the important documents bearing on the
authority of the French minister in Rome
that an Italian attache paid Esterhazy
100000 francs were studiously omitted
from the secret dossier. 1t is perfectly
evident that the Italian attaches paid
n CRIB Of
the French minister says, his beautiful
ey es, and shows without doubt that Es-
terhazy is the traitor. Nevertheless the
etat major carefully kept this out OF
view.
GEN. GONSE CORNERED.
M Painleve, the mathematician, cor
nered Gen. Gonse on the latters falsified
version of M. Hadamards remarks con-
ceIning Capt. Dreyfus, and the manner
in which Gonse squirmed and his woe
begone appearance almost aroused pity
for him.
Gen. Roget also appeared to begin to
feel at last the cruel strokes the etat
major have been receiving of late. He
showed naught Of his cruel brazen front
today. On the contrary, his face was
livid when he left the stage after very
poor display, and he left the court room
as soon as the proceedings were over, ex-
cCsing himself to his brother generals.
MERCER and others Of higher grade,
on the ground of feeling unwell
LIEUT.. BRUYEREs LETTER.
After a brief session in camera, the
public sitting of the court-martial was
resumed at 7:15 o'clock this morning. The
first business today was the reading of
the letter of resignation written by Lieut.
Bruyere, Of the artillery, to NJ Cavaig-
nae, then minister Of war; resigning his
commission and declaring that it was a
dishonor to serve in the French army.