The record-union., 1899-09-02


him his head and you will see" Drey-
fus, witness claimed, attended the Ger
man maneuvers at Alsace that time.
Colonel Jouaust-Have you seen the
prisoner, sir?
Germain-Yes, I recognized him In
the Bois de Boulogne as Lieutenant
Dreyfus
The Court-How did you know that?
Germain-An officer named D1nfre-
vile told me-
Colonel Jouaust-Do you recognize
him in the prisoner?
German Cooking at the prisoner)--
Yes.
M. Demange inquired whether the
witness had been prosecuted for
swindling and had been acquitted.
Germain replied in the negative, but
he admitted that he had been con-
victed of embezzlement on June Il.
1893.
Counsel also showed German was
sentenced to six months imprisonment
for embezzlement in 1898.
Labori asked Germain if he was ac-
quainted with M. De Beaurepaire and
witness replied that he was not ac~
quainted with him, but he added that
M. Beaurepaire knew the facts TO
which he testified through witness
friends, and also admitted having writ
ten to NJ De Beaurepaire giving in
formation which the latter had pub
lished in the Echo de Paris
In reply to the usual question, Drey-
fus admitted that about 1886 or 1881
he spent a furlough at Mulhausen, add
ing: Every year, both While studying
and attending the gunnery and artill-
cry training school, / passed one or
two months at Mulhausen, but 1 can
| positively affirm that I was never
present either in an official or semi
official capacity at the German man
| euvers. l was never invited to attend
the German maneuverS, and I never
dined or lunched with any German Off
Ger. On each visit l called on the Cen
eraI commanding at Mulhausen with
my regular passport, in accordance
with my duty.
I would like to point out, in regard
to the maneuvering ground to which
reference is made, that the MulhauSen
ground is not ground over which man.
euvers could be carried out. 1t is mere
than a clearing in the Heart forest road
! from MulhauSen to BaSle. 1t is true
that in the course of my excursions
in 1886 1 might have seen regiments
! drilling but l emphatically declare that
| While out riding in 1886 or in 1887 l
never dined or lunched with German
| officers, was never even invited to do
so by foreign officers, and never spoke
| to foreign officers"
| Replying to Colonel Jouaust, Dreyfus
! said that while he was at Mulhausen
| he rode his brothers horse, and did
not remember anything about the
horse mentioned by German.
| Kuhlman, the livery stablekeeper
! who employed GermainBat the time.
testified that he never rode with Drey-
/ fus, as stated by Germain; that he
never went to the maneuvers in com
pany with Dreyfus, and absolutely de-
| MED all Germains statements.
Germain, the liveryman added, was
in his employ, and possibly accompan-
| led Dreyfus, but the witness had no
| knowledge of it. In conclusion, Kuhl-
man, emphatically reiterated that he
never rode with Dreyfus. He said he
I
! Dreyfus family.
Major dInfreville testified that he
had known Germain since 1894. He
added that Germain informed him that
Dreyfus attended the German maneu-
vers. Witness had never said that the
| officer Germain saw in Bois de 'Bou-
! lOgne was Dreyfus, for the simple rea-
! son that he did not know Dreyfus
! Germain, on being recalled, asserted
/ that he certainly thought Major d In
| freville told him the officer referred to
was Dreyfus.
| Captain Lemmonier of the headuuar-
ters staff, who was a probationer on
the staff at the same time as Dreyfus
deposed that while they were at the
school of war in 1894 Dreyfus, in the
course of a conversation referring to
the covering of troops in the Vosgos
| region, and the movements necessary
for the invasion Of Alsace, said he was
we'll acquainted with a certain posi-
tion to which the Germans attached
| great Importance as a means of check
ing a French advance. This position,
| witness continued, was westward OF
Mulhausen, and Dreyfus said he
reached this opinion after following the
German maneuvers on horseback.
The prisoner at this point quietly
pointed out that the position men
toned by Captain Lemmonier was sit
| uated in totally different locality
from where he (prsoner is supposed to
| have followed the maneuvers
Dreyfus added: Captain Lemmonier
must have confused it with a position
which I described from knowledge
acquired when traversing the whole
district on horseback while a YOUTH
The prisoner reiterated that he never
attended the maneuvers in question.
M. Villon, a tripe merchant, and an
other of the friends of NJ. De Beaure-
paire, declared that when in Berlin dur
ing 1894 he overheard a conversation
of some German officers who were
lunching in an adjoining room One of
| the officers, witness said, expressed in
dignation that a French officer should
be guilty of treason and his companion
| replied: ut is a good thing for us.
You know we were getting the plan of
mobilization from Dreyfus.''
At the request of NJ Demange, M.
| Vlllon detailed the alleged conversa-
tion, and said he had not mentioned
the conversation in 1894, because Drey-
fus had been arrested, and. knowing
! him to be guilty, witness foresaw he
would be convicted
Special Commissary Fischer of the
Easern Military Railway system. de-
posed that he was ordered to investi-
gate leakage in the gunnery school
at Bouges, and, he added, the results
of the inquiries did not seem to in