The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-09-08

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dossiers to July 1892.
General Consoles, I had charge
Of it.
N. Labori-How happens ii, then.
that a telegram from the French am
bassador at Rome sent by Iii foreign
office to the war office, referring 10
payments 10 E~sterhazey by an italian
agent was not added to the secret
dossier?
General Gonse-There were plenty OF
others. All were not included, but only
the most important.
NJ. Labori-Was the information o.
the French ambassador at Rome OF
less Importance than h garbled con-
versation of NJ. Painleve?
Colonel Jouaust-I will not put the
question.
NJ. Labori-Why was information
against Dreyfus always included in the
dossier, and never any discriminating
Colonel Jouaust-I also refuse to put
that question.
NJ. Labori-All right. I think the
question itself fully answered the pur-
pose.
Commandment Cuignet, who made up
the secret dossier, replying to Colonel
Juaust, explained that he omitted eve
rything emanating from foreigners as
misleading to France.
NJ. Labori commented in a surprised
way upon the fact that alleged French
proofs against Dreyfus were still spo-
ken of and demanded that all proofs be
produced once for all.
Replying to NJ. Labor, Commandant
Cuignet declared that there were doc
| uments relating to Dreyfus in a dossier
connected with espionage in the intel
ligence department.
NJ. Labori said he must insist that al
these documents must be produced az
IL r. anY1~ ~ i
at which NJ. Cernschi is to be exam
ined.
| NJ. Matt, who was on the staff of This
| Temps testified that Spy Guenee in
| formed him that the officers had indis-
| putable proof of the guilt of Dreyfus
| and mentioned a snapshot photograph
| representing Dreyfus conversing with
| a military attache at Brussels.
M. Temps, a special commissary OF
| the railway police, deposed that he
| photographed the bcrdereau by order
| of Colonel Sandherr. He has not ma
| nipulated the plate with a view to con-
| cealing marks upon the
When the fac smile Of the bordereau
was published, he tried to induce the
| witness to implicate Lieutenant Colonel
| Picquart in the Dreyfus revelations. NJ.
] Temps detailed successive steps in his
| investigations, showing how Lieutenant
Colonel Henry and Commandant Lauth
had brought pressure to bear to a
| MIN implicate Lieutenant Colonel Pic
| quart and their angry threats when the
witness report did not suit them. They
! accused the witness of being Influenced
| by some one.
Replying to NJ. Demange, NJ. Tonps
| said that he had only once mixed up
| EsterhaZey in connection with the re-
| port. E~sterhaZey had been seen at a
| foreign agents residence which had
! two Qyitc q MD had other Sl1SniciOI1S re-
1ations. Witness had found c~orrobora-
ton of this.
Detective Hennion testified regarding
! the assertion to the effect that Paulmier
the valet of Colonel SchwartzkOppen,
the German military attache, had seen
plans of fOrtreSSeS signed by Dreyfus
on his masters table. M. HenniOn fur
| nished a typewriter report on the sub
| ject, showing that Paulmier never saw
nor ever said he had seen such docu-
| ments.
M. Labor pointed out that the head
| quarters staff had alleged hat the de-
| tective only reported that Paulmier had
disappeared and that his address was
nknOW
Probably, M. Labor suggested, the
gentleman at headquarters merely mis-
understood the report Of the detective.
M. Labor much regretted this report
could no be found, and added amid
luuCH 6AClle1l16ul. buC LnlS is always
the case. 1t is always impossible to
get at the bottom of interesting Incl
dents, owing to documents being miss
ing.
Colonel Jouaust announced that there
would be a sitting in camera tomorrow
morning.
Upon suggestion Of counsel for the
defence, the court-martial, therefore,
adjourned for the day at 11:40 o'clock
a. m.
ESTERHAZEY ON THE TRIAL.
London, September 4.-Major Ferdi-
nand Walsin sterhazey, writing to
The Evening News today describes the
expert handwriting evidence in the
court-martial of Captain Alfred Drey-
fus at Rennes as IAN overwhelming
mass Of stupid nonsense" He refers
Major du Patty de Clam and himself
as being "victimized by the general
| staff to cover their own faults"
Continuing, he says: France is
being devastated by a civil war all the
more abominable because it is not
being fought with arms. The Dreyfus
verdict will not end the strife. The
acquittal of Dreyfus, for which the
government is working secretly, will
result in he complete disorganization
of the French military system and the
triumph of the socialists"
! GOVERNMENT OPPOSES SECRET
SESSIONS.
Paris, September 4.-General The
Marquis de Galliffet, minister of war,
has allowed it to become known that
he is absolutely opposed to secret SEES
sions of the Dreyfus court at Rennes.
It is stated hat General De Galliffet
has t~elegraphed to the government
commissary, Major Carriere, in this
sense, stating that tomorrow's session
of the court martial in camera should
be confined to a~cquainting the judges
with the name of the foreign govern
ment mentioned by ~Cernuschi, the
Austro-Hungarian refugee who testi-
fed before the court today and adding
that the government desires that the
truth shall be established in the full
light of day.
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