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Ih6 witness was l6afQ 10 say Qur1n2
his demonstration:
THE system 1 have the honor to ex.
plain to you can easily be carried on un-
der your eyes and, if you like, 1 will
again read the notes"
Roars of laughter greeted the depreca-
tory reply of Col. Jouaust, president of
the court-martial, who said:
"Oh no, do not trouble yourself
AS the comedy prolonged it became so
wearisome that the audience brought out
newspapers and chatted in low tones
M. Jauros. member of the chamb er Of
deputies, and strong Dreyfus ard, openly
showed his impatience, but was not re-
buked for so doing.
NJ. Bertillon, at one point advanced al.
legged fresh proofs against the prisoner,
namely, in the Dreyfus papers seized at
the war office and in which the specialist
said he found two words had been traced.
AS he proceeded the witness became i'm,
bedded in paraphernalia. His lecture, de-
livered in funeral tones, began to pail on
the judges, who finally only paid the most
cursory attention to the examples sub
mitted. One of M BertiIlon's demon
strations was handed to Dreyfus, who
closely scrutinized it and returned the
paper with a shrug of his shoulders and
without uttering word. In summing
up the results of the test, M. Bertillon
said:
Fully understanding the responsible
ity of so positive a statement on my soul
and conscience, l declare today, as l did
in 1894, on my oath that the bordereau
is the work of the prisoner here"
DREYFUS DIsDAINFUL.
Dreyfus heard this assertion unmoved.
The witness was asked by the court how
he explained the similarity of the hand
writing of the bordereau and that Of Es-
terhazy to which he replied that since
1894 Esterhazy may have practiced fm1-
tating writing of the bordereau, in order
| to render possible the substitution of him
self for the prisoner In support of this
| theory, NJ. Bertillon produced fresh ara
ray of plates, which he alleged proved
| his hypothesis in regard to Esterhazy.
! There were murmurs of assent and dis
sent The witness pointed out that in
| Esterhazys writing there were certain
| caligraphic blunders, which, he asserted,
| did not exist in the original bordereau,
but were found in reproductions of the
! document in consequence of tmperfec-
! ito IDS employed to repro
! duce them. This, he continued, tended to
| prove that Esterhazy had appropriated
the writing of these reproductions.
"Esterhazy," exclaimed NJ. Bertillon,
'is man of straw and scoundrel.
have said this ever since the commence
ment of the Zola trial.
There was a sensation in court at this
| remark which was turned to laughter
! as the witness, in his excitement, knock
/ ed his portfolios to the ground. M. De-
mango asked M. Bertilon If he had sub
nitted Esterhazys handwriting to the
! same tests as the bordereau. The witness
! replied in the affirmative, explaining,
: however, that the tests were less COM
j plete than in the case of the prisoner
Taraindp6 the witness that he
! said in 1894 that he found in a bordereau
/ a cryptographic signature, ALFRED Drey-
I fus.'
] NJ Bertillon replied that he was not
! now positive on this point, to which he
! added he attached mo Importance what
! ever"
/ Referring to M. Bertillons statements
Yesterday that he found in the bordereau
words Dreyfus was in the habit of using
| in documents of the war office, Nj. De-
! mango asked how the witness accounted
! for this, and the specialist explained with
some confusion that it was necessary
counterpart of the precautions taken by
the prisoner when he wrote the border
eau. in order to make out that he was
{ the victim of plot.
Asked his opinion on the letter from
Matthew Dreyfus, called the plotting
nad'' letter, from which the specialist
alleged that the prisoner took the S:ey
word for the bordereau, M. Bertllon
replied that he had no opinion on the
subject, but he maintained the letter
had been written by the same system
as the bordereau.
This is my hypothesis" said the Wit
ness s'Manv similar ones can be found. "
ON THE RACK.
M. Labor asked how M. Bertillon rec
onciled the result of the present expert
| ments, namely, that the bordereau was
written by Dreyfus, tracing Esterhazy
! handwriting, with his opinion in 1894 that
! the bordereau was written by Dreyfus
unless it had been most carefully forged
| To this M Bertillon replied that 1t was
only a hypothesis, whereupon M. Labor
remarked that the forgery was then oi
such nature as to constitute proof II
favor of Dreyfus, yet today 1t is MADE
| proof against him"
Continuing. counsel said: "Since the
witness admits EsterhaZy has written by
the same mathematical methods as Drey-
fus. why has he attributed the bordereaI
to Dreyfus rather than to Esterhazy?'
M. Bertillon-It was on Dreyfus paC
that the keyword interest" was found
and Esterhazy might have had access tc
this word
NJ Labori-Does NJ. Bertillon admit thai
| Esterhazy is a traitor?
Col. Jouaust refused to put the ques
ton to the witness.
NJ Labori, continuing his question
asked NJ. Bertillon's opinion as to wha
system of defense might have been EN-
ployed by the writer of the bordereau, Il
the document had been found on him.
The witness, in a confused and inaudl
bic tone declared that the prisoner
would have then maintained the docu
ment was a forgery and would have ad
duced it as proof of a plot.
NJ Labori-In that case the prisonel
must have foreseen the appearance on thu
scene of man so eminent as M. Bertil
lon, capable of imagining a system 81
ingenious as the one he has exposed to
day.
NJ Bertillon retorted that. in his opin
ion. a man of the ability of the prisone
could have made model line in a quar-
ter of an hour every time he had occa
sion to write.
Replying to further questions, NJ. Ber
tillon admitted he had discovered in Els
terhazy's writing peculiarities similar t,
those in the bordereau.
DREYFUS EXAMINED.
Col. Jouaust asked the prisoner if h,
had anything to say in reply to the wit
ness, and the attention of all presen
was Immediately riveted on Dreyfus, WIN,
explained how the exclamation, ''Oh tn
wretch!' escaped his lips yesterday.
IN Bertillon," the prisoner said, IVA
constantly turning to me while testify
ing and calling me the guilty man. 1 re
torted wretch to him. Those are tn
circumstances under which I uttered tn
word. have nothing to reply to the de
position of the witness. But there is on
thing of which I am absolutely sure, AM
that Is that I am not the writer of tn
bordereau.'
Referring to his papers, which wer
seized at the war Office, Dreyfus saic
that it would not be strange to see note
written by officers altered. He added:
''I was shown yesterday a note relativ'