Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-08-09
AS SEEN BY MRS. CRAWFORD.

Copyright, Associated Press.)
RENNES, August S.-Maitre De-
mango, the principal counsel for Cap
tain Dreyfus, expresses himself as well
satisfied with yesterdays proceedings.
Coz. Jouaust had to play the part of
a severe judge, but if his voice was rude
the prisoner, his eye was kind, and
there was no attempts to press home
the points raised by the indictment.
NJ. Chanoine, the custodian of the
famous secret dossier, said it would
take four days to examine it, as the
examination would be behind closed
doors and most of the witnesses have
gone to the seaside. Gen. De Boisdef-
fire, to Dinard, and Gen. Dionne, to
Harem. Gen. MERCER remains here
tie guest of Gen. Saint German, who
tells his friends to be prepared for SEN
sational evidence that must crush Drey-
fus and many others with him.
M. Cavaignac talked at LIE Mans on
his way here. He said he expected two
coups dtheatre. We now hear that
one will be an avowal by Gen. Billot
that he said on his soul and conscience
DreyfuS was a traitor because he was
misled. The other will be MERCER
driven to bay. The latter will issue
from this trial ruined if Dreyfus is ac-
quilted. l hear he intends to throw a
searchlight on the secret councils of
the Dupuy government, of which he
was member in 1894, and to show
what diplomatic wires were pulled be-
tween the arrest of Dreyfus and his
embarkation for Cayenne.
MERCER refuses to be interviewed.
He looks bowed down from care. Gen.
Billot on the other hand, seems to have
taken out new history of life. He
also is extremely reticent. as indeed are
all the witnesses of note. NJ. Jaures
arrived last night. He claims to know
much that is in the secret dossier- An
intercepted correspondence between
two military attaches, who were mixed
up in the affair, is said by Jaures to
be shame to human nature These
two officers wrote under feminine
names and in strain that might not
have shocked the young cortiers of Ne
TO or the ribald crowd that gathers
around Lots house in the doomed city.
Possibly, nay probably, the attache in
question never wrote these scented bill
lets, for such they are. LIE MERCER Pr
card was equal to the task of forging
them and he possibly did forge them
for pecuniary consideration. Hence.
perhaps, the mystery in which his sui
eide is shrouded.
The council for Dreyfus met to-day
at his wife's residence. the heads OF
the Dreyfusite party, and consulted on
the present aspect of the affair They
went there after they had examined the
documents of the secret dossier in the
judges room. They do not seUany pos
sibility of repeating the judgment OF
1894.
Dreyfus was greatly fatigued after
yesterdays ordeal. He asked anxiously
to-day what the press and public
thought, and was led to think that opln-
ion is generally favorable This is
true. The representative of national
list journals who judge harshly in print
express admiration for the unfinshing
constancy he has displayed.
Leading perSonages here for the trial
have much TO say about the late Gen
Annenkoff and Baron Fredericks in
connection with Dreyfus, but Gen.
MERCER and NJ. Hanotaux, former min
lister of foreign affairs, refuse to speak
on the subject. NJ Hanotaux looks de-
jected. Ii will be curious to see wheth-
er he and MERCER contradict each
other.
There seems danger that all the evil
dence relating to foreign diplomatists
will be given with closed doors The
public trial will be resumed on Satur-
day.
Dreyfus, member of his family tells
me, mas Hol yet got over MS nip van
Wrinkle feeling. He was lost, as he put
it. He remarked to his wife that he
was astonished to find himself yester-
day watched by the whole world or It's
proxies, though he showed no sign OF
astonishment. He was thrown in a
heap by the searching and, as he
thought, unfriendly examination by The
president OF the courtmartial He had
expected mere formal proceedings.
Nm. Demange and Labori did not
prepare him for hostile tribunal and
scrutinizing public. He felt as if X
rays were being cast on him all the time
he was under public gaze. Ii was as il
the Utmost thoughts of his heart were
being peered into. He imagined the pro-
ceedings would be only formal and thai