The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-03

Rennes. Sept. 2-Elation is the onl
word that expresses the feelings of tn
Dreyfusards after today's proceeding.
The tide has turned at last, they say
and Dreyfus cannot be condemned af
ter the evidence given this nornins
The spirits of the Dreyfusards are quit
mercuriaL Every day since the open
ing of the trial has seen them rise O
fall. Recently they have been fallin.
heavily, the close of morning session
generally finding them in anxious con
vers2tion, accompanied by ominou
shaking of their heads. Today's buoy
ancy, therefore, is all the more note
worthy. Yesterday was a fairly goo,
day, but today's session. they claim
put the verdict out Of doubt, and TIL
judges must acquit DreyfuS.
Major Hartmann of the artillery oc
cupied nearly half the session with tn,
conclusion of his expert evidence Il
the effect that Dreyfus as an artiller,
officer would not have displayed sucf
Ignorance regarding guns and brake:
as was shown in the bordereau, while
the other subjects of the borderear
were matters on which any Officer
could inform himself. Major Hart
MAINS testimony practically stood un-
contested. as neither General de Loye
nor General Mercier. who replied, re-
futed any material point therein.
From a Grammatical Standpoint.
NJ. Havet, a member of the insti-
tute, then entered upon the grammati-
cal aspect of the bordereau, and in
vigorous but elegant language, devoted
himself TO showing that the conStruc-
ton of the bordereau bristled with
strong and, in his opinion. conclusive
marks Of Esterhazy's hanaiworls, while
the phraseology bore no resemblance to
Dreyfus' style.
The next stage of the proceedings
was the reading of the Gonse- Picquart
correspondence exchanged at the time
Colonel P.cquart suspected EsterhaZy
and wanted General Gonse to probe the
matter to the bottom. This brought
Nj. Labori to the front and in Sc
ries of questions he brought out sharp
ly before the court the Vaccinations
of which Colonel PicQuart was the vic
tim at the hands of the major from
the moment he showed a desire to
thoroughly sift the matter.
NJ. Labor, for the first time, got
General Gonse tc admit that he or
dered the tampering with Picquart's
letters in order, as he said, to ascer-
tain Picquart's doings while he was
chief of the intelligence bureau. A lit
tie later NJ. Labor evidently discon-
certed General Gonse. for the latter
blurted out that Lieutenant Colonel
Henry committed his forgery in order
to have fresh proofs against Dreyfus.
The audience smiled audibly at this
explanation. General Gonse then ad-
ded:
The discriminating Documents.
But it was unnecessary since the
diplomatic dosSier contained incrinli-
mating documents, with 'Dreyfus' writ
ten in full"
General Gonse apparently meant the
Panizzardi dispatch which has already
been ruled out of court. NJ. Labori
protested Indignantly, exclaiming
there are no such documents and
then asked General Gonse to enumerate
the documents to which he alluded
Colonel Jouaust, president of the
court, however declined to put the
question, whereupon NJ. Labor said he
reserved to himself the right to SUBJ
nit a formal application for these doc
uments.
Then came the leading witness of the
day, NJ de Fond Lamotte, a proba-
toner contenlporaneously with Drey-
fus, who is now civil engineer, and |
so has no reason to fear the wrath of |
the military clique.
The witness opened by declaring that |
utSDitG luc ldCL ludl lie I2u Il
in the garrison at Rennes, he came to |
tell what he knew in favor of Dreyfus, |
and .he proceeded to make a statement, |
which, according to the Dreyfusards, !
decides the case. First, he
recalled the fact that a circular was
sent to the probationers on May IA,
1894, informing them that they must
not go to the maneuvers, thus showing
that the man who wrote the bordereau
in nd caiH- 70 70
could not be Dreyfus.
Vital Point In Case.
The witness then pointed out that
none of the ministers, who he believed
acted in good faith, were informed of
the existence of this circular, which, he
declared: Il consider a vital point in
TIE case.
This circular" he continued, shat
ters the prosecution, because, after
May IL, Dreyfus could not say L am
going to the maneuvers', for then he
knew he would not go. while, prior TO
May II, he could not have known the
i've documents comprised in the bor-
iereau."
NJ. Lamotte then brought out another
strong point. Abiding to the modifica-
tons OF the disposition concerning the
-roops. he said the writer of the Dor
iereau used the term, new plan"
Now" he said, lit has been impress
ID upon you that on Oct. Is a circular
vas sent out from the war ministry
those very words, and that
therefore,, the writer of the bordereau ;
must have been an officer of the min
stry. But one thing has struck me
who sent that circular?
1T was the third bureau, the chief ,,
If which was Lieutenant Colonel du
Patty de Clam, who had the bordereau
n his hands for the previous twenty ,
avs"
Patty de CLAIMS Part.
M. de Fond Lamotte by this intended ,
o show that Du Patty de Clam purpose
Y used the words new PLAN in the
ircular order. by what the witness de- l
cribed as ssguing in vicious circle i
0 back up his contention that an Off !
er of the ministry wrote the bordereau
nd that that officer was Dreyfus.
General Roget then rose to reply to
l. de Fond Lamotte, but found he had {