The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-08-18

when he feared he was losing his rea-
son caused in immense impression.
Tears were even seen to glisten in the
eyes of General Billot, the former min
lister of war.
At the conclusion of the report, NJ.
Lebon asked leave to explain. He said:
Il do not dispute the accuracy of the
report, but it is partial. Reference has
been most carefully made to the pre-
carious health of the prisoner. But the
doctor never made a communication to
me on the subject / do not hesitate
to say that if he had done so, 1 should
have given orders to have the prisoner
treated as all invalids should be treat
ed. 1t is with deliberate intent that /
have been treated as an executioner."
DREYFUS CREATES A SENSATION.
Colonel Jouaust turning to Dreyfus,
then remarked: Have you anything
to say in regard to this deposition?'
Then the prisoner said: mo, my col
onel, 1 am here to defend my honor. 1
do not wish to speak here of the afro
cious suffering, physical and moral,
which, for five years, 1, Frenchman
and an innocent man, was subjected TO
on the Isle du Diable.'
The remarks of DreyfuS caused in
tense excitement in court. The prison.
er uttered the words in a loud voice
and with tremendous energy, which
created a profound sensation.
MADAME HENRY ON THE WIT
NESS STAND.
The audience had not recovered from
the emotion caused by the scene when
Madame Henry in deep mourning, ap-
peared in court and entered the wit
ness box amid profound silence.
Her testimony related to the visits
of Esterhazey to her husband and Col
Onel Henry's warnings to her to say
nothing OF certain hazardous work on
which he was engaged, the nature Of
which she was ignorant.
Referring to the Henry forgery,
Madame H-nry said: You know his
sentiments gentlemen. He committed
forgery on account of Colonel Pic
quarts proceedings and it was in order
to save the army, compromised by the
dishonesty of it's enemies" profound
sensation.)
GENERAL ROGET 'TESTIFIES.
General Roget followed with a long
and tiresome argument against the
possibility of EsterhaZey having had
any connection with the bordereau.
While testifying he constantly turned
toward the prisoner to see the impress
sion of his deposition which was, vir-
tually, a speech for the prosecution.
The general dealt on the seizure of
papers at the house of Madame Pays,
on which Bertulus largely founded his
conviction Of the guilt Of Henry, owing
to the mention in them of the name Of
a spy, Richard" at Cuers and Basle,
where, it was well-known, spies were
in the habit of meeting. Then the gen.
eral tried to refute NJ. Bertulus' state
ments, declaring Henry brought three
of these documents to the war office
and that they did not contain the men
ton OF Basic or Cuers as stated by NJ.
BertuluS.
The latter. however, had already
shown before the whole court of cas-
sation, that while he was mistaken in
saying the words appeared in those
documents, they did not appear in 9TH
er papers seized at Madame Pays res
idence.
General Roget, who was becoming
more and more exciteda frequently
wiped the perspiration from his brow
and moistened his lips with water.
AT this point the general thought
desirable to make a declaration that
he did not desire it to be said that he
questioned the good faith of some Of
the witnesses who had been heard
Continuing, the general said: M
Casimir-Perie deposed before the
court of cessation that an ambassador
called to demand an official denial OF
the statement that important docu-
ambassador, however knew it was a
fact. But, admitting that he did not
know it, there is nothing surprising in
the occurrence, in view of the facility
with which attache "A U don't men
tion his name, as the minister has for
hidden it, allowed compromising let
ters to lie around. l read one such let
ter which was very compromising to a
person whose name I cannot mention.
Why, therefore, should not the bor-
dereau go astray?'
The general insisted upon the truth
of the statement that Military At
taches "A and b, under which letters
he referred to Colonel SchwartZkoppen
OF the German embassy at Paris, and
Major Penizzardi, of the Italian en-
bassy, at the French capital at the
time, worked together almost daily;
and he quoted a passage from a let
ter exchanged between them as fol-
lows: m. Hanotoux, the sly fellow, is
glad at the embassy denying. The en-
bassy must deny
In the same document declared Gen.
eral Roget, was a name written twice.
and the name, he asserted, was that
of Dreyfus. "The name of Esterhazey,"
he added, was not found in any of
the documents, none of which could be
ascribed to him with the exception of
the Petit Bleu, which Colonel Picuuart
discovered in such an extraordinary
manner"
The witness said he then felt great
uneasiness in regard to the document
containing the words 'Cette Canaille
de D."
A certain military attache, said the
general later on in his testimonw, in
formed Colonel Sandherr that there
was some one who initiated his hand
writing perfectly. The name of "Du-
bois,' the witness said, was found in