Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-26
DreyfuS' Counsel Will Ap-
peal to Germany
TO NAME REAL CULPRIT
Bertill0n Yesterday Gave His Evidence
In a Shrill Voice and With Many
Gestures--DreyfusardS Watching
His Every Movement.

the handwriting expert. who is at the
head of the anthropemetric department
of the prefecture of police of Paris, had
concluded the first installment of his
so-called demonstration 0 the guilt of
Captain Dreyfus, a prominent Dreyfus-
ard referred to him as the fin de steele
Cagliostro. The Dreyfusards refused to
regard him as anything out the prince
Of quacks. They cover his remarks with
ridicule and protest that the admission
Of his fantastic theories as evidence be-
fore the court ma: tial is a disgrace to
France. "C'este une honte?' was the re-
mark heard on all sides when the session
closed II the audience. mainly made up
of Dreyfusards. was being pressed out
side by the gendarmes, who clear the
court room as soon as the court adj
journs.
Nevertheless, even the D~reyfusards do
not deceive themselves as to the effect of
NJ. Bertillon's testimony or "~demonstra-
/ tons may have upon the judges, who,
they fear, will ge gulled by what the
Dreyfusards consider spurious. All the
judges have passed through the ecole
polyteclnique, the highest school Of sci
ence in France, and they are thus pecu-
i"AA lA SaNIt y ~ ~
that Of Bertillon. Moreover. with the aid
Of innumerable diagrams and specimens
of writing which he submits to them,
they may be able to follow his reasoning
i~ntelligently. which is more than any
member of that audience could do today.
If the Judges accept Bertillon's premises,
that Dreyfus, as an expert spy, did not
write in ordinary handwriting, but in
close imitation, even continuing to give
letters the appearance Of having been
traced, in order to be able to %repudiate
them az a forgery if detected, then the
structure built upon the groundwork may
be scientifically correct. Even Dreyfus,
when shown Bertillon's demonstrations,
admitted the ingenuity and plausibility
Of the system, though he naturally de-
clared it was built on a false basis.
A remarkable feature of Bertillon's
deposition was the heat and excitement
he put into what he expected to be a
calm, dispassionate exposition of his the
Dry. He Numbered, shouted and waved
his arms as though engaged in some ter
rfble dispute. Once he literally shrieked,
and numbers of the usua audience who
had been unable to follow him and We're
taking the air in the court yard, rushed
back into the hall, breathlessly inquiring
what had happened and imagining that
!, he was Illuminating some dreadful denun-
citation of the ccused Their excitement
was turned into hilarity when they found
llldI HC vas ny lillpleSSllS
upon the judges the significance of the
exact space, measured in centimetres
between two words in the bordereau,
The military witnesses, all of whom
sit in a bunch, leaving Colonel Picquart
and M. Bertulus severely isolated, fol.
lowed NJ. Bertillon's statements with q
grave and wise expression of counte-
nance, upon which never a suspicion of q
smile appeared, as though they under
stood every word. Evidently they haC
received a mot d'ordre to preserve this
attitude, for without seeing the diagrams
they could not have understood any bet.
ter than did the general public.
The Echo de Paris announced today
that the counsel of Dreyrus had obtained
possession Of certain documents men.
toned in the bordereau in EesterhaZy':
handwriting, which they would produce
in court next week as a coup de theatre
The correspondent of the Associated
Press inquired as to this in cOmpeten.
Dreyfusard quarters this afternoon. H
was assured that the statement was er
roneous, hut was also told that the de.
Tense intended, in the event of Captain
Dreyfus being recondemned, to ask thu
German government to communicat,
these documents proving his innocence
and that they had reason to believe sucl
a request would be granted.