Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-08-19
P|cQUART ON WITNESS STAND
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his handwriting. 1 was Immediately
struck with the similarity of his hand
writing. and that of the bordereau. and,
forthwith. / had the letters of Ester
hazy, which were in my possession.
photographed. and showed the photo
graphs to Major Du Patty de Clam and
NJ. Bertillon the handwriting eXpcrD,
between August 25th and September
9Th.
M Bertillon said That is the writ
Ing of the bordereau.'
NJ Bertillon tried to discover where
| mad obtained the handwriting. but tho
only information l impaired was that
1t was current and recent handwriting.
NJ Bertillon then suggested that IL
was a tracing, and ended by saying
that If 1t was current handwriting 1t
could only have emanated from some
whom the Jews had been exercising for
n year in initiating the writing of the
bordereau.
ESTERHAZY WROTE THE BOR-
DEREAU.
when l saw beyond q doubt that
the handwriting of the bordoreau was
E.stcrhazy's and. seeing that the docu-
ments mentioned therein might have
been supplied by Esterhazy. that the
words. 1 am going TO the manouevres
could perfectly we'll apply 10 T:sterhazy
ana that Estcrhazy had secretaries at
his disposal to copy Il document so vol
luminous as the firing manual rcsolv-
ed TO consult the secret dossier and 500
what part Of the treachery might be
ascribed to Dreyfus and TO assure my
self whether the dossier contained any
thing indicating E,sierhazy.
WAS STUPlF'IED.
az frankly admi; | was Supplied on
h., do I ,.,.s..a "A
to find matters Of gravity therein. and
found. in short. nothing but docu-
ment which might apply as much 10
.sterhazy as 10 Dreyfus. an uniinport-
ant document mentioning d Avignon.
and document which it seemed alb
surd To apply to Dreyfus. namely, the
'Cettc canaille de D. document.
Lastly. | recognized a report append
cd in the handwriting of Guenec which
appeared To be at least as worthless as
the second document.
1T was then evening. l had stayed
late. alone at the Office. in order To cX
anime the documents thoroughly.
thought 1t over during the night. and
the next day took the documents and
explained the whole situation to Gen
eral de Bosdcfre.
ORDERED TO THE COUNTRY.
General de Eoisdefrc examined the
secret dossicr with me. but stopped be-
fore he reached the end and told me 10
go into the country. giving an account
Of the affair To General Gonse. and
ask his advice.
Before starting To see General Gonse
! copied note. four pages in length.
which | made September !. containing
my resume # the f;stcrhazy affair
When | Informed General C;onsc of
all which had occurred he remarked:
50 mistake has been made"
After my interview With Gonsc | did
not work any longer on my Initiative.
! said nothing moro until the return of
General Gonse. September II. Al that
time Esterhnzy was at the Grand
Manocuvrcs.
y SIGNIFICANT HINT.
Describing his interview with Cen
era Gonse. September L.. PcGuart
said; When | asked General Gonse
Tor nermis sion to continue the invcsti-
CATION. Insisting on The danger of al
lowing the Drcyfus family 10 proceed
with their investigation alone. tho Cen
cral replied that ii was Impossible i'm
his opinion. and in the opinion of Gen
eral de Hoisdefrc and the Minister Of
War To reopen the affair. When /
pressed the point in order TO make Cen
eral Gonse understand tina; nothing
could prevent its re-opening /; If he
could believe Dreyfus was innocent.
General Gonsc replied: "'If YOU say
nothing, nobody will know
DENOUNCED AS ABOMINAB1E.
General. replied firmly. What Won
tell me is abominable. ! do not know
what | shall do But won't carry this
secret with me-" Great sensation. i"
81 al once left the room" added tho
witness. That is what occurred. |
know my account is disputed. but
positively swear it," said Picquart. as
he cmphatically smote the bar in front
Of the witness box. and looked in the
direction Of the Generals.
The next feature OF PicQuari'e depo-
sltlon was his recital Of the intrigues
against him and the pressure exercised
by Henry with the view OF fixing ON IN,
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