The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-09-08

press such desire to your comrades?"
| Dreyfus: mo"
/ General MERCER here rpappeared on
the scene. After saying that the evil
! dence of Capt. Freystaetter must have
! greatly influenced the judges and that
he had been called a fOrger because OF
that evidence, he gave his version OF
orders that he had issued in 1894: that
| the Panizzardi telegram should not be
| taken into account. He said the sealed
| envelope handed to the first court mar
tial did not contain the Panizzardi teie-
gram.
General MERCER then entered upon a
personal attack upon Captain Freystaet-
ter with view to discredit1ng his tes-
timony.
The allegations of General MERCER
caused so much excitement in court that
| Colonel .Jouaust requested the General
not to enlarge ON the subject
In conclusion MERCER invited the
Judges to pay no attention to Captain
| Freystaetter statements, but to accord
to the evidence which he. himself, had
| the honor to give all the confidence and
moral authority they would have re-
posed in it if the Freystaetter incident
| had never occurred.
NJ. Labor said he regretted Cernuschi
was not present, as counsel desired TO
| question him, and, in any case, NJ. La
/ bori wanted to add to the dOSsier GER
! tain letters showing Cernuschi had suf-
! fered from insanity and was destitute
of moral sense. The defense had dis
covered that application had been made,
! for Cernuschi's eXtradition and he was
/ 20 ha nj Otttb
| and unreliable. Counsel also said that,
| although representing himself to be
| political refugee if Cernuschi had not
| left Austria he would have been placed
| in an asylum for the insane.
| NJ. Labor then asked that letter
| from the witness Grenier should be
| read.
| The Government commissary admit
| ted receiving the letter, but said it was
| of no Importance.
| a copy Of the letter.
| Colonel Jouaust remarked that if the
| letter had reached him he would not
| have made use of it rs it had nothing
! to do with the Dreyfus case. This
! called forth murmurs of assent and dis
sent and NJ. Labor retorted that he
| was of quite an opposite opinion. He
/ said General ChamOin had handed the
| court a letter from Colonel Schwartz
! koppen to his Government, announcing
! that he was about to send them infor-
| nation regarding the real effectiveness
! of the Russian army.
! Colonel Schwartzkoppen had also
| mentioned the Paris and Toulon ma
noueyres, which would explain the
! phrase.''I am going to the manouexvres.'
| This letter was written fortnight af-
ter the arrest of Dreyfus.
General Roget and Captain Cuignet
! urged that it must not be concluded
that the information furnished to the
| German general staff did not emanate
| from Dreyfus, as the fact that it took
/; fortnight to reach its destination
proved nothing.
] At the request Of Nj. Labori, the evil
| dence given by witness named Ecolle
! before the Court Of Cessation was read.
1t described how ESterhazy employed
Eeolle 10 execute Il sketch of a rifle
which, afterwards, Esterhazy said he
had sent abroad with an imaginary plan
| of mobilization.
| after further evidence on this point,
a letter from Ester'hazy to General
/ Roget was read, in which the writer
complained that no use was made Of
i his information and violently attacked
III. Bertilon who, according to Ester
hazy, ought to be in an asylum for the
insane or in a prison. EsterhaZy COM
| planned of his miserable condition, de-
! scribing General De BoiSedeffre as
| scoundrel and the Echo de Paris as a
] Tdirty jew sheet" and adding that it
was n mistake to abandon him and
then prosecute him.
/ After repeating his threats, ESterhazy
wrote that il he were the moral author
i Of the bordereau he could not have
| supplied the information contained in it
| and expressed surprise that nothing had
! been said in regard to the role played
by Colonel Picquart. lie then attacked,
| turn about all the officers of the general
| staff.
Esterhazy declared:
| Il will say or do nothing to increase
/ the dangers of the situation. But, /,
! an old and faithful servant, have been
denounced and have fallen beneath the
i blows, after having been basely aban-
doned by the Boisdeffres, Billots and
/ other generals"
Colonel Jouaust refused to hear any
further evidence and adjourned the
/ court for the usual brief interval
] The session was resumed at 1915 a.
M. when Major Carriere began the
speech for the prosecution. This was
a signal for the military witnesses to
retire and headed by the Generals, they
bowed to the judges and trooped out
of court, in accordance with the orders
of the Minister of War. General de
Gallifet, to start to rejoin regiments
within two hours of the beginning of the
summing up of the prosecution.
Major Carriere's summed up by read
ing the judgment of the Court of Cassa-
ton and the questions referred to the
present court martial.
| The Major said: