The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-09-02
PROGRESS OF DREYFUS TRIAL
SEVERAL WITNESSES TESTIFY IN
FAVOR OF ACCUSED.

FAVOR OF ACCUSED.
The French Firing ManuaI-Not Diff
cult for Amy One of Great Number OF
French Soldiers to Have Procured IA
Copy-Dreyfus Not ut Maneuvers.
Rennes, Sept. 1.-Immediately after
the opening of the fifth session OF the
fourth week of the second trial by
courtmartial of Capt Alfred Dreyfus,
charged with tresason, the President of
the Court, Col. Jouaust aroused the in
terest of the audience by remarking:
"Maitre Labor the other day asked
that information be obtained regarding
the character of a certain witness L
would not have acceded if the witness
had not expressed a similar desire. In
formation which has now reached me
will be read"
The clerk of the Court accordingly
read a report regarding M. Du Breuil,
the Partisan friend of M. De Beaure-
pere. who testified Aug, 20 to the effect
that Dreyfus met a German attache at
the house of mutual friend named
Bodson, and whose cross examination
reflected severely on his reputation.
. The report was to the effect that M.
Du Breuil never was a horse dealer, as
claimed by M. Labori and that the
character of the witness was most re-
spectacle, he being held in general es-
teerr.
Against Dreyfus.
A groom named Germain then de-
posed to seeing Dreyfus at the German
Army manoevreS at Alsace.
The general effect of the testimony of
these two witnesses was rather unfav-
orable to the prisoner
German declared he saddled the horse
for Dreyfus to follow the manoevres
and he said that Major Infreville ac
companied Dreyfus riding, adding that
the Major told the witness the name of
his companion.
Col. Jouaust questioned Dreyfus, and
though he did not confound the pris-
orer in any way, Dreyfus made weak
reply in declaring that he could not re-
member whether he hired horses of Ger
mains employer or not.
The next witness, however, gave
strong testimony in favor of Dreyfus
and sadly knocked Germans testimony
about. His employer, a man named
HUFFMAN got up and declared that all
German had said was untrue and
Major Infreville followed and declared
he never knew Dreyfus. so Germans
illusions to him were baseless
Capt. LIE Monnier, who was proba-
toner on the headquarters Staff at the
same time as Dreyfus, deposed that the
prisoner told him he was well acquaint-
ed with certain German position be-
cause he had followed the Alsatian
manoevres.
Dreyfus replied that Capt LIE Monner
must have mixed up his remarks. The
prisoner added that he was acquainted
with that part of Alsace, because he
had spent his youth there, and not
because he was present at the manoeu-
yres of the German Army there.
A witness named Villon then told
a tale of how he overheard a converse
ton, in Berlin cafe, between two Ger
man officers, in which a remark was
made that meditation plans were ex-
pected from Dreyfus.
The cafe however, has since disap-
peared, and as there are no means of
verifying Villon's story it certainly
should not have much effect on the
judges.
Two or three witnesses in support of
Dreyfus on artillery questions, We're next
heard, and Commissary Fischer testi-
fed that he was charged to investigate
the leakage of documents at the Gun
merry School at Bourges and found moth |
ing to incrminate Dreyfus
Lieut.. Bernheim testified that he lent |
Esterhazy documents dealing with ar
tillery and was unable to get them |
back, and Artillery Lieut. Bruyere. |
who attended a gunnery course at
Chalons, testified that 1t was easy for
an outsider to obtain particulars about
the guns. He said that he himself, had
on one occasion lent his firing manual |
to an infantry officer.
Gen. Roget Squelched.
Gen. Roget asked to be confronted
with the witness and said the latter
wrote NJ Cavaignac, then Minister of