The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-24
IT WAS FL|MSY TRASH
Dreyfus Prosecution Presents
More Evidence.
DRIVEN INTO A CORNER
Labori Takes the Starch Out OF Pom
pous General Gonse-A Ridiculous
Attempt to Blast Drey.us'
Private Character.

court-martial to-day was comparative
ly uneventful. The dispositions were
not productive of any really thrilling in
cidents. The systematic production of
the fiimsiest trash, which the prosecu-
tion deems profitable to infiict on the
judges and which the latter accept as
evidence, was proceeded with.
Much of the ridiculous testimony of
the morning was devoted to an attempt
| to blast Dreyfus' p vate character,
though, when Maitre Labori and De-
| mango had finished with the witnesses
their bubbles of little tattle were bad
ly pricked.
Much of the time was occupied in
reading the testimony of Esterhazy
and Mile. Pays before the court of cas-
sation, during which many of the aud
ience left the court. M. Labori again
distinguished himself in laying bare
| the weak points of the evidence. He
was less fierce. however, than yester-
day. though quite aggressive enough to
arouse the latent hostilities of the
judges, which showed itself in various
| ways.
NJ. Labori is no favorite, either, with
| Major Carriere. the government COM
missary, and the latter makes no ser
ious efforts to conceal his felngs to-
wards the lawyer.
M. .Labori bore little traces of the eff
| fects of the outrage upon him. He
! rose, sat down and moved his body
| and limbs apparently without much
| difficulty Only occasionally he put his
| hands to his back as though suffering
pain. His wife followed his every
! movement through gold and tortoise
| shell lorgnette
Nine. Rejane, the actress, was again
an interested spectator in court to-day
/ w oh hnri, ;, tic
! feet and his voice was vibrating through
! the hall. Her eyes watched his fea-
| lures across which fitted ever chang
ing expressions of Indignation, anger or
! satisfaction with the keen interest with
which spectators in a theater follow
her own acting. During some of the
! dispositions NJ. Labori appeared very
| nervous. He was unable to remain
| still an instant, twitching his fingers
and shaking the papers in his hand,
almost too impatient to wait until the
| witnesses concluded their testimony
| The only dangerous opponent of Drey-
| fus to-day was General Gonse who
| mounted the stage with quick step
| and apparently light heart. But he
left it badly mauled by M. Labori.
| General Gonse began by declaring he
| came to defend his honor against those
| 'driveling' against him. But when his
| cross-examination was finished, he ;e-
| turned to his seat thoroughly tiiscoln-
| fitted, for M. Labori had driven him
into corner on the Attempts of the
general staff to shield Esterhazy, and
had shown that the general staff for
which Gonse was responsible had en-
gineered Esterhazy's escape from the
hands of justice. The confidelt rCnes
of the general had by then dwinded in
to the proverbial still, small voice, und
his defiant bearing had changed INTO
that of the abashed school girl .ausht
a
one for the general staff.
First M. du Chatelet repeated an al
legged conversation with Dreyfus re-
garding lady at whose house Drayfus
is alleged to have gambled and lost
money.
telet's memory failed him entirely es-
pec.ally when asked the name of the
lady and the street she resided in, and
the sum Dreyfus lost.
Next M. Dubrieul showed equally as
founding forgetfulness of important
points of his evidence concerning Drey-
fus' acquaintance with a foreign at
tache, and when M Demange capped
his examination of those points by
promising to show that NJ. Dubrieuls
record in the law courts is far from
clean, the witness left the stand badly
discredited.
The correspondent of the associated
press talked this afternoon with NJ
Jaures, the socialist leader, who with
Matthew Dreyfus, sees Maitre Labori
every day after the session, and who
is acquainted with the entire tactics
of the defense.
M. Jaures said: Il am convinced
that Dreyfus will be acquitted. He
must be acquitted, for no new fact has
been brought up against him. The
generals, l believe, are going to make
their stand on Bertillon's system, which
hoy i,ta ;t
fus guilty. Intelligent men laugh at
it. but it is very ingenious and has the
merit in the eyes of the generals of
being incomprehensible to an ordinary
man and thus calculated to impress
him If supported by the puppets of The
general staff.
"Bertillon's theory has already been
introduced by some of the military
witnesses who declare their confidence
in it. The trial in my belief will last
about another 20 days
The third session of the third week
of the second trial of Captain Dreyfus
began at half past this morning
Maitre Labori and Nine. Labori We're
present. The session opened with the |
testimony of minor witnesses, Roy and |
Drevelle. The latter deposed that Drey- |
fus, while with the general staff, could |
have access to documents unperceiVed |
during certain hours of the day. Cap |
tian Dreyfus, replying, admitted that |
he was present during these hours, but |
explained that his presence was con- !
nected with his duties.
AS Labori was entering the court he |
was informed by a newspaper man that |
General Roget yesterday received doc
uments from Esterhazy, now in Lon
don. Counsel was much interested and
CLEANED all the information possible.
On the arrival in court of Roget it
was noticed he carried a bulky envel
ope containing the documents referred |
to. Outside of this there was no Incl
dent worth noting at the opening pro-
ceedings.
The session began with the testimony
Of mi inn nllndi