The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-04-11
DREYFUS TESTIMONY.
1t Was Notorious That Esterhazy Would
Sell Information.

Paris, April 10.-The Figaro, continu-
ing its publication of the evidence be-
fore the court of cessation in the Drey-
fus revision inquiry, will print to-mor-
row the dispositions Of NJ. Cassimir-
Perier, former president of France;
Marquis de Gallifot and Professor Pain
levo of the Ecole Polytechnique, all Of
which are understood to be highly i'm
portant. gg.
According to the Figaro, Marquis de
Gallifot testified that the relation of
Count Esterhazy with the foreign mill
tary attaches were known to every
body. 1,n-
General Talbot, the British ex-at-
tache, once expressed to me-" he said,
his utter astonishment that Esterhazy
was still at liberty, since it was COM
mon knowledge among all foreign at
taches that, for one or two thousand
franc notes, Esterhazy would furnish
all the particulars the foreign attaches
could not get directly from the minister
Of war"
NJ. Cassmir- Perier began his state
ment by expressing a desire, in the face
of the divided state of the country, to
place himself unreservedly at the ser
vice Of the tribunal and to answer all
questions that might be asked. He
said he was unable to give the exact
ter of war, acquainted him with the
Dreyfus affair General MERCER first
alluded in general way to the small
confidence the general staff placed in
Dreyfus, adding that the ministry of
war had been informed CT the COM
munication of document to a foreign
power and had learned from a for
eigner that leakages had occurred from
the general staff, but M. Cassimir-Per-
ia,s id 1,n led tN holt flo+ II
this merely concerned oral communica-
tons, and he had no knowledge that
any documents had passed. On Jan 6,
1895, he received visit from Count Won
Munster, the German ambassador who
communicated to him an official and
personal demand of Prince Hohenlohe,
the German chancellor, that he, as pres
ident of the republic, should formally
deny that the German embassy was in
volved in the Dreyfus affair.
NJ. Cassimir- Perier told the court
that, in reply to Won Munster. he
pleaded his constitutional responsible
ties but offered as a private individual
to give every assistance. Then he in
formed the German ambassador that
the document in question had been
found at the German embassy. Count
Won Munster replied that this appeared
to him impossible, adding that the en-
uments, but that no important COM
munication could have escaped.
To this M. Cassimir-Perier answered
that, happily, the document was not
regarded as important and that neither
he nor the government desired to impli-
cate the German embassy in the affair;
that nothing had been proved to show
that the embassy solicited the document
and the government did not wish to
6,N1 thon "a Hay
sible for papers thus conveyed. 1t was
sufficient the papers had been found at
a foreign embassy and presumably
emanated from a French officer to fix
the guilt of that officer.
"As Count Won Munster insisted on
obtaining a note categorically eXcul-
pating the embassy" continued NJ.
Cassimir- Perier II suggested that it
| would be unnecessary to indicate the
| German embassy alone. but that all
| the embassies and legations in Paris
| should be Included as each might re-
| main under suspicion If the German
alone were exculpated. Such a note
I said, it was the province Of the presi-
dent of the council to issue. and l suS-
| gest that it need not differ from sim
| liar notes previously issued. On the
! ambassadors request / appointed an
other interview with the president OF
| the council, but a few days later Count
| Won Munster informed me that the in
cident might be regarded as closed
NJ. Cassimir- Perier. continuing, salt
| that he had only heard of single Sc
cret document. the one containing thu
expression "Cette canaille de D.
devient reelement trop eXiseahte'
(-that beast of a D. is really be
coming very eXacting'D.
General MERCER informed him SOM
days before Dreyfus was condemned
| (Dec. %, 1894 that this document wa
submitted to the court martial. Blu
he (M CassimirP erier) did not under
| stand that the document was only SUP
mitted to the judges.
Reverting to his interview with Coun