Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-08-25

The audience watched him. bent over the
desk busily drawing letters. the judges
gazing at him until at the end of ten min
utes. the people and the judges became
restlessly impatient and Colonel Jouaust
remarked that it was not necessary to
copy the whole bordereau and that few
lines would suffice.
Laid Before the Judges.
A few minutes later NJ. Bertillon rose.
strobe to the judges table and laid before
them his copy. The judges counsel, the
government commissary. Major carrlere'
and the clerk of the court clustered around
in one group. eager to see the result Ihe
audience watched this strange spectacle
until Colonel Jouaust shrugged his Snould-
ers. and then the spectators knew that NJ
BertiIIon had failed to satisfy them
NJ. Bertillon noticed this and said apollo
getically:
Il was too badly placed.
Naitre Demange of counsel for the de-
fvnse returned to counsers table. and. in
response to a look of inquiry from Drey-
fus whispered a few words to the prisoner.
with a shrug of his shoulder and a smile
on his face Dreyfus appeared perfectly
satisfied.
Colonel Jouaust then. at 11:45 am. adj
iourned the court and NJ. Bertillon packed
up his belongings, and the soldiers carried
them out
To the newspaper men who crowded
around Maitre Labor, asking him for MS
impressions. counsel said there was GER
tain resemblance to the bordereau, add
ing:
..But that is all NJ Bertillon only did
what dozens could do. 1t only proves he
Is a clever forger. That IS ALL
Proceedings in Detail.
Following are the proceedings in detail:
At the opening Of the session OF the Drey-
fus court-martial today considerable COM
ment was caused by the request of NJ.
Gribelin. the principal archivist of the
headquarters staff. for permission to absent
himself for twenty-four hours, owing to a
81 mmons of the minister of war. Cen Mar
outs de Gallifet, who desired to see him IN
Paris.
1t was suggested that the minister of
war wishes to refresh NJ. Gribelin's MEM
DRY. which has been so strongly antl-Drey-
fus.
Then followed the reading of medical
certificate signed by two doctors whose
names were not familiar to the audience,
setting forth that Col du Patty de Clam Is
too i'll to leave his bed and appear at
Rennes at which the audience was not
surprised.
Madame du Patty de Clam also wrote the
government cOlnInlSSary- Offering d Which,
supplementary deposition from her hus-
band.
NJ I.abori after securing the names of
the doctors who signed the certificate, ask
ed the court to appoint two weil-knoWn
physicians TO report officially on du Patty
de CLAIMS condition
Col. Jouaust. however declared 1t was
useless to do so, as the condition of the In
valid was we'll known.
Rowland Strong. correspondent of the
New York Times and member OF the stall
of the Observer of London. was the first
witness called. He described at length in
terviews which he had with EsterhaZy. say
ing the Observer offered Esterhazy $500 for
certain documents and a confession that
he wrote the bordereau published April
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that Esterhazy. while admitting the au-
thorship of the bordereau. said the docu-
ments enumerated in it had been betrayed
by Dreyfus to Germany.
NJ Henri WE'LL a former officer of the
headquarters staff, was then called, but
he was absent and his deposition was read.
The facts in the case Were published April
~. NJ. Wells sta tement in substance, was
that Esterhazy told him in 1894 that Drey
fus was innocent, but that this would not
prevent his conviction. because he was a
Jew. (Sensation)
Question of Savignaud's Character.
a brief discussion ensued regarding the
character of Colonel Picquarts former or
Derby Savignaud. who testified yesterday
to posting letters in May and June, 1881
addressed by the colonel to NJ. Scheurer-
Kestner the former vice president of the
senate, VINO was prominent in obtaining a
revision of the Dreyfus case. During this
discussion Savignaud protested that he had
been COMPOUNDED with a bandsman of the
same name who had a bad character.
A former sergeant. who was at one time
employed in the war office, testified to see
ing Dreyfus copying the list of railroad
stations mentioned in the plan of mobiliZa-
ton. To which Dreyfus replied:
1T is true but / copied the list by order
of Captain Besse." tSensaton)
TA evidence of the handwriting experts
followed. NJ. Colbert, after testifying to
the facts published April ~ and April "a,
vehemently protested against the insinua-
ton that he was an interested witness. He
referred to his thirty years of services, dur
ing which he had reported on thousands OF
documents and added, vistby affected:
Il protest against the term interested ex-
pert adding, turning toward the pris-
oner After all, l have no right to COM
plain, when I look at this unfortunate man
now before YOU Great sensation)
The court closely followed NJ. Gobert's
exhaustive story of his examination of the
bordereau and his interview with General
MERCER de Boisdeffre and Gonse.
NJ. Colbert asserted that the handwriting
of the bordereau was natural and fluent
and that it was almost illegible, whereas
ways wrote most legibly.
The witness asked General Gonse If an
envelope accompanied the bordereau as he,
NJ. Colbert. wished to see what the writer's
careful caligraphy was like, explaining
that the address of a letter is always in
tirfner hand than its contents.
Gonse Refuses the Request.
General Gonse refused the request, on
the ground that the witness must not
know the name of the address. The gen.
eral also refused to allow the bordereau to
be photographed. alleging that if the war
Office photographers We're allowed to photo
graph it all Paris would be acquainted
with the bordereau the next day. Laugh
terp
Thereupon the witness remarked:
General GonSe this is a very interesting
confession.
NJ. Colbert then suggested that the work
be intrusted TO the prefecture of police,
where NJ Bartillon is the photographer.
Until then, the witness also said, he had
never heard of NJ. Bertillon as a handwrit
ing expert, saying he became ar expert for
this special occasion. when he was called
in the war office Q.aughter.)
General Gonse. it appears from the tes-
timony, was greatly enraged when he
learned of the result of NJ. Goberts exami-
nation of the bordereau and visited the
expert repeatedly. The latter always in
sisted upon learning the name of the sus-
pect.