The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-09-03

In time of peace: In the former case, he
added, only an officer belong1 lg to the
first bureau of the, headquarters staff
could have obtained information prior to
July 4, 1894, except through steps which
ould Immediately nave led to his de-
lection. After July /, 1894, when the de-
| cree was issued making effective the
new notifications III the artillery items
matter Of common knowledge, if the
formations referred to were merely ma
Eeuvers, only an officer attending the
maneuvers of the Third brigade at Cha
Ions camp could have obtained the in
formation and no officer of the headquar-
ters staff cougd be suspected.
Discussing the firing manual, Maj.
Hartman showed that 1t was widely dis
tributed In August, 1894, and therefore
could have been borrowed by an officer
cf the army of the service attending the
gunnery school. But the comments in
the bordereau, in the opinion of the wit
ness, could Only be attributed to a non
artillery officer.
Members of the court-martial then
questioned Maj. Hartman, VINO differed
from them in regards the meaning of
sentences in the bordereau, and the wit
ness proceeded to show how Esterhazy
could have supplied the information in
dfcated in the bor6ereau, and how easily
he could have collected at the Chalons
camp information sufficient to enable him
to compose a report on Madagascar and
the covering of troops.
An interesting conformation between
Gen. De!oye and Maj. Hartmann fol-
lowed, the genera. declaring he did not
believe the major was keeping strictly to
the. truth Deloye then proceeded to
point to what he called Inaccuracies in
Maj Hartmanri's testimony. He insisted
that Dreyfus, in the course of conversa-
tions with artillery officers, could have
secured Information on the subjects men
toned In the bordereau, to which the
major retorted that If any artillery Off
Ger had been questioned by Dreyfus he
would already have come forward to
say SO, as matter Of strict duty.
STRONG POINTS FOR DREYFUS.
Gen. Deloye, questioned by M. Labori
and M. Demange, said the inventor of
the Robin shelf told him Dreyfus never
asked him for particulars about his shell
except in a minor pofNt. The general
added that he cauae technical wit
ness to show that Dreyfus could be gull
ty, adding that 1t was his business to
say whether he believed him innocent or
guilty. He could only say that Dreyfus'
contention that 1t was impossible for
him to know certain matters referred to
in the bordereau were untrue.
M. Labori asked Gen. Deloye II he
knew whether the documents which could
have been betrayed by a traitor, espe-
cially by the writer of the bordereau,
were important, whereupon the generaf
turned to counsel and excitedly cried:
Don't ask me; don't ask me-
These eXclamations created sensa-
ton in court, which was doubled when
Gen. Deloye added that there was suf1i-
cient In the bordereau to establish that
the traitor knew the Importance of the
documents he was giving up. when
read the bordereau / was dismayed,' he
said.
Maj. Hartman, in reply to Gen. De-
loye, reiterated that the author Of the
bordereau was ignorant of artillery mat
ters, for eff he meant the 120' hydraulic
brake he gave particulars of what was
long known, while if he meant the 1920