Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-08-27
VERY GOOD DAY FOR DRtYFOS
Colonel Maurel, Who was the Pre-
siding Judge

Colonel Maurel, Who was the Pre-
siding Judge
OF THE COURTMARTIAL OF 1884
FLATLY CONTRADICTED BY
CAPTAIN FREYSTAETTER-COL.
MAUREL COMPELLED TO AGAIN
MOUNT THE STAND AND ADMIT
THAT HE HAD EQUIVOCATED
IN A MANNER THAT WAS
HARDLY SHORT OF FLATLY
INCARCERATION AND HIS
FOOL CHARTS AGAIN IN COURT.
RENNES, August 26.-When the
Dreyfus trial began this morning the
comic aspect of NJ. Bertillon's perform
ance again appealed to the rislblllties
: of the audience, though the judges paid
close attention to his demonstrations
which were concluded at $3.50 a. M,
the witness saying in declamatory
tone:
Il am convinced the writer OF the
bordereau is the prisoner sitting there
Dreyfus heard him without fiinchlng
and with an expression of disdaln.
There was re-enactment OF scenes
similar to those of yesterday Inc
prisoner was apparently quite lndlner-
ent to what was going on and the
Judges and counsel alone attempted TO
follow the specialist in his intermln-
able
CRYPTOGRAPHICP PROBLEMS.
The witness was heard to say during
his demonstrations:
1.-THE system / have the honor to
explain to you can easily be carried on
under your eyes, and, if you like, VIII
again read the notes.
Roars of laughter greeted the
deprecatory reply OF Col. Jouaust'
president Of the court, who said:
oh. Do you not trouble yourself "
AS the comedy was prolonged 1t grew
so wearisome that the audience brought
out newspapers and chatted IN low
tones.
NJ. Jauros, a member of the Chamber
of Deputies and a strong Dreyfusard
openly showed his impatience, but was
not rebuked for so doing
Counsel reminded the witness that
he said in 1894 that he found in the
bordereau cryptographic signature,
Alfred Dreyfus."
nj. Bertillon replied that he was not
now positive on this point, to which he
added he attached mo importance
whatever.
M. Labor asked how NJ Bertillon
reconciled the result of the present ex-
perimenfs. namely, that the bordereau
was written by Dreyfus tracing
FsTERHAZY'S HANDWRITING.
with his opinion in 1894 that the bor-
dereau was written by Dreyfus, unless
it had been most carefully forged
To this M. Bertillon replied that it
was only hypothesis, whereupon M.
Labori remarked that the forgery was
then of such nature as to constitute
proof in favor of Dreyfus, yet, to-
day it is made proof against him"
Continuing, counsel said:
"Since the witness admits that Ester
hazy has written by the same mathe-
NAUTICAL methods as Dreyfus, why has
he attributed the bordereau to Dreyfus
rather thar to Esterhazy?"
NJ .Bertillon-It was on Dreyfus'
blottingr pad that the key word Gin
terest" was found, and Esterhazy
might have had access to this word.
M. Labori-Does NJ. Bertillon admit
that Esterhazy is a traitor?
Col. Jouaust refused to put the
question to the witness. (Sensation.)
M. Labori, continuing his questions.
asked NJ Bertillon's opinion as to what
system of defense might have been
employed by the writer of the bor-
dereau if the document had been found
ON him.
The witness, in confused and al
most inaudible tone, declared the pris-
oner would then have maintained the
document was a forgery and would
have adduced it as proof of plot.
Nj. Labori-In that case, the prisoner
must have foreseen the appearance on
the scene as
A MAN so EMINENT
as NJ. Bertillon, capable of imagining
system so ingenious as the one he
has expounded to-day daughter
Replying to further questions, NJ
Bertillon admitted he had discovered in
Esterhazy's writing peculiarities SINH
lar to those in the bordereau.
Colonel. Jouast asked the prisoner if
he had anything to say in reply to the
witness, and the attention of all pres
ent was Immediately riveted on Drey-
fus'
Referring to the so-called plotting
pad letter" Dreyfus said:
This letter is perfectly genuine.
Madame Dreyfus can testify to that
point. No one here will doubt the
word of Madame Dreyfus, and you, gen
tlemen, less than anyone" looking
steadily at the judges.
After a brief adjournment the gov
eminent commissary, Major Carriere
called upon Captain Valerie, of the ar
tillery, to explain NJ Bertillon's sys-
tenn and to give an opinion on the SUBJ
ject.
The captain said he thought NJ. Ber-
tillon's evidence might be summarized
in sentence: THE bordereau was doc
tored and the document fabricated by
means of secret writing, or writing
with a key, the keyword interest be-
ing found on the 'blotting-pad letter
attributed to Matthew Dreyfus' -
THE sustem, continued the cap
tain, was evidently devised to offer
the prisoner two means of aScane