The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-08-17

! referred to Colonel SchWartzkoppen, of
the German embassy at Paris, and Ma
jor Panizzardi, of the Italian embassy,
at the French capital, at the time work
ed together almost daily, and he quoted
| a passage from a letter exchanged be-
| tween them, as follows:
IN. Hanotaux the sly fellow, is glad
because the embassy is denying. The
embassy must deny"
In the same document, declared Cen
eral Roget, was name written twice,
and the name, he asserted, was that of
| Dreyfus.
! The name of Esterhazy, he added,
| was not found in any Of the documents,
| none of which could be ascribed to him.
| with the exception of the petit bleu,
| (which Colonel Picquart discovered in
| such an extraordinary manner"
| The witness said he then. felt great
uneaslness in regard to the document
containing the words "Cette canaille de
! D."
certain military attache, said the
| general later on in his testimony, in
formed Colonel Sandherr that there was
some one who initiated his handwriting
perfectly. The name of Dubois" the
witness further said, was found in the
correspondence of the military attaches,
dubois" the general explained, was
an unfortunate" who vainly tried to
sell the secret of the smokeless powder
used in the French army.
eff" said General Roget, mo other
person can be found to whom the in
itial ID can apply, to whom does it
then apply?"
AS he made this remark the witness
faced about and looked fxedly at the
prisoner, who, however, merely shrug-
ged his shoulders.
"Now," continued the general "the
explanations furnished on this point by
M. Trarieux CORNER minister of JUS
tice) troubled me somewhat, but did
not insist
Here General Roget paused, the ex-
element under which he was laboring
being almost uncomfortable. In
thick, choking voice, he. continued:
and yet, in the presence of disnter-
ested testimony like mine. you will not
allow preference to be shown to the evil
dence of persons who have benefited by
treason
AT this point the general broke down
and tears streamed down his cheeks.
Resuming his testimony, the general
set to work in the effort to prove the
guilt of Dreyfus. He declared there
were traces of treason in every para
graph of the bordereau and that Drey-
fus alone, not Esterhazy, could be ac
quanted with the plans it contained.
He criticised the deposition of Major
Hartmann of the Twenty second artil-
lery in regard to this point. The wit
ness then traversed the old ground,
trying to prove that Dreyfus alone was
aware of the secrets Of the new artil |
lery guns; of the plans for the concen-
traton of troops, and of the contents
of the firing manual. He then endeav-
ored to show that Colonel Picquart had |
recourse to fraudulent methods, with |
the intent of discriminating some one |
other than Dreyfus and declared Pic /
quart spent one hundred thousand |
francs with the object of organizing a
Of surveillance "of an unfor-
tunate officer who was guiltless," This
one hundred thousand francs, he added
was a reserve accumulated by Colonel. |
Sandherr, by strict economy, from the
luIluS dl llle ulopOSttl VI Inc wal plllCet
This reserve had entirely disappeared,
In response to gestures of contradic-
ton from M. Demange, General Roget
the figures quoted were per-
haps exaggerated.
The witness next accused Colonel |
Picquart of suppressing documents
tending to compromise Dreyfus.
As the general was evidently greatly
'atigued Colonel Jouaust suggested that
Ne continue his testimony tomorrow.
The colonel then addressed the prisoner,
asking him if he had anything to say
n reply to General Roget. Dreyfus re-
olied: mo, my colonel. 1t is frightful
hat day after day, for hours, l should
hus have my heart, my soul and my
rery entrails torn without being per-
nitted to reply. 1t is a terrible torture
o impose on an innocent and loyal SOL
Iier 1t is frightful thing; frightful,
rightful.'
This outburst caused a great sensa-
ion. The audience, profoundly stirred
,egan to applaud but the applause was
quickly suppressed.
Colonel Jouaust screamed out to
)reyfus that the court had given him
III 10 SPEAK at tNflS itpO-
ition, and would continue to do so.
General Roget spoke for three hours
Without adducing any new facts, only
in the most forcible terms
What has been banded about in the
nti-Dreyfusard press for a year past.
he most interesting part of his testi-
1ony was his attack on Colonel Pic
uart which will undoubtedly lead to
he conformation of the two men. He
reated Dreyfus without mercy, both in !
rords and attitude. In fact it seemed !
times as though he would provoke
ne prisoner into striking him. The
manner was most passionate
n his outburst at the end of his testi-
lony he uttered the most ruthless at
lcks with the air of one delivering l
leasant Sunday school address, lean [
lg over the front of the witness rail, S
piping from glass of water, wiping '
is lips and hopping his brow with per- C
,ct self satisfaction. But again and '
gain he would half turn in his chair t
nd, pointing his finger at Dreyfus, he +
ould repeat some cruel accusation, a b
lie same time fixing his eyes on the e
rcused man, his body inclined forward
Ike that of cobra awaiting the mo- II
ent to strike. Dreyfus, however was o
1t hypnotized rabbit and steadily t.
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