Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1899-08-30
GENERAL MERCER.

staff, he said, lived for eight years i
peace and mutual confidence till Colone
Henry came II was believed that Henr
was General Miribel's. spy. From tina
time there was cavesdropping and sus
picion. Colonel llenry's forgery, the wit
ness declared. had for its sole object tn
ruin OF Colonel i.cquart, whom Henr.
was trying t" supplant.
Date of Bordereau.
Cordier fixed the date of the bordcrea,
at Sept. 9! to 26. 1894. 1t was not il
| the oilice the witness said. when he lief
for holiday on Sept % Colonel Sand
| lpir told him, on his return on Oct. 8
that they had fixed upon Dreyfus as the
| traitor. The witness believed until after
| preyfus was condemned that he was
guilty. His reason for this belief was
not so much his personal knowledge OF
the evidence. but the unanimity of the
| judges and those who prepared the case
| 1t became evident, however, that Drey.
fus could not have furnished some of the
items of the bordereau. and it was dis,
covered that there were other leaks in
the war office, which continued after
Dreyfus was transported
Colonel Cordier explained the reports
that a police investigation into Dreyfus
private life had shown that he was a
gambler etc 1t was found the witness
said, that the inquiries involved several
men Of tn" name of Dreyfus, and when
the report, had been sifted there was alb.
solutrly nothing against the prisoner, ex.
cept the fact that he was hardly entitled
to wear orcnge blossoms on his wedding
day. His conduct after his marriage
however was shown to have been ex,
emplary.
Finally Colonel Cordier, describing Els.
terha>y without naming him, said: at
was this French officer who carried open
ly documents and information to the
German embassy and the man sitting
there" Indicating Dreyfus, does not
answer to that description. | am con.
WINGED today that Dreyfus is an innocent
man."
Major Lauth and General Roget VIC
lently traversed some points of Colone
Cordier's testimony, but without impor
tant result.
Mercier COnfrOnts COrdier,
Finally General MERCER confronted |
Colonel Cordler. The generals remarks |
were of small Importance, the most in.
teresting being his repetition of Colonel
Sandhcrr's opinion of Matthew Dreyfus
when the prisoners brother went to sec
the colonel to ask for justice on behalf
of Captain Dreyfus. MERCER admitted
that Sandherr said, "Mathieu Dreyfus
impressed me as an honest man, who
was prepared to make any sacrifice tt
save his brother"
Dreyfus spoke few words at the ron.
clusion of Colonel Cordier's statements
He said that the scene which preceded
his arrest was so fantastic that it com.
pletely bcwidcred him and merely left
! bunted impression on his memory.
M. de Freycinet followed Colone
Cordicr on the witness stand. If was
evident the public was anxious to sec
he eN-mini<ter at the witness bar. He
vas expected to speak about the 30. 600.
'oo francs supposed to have been con.
rlbuted abroad. mainly in England and
Germany, to the Dreyfus cause.
M. dc Freycnet began by expressing
lie pain which he experienced at the
roubles MS country was undergoing. He
ald ne remembered a conversation with
iencral lamont, at which there was f
eference to money coming from abroad
4 support of the Dreyfus agitation
which, while disinterested in France
light not be so abroad" He did no,
smenbor the details of the conversation
or could he say if an amount was men
oned. r,
Nj. de Freycinet then alluded to his n
ears that "attacks on the chiefs of the y
my might be prejudcal to discipline a a
1dlng, Might not those attacks leac Il
the disappearance of discipline. anG o
nat then would be the result if we Il
hu ourselves In difficulties with a for RI
conntryT In short, NJ. de Freycinet G,
'ver'd patriotic speech rather than ~,
opposition, concluding with the words. = :,
Il the world will accept your verdict u
zen VIII open an era of reconciliation" III
l. ne frycnct was then conducted
the witness seats. where he sat for II OF
minutes h"si ic General Billet, chat. 81
with that officer. He left the court. ly
testimony of two minor witnesses m
cl"d'd the days proceedings. in