The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-08-26

| time employed in the war Office testi
fled to seeing Dreyfus copying the lis
| of railroad stations mentioned in tbs
plan of mobilization, to which Dreyfu:
| replied:
1T is true. but l copied the list by
order of Captain Besse." (Sensation.)
The evidence of the handwriting ex-
perts followed.
Handwriting Was Not Dreyfus'. d.
NJ. Colbert, after testifying to the
facts published April % and April "a
vehemently protested against the in
situation that he was an interested
witness. The court closely followed NJ
| Gobert's exhaustive story of his exam
ination of the bordereau and his inter-
views with Generals Mercier, De Bois-
deffre and Gonse. NJ. Colbert asserted
that the handwriting of the bordereau
was natural and fluent, but that it was
almost illegible, whereas Dreyfus, even
when writing rapidly, always wrote
most legibly.
The witness asked General Gonse if
an envelope accompanied the Dor
dereau, as he on. Gobert) wished to see
what the writer's careful caligraphy
was like, explaining that the address
OF letter is always in firmer hand
than its contents. General Gonse re-
fused the request, on the ground that
the witness must not know the name
of the addressee. The general also re-
fused to allow the bordereau to be pho
tographed, alleging that if the war
office photographers We're allowed TO
photograph it. all Paris would be ac-
quainted with the bordereau the next
day. Oaughter) Thereupon the wit
ness remarked:
General Gonse. this is very inter-
esting confession
Want Bordereau Photographed.
NJ. Colbert then suggested that the
work be entrusted to the prefecture OF
police, where NJ. Bertillon is the pho
tographer Until then, the witness
said. he had never heard of NJ. Ber-
tillon as a handwriting expert, saying
he became an expert for this special
occasion, when he was called into the
war office. Haughter) General Gonse,
1t appears from the testimony, was
greatly enraged when he learned of the
result of NJ. Goberts examination of
the bordereau, and visited the expert
repeatedly. The latter always insisted
on learning the name of the suspect.
Amid laughter in court the witness
described how, from an examination of
an ofhclal report on Dreyfus, from
which Dreyfus'. name had been re-
moved, NJ. Colbert had the malicious
satisfaction of telling General Gonse
the name of the officer they wanted to
arrest. 1t was after NJ. Colbert had re-
fused to incriminate Dreyfus that VI.
Bertillon was intrusted with the exam
ination of the bordereau, and after a
few hours study NJ. Bertillon positively
attributed the bordereau to Dreyfus.
From that time forward NJ Colbert
heard TO more of the Dreyfus case. He
was not asked TO submit report, but
described to the then minister of JUS
tice. NJ. Guerin, the circumstances in
the case
m. Guerin," continued the witness
''intimated that these were soldiers af-
fairs, which did not concern him as
chief of the civil judiciary"
Was the Work of Esterhazy.
Colonel Jouaust asked NJ. Colbert for
a more definite criticism of the Dor
dereau, and the witness replied that he
noticed certain similarities between the
of the bordereau and that
of Dreyfus, but he added there were
important differences, which proved to
him that Dreyfus was not the author of
the bordereau, and his opinion had
since been con fined. because ii was
now proved the pordereau was the work
Of Esterhazy." (Sensation.)
Replying TO the court Nj. Colbert sug-
gested that the judges compare the
bordereau with letter admitted to be
IN Esterhazy's handwriting, and dated
from Rouen, Aug. II. 1894, and with
documents written by the prisoner
You will then Enthusiastically recog-
nize," said NJ. Colbert, that the bor-
1ereau is in EsterhaZy's handwriting |
and not in the handwriting of Dreyfus." |
Great sensation.)
The witness at this juncture identi- |
led the bordeTeau as the same which |
vas submitted TO him, and he proceed /
ID to point out the identity therein
With letters admitted written by Es-
erhazy, saying that, while the resem-
dance was not apparent in Dreyfus'
in Esterhazy's there were
marked peculiarities of punctuation
ND the manner of beginning lines.
which were also noticeable in the Dor
ereau, but which We're not found in
he prisoners caligraphy.
The, expert refused, in reply TO
uestion by the court, to admit that
he bordereau was written in a dis
uished hand. He said 1t had been
,ritten with great rapidity. precluding
IL idea of doctoring or tracing.