Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-08-30


Gueuee's denunciations. to the effect
that offers of the headquarters staff
were guilty of treachery, but the col
onel explained that it was very difficult
to accept Guenee's statement as gospel.
Witness regretted Guenee's death as,
he said, the court would have been edi-
fed by his testimony in regard to the
manner in which many things were
fabricated.
Referring to what he styled the
huge undertaking of Richard Cuers,
Lajoux and company" the colonel de-
'clared the object was nothing less than
RECRUITING GERMAN SPIES
for the service of the French govern
ment. One of Cuers' special services,
continued the witness. was furnishing
Germany with false information. He,
therefore, was sometimes obliged to say
he had succeeded in suborning French
officer, and, in this way, Cuers was in
duced to declare he had obtained the
collaboration of an officer of the head
quarters staff Proof of this could be
found at headquarters in the dossier
of false documents deferred to Germany.
'These documents added Col Cordier,
mo doubt are all in the better order
because the archivist. M. Gribelin,
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Col. Jouaust called the witness to or
der and the remark was withdrawn.
witness declaring amid peals of laugh
ter: 1T escaped me; l withdraw the
spectacles."
Reverting to the manner in which
the suspicious against Dreyfus crystal
lied, the colonel described the efforts
to pry into the prisoners life, and said
the information at first received was
very bad and constituted strong proof
against the prisoner. Later, however,
it<assumed quite different aspect. 1t
was admitted that before his marriage
Dreyfus was not "unimpeachable NOR
ally, nor was he entitled to wear
wreath of orange blossoms But, Cor
der added, after his marriage Dreyfus
was quite different. The witness also
said that while Dreyfus boosted of his
conquests, he (Cordier) was of the opln-
ion that those who boosted the most
accomplished the least. Dreyfus Dragged
a great deal, and
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having done so, and Dreyfuss inquisi-
tiveness, according to witness, was
probably explained by his knowledge
that he would not long remain on the
headquarters staff. and he desired to
obtain all the information which might
be useful to him in after life.
In 1894 the witness regarded as in
sufficient the sole proof against Drey-
fus, namely, the bordereau. He did not
believe the prisoner was guilty, but the
fact that the judges were unanimous
in convicting him changed the witness S
mind. His doubts, however, returned
when he saw the date Of the bordereau
received in September had been fixed
in May. Col. Picquart's invstlgatlon
and the infamous campaign against
Picouart increased the suspicious OF
the witness. I'm 1894" declared the
witness, Il had been treasured by the
unanimity of the judges, and was alb
solutely convinced of the guilt OF Drey-
fus Now I am absolutely convinced Of
his innocence.
81 remembered" he declared, that
one of the proofs advanced against
Dreyfus was that, during the scene, ne
looked in a mirror. That is going too
far. If Dreyfus looked in the mirror
it was because he had seen another
head beside his own there. There was
an arrangement of mirrors, and, since
it must be told, l will say it. Behind
the curtain were two ears listening.
Dreyfus, therefore, might have seen
something beside his own face in the
M. Labor questioned the witness In
regard to the letter mentioned in M. de
la Roche-Vernet's evidence referring to
the spy &c. c. c." which was dis
patched to the war office at the time OF
Picquart's arrival. Cordier explained
that it was a letter from an Italian lady
with whom the department at that time
was in correspondence through the in
termediary at the foreign Office. Il
greatly
RESPECT ITALIAN LADIES
in general said Col. Cordier, 'but not
when it is a case Of espionage; and
advised Picquart not to make too much
use of the lady's offers, saying to him:
There must be no petticoats
At this juncture NJ Labor informed
the president of the court that he had
received telegram signed Pages" an
nouncing the dispatch of letter rela
tive to the relations between Col Sand
herr and the Dreyfus family. Counsel
added that he had himself received a