The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-09-04
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To Dreyfus, was Saturdays Evi.
dence in cOurtmartial.
The FEATURES BROUGHT OUT
BY Major Hartmann and NJ. Lamotte
We're Very cOnvincInG-Friends OF
the Prisoner say That he VIII I'm.
doubtedIy BIO Acquitted : General
Roget Catches a Tarter.

word that expresses the teeunBB OF tine
Dreyfusards after Saturdays proceed
ings. The tide has turned at last,
they say, and DreyfuS cannot be con-
dcmned after the evidence given Sat
urday morning. The spirits Of the
Dreyfusards are quite mercurlal. Ev-
cry day since the opening Of the trial
has seen them rise or fall Recently
they have been falling heavily, the
close OF the morning sessions generally
finding them In anxious conversation.
accompanied by omnibus shaking Of
their heads. Yesterdays buoyancy,
therefore, is all the more noteworthy.
Friday was a fairly good day, but yes
terday's session, they claim, puts the
verdict out of doubt, and the Judges
must acquit Dreyfus.
But, on the other hand, It is held
among the anh-Dreyfusites and those
who have closely noted the evidence be-
fore the court martial. and who are be-
leyed to be well-informed upon the
subject, that the judges are against
prcytus, and that their verdict viii be
guilty by vote Of to 2.
Major Hartmann, Of the artillery, oc-
cupled nearly half the session with the
conclusion of his experfevidence that
Dreyfus as an artillery fficer. would
not have displayed such ignorance re-
garding guns and brakeSils was shown
in the bordereau. while Tue other sub
jects of the bordereau We're matters
upon which any official could inform
himself.
Major Hartmann's testimony practIc-
ally stood uncontested, as neither Cen
sral DelOye nor General Mercler. who
replied, refuted any material point
therein.
NJ. Havel, a member Of the institute,
then entered upon the grammatical as
pect OF the bordereau. and In vigorous
but elegant Language devoted himself
to showing that the construction of the
borderau sri tied It'll stto g and. IN his
opinion, conclusive marks OF Esterha-
zy's handlwork. while the phraseoIogy
bore no resemblance to Dreyfus'
style. II
The next stage of the proceedings
was the reading Of the eOnse- Picquart
correspondence exchanged at the time
Colonel Plcquart suspected Esterhazy,
and wanted General Gonse to probe the
matter to the bottom. Tails brought NJ.
L4Dou 10 the front, and in series of
q.eglions he brought out SHARPLY before
tal gourt the machIaatIeas Of which
Colonel r!cquart was the victim at the
hands OF the major IRON the moment
he showed desire 10 thoroughly stft
the matter.
NJ Labor for the first time got GEN
cral Gonse to admit that he ordered
tn, ysmperiag with Plcquart's letters
in order, as he said, to ascertain Pic
ol-r.y aClEl whAe he was chief OF
the Intelligence bureau. A little later
". LaBot evId atty dLacoucerted Gen
eraI Gonsc, for The iatte. blurted out
that Lieutenant Colonel Henry commit
ted his forgery in order % have fresh
p,oqls lglDls; Drcyfus. The audience
smiled aaiiD!y at this explanation. Gem
eral Gonse then added; but 1t was
unnecessary. since the diplomatic dos
sler contained discriminating docu-
ments, with 'Dreyfus' written in full"
General Gouse apparently meant the
PanIzzardl dispatch. which has already
been ruled out OF court. NJ. Labor pro-
tested Indignantly, exclalming: There
are no such documents" and then ask
ed General Gonse to enumernte the
documents to which he alluded.
Colonel Jouaust, president of the
court martial, declined to put the ques-
ton, whereupon NJ. Labor said he re-
served to himself the right to submit
a formal application for these docu-
ments |
Then came the leading witness OF the
day. NJ. De Fond Lamotte., proba-
toner contemporaneously with Dfey-
fus. who is now a civil engineer, and
50 has reason TO fear the wrath Of the
military clique. The witness opened by
declaring that despite the fact that he
had a brother in the garrison at Rem
res. he came to tell whElShe knew OF
Dseytus, and which, according to the
DrryfasarGs, practically decides the
case. iHt
FIRST. he recalled the fact that
circular was sent to the probationers
May a. 1884,. informing them that they
must not go to the manoouVers, thus
showing that the man who wrote the
bordercau in August, and said: u am
going to the manoeuvres could not be
Dreytus.
The witness then pointed out that
mono OF the minister's who. he believed
acted in good faith. were Informed OF
the existence Of the circular. which he
declared. II consider a vital point In
Toe case" This circular" he contin-
8ed. Skaters the prosecution, because
after May II Dreyfus could not say 1
am going to the manoauvres, for then
go aus" ne Woulu not Wine P'''' ~
Nay II he could not have known the five
documents comprised in the bordereau."
81 De Fand Lamotte then brought
ont another strong point. Abiding to
the notifications of the disposition con-
corning the troops. he said the writer
Of the borderean used the term new
plan"
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