The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-08-18

to argue with her, for tears were stand
ing in her eyes and the judges were
looking sympathetic. SO he said that
he preferred saying nothing to lady
whose grief he respected and whose an
CRY excitement he pardoned.
General Roget again today showed
extraordinary forensic ability. / do
not know what is the military worth
of the generals who are acting here as
witnesses, but | do mot wonder at the
old judges of the Court of Cessation
being jealous of their argumentiye
capacity, their skill i'll burning a case
inside out, in puzzling inunendo, in casui-
try and in elegant verbal facility.
MERCER is wonderful in these respects
Bilot is not inferior to him, but Roget
is the superior of both in forensic skill
acumen and suggestiveness.
Roget is very able man. He is the
son of gendarme in the Pyrenees and
obtained his commission by passing the
examinations. He is fair, rather Eng
lsh looking, regular i'll features and cold
and deliberate in manner He speaks
distinctly and rather slowly, but does
not fall into the defect into which Ma
dame Henry fell, of making every syl-
liable a long one.
Dreyfus was under Roget as an out
slider at the General Staff and seemed
tortured by his arguments and the points
he made, points that went home to the
military judges and were intended TO
poison their minds. Finally he could
stand it no longer and starting up, his
eyes cleaning with anger, he said:
lyon deal only in augmentation.
have listened to YOU for hours without
hearing a single fact.
There were, nevertheless, some facts
today, but they were adduced to destroy
the credit of Colonel Picquart who was
represented, when head of the Intelli-
gence Department, as playing crooked
part and keeping back every piece of
information unfavorable to Dreyfus.
NJ Demange made many happy points
in putting questions to General Roget,
who lodged them with presence of mind
and address and when in corner, with
cool impudence. Still Roget had the ear
of the court. He knows how to speak
to specialized military minds
The evidence Of NJ Bertulus was, on
the whole, favorable to Dreyfus in the
Judgment of civilian listeners. Unfor-
ttmately his reputation is blown upon
He belonged, when at Nice, to the South
Railway Gang, and as the magistrate
sent to investigate their swindle, played
into their hands. Roget alluded to this
and to other things of BertuluS and
showed that he did not respect him. NJ
Bertulus is an epicurean and has shocked
Rennes people by his rather gay rela-
tions with a former actress, who some
how, rolls in riches. Still. he seems to
me a firm and truthful witness and his
deposition must affect the public Col
onel Picquart will be heard again to
morrow.
M. Labori's assailant is still undiscoy-
cred. At convent of Marists, at Cos
son. near Rennes. the brothers vainly
searched for him. This has sympathy
for the clerical party, as it was thought
brotherhood might shelter him
An hypothesis that seems nearer to
the truth is that he is q soldier, who
was given a suit of clothing and told
where to exchange it for uniform,
which he could again don as soon as
Labor was shot. can imagine a
Breton soldier, brimful of hatred to the
Jew and THAT traitor Dreyfus," taking
his life in his hands and going resolutely
to kill Labor.
EMILY CRAWFORD.
ANOTHER FORGERY FOUND.
Paris, Aug. IA special edition of
the Figaro, just issued, exposes am
other alleged forgery in the Dreyfus
case, and publishes the following tele-
gram from Ems:
1.-THE letter of November Both, 1897, at
triblted to me and reproduced in the
Figaro of August 10th, 1899, is for
gerry.
QSigneD SCHNEIDER"
The letter referred to was from one
Schneider, the Austrian Military At
tache at Paris, i'm which he was alleg-
ed to have said Schwartzkoppen and
Panizzardi, respectively the German and
Italian attaches, were trying to make.
out that it was not Dreyfus who was
giving them information, and adding.
that he had no belief in these protesta-
tions.
M Cavaignac, former Minister War,
i'm his testimony made great point of
this.
Commenting on the forgery, the Figa-
TO says:
eve are sending this telegram to Col
onel Jonaust, President of the court
martial, who, certainly. will not hesitate
to call upon General MERCER, General
Roget and others to explain how they
came to make such great point of this
forgery in their evidence"
IT LOOKS BLACK FOR DREYFUS.
London, Aug. 1.-THE correspondents
Of London papers in Rennes are almost
unanimous in taking a gloomy view of
the prospects of Captain Dreyfus. They
seem to believe it likely that he will be
found guilty
The representative Of the Daily Tele-
graph says that unless the German
Government reveals the name of the
real traitor it is quite on the cards that
the same verdict will be rendered as in
the previous court martial.
LABORI LEAVES HIS BED.
Rennes, Aug. I'm. Labor was
able to leave his bed for three hours
today and walked thrice across his room.
The doctors think ne will be present ut
Mondays session
Irritating stings, bites, scratches,