New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-09-02
Colonel Jouaust-Do you recognize him IN tne
~ Germain Docking at the prisoner)-Yes'


prisoner? locomotives.
N Demange earnestly inquired whether the
witness had not been prosecuted Tor s"InN"ns'
and had been acquitted. German repheu III ~.
negative. but he subsequently adihl'e" '''''
he had been convicted Of emhezzlemeh' -" Jun
i. 1898. Counsel also showed tha' "e' .'a',-
was sentenced to six months iHpi'So''''
embezzlement I'm 1895
Nj Labor asked German II he was acPu''"'
Cd with NJ. De Beaurcpaire. and the witness re-
.1,a, thot ha was not acquainted with him.
but that NJ. De Bcaurepaire knew the facts 10
witch he f. etlicd through the witnesses frehuS
and he also admitted having written to NJ De
Roauronaire giving information which the id'-
ter had published in the Echo de PARIS
DENIAL FROM THE PRISONER
T. roriv 70 the usual question Dreyfus adj
.,i,,od that about 1856 or 1851 he spent a fur-
/ Tough at Muhlhausen. adding. Every 9e"''
/ hotb while STUDYING and attending the gunhe'y
aud artillery training schools, I passed one OF
,,co months al Muhlhausen But can posi-
tivelv affirm that was never present either III
o., ofocial or se,ni-oflcial capacity at the Ger
man mannuvrcs I was never inVH'u 10 az
tend the German nanUuvres and never u'"',i
or unched with any German officer. ON e"'n
visit I called on the General comrnahol"s q!
,ublhausen with my regular passport IN ac-
cordance with my duty.
"r would Ike TO point out, in regard 70 me
,,onouvrine ground 10 which reference Is maze
that the Muhlhausen ground is not ground over
/ which n,anmuvres could be carried out. II -
merely small drill ground nothing more ll"-i
- c,oorinc on the road from Muhhauscn TO
Basle. 1t is true that in the course OF my eN-
c,,rsions IN 1856 l might have seen regiments
oil declare
ont riding in 1856 or 1887 I never dined or
luncbed with German officers was never even
invited IN 40 60 ny foreign officers. and never
spoke 10 foreign officers"
Replying 70 Colonel Jouaust. Dreyfus sala
that while he was at Muhhausen he rode his
pro+ber.s horse and did not remember any
F thing about the horse mentioned by German.
Kubluann. the livery stable keeper who en-
ployed German at the time. testified that ne
never rode with Dreyfus as asserted by Ger
main: that he never went 10 the man~uVreS IN
comnany with Dreyfus and absolutely denied
all OF Germans statements.
/ PROSECUTIONS WITNESS CONTRADICTED
German the livery man said. in his en-
plov. and possibly the groom accompanied Drey-
fus But the witness had no knowledge Of IT,
In conclusion Kuhlmann emphaucally reter-
ated that he never rode with Dreyfus. He said
no was we'll acquainted with the whole Dreyfus
family.
/ Major D'Infrevre testified that he had known
German since 1894 German Informed him
that Drevfus attended the German manTuvres
Witness had never said that an officer German
saw IN the Bois de Bou.ogne was Drcyfus for
the simple reason that he did not know Dreytn'
I German. on being recalled. asserted that he
certainly thought Major DInfrevile told him
the officer referred 10 was Dreyfus
CAPTAIN lie Monner Of the Headquarters
/ STAFF. who was a probationer on the staf at the
same time as Dreyfus deposed that while they
were M the School Of var in 1894 Dreyfus. in
the course OF a conversation referring to the
covering Of troops in the Vosges region and the
movements necessary for the invasion Of Alsace,
said he was we'll acquainted with certain
position 10 which the Germans attached great
/ importance az a means Of checking a French
advance This position, witness continued. WAS
westward OF N1uhlhausen. and Dreyfus said
he reached this opinion after following the Ger
man manpuvres on horseback.
The prisoner AZ this point quietly pointed ou1
? that the position mentioned by Captain lie Mon
nier was situated In an entirely different local
fly from where he. the prisoner. IS supposed
70 have followed the manPuvres Dreyfls
added: Captain lie Monner must have confused
Il with q position which described from knowl-
edge acquired when traversing the whole dis
trict on horseback while a youth" The prsoner
reiterated that he never attended the man@u-
yres IN question.
OVERHEARD IN A BERLIN CAFE
NJ Vilon. tripe merchant and another
81 the friends II NJ De Beaurepaire declared
that when in Berlin during the year 1894 he
overheard a conversation OF some German OIL
GERS who were unchlng in an adjoining room
one OF the officers the witness said expressed
MODERATION that French officer should be
guilty OF treason. and his companion replied
1T is p good thing for You know we were
getting the plan OF mobilization from Dreyfus.
At the request Of VI. Demange NJ. Villon de-
tailed the alleged conversation and said that
he had not mentioned the conversation in 1884,
because Dreyfus had been arrested, and, know
ing him to be guilty the witness foresaw that
be would be convicted.
Special Commissary Fischer. Of the Eastern
Military Railway system deposed that he was
ordered 10 investigate a leakage in the Gunnerl
School at Bourges. and. he added. the results
Of his INQUIRIES DID not seem 70 incrlminat'
Dreyfus Fischer asserted that he was not Ions
in finding out that a former artleryman NAMED
Thomas had communicated TO a foreign Powe
documents affecting the national defence
Thomas he added sentenced to death 20
attempted murder in 1856. but the sentence
was oommuted TO penal seryitude for life Tn
witness went 10 Avgnon and secured the con
vict's confession that ne communicated sketche
, F of "sheu So OF the horse artillery gun. and %
the 100 Siege gun" for which he had receive
thousand francs Replying 10 Colonel Jou
aust the witness declared that as Thomas wa
arrested in 1856 he could not have been a sp
at a later date
Lieutenant Bcrnheim testified that. while a
garrison at Rouen, he furnished 70 Esterhaz
Information and 1ocunents rogarding the artl