The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-09-02

asked: When did you know that the
firing manual was being copiea?"
Colonel Picquart-During the summe.
of 1896.
NJ Labori having remarked that this
was all he desired to ask at present Gen
eral lRrpolyte Sebert, retired, of the
marine artillery deposed.
he preceded his testimony by saying b.
did not think he ought to withhold the
evidence he was able TO give, as he felt
1t would contribute to the repatriation of
a Judicial error The general then crti-
clsed the bordereau from a professional
standpoint, pointing out that the writer
must have been low classed man nego-
tiating directly with the correspondent on
whose doles he was dependent. He said
he was probably an officer, but certainly
not an artillery officer, adding that this
was proved by the employment OF express
slons an artillery man could not hava
used.
The witness gave a number of in
stances showing the dense ignorance dis
played in gunnery technicalities by the
writer or the bordereau and amid profound
silence General Sebert declared that hin
study of the case had led him to the con-
viction that the bordereau could not have
peen written by an artillery officer nor
by an officer belonging to a special arm
OIL the service who had passed through Tia
polytechnique school.
He referred to the satisfaction he fa,t
at knowing the experts of the highest
standing in handwriting had confirmed his
opinion and had dismissed NJ Bertillon's
assertions, saying that on examination he
the witness, mad easily found proof of the
"orthlessness of that demonstration.
III Is painful for me-, added General
S sep, 10 express such an opinion on
nan whose name is connected with the APP
pllcation of the anthropoetec methods Ri,t
French science can not give its authoritv
10 lucuprations so pretentious as those NJ.
bertllion brought here. | reassert most
emphatically that the bordereau was not
written by an artillery officer, nor by an
oihcer who passed through the polytech-
nique school l have been sustained in
Ewing XIV my evidence by my firm belief in
the entire innocence of Dreyfus. and
am glad l have had strength enough 10
orlhg mere the stone which / have to lay
on the edlfice OF repatriation which Won
are constructing SO carefully and con-
Sciehtlously while holding aloof from out
SIDE passions. (ENcitement.) This edifice
Is work of appeasement and peace which
wiz restore the country to an era OF con-
'ord and union. prolonged excitement |
a orief suspension of the court followed |
W men the session was resumed at the |
'equest OF NJ. Labori General Sebert ex- |
messed his opinion of various evidence in |
support of VI. Bertillon's system, saving
n spite OF the latters talent he had not
ucceeded in converting a false theory
nto a true one
NJ Bertillon at this point exclaimed: al
'eg leave to speak,"
Colonel Jouaust asked the prisoner ~
lie had anything to say in reply to the
witness, and the prisoner replied that he
lad not ne
Then Colonel Jouaust, without taking
ne slightest notice of NJ BertilIon called
he next witness, Major Ducros of the ar
iilery, who showed that Dreyfus had
hundant opportunity in 1894 to obtain in I
ormation relative to the guns. but did
OF take advantage of them. General [
iercler tried to belittle this testimony by {
aging Dreyfus was probably aware that
nowiedge OF the Ducros gun was no long
OF importance since the gun had heen ,
stected in favor OF the Deport gun.
Major Hartmann OF the artillery was the !.
ext witness for the defense. He asked !,
emission TO refer to certain OF the docu-
ents which We're produced during the =
,eret session of the court yesterday. unsn ,
men he said he had reached importaXt |
'neluslons. But General Deloye objected. ! |
y 1G2s-cop1rary to- the instructions or'F1
e minister of war.
me major then asked the court to sit
lefty in secret and Colonel Jouaust prom
cd TO render a decision later.
proceeding, Major Hartmann testified ON
ghly technical subjects. his evidence be-
the same as given before the court OF
ssation and as already published. He /
ohe N iond, energetic tones and oc-
sion The major will continue tomor-
The court at 11;4o a, m. adjourned for
; day. f''