Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1899-09-07

nrs, victims If the violence Of the mon
mot ca much Anglo-savons as Ans,
TRAN. GERMANY and Russian Jews. who
form n ma ;oritv ~ the nress renresent.
alton of their resnective countries
Yesterdays session opened rather
badlv for Cant Drevfus as n surnri 60
was spruny mon the defense in the
advent of an Austrian nolitical refugee
Euoene Cerpuscbi who came ont with
a aat-footed denunciation Of the ac.
cnsed which. even though It NAV
eventually he nroved a fairy tail Is
bound for the moment TO exercise a
MALIGNANT influence upon the French
people who have not seen Cernuschi
and are tn IFS unable 10 form a personal
opinion of the man who launched these
direct accusations AGAINST Can't. Drew
fus 1t was remarked that as soon as
he had delivered his testimony and NJ.
Labor had asked to have him mt
IN oath at to-dav,s session behind
closed doors in order that he might be
punished II yuiltv NJ periurv he left
the court room and WAS not seen AGAIN.
Cernuschi's testimony. which was in
the form of a letter to the president of
the court.martial. Col. Jouaust. was
most unequivocal. He claimed that on
three distinct occasions. twice in
France and once at Geneva. he was
told BY high placed foreign officer
that Dreyfus had communicated trea.
sonable documents to foreign power
In the third instance Cernuschi said
the officer showed him document EN-
anatinp from Drevfus and that this
officer left France hurriedly two DAYS
prior to the arrest of Capt. Dreyfus.
The allusion was evidently to Col.
acknowledgment, the military attache
of the German embassy in Paris in
1894, whose movements were coinci-
dent with those described as the move.
ments Of the officer at Cernuschi's dep.
osition
Now this evidence is OF transcendent-
al Importance to the prosecution and
it is incredible, unless Cernuschi is
proved to be humbug, that the gov.
eminent commissary, Mai. Carriere,
should have admitted that he had re.
ceived letter from him offering i'm
portant testimony and thrown it aside
on the ground of its coming from a DO
litical refugee. The deposition evoked
expressions of incredulity. One sus.
picious feature was the fact that al
though the witness said he could not
speak French tluently his letter to Col.
Jouaust, asking an opportunity to
testify, was drawn up in perfect French.
He explained that he had been assisted
by his wife IN writing the letters,
This introduction Of foreigner of a
witness for the prosecution gave M.
Labor an opportunity to submit the
most important request he has made
throughout the trial, a request, which,
II granted by Col. Jouaust, though
this is extremely doubtful, would Ger.
tainly have momentous consequences.
M. Labori announced his intention in
view of the step taken BY the prosecu-
ton in calling foreign evidence, to ask
that inquiry should be made through
the regular diplomatic channels as to
whether the documents mentioned in
the bordereau were actually communi-
Gated and il SO by whom. This in
wolves an application to the German
which the court-martial is
scarcely likely to approve. In any
case this application means the length
ening of the trial for several weeks.
NJ. Painleve, the distinguished math-
cornered Gen. Gonse on the
latters falsi6ed version of NJ. Hadam-
ards remarks concerning Capt. Drey-