The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-08-19

Copyright, 1889. by the Associated Press.)
Rennes, Aug. 18.-It was a severe
blow TO the military set when the
Schneider dispatch was made known
at o'clock this morning in the refec-
tories and the hotels. 1t was a source
of jubilation to the other side.
General MERCER had greatly empha-
sized its Importance when giving his
testimony. His manner was victorious
as he handed the alleged letter of Col
onel Schneider to the president of the
court-martial to be added to and filed
with the other papers connected with
the trials.
These generals at Rennes have no
standing counsel to advise them. They
show forensic ability in making speech
es when they ought to be giving evil
dence, but they lack lawyer-like pru-
dence and legal practice. Many an ad-
vocate would have felt how risky it
was to dwell on such a document as an
intercepted letter from a military at
tache, especially in view of the forger-
les with which the secret dossier
teemed. After all that has transpired
about the letters of military attaches
10 each other in 1894, the attaches in
self-defense were bound to diScredit
everything in the secret dossier. These
letters were supported by police re-
ports.
MERCER Branded a Donkey.
Were they published, the world would
read them aghast As at least 127 per-
sons in all must have seen them, the
authors, real or alleged, would find
themselves on the defensive. But these
considerations never presented them
selves to General Mercier's mind. That
he believed in the authenticity of his
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now laughed at everywhere. His best
friends call him donkey, and his enc
mics rejoice.
Colonel Panazzardi trumps Colonel
Schneiders denial of his alleged letter
by writing and branding as a forgery
the report that General Roget said he
PanaZZardD wrote to the late SignOr
Rossmann. the Italian ambassador, re-
garding the relations of Colonel
Schwarzkoppen with Dreyfus-
Colonel Schneider sends. his contra
diction to the Figaro from Ems. and
Colonel Panizzardi makes use of that
paper in telegraphing from Rome to
give the lie to the whole of Roget
statement so far as it dealt with the
alleged report to Rossmann- The
Figaro at once telegraphed both com
munications 10 Rennes. where they
were posted in the hotels for the edi-
ficatiou of the patrons.
Roget Is Depressed.
The Austrian and Italian embassies
attest the genuiness of the Schneider
and Panizzardi dispatches. MERCER
feels that he has thrown the fat into
the fire, and he looked depressed mad
out of countenance today. So did
Roget. who is a stronger man, not
withstanding the tears he shed at the
close of his deposition yesterday. But
both were tired and pale throughout
the tiresome humiliation.
Colonel Picquart was again witness.
He was allowed to sit in an armchair,
with which the generals had been sue
cessively accommodated Picquart s
figure is younger than his face. His
voice is pleasant. His diction is good.
the emphasis never too emphatic and
the gesticulation seldom overdone. He
gives the impression of one who goes
in for the sober and the unadorned.
His face is strange, but not unpleaS-
ing. The aquiline nose is far too long.
The eyes are blue and of poetic EXPIRES
sion. but the heavy. dropping lids give
them a triangular shape. The prevail
ing expression of his coUntenance Is
sad. Still it shows mental serenity.
The Dreyfusites greatly fear for Pic
quarts life. The stalwarts among
them now guard him. He looks a man
with an unpropitious star, and he has
always been unlucky. unless in having
that peace of soul that passeth under
standing. EMILY CRAWFORD.