The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-08-24

pressed his hearers
At the request of NJ. Demange, Gen
Mercier was recalled and asked to ex-
plain why having sent Du Patty de
Clam to Dreyfus to discover the amount
OF INJURY Dreyfus had done, he had not
followed up his Investigations
Gen Mercier-I did not feel called on
to do so.
The prisoner again protested that the
inquiry ought to be followed up because
it would have served to destroy the fic-
ton of confession, to which such i'm
portance was now attached" (Sensa-
tion).
Major Cure testified to a conversa-
ton ne had with Col. Picquart in 1896,
when the witness gave Esterhazy
very bad character.
M. Billot, formerly a porter at the war
office deposed as to the visit of NJ Lee
bios to NJ; Picquart which the latter has
NJ. Jules Roche, a deputy and former
munster testihed to his acquaintance with
Esterhazy in 1894, when the witness was
studying the question of the Sufficiency
of the effective strength of the army
sequence of the new German law of 1893,
adding $4,000 men to the German army.
Esterhazy it appears afterwards visited
M Roche and wrote to him IN x7a-io1IG
to the fact that the late Lieut.. Col Henry
was indebted to him NJ. Roche also de-
admission of Esterhazy into the war Of
flee Replying to the government COM
BiIlot who was then minister of war told
him he must cease to interest himself in
Esterhazy, mot only for private and legal
P eeni se3 os reasons sun more
NJ. Labor insisted upon having further
details of Gen. Billot5s statement The
witness said he could not recall the exact
then was such that he felt under a moral
obligation to cease to interest himself in
A WATCH ON ESTERHAzY.
After a brief suspension of the session
NJ: De Veruine, special commissary of the
minister of war. deposed that Col. Pic
quart was ordered to have ESterhaZY
watched; Witness informed Gen. Gonse
and the later was advised to continue the
On several occasions, witness continued,
embassy, always quite openly, but dressed
N civilian clothes.
NJ. De Neruine saw Esterhazy enter the
ed there an hour and drove to the Credit
ed Their an hour and drove to the Credit
Foncier, whence he went to the office of
La Patrie.
NJ Labori-What does General Roget
Gen. Roget have said that the part
played by Esterhazy escaped me COM
NJ Labori-Gen. Roget, however, spoke
of the syndicate as though it were a pub
Gen: Roget-Exactly, it is a public in
situtton. Everybody talks of it
NJ. LabOri-But Gen. Roget mentioned an
offer of 100000 francs to Esterhazy.
I insist upon asking of Gen. Roget what
he thinks OF Esterhazy's visit to Colonel
SchwartzhOppen (the German military at
taehEs9 Septemfber %, 1891 the same day
visit during the course of which it is
known ESterhaZX threatened TO commit
suicide if the German military attache re-
fused to declare that he, Esterhazy, was
not the author of the bOrdereau.
Gen. Roget is not for me to say
NJ Labor resuming his seat said:
Very good cloud and prolonged laugh
ter)
Col. FIuere. retired, testified to the num-
erOus alleged inaccuracie in Col Cor
diers evidence before the court of
iSnf the SOF dismissal tol Of bi ths w abd
Col Sandherr was the beginning of a
Jewish revenge and added that the Jews
Cordier also said that he had not doubt
ed the guilt of Dreyfus. The witness dra-
what was my stupefaction when. later
I heard Col COrdier express ideas dia-
metr1cally opposite TO those ne expressed
Proceeding Col. FIeure repeated the tat
NJ. Demange interrupted him, saying;
This is nothing but gossip"
NJ Labor asked that ali the persons
mentioned by Colonel Fleure be cited to
appear.
dence being dubbed gossip and main
tanned the correctness of his statements.
Asked if he desired to reply to the wit
ness Dreyfus said:
Il have nothing to say. I only reply to
facts. 1 will not reply to lies. If you at
tach the slightest Importance to what has
been said beseech you with all my heart
most dazzling truth That Is what 1 ask
of you, my colonel, ana of the members
' COL. CoRDIER CALLED.
Col COrdier who was deputy chief of
the bureau of intelligence in 1893, was call
ed. He protested against the conditions
under which he was summoned. without
being released from his oath of profess
sional secrecy, and also protested at the
manner in which the summons was word
II am represented" he said "as not be-
ing on the active list of the army. and as
if had been retired on half pay This
is untrue"
schemes of which he claimed he had been
the victim to the amusement of the court
until Col. JOuaust invited him to curta1l
his recr1mlnatlons ana proceed with ms
testimony to which Cordier genially re-
4 am coming to that my colonel III
reach it in less than five minutes You
will how 1 shall cut it short"
Col. Cordier, who is said to be given to
excessive drinking, caused shouts of
laughter by interlaiding his remarks with
..F'uli stop. That's ALL Even the judges
Joined in shrieks of laughter at the col
AS Col. Cordier could only testify. as to
certain facts since he was not released
from professional secrecy, Col JouauSt
said he would ask the minister of var to
he would then be called.
NJ GOrgeS Charles Alfred Marie Millin
de Grand MaisOn, deputy from the Saumer
district OF Ma1ne-et-Lo1re, VINO IS ciasSed
as 4 rOyaliSt though registered a lib
ness bar and repeated the testimony he
had given before Ele court of casa ton
English friend Mr.. Charles Baker, who
said he was assured Dreyfus was limo
Col. Schwartzkoppen asserting the pris-
oner's innocence. Baker, 1t seems also
mentioned numerous documents showing
that certain French officers, not including
Dreyfus, were spies and Baker asked the
witness to publish the documents but
without proofs of their genuineness as
Emperor William did not wish to inter
vene.
Witness after protesting against foreign
interference in French affairs. repudiated
the idea that a French officer could be
sentenced because he was Jew;
ADJURES THE COURT.
NJ. De Grand Maison concluded by say
ing:
oner unhesitatingly if it believes him in
nocent Qaughterl and to convict him if it
believes him guilty.
NJ Demange bitterly complained that
the witnesses of the prosecution We're al