Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-09-05

much Anglo-Saxon as Austrian, Ger
man and Russian Jews.
Yesterdays session opened rather
badly for Capt. Dreyfus, as surprise
was sprung upon the defense in the ad-
vent Of the Austrian political refugee,
Eugene Cernuschi. who came out with a
fat-footed denunciation of the accused,
which, even though it may eventually
be proved q pure fairy tale. is bound for
the moment to exercise a malignant
influence upon the French people, who
have not seen Cernuschi and are thus
unable to form a personal opinion OF the
man who launched these direct accusa-
tions against Capt. Dreyfus.
Cernuschi's appearance is undeniably
against him. Nobody even suspects that
he is what he claimed to be, scion of
the royal Servian house. On the con-
trary, one would take him to be a
groom dressed in his best Sunday suit.
AS soon as he had delivered his testi-
mony and NJ. Labori had asked to have
MIN put on oath at todays session be-
hind closed doors, in order that he
might be punished, II guilty Of perjury,
he left the court room and was not
again seen.
the form of a letter to the president OF
the court martial, Col. Jouaust, was
most unequivocal. He claimed that on
three district occasions, twice in France
and once at Geneva, he was told by a
|high-placed foreign officer that Dreyfus
had communicated reasonable docu-
ments to a foreign power. In the third
instance Cernuschi said the officer
showed him documents emanating from
Dreyfus, and that this officer left
France hurriedly two days prior to the
arrest of Capt. Dreyfus. The allusion
was evidently to Col. schwartzkoppen,
whose movements Were coincident with
those described as the movements Of the
officer Of Cernuchi's deposition.
Now this evidence is of transcendent-
al Importance to the prosecution, and ii
is incredible, unless Cernuschi is proved
to be a humbug, that the government
commissary, Maj. Carriere, should have
admitted that he had received letter
from him Offering important testimony
and thrown 1t aside on the ground of Its
coming from political refugee. The
deposition evoked expressions of in
credulity.
This introduction OF a foreigner as 8
witness for the prosecution gave NJ. La
bori an opportunity to submit the mos
important request he has made
throughout the trial. NJ. Labori an
nounced his intention, in view of the
lstep taken by the prosecution, in calling
foreign evidence, to ask that inquiry
should be made through the regular
diplomatic channels as to whether the
documents mentioned in the bordereal
were actually communicated, and, if so
| by whom. This involves an application
| to the German government, which thu
court martial IS scarcely likely to ap
prove In any case the application, tn,
introduction of Cernuschi and other de
lvelopments of the day, it is general.
predicted, imply another fortnight's sit
| ting, at the least.
| Today there will probably be an ex
lamination of the secret dossier to which
ICapt. Cuignet referred yesterday ant
which NJ. Labori Immediately asked tt
have produced in court. This dossie
| Consists of twelve or fourteen docu
| ments, and 1t is difficult to see why, i
| they had any value. the etat major hav,
| not had them produced earlier. The eta
majors are not in the habit of holding
back documents calculated to prove o
the slightest service to their cause, a.
/ 1T is shown in the case of the note con
cerning NJ. Hadamard's doubts of th'
Innocence of his cousin, which was in
correct, but was, nevertheless, included
in the secret dossier, while the import
ant document stating on the authorit.
of the French minister In Rome that al
Italian military attache paid Esterhaz.
100000 francs was studiously omitted
| from the secret dossier.