The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-08-19
GREAT DAY FOR DREYFUS
Continued from Third Page.)

Iale at the Office in order to examine
| the documents thoroughly. | thought
it over during the night and the next
| day / explained the whole situation to
General de Boisdeffre. l took to his
office the secret dossier, the fac-simile
| OF the bordereau, the petit bleu and the
principal papers connected with my in
vestigation of Esterhazy.
Il wonder now if / had one or two
| interviews. But / still see General de
Boisdeffre, as he examined the secret
dossier with me. stop before he reached
the end and tell me to go into the
| country, give an account of the affair
TO General Gonse and ask his advice"
| At the conclusion of Colonel Pic
quarts deposition, Generals Roget and
| MERCER rose together and asked to be al
! lowed to be confronted with the witness.
The conformation, however, lasted only
few minutes and did not prove SEN
sational, having reference to COMPARE
lively minor points
Before starting to see General Gonse,
| copied note, four pages in length,
which | made September l, containing
my resume of the Esterhazy affair.
when I Informed General Gonse of
all which had occurred, he remarked:
| SO a mistake has been made
After my interview with General
Gonse l did not work any longer on my
own initiative l said nothing more
until the return of General Gonse Sep
TENDER 15 AT that time Esterhazy was
at the Great manoeuvreS,"
Next witness dwelt on the rumors in
September, 1896 of the project of re-
placing Dreyfus by man of straw and
the discovery of the forged Weyl let
ter, supposed to be connected with the
same project. At about the same time
the campaign for and against Dreyfus
was started by the newspapers.
AT this stage of his deposition, Col
onel Picquart, who had been speaking
for two hours and a half, was visibly
distressed and had occasional attacks
of coughing. Colonel Jouaust, how
ever, showed no inclination to suspend
the session of the court in order to
give him needed rest.
The witness then turned to the news
paper attacks on Dreyfus. saying that
the information regarding the border
eau contained in them convinced him
that they had been inspired by some
one closely connected with the Dreyfus
affair." They could not, he added, be
attributed to the Dreyfus family while
they contained expressions familiar to
Patty du Clam, whom it would be in
teresting to hear on the subject.
Witness next said he asked permits
sion to inquire into the sources of the
articles, but was forbidden to interfere
in any way whatever. Describing his
interview with General Gonse, Sep
TENDER Is, Picquart said:
when l asked General Gonse for
permission to continue the investiga-
ton, insisting on the danger of allow
ing the Dreyfus family to proceed with
their investigation alone, the general
replied that it was impossible in his
opinion and in the opinion OF General
De Bosdeffre and the minister OF war to
reopen the affair. When l pressed the
point in order to make General Gonse
understand that nothing could prevent
it's reopening if it could be believed
Dreyfus was innocent, General Gonse
replied: If you say nothing, nobody
will know
General" I replied firmly, What
Won tell me is abominable. / do not
know what I shall do. But wont car
nv this secret with me- (Great sensa-
tion.)
ST at once left the room,' added the
witness.
THAT is what occurred, / know my
account is disputed, but l positiVely
swear it, said Pcquart, as he emphat-
ically smote the bar in front OF the VIII
ness box and looked in the direction OIL
the generals.
The colonel next described his 1nten-
ton with regard to Esterhazy, Whlcn
Generals Gonse and De Bolsdefre hau
forbidden him to carry out. he at'acn-
ed particular Importance to TINS polh|
as If contained clue to subsequent oc-
o,,rrence Later, witness said lhat
while Patty de Clam evidently acteo
wrongly in Disgusting himself with
false beard and blue spectacles, perhaps
he was authorized to do So
After few minutes suspension Oh
The session Colonel Picouart resumed
III denosition, showing how, through
an article in the Eclair OF September 10
he was satisfied that EsterhaZy i'au
been warned OIL the SUSPICIOUS No
him.
In order to make the proof compete
witness continued his Investigations
with the utmost discretion. In his opln-
ion, the only event of Importance III the
Drevfus affair since the discovery OF the
bordereau was the Henry forgery, per-
,,etrated on october 81, 1896. 1t must
have been handed Immediately to Gen
eral Gonse.
Just before Henry perpetrated the
forgery, and agent named Guenee, Hen
RVS right hand man, prepared report
declaring that NJ Castelin, republican
revisionist deputy for Leon division Of
Aisne, was about to play the hand OF
the Dreyfus family by unmasking, in
the chamber of deputies, the prisoners
accomplices, thus having the affair re-
opened.
Colonel Picquart incidentally COM
planned bitterly, while he was chief OF
the intelligence department, that Hen
RVS tool Guenee, should be allowed to
make reports against the witness, who
had then established a connection be-
tween the reports Of Guenee and the
false deposition of Henry, who had tes-
titled that he had seen the witness seat
ed in Maitre Leblois' office the doc
ument containing the words "Cette ca
lilo do n--lp bnfora them