The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-08-17
PROGRESS OF EVENTS At REyNEs
Review of Yesterdays Evidence by
Emily Crawford.

Copyright 1899 by the Associated Press.)
Rennes, Aug. 16--To- days witnesses
were Senator Guerin, who was colonial
minister at the time Dreyfus was sent
to Cayenne; Madame Henry, widow of
the suicide, and M. Lebon, who was
colonial minister for more than two
years and who ordered the palisade, or
high fence, to be placed around the hut
on the Isle Of Devils. Guerin is a pro-
vincial attorney in Carpentras, where
they know nothing of the Dreyfus case
except what they have learned from the
papers | happen to know that he was
acquainted with the prisoners late
father, who was naturalized a French
man in 1878 at Carpentras, where two
of his three daughters have since mar
ried. This possibly accounts for the
tone of kind feeling in M. Guerin's de-
position.
Madame Henry, dressed in deep
mourning, came from the convent where
she is staying, She says her age Isl
twenty-siX. She is commonplace and
vulgar, and shows in her figure and
complexion that she shared the good
cheer of which the late Lieutenant Col
onel Henry was so fond There was
very little in her evidence l noticed
two lies. One was that she saw Henry
one night at the dining room table
pasting the bordereau on sheet of a.
gummed paper and that it was torn in
small fragments. Now, the photograph
/ was shown Of 1.-THE photograph
which was done for the intelligence de-
partment--shoWs it was simply torn
half way across, and was not In frag-
ments The other lie was that Ester
hazy was not known to Henry before
the Picquart duel; but she afterwards
admitted that Henry knew Esterhazy
many years previously in Tunis She
was scarcely audible but 1t hardly mat
tered, as she delivered herself Of lot
Of fustian about Henry's patriotism and
devotion to the army.
General Roget like all the other gen
erals who preceded him, came as wit
ness, but he acted as public prosecu-
tor. He and they reminded me of q
devils advocate, but a devils advocate
in earnest. Roget was dead set against
the unfortunate Dreyfus, who must
have been tortured while the general
went on with his statements, seductions,
and suggestions that were
all lam to all the officers present.
If Roget was not speaking in good
faith his statement was infamously
wicked But he made point Major
Hartman who testified before the court
Of cessation about the gun mentioned in
the bordereau said IL had been tested |
in 1880 and that every one knew about
it in 1894. This Roget denied. and the
president of the court, who is an ar
tillery officer, seemed to endorse him.
According to Roget the gun had been
tested In 1894 only aud only spoken of
in one journal, the Yacht, the editor Of
which, Captain Weyl. was then an in
innate friend of Esterhazy. who was
this Wyle?" said Roget, He was the
uncle by marriage Of Matthew Dreyfus."
The accused quivered with rage Ike one
half impaled and starting up, he nro-
.ested al having 60 sit sill FOR two hours !
while tortured By witness who tore
ais very heart out.
Colonel Jouaust's manner had relax
ID on the two previous days, but when
the circumstances Of Weyl making the
revelation about the gun was mentioned
/ hardened him into the utmost sever
ty
What is very strange is that Weyrs
citations with General de pellieuX and
Esterhazy We're never probed, although
hey were much taken up. Weyl was
sent to Coventry by the nationalists for
having written articles favorable to
England In the Journal des Debats He
vas at flle same time excluded from
he offices of the ministry of marine, to
which, as editor of g nautical journal
le had had free entrance.