Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-09-06
BE MAKES INDIGNANT PROTEST
Evidence Today Was Rather
Against the Prisoner.


| the court found this witness to be worthy
| of more consideration than 1t had been sup
| posed that he deserved.
| The largest audience yet assembled in tho
lAycee was present when the open session
| of the court-martial began, at $40 o'clock
Senator TrarieuX, former minister of jus
| tice. at once resumed his deposition which
| had been interrupted by the adjournment
| of the court yesterday. NJ Trareux took
| up the testimony of Savignaud the witness
| for the prosecution who had asserted that
| he had seen letters addressed to NJ.
| Scheurer-Kestner. formerly wee presi-
| dent of the senate by Lieut.. Col. Picauart
while Savignaud was Picquarts orderly in
| Tunis. NJ. Trarieux declared that Savig-
| maud was a perjurer. and that two officers
| visited SaviSnaud before the court-martiaI
| opened, NJ. Trarieux limiting that the off,
| GERS had drilled Savignaud on the testi-
mony he should give.
| Savignaud replied. reiteratng the truth
| of his previous testimony
Lieut. Col Picquart then arose and re-
peated his denial of Savignauds story.
| NJ. Trarieux delivered his testimony in an
| emphatic tone. He reviewed the question
! of the petit bleu, which he said he was
convinced was authentic. He proceeded TO
| comment upon the questionable role played
by Commandant Lauth In the affair
Lauth interrupted Witness
Commandant Lauth interrupted the wit
ness. asking that he be allowed hearing
and on the conclusion of NJ. Trarieux s
deposition, Commandant Lauth confronted
MIN. The commandant declared that he
had acted honestly throughout and that he
had not the least doubt of Lieut.. Col Pic
quarts Justification of the petit .bIeu in
mi lot
A striking incident occurred when Conn
| mandant Lauth a moment later asserted
that Lieutenant Colonel Picquar< had al
ways shown the greatest contempt for
the officers of his bureau asserting that
on one occasion Picquart had brought to
the general stan, in the presence of Mes
DANES Henry and Lauth woman
Madame D, who was the wife of a mag
istrate, and, Lauth intimated. Picauart's
mistress
Lieutenant Colonel Picquart arose and
cried:
Il protest, absolutely
At the same time there arose from the
spectators a chorus of indignant cries Of
"Canaille! 'Cochon!' and 'Miserablew
The gendarmes were ordered to repress
the outbursts of Indignation which had
been evoked by the declaration of Com
mandant Lauth In publicly naming a wo-
man in a scandaous connection.
General Zurlinden, former minister of
war, followed Commandant Iauth at the
witness bar. General Zurlinden spoke in
Justification of his action while he was
military governor of Paris and minister of
war in the matter of the prosecution OF
Lieutenant Colonel Picquart, taking the
ground that the measure was absolutely
necessary in order that the court should
clear up the charge of forgery brought
against Picquart. Moreover. General Eur
linden said, the minister of justice had
persuaded him to send Lieutenant Colonel
Picquart before a military court
NJ. Trarieux replied to General Zurinden,
reproaching him with Lieutenant Colonel
Pcquarts ten months in prison.
Labori Asks n Question.
NJ. Labori then asked a question of Gem
eral Zurlinden regarding the petit beu.
Colonel Jouaust, president of the court
martial, refused to put the question, on
the ground that the court engaged in
the trial of Dreyfus and not of the Picquart
affair.
NJ. Labor, however, insisted. taking the
ground that the petit bleu demonstrated
the guilt of Maj. Esterhazy, and that, con-
sequently, it was very important for ORGY
fus.
NJ Labori then tackled Gen. Zurinden,
who admitted that the magisteral inquiry
showed that the petit bleu was not tam
pered with when it first arrived at the in
telligence department, and that conse-
quently Picquart could not have been gull
ty, as alleged. of distorting the document.
NJ Labort asked that NJ. Palelogue, the
expert of the foreign office, be consulted
with reference to the reading before the
court Of diplomatic documents which es-
tablished irrefutably the authenticity Of
the petit bleu.
NJ. Palelogue, who sits behind the judges,
came to the front of the stage, and said
he did not know to what documents NJ.
Iabori alluded.
The document replied NJ. Labori '.in
which is recounted conference between
Nj. Delcasse former prime minister) and
Count Won MISUNDERSTANDING German
minister to Paris}, in the course of which
Count Won Munster-Ledenburg had said
Col. Schwartzkoppen had admitted that he
sent Maj. Esterhazy a number of tele-
graphic cards or petits bleus."
NJ Palelogue responded that what NJ
Labori said was quite true. and that the
document belonged to the diplomatic dos
sier AS to the petit bleu in question,
added NJ Palelogue, Col. Schwartzkoppen
could affirm whether he wrote it himself
or whether he had not seen it; but in any
case, NJ. Palelogue said, lie believed it was
sent by Col Schwartzkoppen
This declaration by the expert of the for
eign office created a marked sensation in
court.
M. TrarieuX again entered upon long
in the course of which he said
Maj. Esterhazy was acquitted, not judged.
Rebuked by Jouaust.
(v@1
he must not speak that way of judges. NJ.
Trarieux replied that he had not referred
to Judges but to La Chose Jugee.
Col. Jouaust then pointed out that NJ
Trarieux was taking M. Labori's place and
making a regular speech for the defense.
Gen. Billot now confronted M. Trarieux