Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1899-09-04
MORE TRICKERY
The General Staff Credited the Lie
Of a Valet and Suppressed
Denial.
PROSECUTORS OF DREYFUS
There Is Some Chance Of the Trial End
ing in Few Days and Dreyfus
May Soon Know His Final
Fate.

Rennes, September Ask to ten days
is given as the outside limit of the full =
| ther duration of the Dreyfus trial. The
first witness to-day was M Cernuschi
| His letter to Colonel Jouaust offering
testimony stated that, having been
mixed up in this political troubles of
Austro-H Hungary, he had been obliged
to seek refuge in France, where he had
friend who was a high official in tfe
foreign office of a central European
him certain foreign agents of France
might denounce him, the first name
mentioned being that of Dreyfus. An
other foreign general of the staff SINH
larly warned him. One day, witness
said, when he was visiting the latter,
he saw him take from a pocket vo-
luminous packet containing military
documents. The officer said that in
France one could buy anything, adding:
What is the good of Jews if you don't
use them?"
Being asked if he ascertained the
name of the traitor in this case, Germ
ischi replied: "No, because the officer
had already said Dreyfus was his infor-
mant" Major Carriere, representing
the government, asked that the court
hold further examination of this wit
ness behind closed doors.
Labori then announced that since the
,,rooooutiop bod o,p, y,oopod oil foraipp-
ers, he intended to make formal appli-
cation to have complete steps taken
through foreign channels to ascertain
whether the documents mentioned in
the bordereau were delivered to foreign
powers, and If so, by whom.
M. Andre, clerk to M. Bertullus, judge
of the court of cessation who received
the confession of the late Lieutenant
Colonel Henry, deposed that he over
heard Henry exclaim: Don't insist,
beg of you. The honor of the army
must be saved before everything"
The next important witness was the
well-known mathematician, M. Pain
leve who tore to pieces Bertillon's sys-
tenn.
The commissary of the secret police,
named Tomps, was called by the de-
fense. Lieutenant Colonel Henry, he as
serted, tried to induce him to attribute
to Picquart the communication of the
bordereau to the Matin, in which the
bordereau was first published. The wit
ness was asked If he ever investigated
the Paulmier affair, which was as fol-
lows:
Paulmier was valet of Colonel
Schwartzkoppen, German military at
tache at Paris. 1t was alleged he saw
on Schwartzkoppen's desk documents
signed by Dreyfus The general staff
had declared an effort should be made
to get at the truth of this story, but
Paulmier disappeared, and, therefore,
although the general staff could not
prove the story, 1t could not be dis
proved. To a question regarding this
investigated the affair, whereupon La
bori suggested that M. Hennion, sub
chief of the political police, may have
been intrusted with the inquiry.
Jouaust called to Hennion, who was
present in the court room: "Come here
and testify"
Hennion declared he actually found
Paulmier, who told him there was not
word of truth in the whole story. He
had never seen any paper bearing the
name of Dreyfus.
Labori called attention to the fact
that the general staff suppressed Hen
MONS report in favor Of Dreyfus, and
only declared report had been received
representing Paulmier as untraceable.
Commandant Cuignet and Captain
Junck testified that only report that
Paulmier could not be traced had been
received at the office of the general
staff.
Hennon said he forwarded the report
to the general staff, giving Paulmier's
emphatic denial of the whole story.