Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-08-19

the brother of Captain Dreyfus.
The witness, continuing; said; You
know he maintained that the bordereau Is
the joint work of Alfred and Mathew Drey-
m. Bertillon said: That is the writing
of the bordereau.'
NJ. Bertillon tried to discover where l
had obtained the handwriting, but the only
information l impaired was that it was
current and recent handwriting.
M. Bertillon suggested that 1t was
was current handwriting, it could only have
emanated from some one whom the Jews
had been exercising for a year in initiating
the handwriting of the bordereau.
AT NJ. Bertillon's request, 1 left the pho
tographs with him. When he returned
them, he said he adhered TO his opinion and
saw beyond a doubt thNt the handwrit.
ing of the bordereau was ~terhazys, and
seeing that documents mentioned therein
might have been supplied by Esterhazy,
that the words am going to the man
euvers' could perfectly well apply to Es-
terhaZy, and that EsterhaZy had secre-
so, voluminous as the Firing Manual, 1 re-
solved to consult the secret dossier to see
what part of the treachery might be as
cribed to Dreyfus and to assure myself
whether the dossier contained anything in
dicating Esterhazy
Il frankly admit I was stupetied on read
IliB me secret doSSler. expected to nnd
matters of gravity therein, and found. in
snort, nothing but d document which
might apply just as much to Esterhazy as
TO Dreyfus, an unimportant document men,
tlonlhS d AVlSnon and a document which 1t
seemed absurd to apply to Dreyfus. name
ly, the Cette Canaille de D. document.
Lastly / recognized a report appended,
in the handwriting of Guenee which ap-
peared to be at least as worthless as the
second document. 1t was then evening
had stayed late, alone at the office, in or
der to examine the documents thoroughly.
| thought it over during the night and
the next day l explained the whole situa-
ton to General De Boisdeffre. / took to
ms once the secret dossier, the fac simile
of the bordereau, the Petit Bleu and the
principal papers connected with my investi-
CATION of EsterhaZy.
Il wonder now if 1 had one or two inter-
views But l still see General De Bois-
deifTe, as he examined the secret dossier,
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.
Before starting to see General Gonse, 1
copied note, tour pages in length, which
made September /, containing my resume
of the Esterhazy affair.
When Informed General Gonse of all
mat .nat had occurred, he remarked: SO a
mistake has been made
After my interview with General Gonse
| did not work any longer on my own in
ltiative. | said nothing more until the re-
turn OF General Gonse, September 15 At
that time Esterhazy was at the great ma
noeuverS"
Next the witness dwelt on the rumors
In September, 1886, of the project of replace
ing Dreyfus by man of straw, and the
discovery of the forged Weyl letter sup-
posed to be connected with the same pro-
Ject. At about the same time the campaign
for and against Dreyfus was started by
the newspapers.
At this stage. of his deposition, Colonel
Picquart, who had been speaking for two
ana half hours, was visibly distressed
ne. he mad occasional attacks of coughing,
but managed TO continue, Colonel Jouaust
not showing any inclination to suspend the
session OF the court in order to give him
needed rest.
The witness then turned to the newspaper
attacks on Dreyfus. saying that the in
formation regarding the bordereau contain
ed In them convinced him that they had
peen inspired by some one closely con-
nected with the Dreyfus affair. They could
not. he added be attributed to the Dreyfus
family, while they contained expressions
1amiiiar to Patty de Clam, whom it
)ect. Witness next said he asked permis-
sion to inquire into the sources of the ar
ticles, but was forbidden to interfere in
:, Describing his Interview with General
Gonse, September 15 Colonel Picquart
sad: When 1 asked General Gonse for
permission to continue the investigation,
insisting on the danger of allowing the
vestigation alone, the general replied that
II was impossible, In his opinion, and. in the
minister of war to reopen the affair. When
l pressed the point, in order to make Cen
eral Gonse understand that, nothing could
prevent its reopening If 1t could be believed
Dreyfus was innocent, General Gonse re-
piled:
II you say nothing, nobody will know.
T. General 1 replied, what you tell me
Is aoominable. I do not know what I
shall do. but 1 won't carry this secret with
me. (Great sensation)
1 at once left the room,' added the wit
account Is disputed, but l positively swear
1t, said Picquart,as he emphatically smote
the bar in front of the witness box, and
The n InS of the
with regard to Esterhazy which Generals
Gonse and De Boisdeffre had forbidden him
TO carry out. He attached particular i'm
portance to this point, as it contained a
clue to subsequent occurrences. Later wit
nesses said that while Patty de Clam evil
IDENTIFY acted wrongly in Disgusting himself
with false beard and blue spectacles per-
maps he was authorized to do so. After a
few minutes suspension of the session,
Colonel Picquart resumed his deposition.
showing how, through an article in the
Eclair, of September 10, he was satisfied
EsterhaZy had been warned of the sus-
picions against him.
In order to make the proofs complete wit
ness continued his Investigations with the
utmost discretion. In his opinion, the only
event of Importance in the Dreyfus affair
since the discovery of the bordereau was
1886
He added that 1t must have been handed
Immediately to General Gonse. Shortly be-
fore Henry ,perpetrated the forgery an
agent named .Guenee, Henrys right hand
man, prepared a report declaring NJ Cas-
telin, Republican revisionist deputy for
the hand of the Dreyfus family by unmask-
ing in the chamber of deputies the prison
er's accomplices, thus having the affair
reopened
General Picquart incidentally complained
bitterly that, while he was still chief of
the intelligence department, Henry's tool,
Guenee, should be allowed to make reports
against the witness who had then estab-
lished a connection between the reports OF
Guenee and the false deposition of Henry,
who had testified that he had seen the wit
ness seated in Maitre Lebler's office with
the document containing the words "Cette
Canaille de D" before them.
Each new scheme" said the former
chief of the intelligence department, was
complete development of the one pre-
ceding'
The next feature of Picquart's deposit
ton was his recital of the intrigues against
him and the pressure exercised by Henry
blame for communicating information to
the newspapers. Then, turning to the dis
tant mission upon which he was dis
patched, Picquart described the Irritation
he felt when he saw he was being re-
moved because he was no longer wanted
as head of the intelligence department. He
explained that if this disgrace had been
frankly avowed it would have been much
less painful TO him. The colonel also said
that, during his absence, his correspond
ence was tampered with.
Dealing with his mission to Tunis, which
Picquart said ought to have been mtrusted
to commissary of police. the witness de-
clared it was then that Henry, abandon
ing his underhand intrigues, began a cam
paign of open persecution. Henry wrote