The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-08-25
DREYFUS TRIAL TESTIMONY
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 creetly. On several occasions, witness
 continued Esterhazy was seen enter
 ing the German embassy, always quite
 openly, but dressed in civilian clothes
 M De Verlin saw Esterhazy enter th' | German embassy on October 23, 1857 He stayed there an hour and drove tC 1 the Credit Foncier Ga financial instltu
 tion), whence he went to the office oi
 La Patrie.
 M. Labori-What does General Roge
 think of the part played by Esterhazy
 General Roget-I have said that the part played by Esterhazy escaped me 1 completely.
 M. Labori-General Roget, however
 spoke of the syndicate as though it was
 public institution.
 General Roget-Exactly, it is a public
 institution. Everybody talks of it.
 M. Labori-But General Roget men,
 toned an affair of 100000 francs to Es-
 terhazy. I insist upon asking General Roget what he thinks of Esterhazy' s visit to Colonel Schwartzkoppen the German military attache) october 23, 1897, the same day as the interview i'll Mont Souris Park, a visit. during the course of which it is known that Es- terhazy threatened to commit suicide if the German military attache refused to declare that he, Esterhazy, was not the author of the bordereau?
 General Roget-It is not for me to say what think of it.
 M. Labori, resuming his seat said: "Very good '' Loud and prolonged laughter.)
 COLONEL FLEUR'S GOSSIP.
 Colonel Fleur, retired, testified to the numerous alleged inaccuracies in Col onel Cordiers testimony before the court of cessation. Cordier told the witness that the dismissal of himself and Colonel Sandherr was a beginning of a Jewish revenge and added that the Jews had influenced General de Bois- deffre. Cordier also said that he had not doubted the guilt of Dreyfus. The witness dramatically added
 What was my stupefaction when, later, I heard Colonel Cordier express ideas diametrically opposite to those he expressed to me-
 Proceeding, Colonel Fleur repeated the tattle intending to incriminate Drey- fus, when M Demange interrupted him saying: That is nothing but gossip
 M. Labori asked that all the persons mentioned by Colonel Fleur be cited to appear. The colonel protested against his evidence being dubbed gossip and maintained the correctness of his statements.
 Asked if he desired to reply to the witness, Dreyfns said: II have noth- ing to say. I only reply to facts. l will not reply to lies. If you attach the slightest importance to what has been said, I beseech you, with all my heart, to make a most complete inquiry for the most dazzling truth. That is what I ask of you, and of the members of the court-martial.'
 Colonel Cordier, who was deputy chief of the intelligence in 1894, was called. He protested against the con- ditions under which he was summoned, without being released from his oath of professional secrecy, and also pro- tested at the manner in which the sum mons was worded. T am represented" he said, ''as not being on the active list I on half pay. That is untrue
 AN AMUSING WITlSESS.
 The witness expatiated on the series of schemes of which he claimed he had been the victim, to the amusement of the court, until Colonel Jouaust invited him to curtail his incriminations and proceed with his testimony, to winch Cordier genially replied: II am coming to that. I'll reach it in less than five You will see how I shall cut it short Colonel Cordier who is said to be given to excessive drinking, caus- ed shouts of laughter by interarding his remarks with the expression: Full | stop; that's all" Even the judges | joined in shrieks of laughter-at the col | onels testimony.
 The witness could only testify as to certain facts since he was not released rom professional secrecy. Colonel Jou- lust said he would ask the minister of var to release Cordier from his oath and hat he would then be recalled.
 A ROYALIST ON THE STAND.
 M. Georges Charles Alfred Marie Mil il! de Grandmaison, deputy from the 5armer district of Maine-et-Loire who $ classed as a royalist, though regis cred as liberal republican, next ap- )eared at the witness bar, and repeated he testimony he had given before the ourt of cessation, He recalled a con he had with an English friend, Charles Baker, who said he was assured hat Dreyfus was innocent because he lad seen a letter from Colonel affirming the prisoners innocence. Baker, it seems, also men toned numerous documents showing hat certain French officers, not nclud- ng Dreyfus, were spies, and Baker sked the witness to publish the docu- lents, but without proofs of their gen ineness, as Emperor William did not wish to intervene. The witness, after against foreign interference n French affairs, repudiated the idea hat French officer could be sentenced ecause he was a Jew. He concluded y saying: 'I adjure the count to ac- uit the prisoner unhesta tinsly if it elieves him innocent QaughteD, and 0 convict him if it believes him gull y'
 NJ. Demange bitterly complained that 1e witnesses of the prosecution wera flowed to air their personal opinions nd appeal to the gallery, at which M. 3 Grandmaison retorted: A T zc-., I