The age-herald., 1899-08-26
JUDGES MAY BE GULLEO
Ths Prisoner Admits Ingenuity of the
 PFenChman'S Scheme.
ESTERHAzY'S WRITING SECURED
Will Be-. 2 iuced in Court Next Week As E Ipd de Theatre-Diplomat-
 Correspondence Tam P7 : pered With.

R - August 25.-After NJ. Bertil1on. the Iwriting expert, who is at the head of anthropometric department of the p >ure of police of Paris, had concluded the first installment of his so-called dem- onstration of the guilt of Captain Dreyfus, a prominent Dreyfusard referred to him as the French fin de siecle Cagliostro.
 The Dreyfusards refused to regard him as anything bat the Prince of Quaeks. They cover his remarks with ridicule and protest that the admission of his fantastic theories as evidence before the courtmar- tial is a disgrace to France.
 Majority of DreytusAnds
 "C este une honte," was the remark heard on all sides when the session closed and the audience, mainly made up of Dreyfusards, was being pressed outside by the gendarmes, who clear the court room as soon as the court adjourns
 Nevertheless, eXen the Dreyfusai ds don't deceive themselves as to the effect Nj. Der tiilon's testimony or demonstration" may have upon the judges, who. they fear, will be guled by what the Dreyfusards con- slider spurious. All the judges have passed through the Ecole Polytechnique, the high est school of science in France, and they are thus pecluiaTly interested in such1sSvi- dence as M. Berkillon's.
 Moreover, with the aid of the innumera- ble diagrams and specimens of writing which he submits to them, they may be able to follow the reading intelligent1y, which is more than any member or the audience could do today. If the judges accept Bertillon's premises that Dreyfus, as an expert spy, did not wrtse ordinary hand writing, but in close imita tion, even con- triving to give the letters the appearance ot having been traced in order to be able to repudia.e as a forgery if detected, then the structure built uon this groundwork may be scientifically correct.
 Dre1 fus', Admission
 Even Dreyfus, when shown Bertillon's demonstration, admitted the ingenuity and plausibitty of the system though he nat urally declared that it was buiDt upon a false basis.
 A remarkable feature of M Bertillon's deposition was the heat and excitement he put into what was expected to be a calm, dispassionate exposition of his theory. Ha thundered, shouted and waved his arms, as though engaged in some terrible dispute. Once he literally shrieked, ad numbers of the usual audience who had been unable to follow him, and who were taking the air in the court yard rushed into the hall, breathessly inquirlng what had happened, and imagining that he was Illuminating some dreadful denunciation of the accused.
 Their excitement was turned into hilar- ity when they found that he was momen- tarily impressing upon the judges the sig nifcance of the exact space measured in centimeters, between the words in the bor- dereau.
 The military witnesses, all of whom sit in a bunch, leaving Colonel Picquart and M. Bertullus severely isolated, followed M. Bertillons statements with a grave and wise expression of countenance, upon which never a suspicion of smile appear ed, as though they understood every word. Evidently they had received mot ordre to preserve this attitude, for without sec ing the diagrams they could not have un- derstood any better than any in the gem eral room.
 EsteIhazy's Handwriting Secured
 The Echo de Paris announced today that the counsel of Dreyfus had obtained pos session of certain documents mentioned in the bordereau, in Esterhazy's handwriting which they would produce in court next week as a coup dc theatre.
 The correspondent of the Assocfa ted Press inquired as to whether this testimony would be considered incompetent in Drey- fusard quarters this evening. He was as- sured that the statement was erroneous, and was also told that the defense intend- ed in the event of Captain Dreyfus being recondemmed to ask the German govern ment to communicate documents proving his innocence and that they had reason to believe such request would be granted.