The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-08-27

the French General Staff Laid
Bare by NJ. Labori.
RENNES Aug 26.-"Dea1 men tell no
tales This is the barricade behind
which Gen. Mercier and The general staff
have intrenched themselves.
But there is one weak point in the de-
fense-Col du Patty de CIam-and the
military clique knows it, and is striving
to the utmost to keep him out of N. La
boris clutches. If the army can prevent
Du Patty de Clam, who is called the sick
man Of the Dreyfus affair." from appear
ing at the witness bar, they can efectlIal
ly put the silence of the tomb between
truth and justice.
NJ. Labori is fighting tooth and nail to
drag Du Patty de Clam into court, but Col.
Jouaust persists in refusing him the nee
essary assistance. He declines to send
reputable doctors to officially report on
the state Of Du Patty de Cams health
which every Dreyfusard believes is only
automatically affected, and THAI he will
recover quickly enough after the trial.
NJ. Labori hit the nail on the head today
when, replying to Gen. Mercier's last re-
marks, he exclaimed:
Always the dead. Sandherr dead; Hen
ry dead: Du Patty de Cham is not COM
ing"
Col. Jouaust Immediately cut him short,
declaring he must not make observations,
and then Labori staggered and fell back
into his seat with a despairing gesture.
While, however, the DreyfIsards hclieve
Du Patty de Clam is not seriously i'll, they
feel secret dread, which is expressed In
the significant remark not infreQuently
heard:
'Sandherr is dead; Henry committed
suicide, and Du Patty de Clam will die"
FRAUD AND DISHONESTY.
The conformation today Of Col Maurel,
Capt. Freystaetter and Gen. MERCER was
an instructive exposure of the fraud and
dishonesty Of the general staff, which the
absence of Du Patty de Clam alone pre-
vented from being complete. The defense
might demand that a rogatory c0mnlis-
sion be sent to examine Du Patty de Clam
on his sick bed, but M Labori and De-
mango despair of obtaining a satisfac-
tory result therefrom. They want to have
Du Patty de Clam in court and turn the
screws of the rack themselves.
No one who entered the court room this
morning, and again found himself en-
tangled in NJ Bertillons cryptographic
jugglery, anticipated the thrilling scenes
To be enacted before the court adjourned.
The sensation came when NJ. Labori rose
and asked that Capt. Freystaetter be
called to the bar. Everybody knew the
significance of his appearance, and dead
silence fell upon the court as the little
sergeant returned, conducting a tall keen
looking man, seemingly every inch a
soldier.
Holding his head high and with COM
pleta serenity of demeanor he walked into
| the court room, coming to a halt in
front of Col Jouaust He replied to the
t formal questions as to his name, age and
the like in a resonant tone, which he
t maintained through the whole of his tes-
timony.
Capt Freystaetter's opening statement
was discharge of grapeshot for the
Mercier clique. He enumerated four docu-
ments that We're secretely communicates
to the 1894 tribunal The first Capt
Dreyfus energetically denied and no re-
liable evidence has been abducted in its
support. The second was the CanailIe
de D. document which has been shown
not to refer to Dreyfus at all. The third
was the d'Avignon letter, supporting the
second, which, therefore, falls to the
ground with It, while the fourth was the
PaniZzardi dispatch which has beer
proved incorrectly translatedand ruled ou
of the proceedings by Col. Jouaust In the
present trial, as utterly unreliable This
was the precious selection of waste paper
which was deliberately communicated tC
the judges in 1894, and which swayed theil
judgment. The announcement that the
Panizzardi dispatch was one of the secret
documents was another hard blow tc
Mercier's reputation, because he had de-
'clared in his deposition that this dispatch
was not communicated to the tribunal IL
1894.