Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-09-21

lions with the agent who brought the
bordereau to the war office. He nude
the court laugh by saying soberly that
there was only slight acquaintance be-
tween Henry and Esterhazy. He re-
peated his allegation that Picquart twice
proposed to him to have a date stamp put
on the petit bleu" in the .postofice. This
Picquart Immediately and emphatically
denied, saying that when the document
was delivered to Lauth it was perfectly
clean, but when he Picquart) returned
from his mission he found that portion
of the word "Esterhazy" had been erased
and written over with different ink. M.
Juhck testified that he had seen Dreyfus
in the company Of loose women at the
Concours Hippique and that the prisoner
afterward told him zone of these was
Nine. Waltesse, ut whose house he often
went to gamble. Dreyfus denied all of
the witness statements with reference to
the women.
Maitre Labor, counsel for Dreyfus, re-
turned to work on Aug. %. and the case
for the defense Immediately became more
aggressive. LaDori read long black
mailing letter from Lajoux to the minis
of his silence. He asked Captain Grenier
if Gribelin was not sent with money to
Lajoux. who was shipped off to Brazil.
The witness answered yes" Labori
made strong point against Mercier by
stating that MERCER had a copy of one Of
the governments secret documents in his
possession and demanding to know by
what right he retained it. Mercier re-
fused to reply. Commandant Rollin said
that some pages were missing from the
documents found in Dreyfus' room. The
prisoner said they were intact when he
last saw them. Ferret, another Beaure-
paire witness, testified that he once saw
Dreyfus in Colonel Bertin's office after
Office hours. Dreyfus Indignantly denied
this. Berth manifested savage animosity
against the prisoner and declared that
while in his department he was continu-
ally poking his nose into other peoples
business, and for that reason he was pos
tive of his guilt. When Labor reminded
| Berth that the witness had admitted to
Scheurer-K estner that Dreyfus was prob
ably innocent and that he had made a re-
port to that effect, he was obliged to ad-
nit it..
NJ. du Breuil said that is years ago he
made the acquaintance of M. Bodsin in
Paris, where Nine. Bodsin introduced
him to Dreyfus. Witness dined at Bod
sins, the other guests being Dreyfus and
a man who was introduced as an attache
of the German embassy. He alleged that
Nine. Bodsin was Dreyfus' mistress.
| This was practically admitted by Drey-
fus, although the statement about the
German attache was violently denied.
Esterhazy's three threatening letters to
President Faure and the 'Dixi" article
which Esterhazy wrote in the Libre
Parole We're then read. This brought
General Gonse to the front. He said
that he really had no time to investigate
these, affairs personally, but had relegat-
ed the inquiries to Du Patty de Clam.
Furthermore, he said it was impossible
to accept Esterhazy's declaration. as hav-
ing been made in good faith. Major
Gendron echoed General Gonse's state
ments, and General Boisdeffre stated
that Esterhazy had lied throughout.
Mile. Pays testimony before the court Of
cessation was then read. 1t was not i'm
portant. General lie Blinde- Dionne ac-
cused Dreyfus of having once declared
that the Alsatinns were happier under
Germany than under France. III
Colonel Maurel, who was president of
/
and Ills fellows had become convinced
of the guilt of the prisoner before the
court had retired to deliberate. The Sc
eret dossier he said, had in nowise af-
fected their decision. Du Patty de Clam
had brought it to the court. Labor
wished to confront Maurel with Captain
Freystaetter, who was one of the origi-
nal Dreyfus Judges He was not in
! court, but was called later and absolute
~ contradicted Maurel, stating that the
secret dossier had been shown to the
judges before they arrived at concur
sion; that it had made great impress
sion upon all of them; that it had con-
WINGED him (Freystaetter) of Dreyfus'
| guilt, and that Maurel, so far from not
having examined it, had commented on
the several papers as they were taken
out and finally had said, referring to the
"canaille de D." document, "That re-
moves all doubt of his guilt"
Fornizetti, who was in charge Of the
. prison to which Dreyfus was committed
after his conviction, testified that, while
he had first been convinced of the guilt
of the accused, he had changed his mind