The record-union., 1899-09-07
ALL EYES TURNED
TOWARD The KAISER
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Captain Deryfus replied: "It is very
possible that / expressed regrets that
would be unable to go to the man
euvers, and what is certain, we all
knew that none of the probationers
would co."
Lieutenant Colonel Picquart was
called to the stand, and said that Drey-
fus never applied to him for leave to
go to the maneuvers adding that he
was surprised no inquiry had peen
made upon this point of the chief Of
Dreyfus bureau.
Colonel Jouaust then read letter
from the Colonel Of the Thirteenth Regz
ment of Infantry, dated last Saturday,
recalling the date of the report on
Madagascar, which had enabled him to
FIX the date of the bordereau as August
1894. This report, however was drawn
up in the Third Bureau of the general
staff. and consequently an indiscretion
might have been committed by an Of
ficer employed in the bureau.
The deposition of Lieutenant Colonel
Du Patty de Clam, which was taken by
Magistrate Travernier, was then read
1t was more remarkable as being a
repetition Of De CLAIMS former evil
dence than for containing any new
revelations. This was what the derense
feared, and the reason they declared
they had little faith in the result nf an
eX-parte examination.
In his deposition, Lieutenant Colonel
Du Patty de Clam complains of cal
umny, of which he has been the victim,
;oI, had no
succeeded in proving, declaring fur
ther that he had no relations with the
late Lieutenant Colonel Henry but ad-
nitting relations with EsterhaZy. De
Clam affirms that in communicating the
secret dossier to the eourt-martial OF
1894 he acted purely as a. messenger,
and knows nothing more. He says
Dreyfus always proclaimed his inno-
cence.
The deposition ended with copies OF
letters from Madame Dreyfus, estab-
fishing the fact that Lieutenant Col
onel Du Patty de CLAIMS relations with
her were always courteous.
The court-martial adjourned for the
day on the conclusion of the reading
of Du Patty de CLAIMS deposition.
AS the audience was leaving the
courtroom, Lieutenant Colonel Pic
quarts brother-in-law, NJ. Cast, rushed
at Commandant Lauth, and tried to
strike him for having introduced the
subject of Piequarts mistress in his
testimony to-day. Gendarmes inter
fered and persuaded NJ. Cast to leave
the precincts. of the court.
The following is detailed report of
the proceedings:
The secret examination of Eugene de
Cernuschi, the Austrian refugee, witt
ness for the prosecution, occupied the
time of the eourt-martial from the hour
of its convention, at 6:30, until $50
O'clock.
The public sitting of the court open
ed at S:45 a. m, with a brief exchange
Of unimportant remarks between NJ.
Demange and General Roget. Senator
Trarieux, formerly Minister of Justice,
was then recalled to the witness stand.
After a desuitory discussion Of the
character of Lieutenant Colonel Pic
quarts former orderly, Savignaud, who
has testified for the prosecution, which
seemed to show that Sayignaud had
more or less maligned his former mas
ter. NJ. Labori questioned NJ Trarieux
with regard~to the petit bleu.
NJ. Trarieux replied that he had ex-
amined the petit bleu, which had been
the cause Of the accusation against
Lieutenant Colonel Picquart. If the
witness had not known in the first
place that one genuine document had
been falsified, he would not have re-
ceived Picquart the day the latter was
to be arrested. The witness had not
accused Commandant Lauth any more
than others.
Lauth had not believed the document
might have been tampered with until
after he was asked to conceal the traces
of it's having been torn. He must have
yielded to the influence of the plotting
rampant at that time.
NJ Trarieux vehemently defended
Picquart against the charge of tamper-
ing with the petit bleu, the original
genuineness of which was proved by
the very use to which Picquart had put