St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1899-09-13
THE DREYFUS CASE,
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there was only slight acquaintance be.
tween Henry and Esterhazy. He re-
peated his allegation that Picquart twice
proposed to him to have date stamp put
on the petit bleu' in the postoliice. 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. NJ.
Junck testified that he had seen Dreyfus
in the company of loose women at the
Concours Hippique and that the prisoner
afterward told him one of these was
Nine Waltesse at 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. Labor read long black
mailing letter from LajouX to the minis
ter of war demanding money as the price
of his silence. lie asked Captain Grenier
if Gribelin was not sent with money to
LajouX, who was shipped off TO Brazil.
The witness answered Eyes" Labor
made Il strong point against MERCER by
stating that MERCER had copy of one Of
the governments secret documents i'll his
possession and demanding to know by
what right he retained it, MERCER 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 contind-
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-Kestner that Dreyfus was prob
ably innocent and that he had made Il re-
port to that effect, he was obliged to adj
nit it.
NJ. du Breuil said that 10 years ago he
made the acquaintance of NJ. 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 were 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 hay
ing been made in good faith Major
Gendron echoed General Gonses state
ments, and General Bosdeffre 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-
NuStu bltg iuS VI itNi ms uitt utNlultu
that the Alsatians were happier under
Germany than under France.
Colonel Maurel, who was president Of
the court martial of 1894, stated that he
and his fellows had become convinced
of the guilt of the prisoner before the
court had retired to deliberate. The Sc
cret 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
ly contradicted Maurel, stating that the
secret dossier had been shown to the
judges before they arrived at a conclu-
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