Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-08-13
TURNED UPON HIS ACCUS[R.
Dreyfus Calls General MERCER a Lying
Scoundrel.

tOUR HOURS BEFORE HE
COURT-MARTIAL, IN RUTHLESS
DENUNCIATION OF DREYFUS-
THE PRISONERS ARRAIGN-
+ MENT OF HIS ACCUSER CAME
IN A TRUMPET-LIKE TONE, AND
IN AN INSTANT, THE WHOLE
COURT ROOM ROSE AND CHEER
ED-MERCIER SUBJECTED TO
Kisses AND CURSES AS HE
LEFT THE PLACE GENDARMES
PREVENTED THE AUDIENCE
FROM MALTREATING THE
FORMER MINISTER OF WAR.
RENNES, August 1.-THE Red and
white facade of the Lycee was bathed
in sunshine at $40 o'clock this morn
ing when Capt. Dreyfus crossed the
avenue de la Care and entered the
building for the second public session
of his trial by court-martial. The same
stringent police precautions were taken,
but barely twenty persons had gathered
to witness his crossing.
Col. JOuaust, president of the court
martial, and the other judges began ar
irving shortly after O'Clock. They
were followed by Generals Billot and
MERCER, in uniform. The latter drove
up in an open carriage, and the small
crowd which had gathered by this time
greeted him with cries of 'Vive PAT
NEE" and "Vive MERCER" On alight-
ing at the door of the Lycee Gen. Mer-
cier looked very anxious, but immedi-
ately assumed a smiling demeanor. He
spoke few words to the officers at the
gate and laughed, but his laugh sound
ed false and his face as he assembled the
half dozen steps and disappeared within
the Lycee, took on an expression of
anxiety. M. Casimer-Perier arrived on
foot shortly afterward. The crowd sa-
luted him. Then came Col Picquart,
who was greeted with shouts of ''Vive
Picquart," which he smilingly acknow-
lodged.
The session opened at 80 with pre-
cisely the same formalities as on Mon
day.
The curtain rose to-day on the same
theatre-like scene as Monday. The
judges, in uniform, were seated on the
stage, behind the dark, cloth-covered
table, on which, in a row, were their
kepis with gay-colored plumes and
heavy gold-laced bands.
Every inch of the court was occupied
in expectation of a sensational scene.
There were more ladies present than on
Monday. The person known as La
Dame Blanche (The white LADY,. who
attended every move in the Dreyfus
affair, was again present to-day, wear
ing
A SUPERB SET OF PEARLS.
But. owing to the expressed objections
of Col. Jouaust, she changed her con-
spicuous place, on the right, behind
him, for more modest but still notice
able position in the body of the hall.
There was a large sprinkling of uni
forms among the audience, and a row
of soldiers, with fixed bayonets, was
again arranged at tho bottom of the
hall and rendered honors in the custo-
mary manner to the judges as the latter
entered or left the court.
The proceedings opened tamely and
the hopes of sensational sitting be-
gan to flag as the morning wore on and
matters began to get tedious as NJ Cas-
imir-Perier and General MERCER reit-
Grated what is already known. But
this was only the calm before the storm,
and when the storm broke, it carried
everyone in court with it into a whirl-
pool of the widest excitement
Dreyfus, on entering the court to-
day, saluted the president with the
same soldierly mein as last Monday and
the president, Col. Jouaust, returned
the salute and said:
''Sit down Dreyfus."
The chair of the prisoner was placed
further to the right of the platform to-
day. Instead of facing the judges,
Dreyfus sat with his back to the table
of his counsel, thus looking across the
platform, straight at the rail at which
the witnesses stood.
Col IOuaust Immediately after the
court had settled down opened the pro-
ceedings, asking Dreyfus the following
question:
'In January, 1895, the director Of the
penitentiary of the Isle De Re in the
course of his duty, searched the clothes
you brought from the prison
HE FOUND THIS DOCUMENT
in an inside pocket of your waistcoat."
The President here handed Dreyfus
a paper, and said:
do you recognize as having belong
ed TO your"
Dreyfus-"Yes, my colonel"
Jouaust-"Whose was it?'
Dreyfus-"Mine'
Jouaust-"Will you tell me how and
under what circumstances this docu-
ment came into your possession
Dreyfus-''It is a document I used
during my trial In order to discuss the
value of the bordereau wished to keep
it,"
Jouaust-"The military code gives
you the right TO have a copy OF the
documents in your care. This docu-
ment, therefore. was legitimately in
your possession. Why do you wish to
keen it?'
Dreyfus: "As a souvenir OF the text
of the boredereau."
Jouaust: THAT was not proper and
therefore it was taken from you
merely wished to elucidate this point.
That will do"
Colonel Jouaust then asked Major
Carriere il he had any observations
to make in behalf Of the government.
The major replied by asking 10 have
DR.. Ransom's report on Dreyfus read,
which the clerk of court did.
The report deals with the measures
of surveillance over Dreyfus adopted
during the voyage Of the prisoner to