Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-08-31
Capt. Feystaetter Places Tes-
timony of Maurel and Mer-
cier in a Bad Light.
HE CAUSES EXCITEMENT.
Former Secretary of War Meets Maui
rel in Courtyard and Reproaehes
Him Bitterly.
Labori Once More Asks for Du Patty
de Clam His Request Denied by
the Court-Immense Sensation Is
Created-Maurel Curses and De-
nounces Judicial Forma1ities.

Renens, Aug. 29.-The unexpectedly
violent incident at the Dreyfus trial in
which Gen. Mercier and Col. Maurel
were given the lie by Capt. Freystaet-
ter does not possess the importance
that one might be disposed to attach
to it. However great may have been
the irregularities of the first trial they
will change nothing for the present
court-martial
1t is evident that Col. Maurel is
weak man and seems rather overcau-
ious than willfully wicked. lie made
Il great mistake, when. desiring TO
prove to the Court that the communlca-
tious than willfully wicked He made
no influence on the Judges, he mention
ed that he had only read ona docu-
ment.
Half the truth is worse than a COM
plete lie. Col Maurel found to his cost
when Capt. Freystaetter, splendid
Soldier and another of Dreyfus's judges
of 1894, swore that all the documents
were communicated to the Court.
Col. Maurcrs jesuitical explanation
was that he had only read one docu-
ment himself. He did not say that
others had not read moro.
His explanation raised snow OF
wrath in the audience. For once the
audience was not anti-Dreyfns.
The tactics of the Headquarters stan
nv which it obtained the conviction In
1894 are apparently disgusting to the
majority of the people present. COL
Maurel, who could not survive the
initial sin. made confession. He had
Il
Maitre Iabori, and only made matters
worse in the eyes Of his superors
After the sitting Gen. Mercier met
Col Naurel in the courtyard and re-
nroached him bitterly for having al
lowed himself to be drawn out by La
boris persuasion. Col. Maulel com
plained of and cursed the judicial for
malities and said he had found him
self drawn out before he knew where
he was.
Cant. Freystaetters declaration con-
corning the biographical notes on Drey-
fms showing treachery at the Polytech-
moi School. the military school, and at
the HeaduuarterS staff was Il feature
I'm the case which brought new light
to everything. The revelation created
q bad impression. showing the determl-
nation of the General Staff to obtain q
conviction more deliberate than had
been imagined.
The sensation in the court was eX-
treme when Gen. Mercier came to the
rescue of the Colonel by creating n
diversion in saying that he had caught
Capt. Freystaetter in ''hagrante de
licto" of lying.
But for the difference of ages duel
could not be avoided. Capt. Frey
statet glared at MERCER.
Maitre Labori's intervention in de-
mandng an independent medical eX-
animation of Du Patty de Clam seemed
severe to the judges. but there is SUI
preme interest in having his evidence
now while all the Generals are at log
gerheads concerning the contents of
the secret papers communicated IN
1894. He alone can settle this def
nitely.
When the Court had refused the re-
quest Maitre Labori's complaint that
he had to deal only with the dead or
diving created an immense sensation.
Iabori exclaimed: "Col. Sandherr is
dead. Henry is dead. Du Patty is un-
able to come" Truly this affair is
made up of cemetery corpses as well
as regulations.