The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-08-24

4 thing outside my duties
/ General Risbourg, who was commander
of the Republican Guard in Paris In 1884.
was the next witness. He described the
scene with Captain Lebrun-R Renault, when
4 the witness learned Of Dreyfus alleged
confessions TO Captain Lebrun- -Renauit,
the day after the prisoners degradation.
| In conclusion. General Risbourg euio-
| gized the services of Captain Lebrun-
| Renauit and said thar before the Incident
of the confession there was nothing
against him. He was an excellent officer
a good comrade and incapable of injuring
After being asked the usual question.
Dreyfus protested against General Ris-
| bourg' evidence.
| he Captain Lebrun- Renault. could have
made the statements attributed to him.
Captain Lebrun- Renault shook hands
with him. fact which is in contradiction
of his statement. Besides, when such a
/ terrible charge has been hanging over a
man who has resisted it for five years,
! witnesses should not come here merely to
speak their beliefs but ought to bring e
reply reply : (sensation) \ "
Dreyfus then proceeded to give the true
version of his words on the occasion OF
1.-THE alleged confession and dwet on his
protestations of Innocence to Du Patty de
Clam.
Tho prisoners remarks deeply inn
At the request of M. Demange General
Mercier was recalled and asked to ex-
plain why, having sent Du Patty de Clam
4 to Dreyfus to discover the amount of in
jury Dreyfus had done. he had not fol-
lowed UP his Investigations?
General Mercier-sI did not feel called
upon to do So"
i enquiry ought to have been followed up,
"because it would have served to destroy
/ the fiction of a confession, to which such
Importance was now attached. (Sensa-
tion.)
/ he had with Colonel Picquart In 1895. when
the witness gave Esterhazy very bad
character.
/ Office deposed as to the visit of Maitre
! Leblois to Colonel Picquart, which the
latter has never denied,
NJ Jules Roche, a Deputy and former
Minister, testified to his acquaintance
| with Esterhazy in 1894 when the witness
! was studying the question of the suffi-
cheney of the effective strength of the
army, which had become more important
/ In consequence of the new German law
of 1858. adding $4,000 men to the German
! Army. Esterhazy, 1t appeared, after
| wards visited NJ Roche and wrote to him
on various occasions until 1897. One letter
| referred to the fact that the later Lieu
tenant Colonel Henry was indebted to
| him. M. Roche also described the steps
he took to procure the admission OF Es-
1 terhazy into the War Office.
Replying to the Government Commis-
sary. NJ. Roche declared that General
| told him he must cease to interest himself
| in Esterhazy not only for private ana
4 legal reasons. but for other reasons still
| more peremptory." tSensatiOn.)
NJ Labori insisted upon having further
| details OF General Biliots statement. The
witness said he. could not recall the exact
words of the Minister. But their effect
| then was such that he felt under moral
obligation to cease to interest himself IN
Esterhazy.
i After brief suspension of the session,
! H. DeVeruine. Special Commissary of the
/ Minister of War, deposed that Colonel
Picquart was ordered to have, Esterhazy,
watched. Witness informed. General
Gonse and the latter was advised to con-
\ tinue the investigation diScreetly. On
several occasions. witness continued,
| Esterhazy was seen entering the German
Embassy, always quite openly, but Dress
! ed in civilian clothes. NJ. de Veruine saw
Esterhazy enter the German Embassy
| and drove to the Credit Foncier ca finan-
/ cial institution, whence he went to the
4 N Labori-.'What does General Roget
! think OF the part played by Esterhazy?'
| General Roget-.I have said that the
/ part played by Esterhazy escaped me
II. LabSori-ssGeneral Roget, however,
| spoke of the syndicate as though it was q
public institution"
/ General Roget. Exactly. 1T is a public
| Institution Everybody talks of it.
NJ Labori-"But General Roget men
toned an offer of 100000 francs TO Ester
| what he thinks of Esterhazy's visit to
/ Colonel Schwartkoppen (the German
| military attache), October %. 1887 the
| same day as the interview in Mont Souris
| Park a visit during the course of which
| it is known Esterhazy threatened to COM
nit suicide if the German military attache
refused 10 declare that he. Esternazy. was
General Roget-'It Is not for to say
| what I think of it.
| NJ. Labori, resuming his seat, said:-
Var nd 4 Tfa11d md A-falfr ne rod
4 laughter)
| numerous alleged Inaccuracies in Colonel
4 Cordier's evidence before the Court of
Cessation. COrdier told the witness that
/ the dismissal Of himself and Colonel
! Sandherr was a beginning Of a jewish
revenge and added that the Jews had in-
fIuenced General de Boisdeffre- Cordier
/ also said that he had not doubted the
| guilt of Dreyfus.
What was my stupiilcation when. lat
| err heard Colonel Cordier express ideas
diametriealiy opposite to these those ne s.es ex-
repeated the tattle intending incriminate
! DTeyfus. when NJ. Demange interrupted
him. saying
/ M Labori asked that all the persons
mentioned by Col Fleur be cited to APP
The Colonel protested against his evi-
| dence being dubbed gossip, and main
| tained the correctness of his state
menJS.
Asked if he desired to reply to the wit
| ness, Dreyfus said -
II have nothing to say. I only reply
| to facts I will not reply to lies If you
attach the slightest Importance TO what
! has been said beseech you, with all my
| heart to make a most complete inquiry
1 for the most dazzling truth. That is what
/ Iasked of you My Colonel and of the
| members of the court martial.
Colonel Cordier. who was Deputy Chief
of the Intelligence Department In 1894.
| was called He protested against the
conditions under which he was sum
| moned without being released from his
| oath of professional secrecy, and also
protested at the manner in which the
summons was wOrded.
II am represented, he said, "as not
being on the active list of the Army, and
as if / had been retired on half pay. That
| is untrue.
The witness expatiated on the series of
/ schemes of which he claimed he had bene
the victim. to the amusement of the
/ court until Colonel Jouaust invited him
/ to curtail his determinations and proceed
with his testimony. to which Cordier
4 genially replied:
Il am coming to that, my Colonel. IL,
| reach it in less than five minutes. You
| will see how | shall cut it short"
| Colonel Cordier; who is said to be Civ
en- to excessive drinking caused shouts
of laughter by interlarding his remarks
| with the expression =
Full stop. That's all.
Even the judges Joined in shrieks of
| AS Colonel Cordier could only testify as
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