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spoken of, and demanded that all proofs

| Colonel Jouaust if he had any explana-
| tions to offer, and replied that his duty
& was merely to produce the secret dos.
sier, and that he could not say any
thing regarding documents outside the
dossier.
Replying to M. Labori, Commandant
Cuignet declared that there were doc
uments relating to Dreyfus in a dos
sier connected with espionage in the
intelligence department.
M. Labori said he must insist that all
these documents be produced at the
secret session of court martial at which
M. Cernuschi is to be examined.
General Billot, formerly Minister of
War, here mounted the platform and
said he was glad that reference had
been made to the secret dossier, as it
enabled him to protest against the in
sinuation that he had handed Com
mandant Cuignet a document from the
secret dossier. He had handed the doc
ument in question to NJ, Cavaignac
M. Demange begged that Colonel Jou-
aust ask NJ Cavaignac to produce the
document but as M. Cavaignac was
not present. the incident was tempo
rarily dropped
testified that NJ. Guenee informed him
that the War Office had indisputable
proof of the guilt of Dreyfus and sta
toned snap shot photograph, with a
military attache at Brussels.
After brief recess of the Court
tial, DR.. Peyrol deposed that he met
M. Bertillus, Judge of the Court of Cas-
sation, after the arrest of Lieutenant
Colonel Henry, and that NJ Bertillus
related to him the dramatic scene in his
office with Henry.
Nj. Bertillus was very jubilant over
Henry's arrest, and said he was con-
vinced that if Henry were detained, ev-
erything would be known in due time
M. Tomps, a special Commissary of
the railway police. deposed that he pho
tographed the bordereau by orders of
Colonel Sandherr. He had not manip-
ulated the plate with a view to conceal
ing marks upon the document.
When the fac-simile of the bordereau
was published, Lieutenant Colonel Pic
quart ordered the witness to discover
who had supplied the Photographic
copy. While engaged in the investiga-
ton of this matter, Lieutenant-Colon
Henry, upon one occasion, approached
!
uneasiness at the successive revelations
in the Dreyfus affair.
Lieutenant Colonel Henry told the
witness that the revelations could only
have emanated from an individual who
had the documents in his hand. Henry
the witness testified added that they
can only emanate from our office, where
only Picquart, Lauth, Gribelin or my
/ nO11I6 T m
sure that neither Lauth, Gribelin and
myself have been SO indiscreet. You
would do well to discover who is re-
sponsible.'
NJ. Tomps detailed successive steps in
his Investigations showing how Lieu
tenant Colonel Henry, and not Com
mandant Lauth, had brought pressure
to bear to make him implicate Lieuten-
Colonel Picslart, and their angry
threats when the witness report did
not suit them. They accused the wit
ness of being influenced by some one.
Replying to NJ. Demange, NJ. Tomps
said that he had only once mixed UP
Esterhazy in connection with the re-
port Esterhazy had been seen at
foreign agents residence, which had
two exits and had other suspicious re-
lations Witness had found corrobora-
ton of this.
Replying to NJ Labori, M. Tomps fur
ther detailed Lieutenant Colonel Hen
rvs pressure upon him with a view to
having the communication of the bor-
dereau to the "Matin" ascribed to Lieu
tenant Colonel Picquart. Witness did
not know if the leakage at the War
Office continued after Dreyfus left.
Detail Hennion testified regarding the
assertion to the effect that Paulmier,
the valet of Colonel Schwarzkoppen, the
German military atta6he, had seen
plans of fortresses signed by Dreyfus
on his masters table NJ. Hennion
furnished a typewriter report on the
subject, showing that Paulmier never
saw or never said he had seen such
documents.
NJ Labori pointed out that the head
quarters staff had alleged that the de-
tectives only reported that Paulmier
had disappeared and that his address
was unknown. Probably, NJ. Labori
suggested, the gentlemen at headquar-
ters merely misunderstood the report
of the detective.
Commandant Cuignet attempted to
explain where the report indicated by
Paulmier had disappeared, but that af-
terward it was discovered that the po-
lice were wrong.
Captain Junck corroborated the state
I ments of Cuignet, and said that the
police had furnished a written report.
NJ Labori much regretted that this
report could not be found, and added,
amidst much excitement, But this is
always the case. 1t is always impos-
sible to get at the bottom of interesting
incidents owing to documents being
missing"
Commandant Lauth reLappeared with
the view of refuting the evidence of M.
Tomps. M. Lauth declared that no one
in the statistical department dreamed
of suspecting Picquart when the inqui-
ry was ordered as to how the "Matin"
| secured the bordereau. Suspicion at
| tached rather to a civilian clerk, who
was on friendly terms with Tomps.
After Commissary Tomps had replied
the court retired to deliberate on the
subject of holding another secret ses-
| sion When the members of the court
returned Colonel Jouaust announced
that there would be sitting in cam
era tomorrow morning.
The name of Siege Bassett was then
called. Mr.. Bassett is the London cor
respondent of the "Matin.'' who fur
nished the Esterhazy interviews and
M Labori and Demange pointed out
that Esterhazy's confessions were too
important to be discussed at the fag
end of the days session. Upon sug-
| gestion of counsel for the defense, the