The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-08-30
NEITHER
SIDE WAS
PLEASED
with the Outcome of Yesterdays
Testimony Before the COURT.
martial of Capt. Dreyfus.
EVIDENCE OF COL. CORDIER
Was Favorable to the Prisoner
Except in one Instance..The
white Mouse" Testifies.


RENNEs, August 2s.-Nelther side
was pleased with the outcome Of to-
days proceedings before the court mar
tIal that is trying Captain Dreyfus. The
Dreyfusards expected that Colonel Cor
dler, who was deputy chief of the In
tellIgence department under the late
Colonel Henry, would testify that the
bordereau was received directly by tho
late Colonel sandherr. Had this ex-
pectRtIon been realized, the testimony
would have been a strong point in IA
vor Of the accused, because It would
have been reply TO the aRa-Dreyfus-
ards, who have oil along eontended that
Henry received the bordereau and for
warded it to sandherr, a thing he
would not have done had the bordereau
been, as the Dreyfusards assert, writ
ten by his accomplice Esterhazy, for in
that event Henry would have recog-
nlzed the handwriting when he received
the bordereau from the German embas-
sy, and would have suppressed 1t, In
stead Of forwarding 1t to sandherr.
Cordier's Testimony.
Colonel cOrdIer. however. testified to-
day that he was absent from the intel
lIgence department when the borderenu
arrived, but that he believed 1t was re-
ceived by Henry. Naturally, this
statement elnted the anti-Dreyfusards,
but they had no good reason to con-
graduate themselves upon the remain
der of cordler's testimony, as IT was
wholly in favor of Dreyfus. on the
other hand, the procession OF generals
and officers Of the general stan who
demanded an opportunity to confront
Colonel CordIer was a good piece OF
tactics from the point OF view Of the
anu-Dreyfusurds, because all the points
they contested were not of the first
Importance, yet their very appearance
on the stage and the contradictions Of
some of Cordlers statement left a dis
agreeable impression.
Mercier IS Game.
The appearance of General MercIer to
question Colonel CordIer came as sur
prise to many in the audience, who had
supposed that after last Saturdays
scene, when MercIer was confronted
with Captain Freystaetter he would re-
main quiet. But Mercier Is game to
the death.
His action to-day is Interpreted as
intended to show that he is not going
to throw up the sponge. The part he
played in 1894 lays him open to arrest,
and this is q constant topic OF dIscus-
sion in the cafes and at other meeting
places in Rennes. There appears, how
ever, to be a good reason why the gov
erumeut will not take such serious steps
until the trial is over. Colonel Jouaust,
president OF the court martial. could
adjourn the trial indefinitely II Mec-
cler, who Is an important witness, were
arrested. II the trial were adjourned
for more than forty-eIght hours It
would lapse, and the proceedings would
have to be gone over again from the
beginning.
The "White Mousc,"
To-day's attendance was tho largest
since the opening Of the trial. Every
body was on the quI vive to hear the
testimony Of Charles De Freyclnet.
senator, former premier. former minis
ter OF foreign affaIrs and former minis
ter OF war. This adroit politician, the
white mouse" of French politics, sat
upon the fence as well as he could.
His expression OF 4 fear that the Drey-
fus agitation would lnjurc the disci-
plIne Of the army greatly annoyed tho
DreyfusaFds as calculated to influence
the Judges against the accused. But he
followed It with a eulogy OF the pioneer
of the Dreyfus campaign, NJ. scheurer-
Restner, former vice president OF the
senate. whose character he said he held
In the highest esteem.
n. Labori then secured another con-
cession favorable to DreVfus by getting
NJ. De Freyclnet to admit that he
could not recall a single faet going to
prove that money had been sent into
France from abroad to promote a cam
paign In favor OF Dreyfus,
The general feeling, however is that
his appearance on the witness stand
has not materially helped the accused.
Patty do CLAIMS Testimony.
nAra1s Arrnsh 2a-Gennral RrnEern.