The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-18
NINE. HENRY AN ACT RESS
She Had Her Little Piece of
Drama by Heart.
MERCER is WONDERFUL
But Roget Is His Superior in Forensic
Skill-Hours of Argument With
out the Presentation OF a
Single Point.
Copyrighted 1899 by Associated Press.

Copyrighted 1899 by Associated Press.
Rennes, Aug. l7.-Cieneral Roget, NJ.
Bertulus, the investigating magistrate,
the widow of the late Lieutenant Col
onel Henry, and Colonel Picquart were
on the stand to-day.
Nine. Henry. after NJ. Bertulus had
deposed, asked leave to speak. She
stood up in a stacy manner and said:
'Je demande la parole" q ask to be
heard). She wanted to contradict what
NJ. Bertulus said regarding the friend
ship of her husband and Esterhazy.
She would be a handsome woman did
not the vulgarity of the drinking house
she originally came from cling to her.
Subaltern officers reVOlve around her,
but MERCER and the other officers
among whom she sits, seem embar
raised by her presence. What she said
was TRADE learned by heart, and
scarcely evidence. II, however, was
not wide of some points that NJ. Ber-
tulus brought out. She wanted to
show that NJ. Bertulus could not posi-
bly, have wrung an aVOwal from Hen
ny that he and Esterhazy formed an
association of traitors. Her story CO.
inc!dcd with what General Roget said
on this subject. So far from Bertulus
appearing to suspect Henry and crush
ing the latter with words of suspicion
she said her late husband had describ-
ed the magistrate as "charming.' She
said Bertulus even embraced Henry
when the latter was taking his leave,
circumstance which struck the wife
when she heard of it as boding no good
She jumped to the conclusion that
falsehood lay behind the kiss and that
Bertulus was Judas. This idea she
then devolved in a passionate perora-
tion that seemed lesson learned by
heart. Nine. Henry was very like the
late Nine. Agara. the actress, as she
INDUCED in this piece of dramatic VEN
geance.
Bertulus felt that it would never do
to argue with her, for tears were stand
ing in her eyes and the judges We're
looking sympathetic.
General Roget again to-day showed
extraordinary forensic ability. ] do
not know what the military worth is
of the generals who are acting here as
witnesses. but l do not wonder at the
old judges of the court of cessation be-
ing jealous of their argumentatiVe ca
pacity. their skill in turning a case in
side out. in puzzling inuendo, in casu
istry and in elegant verbal facility.
MERCER is wonderful in these re-
spects Billot is not inferior to him,
but Roget is the superior of both in
forensic skill, acumen and suggestive
ness
Roget is a very able man. He is the
son of a gendarme in the Pyrenees and
obtained his commission by passing
the examinations. He is fair, rather
English looking in features and coo
and delibera te in manner. He speaks
distinctly and rather slowly. but does
not fall into the defect into which Nine
Henry fell, of making every syllable
long one.
Dreyfus was under Roget as an out
slider with the general staff and seemed
tortured by his arguments and points
that he made-pOintS that went home
10 the military judges and were in
tended to poison their minds. Finally
he could stand it no longer and, start
ing up, his eyes cleaning with anger
he cried:
You deal only in augmentation.
have listened to you for hours withou
hearing a single fact
There were, nevertheless some facts
to-day, but they We're adduced to ue
stroy the credit of Colonel Picquart
who was represented at the head o
the intelligence department as playins
- crooked part and keeping back ever,
r'e"e Of information unfaVorable t.
IT, vfus.
N-aitre Demangc made many happ!
p~'nts in putting questions to Genera
ROGET. who lodged them with presenC
of mind and address. and when in
corner. with cool impudence. Still
Roget had the ear of the court. II
knows how to speak to specialized mill
tary minds.
The evidence of NJ. Bertulus was. oil
the whole, favorable to Dreyfus. in tn
judgment of the civilian listeners. Un
fortunately his reputation is blow
down. He belonged, when at Nice, Il
the South Railway gang, and as tn
magistrate sent to invest gate thei
swindle. played into their hands
Roget alluded to this and to other do
ings of Bertulus. and showed that h.
did not respect him. NJ. Bertulus is a
epicurean and has shocked Rennes peo
pie by his rather gay relations with
former actress, who somehow, rolls II
riches. Still, he seems to be fair ant
truthful witness and his deposition
must affect the public. Colonel Pic
quart will be heard again tomorrow.
NJ Laboris assailant is still undis
covered At convent of Marists. a
Cosson. near Rennes. the brothers vain
" searched for him. This has wol
sympathy for the clerical party. as i
was thought the brotherhood nigh
shelter him.
hypothesis that seems nearer t.
truth is that he is a soldier. who wa
given q suit of clothing and told Wher
TO exchange it for uniform which h
could again don as soon as Labor wa
shot l can imagine q Breton soldier
brimful of hatred for the Jew and tina
traitor Dreyfus. taking his life in hi
hands and going resolutely to XII La
bori EMILY CRAWFORD.
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