The San Francisco call., 1899-08-18

work OF ESterhaZy. The Court of CaSSa-
tion is the supreme authority in all mat
ters of justice in France" (SensationD
At this juncture there was a brief sus-
pension OF the session. When it was re-
Sumed NJ. Bertulus was recalled. but he
mad little to add of an interesting char
acter
When the prisoner was asked if he de-
sired 10 put any questions to the witness
ne answered in the negative.
Nine. Henry then ascended the platform
and, standing beside NJ. Bertulus, she
said: 'On July is, the day my husband
called on NJ Bertulus the colonel in the
course of a conversation that evening
told me he had a friendly and charming
reception. He described how the magis-
trate advanced to meet him and held out
ms arms. | said to my husband: Are you
sure OF this man? Are you sure he is
sincere! am very much afraid that his
KISS was the kiss of Judas.
here was great sensation in court at
this statement of Nine. Henry.
i was not wrong she continued, amid
the breathless interest of the court. This
man is indeed the Judas l imagined
referring to the papers which arrived
at the same time as the bordereau, Nine.
Henry said: Those papers were not all
torn into thousand pieces. l was able
to note that personally. Letters often
came entire. NJ. Bertulus has maintained
that everything arrived in pieces. That
is false"
uons of surprise, and Nine. Henry con-
cluded, Il have nothing more to say
NJ. Bertulus said he did not desire to re-
ply to Nine. Henry, adding: ''She is only
a woman.
II am not a woman" exclaimed Nine
Henry furiously, Il speak in the name of
my husband
The incident caused great excitement in
court
Now shall I reply to madame?" asked
NJ. Bertulus. She is defending the name
of dead man and that of her child"
(Renewed SenSauOn.)
q I RprfulnS
who was greatly moved. Nine. Henry de-
scended from the platform and took a
seat beside General Zurlinden. NJ. Bertu-
lus forthwith left the court.
Colonel Picquart was then called to the
witness stand. He protested most firmly
against all suspicion of having caused the
disappearance of any document relating
TO DreyfuS. Documents had disappeared
but he was not connected with their disap-
pearance. He also repelied with scorn the
assertion that he had endeavored to put
another officer in the place of the real
author of the bordereau.
1t is true" the witness continued.
that the name of Captain Dorval being
mentioned to me as dangerous man /
tlemen, by whom Dorval was denounced?
BY his own cousin. continued Picquart
Major Du Patty de Clam. (Sensation.)
Colonel Picquart then next proceeded 10
reply to the various attacks made upon
him.
''These tactics he said "are evidently
pursued with the OBJECT or IeSSening the
value of my testimony"
The colonel next outlined his connection
with DreyfuS at the military college and
afterward at the Ministry of War, where,
owing TO the anti-Semitic prejudice of the
general staff, he first appointed Dreyfus
to a department where probationers had
no direct cogniZance of the secret docu-
ments. He then described the Consterna-
ton in the War Office when the treason
was discovered and the relief experienced
when it was thought the guilty person
had been discovered. 1t was then that
the witness discovered the similarity be-
tween the handwriting of Dreyfus and
that of the bordereau, and he had re-
course to Du Patty de Clam. who was
supposed to have psychological knowl
Then the witness described what he
characterized as the irregular steps
taken by General Mercier to accomplish
dictation test, the witness earnestly and
emphatically affirmed that he saw no
signs Of perturbation in the handwriting
Of Dreyfus on that occasion. and. more
over, shortly afterward Du Patty de
Clam admitted that he had not found
a fresh charge against Dreyfus.
Beyond the bordereau," said the wit
ness, there was nothing against Dreyfns
absolutely nothing"
My impression during the investiga-
tion,' continued Colonel PicQuart, was
that the acquittal of the accused was
probable, as the evidence was insuffi-
cient."
Witness believed he had even told the
Minister of War that the condemnation
less the court-martial had been shown the
secret documents which it had been
agreed TO submit to the court. The colonel
next declared that in 1894 he did not know
the contents of the secret dossier, but he
believed, like all other officers. that It
contained frightful proofs against the
prisoner When he became acquainted
with its contents, however, he found that
his earlier Impressions were entirely
wrong. = prolonged sensation)
Colonel Picquart then recalled the vehe-
ment protests of innocence which The
prisoner had not ceased to make during
all phases of the degradation. The wit
ness declared he was quite ignorant of
the confessions Dreyfus is alleged to have
made to Captain Lebrun- -Renaud.
Continuing, Colonel Picauart defended
nlmself against the charge that he had
always directed his efforts toward the re-
Mobilization of Dreyfus. He said he had
that end when he became aware that the
writings of Esterhazy and the bordereau
were identical, and that consequently the
charges against Dreyfus no longer ev-
listed.
During the course of his Testimony
Colonel Picquart asked to be confronted
with Major du Patty de Clam and to be
permitted to deal with some of his pecu-
liarities when Patty de Clam is in the wit
ness box"
Next the colonel examined the borde
itdu, anu uecldreu Drey1uS could not
have disclosed part of it,
Regarding the Madagascar note. the
witness disputed its value. and said he
did not believe 1t was a confidential note
He added that If Dreyfus, In his capacitv
of probatloner, had asked the witness for
the note he would have handed it TO him
immediately. Therefore he PicquarD was
unable to understand the sentence in the
bordereau reading, This document was
very difficult to obtain
Colonel Picquart then declared he had
never seen Dreyfus copy the smallest
document in the War Department In the
opinion of the witness the department
where the bordereau was discovered ought
TO nave been searched when the discovery
was made. This, he explained was the
department in which Du Patty de Clam
worked, and that was the department
which was working on the plan of the
concentration Of the troops and the Mad
agaScar expedition. He added:
1T was in Major Du Paty do CLAIMS
department that the search should have
been made, or rather in his private room
where he worked quite alone" (Sensa-
tion.)
Du Patty de Clam, continued the wit
ness, had been guilty of grave imprudence
in having, contrary to the regulations
had confidential documents copied by sin,
gle secretaries, non-commissioned officers
and even private soldiers; whereas the
custom was that such work was done
solely by officers.
Later on the witness said he wondered If
It was not to avoid the risk of punish-
ment that Du Patty de Clam advanced the
date of the reception of the bordereal1 a +