The record-union., 1899-09-08
WASsERMAN, KAUFMAN 6 co.


rms letter was written a fortnight
after the arrest of Dreyfus, and M. La
bori declared he would be glad to hear
| the Generals on that point
| General Roget accordingly marched
to the platform. In regard to the mo-
| bilization of the Russian army he said
a Well-informed article on this subject
| had appeared in the "Revue Bleu."
owing to the indiscretions of a certain
person he would not name as he (the
| GeneraD did not wish to compromise
| him.
! Captain Cuignet confirmed General
Roget, adding that it must not be con-
cluded Information furnished to the
| general staff did not emanate from
Dreyfus. The fact that it took a fort
night to reach it's destination proved
nothing.
| General Mercier also interviewed to
show that any information furnished
| by EsterhaZy could have had no value.
! Colonel Picquart offered explanations
of the leakage in 1898, and General
Mercier again jumped up and pro-
tested against indiscriminations com,
mitted in favor of former Minister
being called leakages.
|
dence given by a witness named Ecolle
before the Court of Cessation was
read It described how Esterhazy en-
ployed Ecolle to execute a sketch of a
rifle, which afterward Esterhazy said
he had sent abroad with an imaginary
plan of mobilization.
After further evidence on this POINT
letter from Esterhazy to General
/ Roget was read, in which the writer
complained that no use was made of
his information, and violently attacked
M. Bertillon, who, according to Ester
| haZy, ought to be in an asylum for the
insane, or in prison. Esterhazy COM
planned of his miserable condition de-
scribed General Boisde:fre as n scoun-
drel, and the echo de Paris as a
dirty Jew sheet, adding that it was
| a mistake to abandon him an1 then
| prosecute him.
After repeating his threats, Ester
| haZy wrote that while he was the
! moral author of the bordereau, he
could not have supplied the infolma-
ton contained in it, and expressed sur
prise that nothing had been said IN re-
gard to the role played by Colonel Pic
quart. He then attacked, turn about,
all the officers of the general staff.
AT this juncture M. Labori said he
| thought the court had had quite
| enough of this edifying letter, and
asked that the rest of it be not read
But Major Carriere objected, remark
ing that the letter was most interest
| ing.
NJ. Labori-They are all interesting
and I would like to have them all read
| Major Garriere-They are all of the
| same degree of interest. They are all
| rot.
| The reading then proceeded. In a let
! ter containing a long string of bitter
recriminations and violent insults, par
| ticularly in regard to certain members
: of the court-martial, whose impartial
| ity was impugned, Esterhazy declared; !;
/ ST will say or do nothing to increase
] the dangers of the situation. But l,
an old and faithful servant, have been
lSdenouncpd and have fallen beneath the
blows, after having been basely aban-
| doned by Boisdeffre, Billot and other
-Generals.''
| After Major Hartman had briefly re-
/ futed General Merciers statement that
the Germans always termed the hydro
pneumatic brake the hydraulic brake,
which Hartman declared to be abso-
Ilutely untrue, Colonel Jouaust, though
requested by M. Labori to allow NJ dc
! Fond -Lamotte to be re-examined, re-
| fused to hear any further evidence, and