The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-08-24
COMPARATIVELY UNEVENTFUL DAY
IN THE DREYFUS COURTMART|AL
An Effort to Blast The Private Character Of the Prisoner by
the military Witnesses,

who declare their confidence in it. The
trial in my belief, will last about another
twenty days"
M Labori has decided to prosecute La
Croix one of the leading clerical organs,
and La Libre Parole, together with M.
Drumont, proprietor and director of the
latter paper personally, for declaring the
recent murderous attack upon him as
fake"
The days testimony in detail follows:
The Day in Detail
Comptroller Roy, the first witness called
today, gave his impressions of Dreyfus,
which harmonzed with those of the gem
erals who have already testified, But the
witness was unable to give a single spe-
cific fact to substantiate his impressions.
Major Dreviell,. an employe in the Ger
man section of the second bureau of the
war office, testified to a long string of
similar insinuations. He referred to Drey-
fus' alleged boastfulness of his money and
his irregular attendance al his office.
After Dreyfus had rebutted one or two
of these witnesses statements, Major Du
Chatelet was called. He described the al
legged confidence of Dreyfus i'm regard to
women and gambling.
Maitre Demange expressed surprise at
the fact that the witness had not mention
ed this at the courtmartial of 1894, to which
Major Du Chatelet replied: What! Here
was a man accused of one of the most
heinous crimes and you think 1 ought to
have retained his confidence in regard to
women and gambling. Nonsense"
Dreyfus briefly corrected some of Du
ChafaIot'S or nd NJ D1
Brieul. who described himself as private
gentleman, took the stand. He testified
as to how he was introduced to Dreyfus BY
a certain NJ. Bodson, at whose house the
witness afterwards dbned in company of
Dreyfus and a German attache, whose
| name he did not remember.
Suspicious Familiarity
Continuing, NJ. Du Brieul said that he
| was greatly astonished at the suspicious
| familiarity between the attache and Drey-
| fus, and perceiving that they disproved
| of his presence, M. Du Brieul ceased his
| visits to NJ. Bodson.
When the latter was asked the reason
| for this he replied by saying, according to
| the witness, that Dreyfus was. the friend
and even the lover of his wife, and ask
| ing the witness advice as how to get rid
of her.
Witness asked n. Bodson if ne had
proofs and Bodson replied:
Proofs! Yes I have even proofs
enough to drive Dreyfus out of the
French army"
Witness, however, was unable to learn
| to what NJ. Bodson referred.
M. Labori, after questioning the charac-
ter of NJ. Du Brieul, asked the government
commissary If he had made inquiries on
the subject from the police of Coutances,
TO which Major Carriere replied:
THAT Is a strange request"
Everything strange
M. Labori-Everythlng is strange in this
case, and the evidence of this witness is
by no means the least strange.
When he was pressed to describe more
clearly the alleged German attache, M.
Du Brieul replied that he did not know his
name, but was told he was attached to the
German embassy.
NJ. Labori-Was he military attache?
NJ. Du Brieul-I don't remember. I do
not know. Let Maitre Labor put himself
in my place QaughteD and he will see the
difficulty of remembering the name of a
stranger he met thirteen years ago.
NJ. Labori-If was unable to give his
name, l should not come here to testify.
So here Is another Beaurepaire witness
who knows nothing, yet testifies against
the prisoner without being able to substan-
tiate his allegation. The court will draw
it's own conclusions.
Dreyfus protested excitedly against the
evidence of NJ Du Bruiel, who is a Paris
TIM fr; af naP hut
Jouaust exhorted him to be calm, promis-
ing the prisoner chance to reply.
Dreyfus Gives the Lie
This arrived shortly afterward and Drey-
fus thundered out: 81 won't speak here of
Monsieur or Madame Bodson, except to
say that my relations with Madame Bod
son ceased in 1886 or 1887, since when have
never seen her. I wish simply to assert
that the witness is lying. I never dined
at M. Bodson's with any civil or military
attache. The matter must be cleared up.
People must produce definite facts here
and not mere little tattle. The names of
the person with whom I am alleged to have
dined with must be ascertained 1t must
be known here who is lying and who is
speaking the truth" (Great sensation)
The government commissary-"It must be
understood that refuse to undertake the
inquiry Maitre Labori suggests with ref
erence to NJ. Du Bruiel"
M. Labori-"The government commissary
must not think any one intends to be dis
respectful to him. But have received in
formation that the criminal authorities of
Coutances are abe to give interesting in
formation in regard to M. Du Bruiel If I
write to the public prosecutor he will not
reply to me, but if the government COM
missary refuses my request I will apply to
the president, who is here solely concerned |
with the demonstration of the truth. will |
beg him to be the interpreter of this re- |
spectful request. I know better than any |
one how much greater than mine is the |
position of the government commissary."
Du Bruiel having supported M. Labori's |
request, Colonel Jouaust announced that he |