Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-08-18
TIE NOBLE P|CQUAR1
His Evidence Before Rennes Court
Martial of a Sensational and
Convincing Nature.
Minister of War and Army Officers
Unwilling to Have the Truth
Known.

| Known.
Advised Picquart to Keep Discovery
Of Dreyfus Innocence and Ester.
hazy's Guilt Silent.
| Rennes, Aug. 1S.-Monnard appeared
as counsel for Dreyfus at the opening Of
sumed his testimony He discussed the
dossier as the main spring in the COM
demnation of Dreyfus. He took up the
documents successfully, referring to the
writer's and addresses of the letters as
=" and "B." Before taking up the
dossier, however. he protested against
communication Of the secret document
to the first Dreyfus court-martial with
out the prisoners knowledge. declaring
1 1t would have ben an insult to the court
to believe they would lend themselves
to such Vaccinations. Then he proceed
ed to discuss the phrase, occurring In
the bordereau, II am going to Manoeu-
vers." He said there was no question
of probationers going to Manoeuvers in
September. This would have curtailed
their period of probation in an entirely
unusual manner.
Witness then carefully analysed the
secret dossier The .dossier," he said,
may be divided into two parts. The
document known as the D'Avignon doc
ument the terms Of which are about as
follows: Doubt proofs. Service letters.
Situation Is dangerous for me with
French officers. No information from
officer of line. Important only as COM
ing from the ministry. Already some
where else
"Two-A document containing the
words: 'Cette canaille de D.
"Three-A document which was moth
ing but report of a journey to Switz-
4 erland made in behalf of foreign pow
Ter.
THE second part of the dossier," con-
tinued Picquart, consisted chiefly of
a supplementary review Of the first. 1t
contained the gist of seven or eight doc
1 uments, one of which the ,Cet.e Ca
naille de D. will serve for the purpose
of comparison. 1t also contained the
4 correspondence of attaches A and b
| Ohese initials, 1t should be borne in
mind, represent Col. schwartskoppen,
/ ott oha of
Paris, and Maj. Panizzardi, former mill
tary attache Of Italy at the French
capitaD."
At this juucture the colonel said 1t
1 would facilitate his explanations if he
We're permitted to see the secret dossler,
adding: II have already had it in my
hands. but fear my memory may fail
me in some points,"
What you ask replied Jouaust, "is
impossible, the minister's orders being
absolute that the secret dossier can only
be examined under certain conditions" !"
Il regret It," answered Picquart, but
will try to refresh my memory"
Witness next explained why Patty du
CLANS translation of the DAyignon
document, which had been classed as
idiotic, was open to doubt, and why the
document, If it had any meaning what
ever. was as applicable to Esterhazy
as Dreyfus. Regarding the correspon-
idence of military attaches witness dem
Ionstrated the insignificance of the In
Clam regarded the correspondence as
convincing and clearly indicating an Of
ficer on the second bureau. Picquart
maintained the terms of the correspon-
dence indicated the writer intended to
ask a friend, not spy, for the infor-
Imation desired. Many Headquarters of
officers, he pointed out, were on cordial
and absolutely legitimate terms with
foreign military attaches.
Picquart then took up "Cette Canaille
lde D." document. He called the at
tention of the court to the face that it
was addressed by Schwartzkoppen to
lPanizzardi, not vice versa as had long
been believed. After giving reasons for
believing Dreyfus was not the person
referred to, Picquart showed how Patty
du Clam endeavored to ascribe author
Iship of the document to PanizZardi
with view to establishing connection
which in reality did not exist, between
various documents of the indictment
against Dreyfus. The document refer
ring to the French agents journey to
Switzerland, of which acknowledgment
is said to have been in formed, was only
slightly commented upon by the wit
mess. as he did not attach Importance
to it.
Permit me to point out to you, gem
ltlemen." continued Picquart, that this
document was not the property Of any
particular minister. 1t was classified
Jas belonging to the intelligence depart
ment and formed part OF the well-de-
fined dosscr-the dossier shut in one
of the drawers of my desk and which
vas abstracted from it.. This commen-
ltary. therefore, upon the secret dossier
was a document improperly removed
from my department" (Sensation.)
Mention was made yesterday Of the
disappearance of documents. That is a
case in point"
Turning to the second portion Of the
dossier Picquart described number OF
documents as forgeries and showed po-