Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-09-07

BY Spies-Another Day Strain fol
the Prisoner.
Rennes, Sept. At was Il haggard
face which Capt. Dreyflls brought into
the court. He has passed the tiood-tide
of his courage. 1t is ebbing fast now,
and all the efforts of his tremendous
will cannot hide the unstrung nerves
which days of agony and nights of
sleeplcssness have brought him.
SO long as he was buoyed mp by hope
he was able to face his accuserS with
a confident mien After Labori re-
turned to court ana turned the tide of
evidence in Dreyfus's favor, shaking
the judges in their unfair attitude and
confounding the witnesses for the pros
ecution by his keen and telling cross
examinations. the prisoner, even, be-
came confident and he showed it in
thousana ways.
He lost his irritation. became good
humored. witty. and made II most
favorable impression. Day after day
the evidence piled up in his favor. Men
who had been against him in the pre-
had Il change of mind and asserted Il
belief in his innocence
But the judges changed not their at
titudc. Every now and then some in
cident betrayed their antagOnistic atti-
tude, and they proved anew the truth
of the proverb that none are SO blind
as those who will not see.
Dreyfus saw the beat of his judges
m nd
that he broke down in court; little
wonder that lie collapsed completely
after he was taken back to prison. The
collapse had been predicted for some
days by the members of his family;
only they had the grace of hope that
it would not come until after the yer
dict had been rendered
There was n pitiful sccne in the pris-
on when Nine. Dreyfus called Both
were in despair. The courageous wom-
an could no longer cloak the fact that
she had given MP hope: and they wept
in each others arms and called on the
good God to spare their children. speak
ing of them as one speaks of orphans.
When the court martial was resumed
Major Dubreuil told Il story of Drey-
fus meeting German attache ut the
house of one BodSon NJ. I.abori in his
cross examination. so impcachcd the
character of this witness that he went
forth seeking documents to prove that
he was an honorable man. and these
documents he was permitted To intro
duce in evidence They sounded much
more like the testimonials of good char
acter which are produced in American
courts when some hoary old Swindler
of n bank president or cashier gets
found ont and is brought to trial
A witness named Germain then de
posed to seeing Dreyfus ut the German
maneuvres in Alsace Col .Iouaust.
President of the Court. questioned
Dreyfus upon This testimony. The gen
eral effect of the testimony was rather
unfavorable TO Dreyfus.
Lieut. Bernheim. a man of a strong
Jewish type testified that ESterhazy
asked him in 1894 to lend him his
manual The witness refused to do
this. but did lend Esterhazy other doc
uments which were Tiever returned to
him.
Lieut. Bruycre. II retired officer. de-
posed that he assisted at the artillery
practice at Chaons in 1894. witnessing
the work of the 900 cannon. After
ward. in going through the artillery
park to examine n piece. he might have
sketched the cannon. There was no
precaution taken TO prevent this. On
may II. group of infantry officers
witnessed the cannon operating. the
artillerymen being ordered to give
them information. On May II the
same thing occurred. The witness de
clared that the shooting manual was
not considered confidential in 1891 as
the witness bought Il copy from the
regimental press of the 10Th Artillery
for 90 centimes. Privates of the 10th
Regiment of artillery possessed copies
of this book, proof Of which the wit
ness had procured. Essential extracts
from the work were published in Paris
in 1894.
Cant. Carvalho testified that most
of the information enumerated in the
bordereau was available 10 anybody
i'm 1894. Capt lie Rond contradcted
this statement.
NJ. Lahori read letter received from
Secret Service Agent Corninccs. saying
that he copied in the house of n foreign
spy. in 1896 the firing manual of 1890
showing that there were still traitors
in the War Office after Dreyfus was
condemned. NJ. Labori asked the court
to summons NJ Corninges.
Gen Sepert repeated his testimony
before the Court of Cessation, in which
he argued that the bordereau was not
the work of an artillery officer and the
handwriting not DreyfuS's.
Major Hartmann affirmed that Ger
many knew about the '120' cannon
named in the bordereau four years
earlier 1t was delivered to that DOW
er by civil employe in the artillery
bureau
Commandant Ducros repeated his
testimony before the Court of Cassa-
tion. He said he had offered Dreyfus
important information in 1887 and
1893. which would have been most val
uable to him if he had been Il SPY. bur
Dreyfus did not take the trouble to
come and get it. Dreyfus told the wit.
ness in 1894 that he was translating
Willes German work on cannon of the
future. He gave the witness the
proofs of the work. but did not try to
obtain secret information from the
WITNESSES department.