The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1899-09-03
N. Defond LamOIte Scores Two Tell
ing Points Against Prosecution.
SPOKE TRUTH WITHOUT FEAR,
His Position as Civil Engineer Makes
Dim Independent of the Military
Clioue-Was Contemporary Of
Dreyfus rs Probationcr, aud
His Evidence Was Most
Convincing,

RENNEs. September 2.-EIation is the
only word that exprcssss the feelings Of
the Dreyfusards after to.dlys proceed
lues The tide has turned 1T last, they
saw and Dreyfus cannot be condemned
arer the evidence given this morning.
The spirits of the DreyfusarIs are quite
mercurial Every day since The opening
OF the trial has seen them rise or fall
Recently they have becn flluus neauly
the close Of the morning sessions gen
orally finding them iu anxious confersa-
tiou accomDanied by um l0us shakiqgs
of lheir heads To-day. bu1yancy, there
fore. is all the more noteworthy. fcster-
Gav was 81 fairly good day 1lt to-day $
session. they claim, puts tao verdict OUT
of doubt and the Judges must ecqut
Dicyfus.
Major IIartmann. OF the artillery, occu-
ni.d nearly half the session niti the con-
c.usi0n of his expert evidence 90 me en-
feet that Drevfus as an arIlcry officer
would not have displayed such ignorance
rooar8lng the guns and brakes as was
shown iu the bordereau, willie the oiher
,1biects of the tordeteau were matters
ur0n which any officer could INFORM hlm-
SELF
Ar,for Hartmanns testimony practically
stood uncontestcd. as neither General
Co--e or General Mercicr refnted any ma
torIal point therein. NJ HaHet, member
of the Institute then entered upon me
grammatical aspect o. the DlrdercH'l ana
i'm vigorous. Dut eloquent language -
voted himself 10 showing that the con-
s.ructi0n of the b0rdereau hcistied with
strong and. in his opinion. conclusive
marks of EsterhaZy's hand Work. NhAe
the rhras se0loey bore no rts mnlance TO
Drryfus style.
Tfe nrxf stage OF the proceedings was
,he reading of the Gonsa-Flcquart clires-
.sudenle. exchanged at the tire Colonel
picolort SUSPECTED Est-rhazy and wanted
General GOuse % probe the matter 10 lhe
bottom
This brought " Labori 70 the front
and I'm "a series OF questions he brought
ont sharply before the court the mdchiaa-
tons of which Colonel PicGu1rt was ihe
victim 40 the hands of the Major from the
moment he showed "a desire 90 Thoroughly
s.ft the matter.
NJ Labor. for the first time, got Cen
aral Coneo to- admit that he ordered the
tanrering with rlcquart's letters in or
der. as Doc said. 90 ascertain Picquart 8
doires while he was chief of tine nte.li-
eenoe Bureau a little later VI. Lahori
evidently disconnected General Gonse, Tor
the latter bluIted ont that Lieutcnant-Col-
onr Henry committed his forgery in or
der to have fresh proofs AGAINST preyfus.
The audience smiled audibly 40 This eX-
plluatilu.
General Gonse then added "But it was
unnecessary. since the diplomatic dossier
contained incrimuadng documents with
Dreyfus written in fu-.'
General G0nse evidently meant the fa-
nizzardi dispatch. which has already been
ruled ont of court
M Lab0ri protested emphatlcaiy' eN.
claiming. "There are n0 such documents.
and chen asked General Gonse TO enu-
marate the documents to which he al
luled
Colonel Jouaust president of the court
martial however. declined 90 put the
question. whercnm M Laboh said Doe
reserved documents to himself the right
to submit "a formal application for these
documents.
TRUTH WITHOUT FEAR.
Then came The leading witness Of the
Continued on Second paee)