Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-08-18

| imagined"
Referring to the papers which arriv-
ed at the same time as the bordereau,
Madame Henry said:
''These papers were not all torn in a
thousand pieces. l was able to note
that. personally. Letters often came
entire"
NJ. Pertullus has maintained that
everything arrived in pieces. That is
| false"
| The court here resounded with ex-
carnations of surprise and Madame
Henry concluded:
81 have nothing more to say
NJ. Bertullus said he did not desire to
reply to Madame Henry, adding:
''She is only woman"
Il am net woman" exclaimed
Madame Henry, furiously; Il speak in
the name of my husband"
The incident
CAUSED GREAT EXCITEMENT
! in court
Now shall l reply to Madame?"
! asked M. Bertullus. "She is defend
| ing the name of a dead man and that
| of her child" (Renewed sensation)
After gazing steadfastly at M. Ber-
tullus who was greatly moved Mad
anne Henry descended from the plat
| form and took a sect beside Gen. Eur
| linden.
NJ. Bertullus forthwith left the
court.
Gel. Picquart was then called to the
witness stand. He protested most
| firmly against all suspicion of having
caused the disappearance of any docu-
ment relating to 'Dreyfus. Docu-
ments had disappeared but he was not
connected with their disappearance.
! He also repealed with scern the asser-
ton that he had endeavored to put an
other office in the place of the real
author Of the bcrdereau.
1T is true" the witness continued,
that the name OF Capt. Dorval being
mentioned to me as a dangerous man
| had him watched and do you know
gentlemen, by whom Dorval was de-
n0unced? BY his own cousin" con-
tinued Picquart, Major Du Patty de
| Clam" (Sensation.l
| Col. Picquart then next proceeded to
reply to the various attacks made upon
him.
''These tactics" he said, care evil
IDENTIFY pursued with the object of les
sening the value of my testimony"
The Colonel next outlined his connec-
ton with Dreyfus at the military col
lege and afterwards at the ministry OF
war, where, owing to the anti-Semite
| prejudices of the general staff, he first
appointed Dreyfus to a department
where probationers had no direct cog
nizance of the secret documents.
| He then described the CONSERVATION
in the war office when the
| TREASON WAS DISCOVERED
and the relief experienced when 1t was
thought the guilty person had been dis
| covered. 1t was then sthe witness dis
covered the similarity between the
handwriting of Dreyfus and that of the
bordereau and he had recourse to Dc
Patty, who was supposed to grapholog-
ical knowledge" (Laughter.)
Then the witness described what he
characterized as "the irregular steps
taken by Gen. MERCER to accomplish
the arrest of Dreyfus.
Referring to the dictation test, the
| witness earnestly and emphatically af-
| firmed that he saw no signs of pertur-
baton in the hand writing of DreyfllS
on that occasion and, moreover, short
ly afterwards Patty de Clam admitted
he had not found fresh charge against
Dreyfus.
Beyond the bordereau," added tht
witness, there was nothing against
Dreyfus-absol nothing"
His impression during the investiga
ton, continued Col. Picquart, was thai
the acquittal of the accused was prob
able, as the evidence was insufficient
Witness believed he had even told The
minister of war that the condemnation
of the accused could not be secured un
less the court martial had been showr
the secret documents which it had beer
! agreed to submit to the court. Til,
! colonel next declared that in 1895 h,
did not know the contents of the secre
dossier but he believed like all othel
| officers, that ii contained frightfu
proofs against the prisoner. When h,
became acquainted with its contents
however, he found that his "earlie
| impressions were entirely wrong.
! prolonged sensation.)
Picquart then recalled the vehement
protests of innocence which the pris
oner had not ceased to make, durin:
all
PHASES OF DEGRADATION.
| The witness declared he was quite ig
| norant of the confessions Drevfus i.