Daily Kennebec journal., 1899-04-12
ATTRIBUTED TO esrERHAzY.
italian Ambassador Alleged TO Have Said
German Attache Didn't Know Dreyfus.

Paris. April 1.-THE Eclaire, this
morning, publishes the deposition OF NJ.
Trarieux made before the court of cas-
sation in the Dreyfus revision proceed
ings. in the course of which Nj. Trari-
eux said that Count Tornielli- Brusati
di Vergano. the Italian ambassador 70
France, told him when the Matin print
ed a facsimile of the BordereauX tha'
it was fiash-light reproduction. thlt
the documents mentioned had been
given to the German attache by per
son other than Dreyfus and that the
handwriting of the BOrdereaux was
that officer who gave the documents To
the attache. Comparison. he said.
would be easy, as the attache possessed
voluminous correspondence of that Of
ficer.
Count Tornielli further told him that
an attache of the Italian office showed
him, (the ambassador a letter from
the German attache stating this and
asserting that he did not know Drey-
fus and attributing to Count Ester
haZy the act for which the court mar
tial had wrongly found DreyfuS guilty.
The Figaro, continuing its publica-
ton of the evidence given before the
court of cessation in the Dreyfus re-
vision inquiry gives, today. the begin
ming of Gen. GOnZ'S deposition" Gen.
GonZ told the court that he received
from Col. Sandherr, toward the end OF
1894, the Bordereau which came into
the hands of Lieut.. Col. Henry. II
reached the latter piecemeal and was
reconstructed by him, with the assist
ance OF various officers. 1t gave rise
to a long and minute investigation by
experts in handwriting with the result
that suspicion fell upon Dreyfus. When
interrogated regarding the communica-
ton of secret documents TO the court
martial. Gen. GonZ refused to reply:
but he said he learned indirectly of IN"
confessions of Dreyfus. on the evening
of his degradation and on the follow
ing day he took capt. Lebrun- Renaud
To the minister of war to whom capt.
.ebrun-Renaud repeated his statements.
At the same time he tGen. GonZ) ad-
dressed a letter to the chief of the gen
eral staff in which he alluded to the
confessions as partial avowals. mixed
with reticenSeS and falSehoodS.'
With reference to Col. Picquart's en-
deavors to substitute Commandant Es-
terhazy for Dreyfus. Gen. Gonz eN-
planned that Picquart never told him
Henry's document was a forgery and
in fact Picouart had not seen il. After
describing how Col. Picquart came TO
be sent TO Tunis, the witness reverted
TO secret dossier. asserting that II
came into Plcquarts hands in August.
1896 On Sept. 3, of that year. he said
Picuuart presented him with a dossier
he had formed against EsterhaZy. To-
gether with the petit blue which APP
peared to him suspicious because ii did
not bear postage stamp and had not
arrived regularly addressed.
Gen. GonZ declared that Gen. De
Paldeux was not Influenced by the
Henry forgery Interrogated regard
ing the cipher telegram from a for
eign attache dated Nov. ,. 1894. he said
il looked suspicious, two different YER
sions being given and the foreign min
ister decided to exclude ii from the
Dreyfus dossier.
In May of last year. the minister for
war wanted to obtain this document,
but NJ. Hanotaux refused to deliver 1t.
NIt0. t1OIlZ Sdlti lstu ilcl NtViA AliN -
act text of the two versions but he re-
membered that Col Sandher brought
him one version containing the words
'Emissaire prevenue."
Gen. Gonz declared that he was
ignorant of EsterhaZy's returns with
the general staff. though aware of i'm
prudences committed by Col. De Clam.
He assured the court that he knew
nothing regarding the relations be-
tween Esterhazy and Sandher and had
found no evidence that Sandher paid
Esterhazy.