The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1899-09-06
DREYFUS FRIENDS ARE HOPEFUL.
FAVORABLE TESTIMONY.
Tho Prisoner Did Not Write the Bordercau
Tor He Was Not Permitted 10 Attend
The Army maneuvcrs.

Elation Is the only word that express
ses the feelings of the Dreyfusards af-
ter last weeks proceedings. The tide
has turned at last, they say, and ORGY
rus can not be condemned after the evil
dence given. The spirits of the Drey-
fusards are quite mefcurial. Every day
since the opening of the trial has seen
them rise or fall. Recently they have
been falling heavily, the close of tne
morning session generally finding them
In anxious conversation, accompanied
by ominious shaking OF their heads.
Their buoyancy, therefore Is all the
more noteworthy.
Major Hartmann, Of the artillery, oc-
cupied nearly half the session Saturday
with the conclusion of his expert evi-
dence TO the effect that Dreyfus, as an
artillery officer, would not have dis
played such Ignorance regarding guns
and brakes as was shown in the bor-
deerau, while the other subjects of the
bordereau were matters upon which
any officer could inform himself. Major
Hartmanns testimony practically
stood uncontested, as neither General
DelOye nor General Mercier, who re-
piled, fefuted any material point there
in.
NJ. Havet, n member of the institute
then entered upon the grammatical as
pect of the bordereau. ard I'm vigorous
but elegant language devoted himself
to showing that the constr uction Of the
bordereau bristled with strong, and, in
his opinion, conclusive marks OF Ester
hays handiwork. while the phraseo-
logy bore no resemblance to Dreyfus'
style.
Labori for the first time got General
Gonse to admit that he ordered the
tampering with Picquarts letters, in
order. as he said, to ascertain Pic
guards doings while he was chief Of
the Intelligence Bureau. A little later
Labori evidently disconnected Gonse,
for the latter blurted out that Lleuten-
ant Colonel Henry committed his forg-
cry In order to have fresh proofs
against Dreyfus. The audience smiled
audibly at this explanation. General
Gonse then added: But II was un-
necessary since the diplomatic dossier
contained discriminating documents,
with 'Dreyfus' written In full"
Then came the leading witness Of the
day, De Fond Lamotte, n probationer
contemporaneously with Dreyfus, who
Is now a civil engineer and so has no
reason to fear the wrath of the military
clique. The witness opened by decar-
Ing that, despite the fact that he had a
brother in the garrison at Rennes, he
came to tell what he knew in favor of
Dreyfus, and he proceeded to make q
statement which. according to the
Dreyfusards, practically decides the
case. First he recalled the fact that q
circular was sent to the probationers
on May II. 1894, informing them that
they must not go to the maneuVers,
thus showing that the man who wrote
the bordereau In August and said L
am going to the maneuvers,' could not
be Dreyfus
The witness then pointed out that
none of the ministers, who, he believed.
acted I'm good faith, We're informed Of
the existence of this circular. which, he
declared, II consider vital point in
the case"
This circular" he continued "shat-
ters the prosecution, because after May
II Dreyfus could not say, L am going to
the maneuvers," for then he knew he
would not go, while prior to May II he
could not have known the five docu-
ments comprised in this bordereau."
Lamotte then brought out another
strong point. Abiding to the modif-
cations of the disposition concerning the
troops he said the writer of the border
eau used the term new plan" Now"
said the witness, "it has been impress
ed upon you that on October 10 a circu-
lar was sent out from the war ministry
containing those very words, and that,
therefore, the writer of the bordereau
must have been an officer of the minis
try. But one thing has struck me-who
sent out that circular? 1t was the
Ihlrd Bureau, the chief of which was
Lieutenant Colonel Du Patty de Clam,
who had the bordereau in his hands for
the previous 20 days"
Lamotte, by this, intended to show
that Du Patty de Clam purposely used
the words new plan" In the circular
order by what the witness described as,
Arguing in vicious circle to back up
his contention that an officer of the
ministry wrote the bordereau and that
officer was Drpyfue" I"
1t Is now accepted as beyond ques-
tion that there Is a serious division Of
opinion on the part of the generals
Since the tide of evidence began to
turn In Dreyfus favor. notably during
the testimony of Captain Freystaetter
and Colonel Cordigr, which proved
much more damaging to the general
STAFF than the latter anticipated, GER
tain dividing lines have bsc-m me mani
fest between the various clques.
General Roget, Major Lauth, Cap
tain Cuignet and NJ. Grbeln, the prin-
cipal keeper of the archives of the war
office. form one coterie; General Mer-
cier and General Gonse form another
and Genral Blllot and General De
BOisdeffre a third. According to one
report, the first two cOteries intend to
throw over General ID Bosdeffre, whom
they feel to be falterlng. and declare
that h is rsponsible for all the errors
and illegalities of the ourt-martial Of
1894, thus making him the sCapegOat,