The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1899-08-09
THE DREYFUS DOSSIER
Being Considered in Secret by the
Army Court Martial,
HIS COUNSEL WE'LL SATISFIED

General Mcrcicr. II l. snid. WIN Make
Sensational Disclosures Regarding
the secret Councils ofthe DupuyGov-
orumcnt ,ofwhich lie Nyasa n Member
Rennes. Aug 9.-Maitre Demange,
the principal counsel for Captain Drey-
fus. expresses himself as well satis-
fed with yesterdays proceedings. Col
onel Jouast had played the part OF a
severe judge, but, II his voice was rude
and his manner commanding toward
the prisoner, his eye was kind, ana
there were no attempts to press home
the points raised by the indictment.
NJ Chamoin, the custodian of the
famous secret dosser, said II would
take four days TO examine Il, as the
examination would be behind closed
doors, and most of the witnesses have
gone to the seaside. General De Bois-
deffre to Dinard. and General Dionne
TO Param. General Mercier remains
here the guest Of General Saint-Ger-
main, who tells his friends to be pre-
pared for sensational evidence that
must crush Dreyfus and many others
with him.
NJ. Cavaignac talked at lie Mans on
his way here He said he expected
two coups de theatre. We now hear
that one will be an avowal by General
Billot that he said on his soul and con-
science Dryfus was a traitor because
he was misled. The other will be Mer-
oier driven to bay. The latter will
issue from this trial ruined II Dreyfus
is acquitted II is said he intends to
throw a searchlight on the secret
councils of the Dupuy government, OF
which he was a member in "a, and
t1 show what diplomatic wires were
pulled between the arrest of Dreyfus
and his embarkation for Cayenne Mer-
cier refuses to be interviewed He
looks bowed down from care.
General Billot, on the other hand,
| seems to have taken out a new lease
| of life He also is extremely reticent,
as indeed are all the witnesses of note.
NJ. Jaures arrived Monday night.
He claims to know much that is in
the secret dossier An intercepted cor
| respundence between two military at
taches, who were mixed up in the af-
| fair, is said by Jaures to be a shame
to human nature. These two officers
wrote under feminine names, and in
a strain that might have shocked the
| young courtiers of Nero or the ribald
| crowd that gathered around Lots
house in the doomed city. Possibly,
| nay probably, the attaches in Ques-
| tion never wrote these scented An
acreontic billets, for such they are.
| Lemercier Picard was equal to the
| task of forging them, and he possibly
did forge them for a pecuniary con-
| sideTation. Hence, perhaps, the mys-
| terry in which his suicide is shrouded.
The counsel for Dreyfus met yester-
| day, at his wife's residence, the heads
of the Dreyfusite party, and consulted
| on the present aspect of the affair.
| They went there after they had ex-
| amined the documents of the secret
dossier in the judges room. They do
not see any possibility of repeating the
! judgment of 1894.
Dreyfus was greatly fatigued after
Mondays ordeal He asked anxiously
| yesterday what the press and public
thought, and was led to think that
opinion is generally favorable. This
is true. The representatives of ma
tionalist Journals here who judge
harshly in print express admiration for
the unflinching constancy he has dis
played.
Leading personages here for the trial
have much to say about the late Gem
eral Annenkoff and Baron Fredericks
! in connection with Dreyfus, but Gem
eral MeTcier and NJ Hanotaux former
minister of foreign affairs, refuse to
speak on the subject. M. Hanotaux
looks detected. 1t will be curious to
see whether he and Mercler contradict
each other.
There seems danger that all the evil
dence relating to foreign diplomatists
will be given with closed doors. The
public trial will be resumed on Sat-
urday.
Dreyfus, a member of his family
says, has not yet got over his Rip Van
Wrinkle feeling. He was lost, as he
put it. He remarked to his wife that
he was astonished to find himself
watched by the whole world or it's
proxies, though he showed no sign of
astonishment. He was thrown in a
heap by the searching and, as he
| though, unfriendly examination by the
president of the court martial. He had
expected mere formal proceedings.
NM. Demange and Labori did not
prepare him for hostile tribunal and
scrutinizing public. He felt as If
x-rays were being cast upon him all
the time he was under public gaze. 1t
was as if the inmost thoughts of his
heart were being peered into. He i'm
agined the proceedings would be only
formal, and that perhaps he might
leave the court house to walk to his
| wife's temporary home.
His counsel were quite right not to
discourage him beforehand, as his
strength is low and he is condemned
to a diet of milk and eggs, which does
not enable him rapidly to recover his
lost strength. A full diet Just now
could not fail to bring on Bright's dis
| ease.
He was at first greatly depressed to
| learn that he would be confronted with
crowd of hostile witnesses and that
the trial might last a fortnight or three
| weeks, or even longer. Then, steel
ing himself he cried;
you must prove yourself a man,
Dreyfus. You must struggle for your
honor and not give in until you have
cleared it once and forever. But what
have you done, Dreyfus, to make peo-
pie thus rend you? Were you born
under a malignant star? If so, fight
against fate and wrestle until you
have thrown the evil angel"
From long habit he speaks to him-
self when intending to converse with
visitors.
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