The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-08-18

deposition, showing how through an ar
ticIe in the F1claire of September IS he
was satisfied Esterhazy had been
warned of the suspicion against him. In
order to make the proofs complete, wit
ness continued his Investigations with
the utmost discretion. In his opinion
Dreyfus affair since the discovery of
the bOrdereau, was the Henry forgery.
He added that it must have been
handed Immediately to Gen. GOnSe-
Shortly before Henry perpetrated the
forgery an agent named Guenee, Hen
rvs right hand man, prepared a report
declaring NJ. Castelin, republican re-
ViSiOniSt deputy for LaOn division of
AiSne was about to play the hand of
the Dreyfus family by unmasking in
the chamber of deputies, the prisoners
accompices, thus having the affair re-
opened.
COMPLAINED BITTERLY.
Col. Picquart incidentally complained
bitterly that while he was still chief of
the intelligence department, Henry's
tool Guenee should be allowed to make
reports against the witness who had
then established a connection between
the reports of Guenee and the false
deposition of Henry, who had testified
that he had seen the witness seated in
Maitre LeblOi's office with the docu-
ment containing the words 'Cette
Canaille De D" before them. Each new
scheme says the former chief of the in
telligence department was a compile
ment development of the one preced-
ing.
The next feature of Picquart's depo-
sitiOn was his recital of the inrigues
against him and the pressure exercised
by Henry with the view of fixing on the
witness the blame for communicating
information to the newspapers. Then
turning to the distant mission upon
which he was dispatched, Picquart de-
scribed the irritation he felt when he
saw he was being removed because he
was no longer wanted as head of the
int al r-tr @
that if this disgrace had been frankly
avOWed, it would have been much less
painful to him. The colonel also said
that during his absence his cores
pondence was tempered with.
MISSION TO TUNIS.
Dealings with his mission to Tunis,
which Picquart said ought to have
been intrusted to a cOmmiSSary of pO-
lice, the witness declared it was then
that Henry, abandoning his underhand
intrigues began a campaign of open
persecution Henry wrote to the wit
ness, accusing him of communicating
information to the press with disclOS-
ing the contents of secret documents,
and with attempting to SubOrn officers
in connection with the Petit Bleu- 1t
was then Picquart learned of the exist
ence of the forged secret documents di-
rected against himself and foresaw his
own ruin if the Dreyfus affair was re-
opened and to safeguard himself he en-
trusted to a lawyer friend, a certain
letter from Gen. Gonse at the same
time acquainting the lawyer with what
he knew of Esterhazy and instructing
the lawyer how he should intervene if
the occasion demanded it.
This lawyer, NJ. de BlOis, cOmmuni-
Gated with NJ. Scheurer- Kestner, then
one of the vice presidents of the senate
and the representations of the latter to
Premier Meline's government followed
When Picquarts furlOugh was due
Gen. LIE Clerc. commanding in Tunis,
was ordered to send Picquart to the
frontier Of Tripoli LIE Clerc comment
ed to the witness on this abnormal or
der and Picquart confided to the gen
eral the probable reasons for it and his
belief in the innocence of Dreyfus.
Gen. lie Clerc thereupon ordered Pic
quart not to go beyond Gables. In the
meanwhile the campaign in Paris was
continued. Esterhazy appeared among
the witnesses and accusers. PicQuart
here created a sensation by incidental
" remarking that the judges in 1894
were shamefully deceived in having
the document containing the words
ssCette Canaille de D" communicated
to them
Witness bitterly recited the details
of the various Vaccinations with the
view of discriminating him, instigated