The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-08-26
In the Dreyfus Trial, as to who. In
Their Opinion, Wrote the Mueh
Talked Of Bordereaus
ONE FAyORS THE PRISONER,
While the Other, in Mysterious
and Unintelliglble Language,
Accuses Dreyfus.
HIS LABORED TESTIMONY
Not Altogether Satisfactory to the
Judges-Du Patty de Clam
Too III to Appear.

ADO IA ~ 4ARPEAER
RENNEs, August 26.-After NJ. Ber-
tIllon, the handwriting expert, who is at
the head of the anthropometrlc depart
meut Of the prefecture of police OF
Paris, had concluded the first install
ment Of the so-called denomination OF
the guilt Of Captain Dreyfus, q promI-
nent Dreyfusard referred to him as the
an de Steele cagllostro." The Drey-
fusards refuse to regard him as any
thing but the prince OF quacks. They
cover his remarks with rldlcule. and
protest that the admission Of his fam
tastlc theories as evidence before the
court martial is disgrace to France.
"cest une honte,' was the remark
heard on ali sides when the session
closed, and the audience. mainly mads
up Of Dreyfusards, was being pressed
outside by the gendarmes, who clear
the court room as soon as the court
adjourns.
Nevertheless, even the Dreyfusards
do not deceive themselves aS'to the eff
feet N. BertiiiOn's testimony. or dem
onstration," may have upon the judges,
who, they fear. viii be gulled by what
the Dreyfusards consider spurious. All
the Judges have passed through the
Ecole Polyteehnlque, the highest school
OF science in France, and they are thus
peculiarly interested in such evidence"
as II. Bertillon's Moreover with the
aid Of innumerable diagrams and spec
linens OF writing, which he submits to
them, they may be able to follow his
reasoning lntelllgIbly. which is more
than any member Of the audience could
do to-day. II the judges accept Ber-
tillon's premlses-that Dreyfus, as an
expert spy, did not write ordinary
hsndwritipg. but in close Initiation.
even contriying to give the letters the
appearance of having Deen traced. in
order to be able TO repudlate them as
a forgery II detected-then the struc-
ture built upon this ground work may
be. scientifically correct.
Even Dreyfus, when shown BertIl-
Ions demonstrations. admitted the In
genulty and FEASIBILITY of the system,
Thoughts naturally declared that 1t was
built upon false basis.
shows his Anlnus.
A remarkable feature of NJ. Bertillon's
danoaItIon was the heat and excite
ment he put into what was expected
would be a calm, dispassIonate EXPOSE
ton Of his theories. He Numbered
shouted and waved his arms as though
engaged in some terrible dispute. Once
he literally shrieked, and members OF
the usual audience who had been unable
TO follow him and were taking the air In
the court yard, rushed back Into the
hall, breathlessly inquIring what had
happened, and imagining that he was
Illuminating some dreadful denuneintlou
Of the accused.
Their excitement was turned into
hIlarlty when they found that he was
merely impresslng the judges with the
Significance Of the exact space. meas
ureg In centlmetres, between two words
in the bordereau.
The military witnesses, all Of whom
sit in bunch, leaving Colonel Picquart
and N. Bertuius severely Isolated. fol
lowed n. BertilIon's statements with q
grave and wise expression Of counten'
unce upon which never n suspicion OF
smile appeared, as though they under
stood every word. Evidently they had
received a mot d'ordre to preserve this
attitude, for without seeing the dia'
grams they could not have understood
any better than did the general pub
lie.
The Echo dc Paris announced to-day
that the counsel Of Dreyfus had obtain
ed possession Of certain documents
mentioned In the bordereau In Esterha'
zy's writing, which they would produce
in court next week as a coup d'theatre
The correspondent Of the Associated
Press Inquired az to this In competent
Dreyfusard quarters this afternoon. III
was assured that the statement wa
erroneous. but was also told that tht
defense intended, in the event OF Cap
tain Dreyfus being re-condemned, t.
ask the German government to com
munIcate these documents proving hi
Innocence, and that they had reason t
believe TINT such a request would bt
granted.