New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-08-09
DREYFT COUNSEL SATISFIED.
A CONFERENCE AT THE HOUSE OF THE
PRISONERS WIFE-MRs. CRAW-
FORD'S COMMENTS.


as follows:
Naitre Demange, the principal counsel TOT
Captain Dreyfus. expresses himself as well sat
isned with yesterdays proceedings. Coroner
Jouaust had to play the part Of severe judge
but II his voice rude and his manner
commanding toward the prisoner. his eye was
kind. and there were no attacks to press nome
the points raised by the Indictment
NJ Chanoine the custodian Of the famous
secret dossier, said it would take four days to
examine IT, as the examination would be oehlhu
closed doors, and most of the witnesses nave
gone 10 the seaside-Genera de Bolsdetre 10
Dinard and General Dionne to Param. Geherai
MERCER remains here. the guest OF General
Saint-G German. who tells his friends TO be pre-
pared for sensational evidence that must crush
Dreyfus and many others with him.
DRAMATIC SCENES EXPECTED.
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 Bnlot that he said his soul and
conscience Dreyfus was a traitor because he
was nisled The other will be Mercer driven
10 bay The latter will issue from this trial
ruined IL Dreyfus is acquitted. l hear he in
tends to throw searchght on the secret coun-
ellis Of the Duouy Government, of which he was
a member in 1894 and to show what diplomatic
wires were pulled between the arrest Of Drey-
fus and his embarkatiOn for Cayenne. MERCER
refuses to be interviewed. He looks bowed
down from
General Binot on the other hand. to
have taken out new lease of life. He also is
extremely reticent, indeed all the wit
nesses Of note
NJ. Jaures only arrived last night. He claims
10 know much that is in the secret dossier. An
intercepted correspondence between two mill
tary attaches who were mixed up in the affair
is said by Jaures to be shame TO human
nature. These two officers wrote under feni-
nine names. and in a strain that might not 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 question never wrote these
scented Anacreontic billets. for such they are.
Lemercier Picard was equal to the task Of fors-
ing them, and he possibly did forge them for
pecuniary consideration Hence, perhaps. the
mystery In which his suicide is shrouded.
A CONFERENCE OF DREYFUS's FRIENDS.
The counsel for Dreyfus met to-day at his
wifes 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 any posi-
bility Of repeating the judgment Of 1894.
Dreyfus was greatly fatigued after yesterdays
ordeal He asked anxiously to-day what the
press and public thought, and was led to thinK
that opinion is generally favorable. This Is true
The representatives of Nationalist journals mere
who Judge harshly in print, express admiration
for the unf1inching constancy he has displayed.
he a
much to say about the late General Annenkoff
and Raron Fredericks in connection with Drey-
fus. but General MERCER and NJ. Hanotaux
former Minister of Foreign Affairs refuse to
speak on the subject. NJ. Hanotaux looks de-
3ected II will be curious TO see whether ne
and Mercier contradict each other
There seems danger that all the evidence re-
lating 10 foreign diplomatists will be given with
closed doors. The public trial will be resumed
on Saturday
THE PRISONERS FEELINGS.
Dreyfus a member Of his family tells me- has
not vet got over his Rip Van Wrinkle feeling he
was lost as he put IT, He remarked TO his wlfe
that he was astonished 10 find himself yesterday
watched bv the whole world or It's proxies
though he showed no sign Of astonshmeht' ne
was thrown in a heap by the searching ana d.
NJ thought. unfriendly examination by the pres
iGent OF the court martial. He had eXpecteu
mere formal proceedings
NM. Demange and Labori did not prepare MN
for hostile tribunal and q scrutinizing puolc.
He felt as If rays were being cast on hih al
the time he was under public gaze. II was as Il
the inmost thoughts of his heart were peine
peeredlnto He imagined the proceedings "ouiu
be onn formal. and that perhaps he might ieaFe
the extemporized courthouse to walk 10 MS
w.fes temporary home.
His counsel were quite right not 10 olscoui"ee
him beforehand as his strength Is 10" anu ~.
condemned to n diet Of milk ana eggs ""i'"
does not enable him rapidly to recover h's 'o''
strength. Ague has caused lesion OF the Teha'
organs. and full diet just now couid ho' ION
10 bring on Brights disease.
He was at first greatly depressed 10 learn 'i"'
he youd be confronted with crowd OF hos'ie
Witnesses and that the trial might last ioi'
nleht or three weeks or even longer. lhe"'
steeline himself. he cried: you must prove
yourself a man. Dreyfus! You must suuse''
for your honor and not give in until you nave
cleared II once and forever But what nave YOU
done Dreyfus to make people thus reno yo"
Were Won horn under a malignant starr III So