The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-08-17

perfect selfAatisfactiou. But again and
again he would half turn in his chair. and.
| pointing his finger At Dreyfus, would re-
peat some cruel accusation. at the same
time hxing his eye On the prisoner, hts
!, head inclined forward Hike that OF cobra
waiting the moment to strike. Dreyfus
was not affected and steadily returned his
| gaze, sometimes throwing = glance At the
president Of the court. ~ though appealing
! for permission to reply.
Tried to Provoke N Attaek.
Once. when Gen. Roget had 1ung one Of
| these darts. stopped and deliberately paus-
| ed. enc could see the IRE in Dreyfus' eyes
and Ia the tightly clinched jaws could be
OWNED the struggle that was going on
within him. The captain OF gendarmes
seated beside Dreyfus watched him closely
{ The seconds passed Ike hours. and the
spectators held their breath Gen. Roget
seemed pasFposely to prolong the silence.
tn order 20 make deeper impression. II
was per1ious moment. but Dreyfus won
the battle over his passions. and when Ro-
gets voice was at length heard again, ev-
cry one knew that the danger was past.
and deep sigh Of relief came from the
audience.
The seene with Gel. Henry.
Tho general discoursed lengthiiy on the
famous scene with Col. Henry In the once
Of n. Bertulus. the examining magistrate.
and said that NJ Bertulus asked Col.
Henry 10 inform the witness that he was
friend Of the army. and begged the
witness to call and see how he would
communicate the result Of his inquiries
into the ''blanch 6peranza" forgeries.
I'm reply" said Gen. Roget. Il said.
When you see IL. Bertulus. You will
thank him In my behalf. Tell him the
investigation does not interest me In any
way I added that was rather distrust-
full OF this proposal which, pointed out,
was perhaps trap"
The general added that n. Cavaisnac
{the minister OF war; approved Of his
course to N. Bertilion.
The court next dealt on the seizure of
papers at the house of Nine. Pays, on
which NJ. BArtulus largely founded his
conviction Of the guilt Of Henry. owing
| to the mention In them Of the name Of a
spy Richard" At Dures and Bastle. where
1t was well knawn spies were In the habit
Of meeting.
The general tried to refute II. Bertulus'
statement, declaring that Henry brought
| these documents to the war department
and that they did not contain the men,
ton of Bastle or Dures as stated by NJ.
Bertulus.
The latter. however. has already shown
before the whole court OF cessation that
while he was mistaken In saying the
words appeared In those documents. they
did appear In other papers seized at Nine.
Pays residence.
Gen. Roget BECOMES Excited.
Gen. Roget. who was becoming more
and more excited. frequently moistened
! his lips with water. At this point the gen.
eral thought 1t desirable to make dec
| laration that he did not desire II to be
| said that he questioned the good faith of
some witnesses who had been heard. He
| added.
II make this statement SO that there
shall be no misunderstanding and in Or
| der that my words may not be misinter-
preted. Nevertheless, their testimony Is
open to criticism. even as our utterances
| are criticised"
military Attaches Careless.
| Continuing. the witness said:
M cas,m,r-Perier deposed before the
(! &C to make Official denial OF the statement
that important documents were found at
his embassy. The ambassador. however.
| knew II was fact. But admitting that he
did not know II. there Is nothing surprising
In the occurrence. in view OF the facility
with which a.tache "A Il don't mention
his name as the minister had forbidden ~
allowed compromising letters to lie around.
read one such letter which was very
compromising to q person whose name I
cannot mention. Why, therefore, should
not the hordereau go astray?"
The general insisted upon the truth OF
the statement that military attaches "A"
and 3D." under which letters he referred
to Col Schwar tzkoppen. OF the German
embassy at Paris. and Maj Pennizardi. OF
the Italian embassy at the French capital
at the time worked together almost daily
ana he quoted a passage from a letter
exchanged between them as follows:
M Hanosaux. the ely fellow. il glad that
the embassy Is denying. The embassy must
deny"
Dreyfus' Name was In Letters
In the same document. declared Gen.
Roget. was a name written. and the name
he asserted, was that OF Dreyfus. The
name OF Esterhazy. he added. was not
found In any Of the documents. none Of
which could be ascrihed to him with the
exception Of the petit hleu. which Col. Pic
quart discovered in an extraordinary man
ner
The witness then said that he felt great
stneastness In regard to the documents con-
tanning the words: 'Cette canaiile de
D."
Certain military attaches. sad the gen.
, erai. later on In his testimony. informed
/ Gel San.sherr hat there was some one
who initiated his handwriting perfectly
! The name OK Dubois. the witness said
was in the correspondence OF the military
as,ache.
Col Suhers. the general explained, was
/ an unfortunate officer who !utileiy tried
! to sell the secret of the -rsoketess powder
used In the French army
III" sac Gen. Roget. 4" no other person
! can he found to whom the initial D' can
/ apply 10 when does II then apply
A RS mazda shfx remark tho witness