The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1899-08-09
THE DREYFUS D0SSIERI
Being Considered in Secret by the
Army Court Martial. :
HIS COUNSEL WELL SATISFIED,


Sensational Disclosures Regarding
the Secret Councils ofthe DupuyGov-
ernmenr, ,ofwhich He wasa Momber.
Rennes, Aug. 9.-Maitre Demange,
The principal counsel for Captain Drey-
fus. expresses himself as well satis-v
fled with yesterdays proceedings. Col
onel Jouast had played the part of
severe Judge. but, If his voice was rude
and his manner commanding toward
the prisoner, his eye was kind, and
there were no attempts to press homo
the points raised by the indictment.
| NJ Chamoin, the custodian of the
| famous secret dossier, said 1t would
! take four days to examine 1t. 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.
M. 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- Z
science Dryfus was traitor because
he was msled. The other will be Mer-
cier driven to bay. The latter will
issue from this trial ruined If Dreyfus
is acquitted. 1t Is said he intends to
throw searchlight on the secret
councils of the Dupuy government, Of
which he was a member in 1894, and
to 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 new lease
of life He also Is extremely retlcent,
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
respondence between two military at
tacheS, who were mixed up in the af-
fair, is said by Jaures to be shame
to human nature These two officers
wrote under feminine names, and in
a strain that might have shocked the
young courtfers 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.
Picard was equal to the
task of forging them, and he possibly
did forge them for pecuniary con-
sderation. 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
lossier in the judges room. They do
lot see any possibility of repeating the
Judgment OF 1894
Dreyfus was greatly fatigued after
Mondays ordeal. He asked anxiously
what the press and public
hought, and was led to think that
opinion is generally favorable. This
is true. The representatives of ma
.ionalist journals here who Judge
larshly in print express admiration for
he unflnching constancy he has dis
played.
Leading personages here for the trial
lave much to say about the late Gen.
raj Annenkoff and Baron Fredericks
n connection with Dreyfus, but Gen.
raj Mercier and M. Hanotaux, former
minister of foreign affairs, refuse to
peak on the subject M. Hanotaux
ooks detected. 1t will be curious to
ee whether he and Mercier contradict
ach other.
There seems danger that all the evil
ence relating to foreign diplomatlsts
viii be given with closed doors. The
ublic trial will be resumed on Sat-
rday.
Dreyfrs, a member of his family
ays, has not yet got over his Rip Van
Vnkle feeling. He was lost, as he
nut it. He remarked to his wife that
70 was astonished to find himself
watched by t'le whole world or its
roxies, though he showed no sign Of
He was thrown in
cap by the searching and, as he
hough. unfriendly examination by the
resident Of the court martial. He had
xpected mere formal proceedings.
MN. Demange and Labori did not
repare him for hostile tribunal and
scrutinizing public. He felt as IL
rays were being cast upon him all
he time he was under public gaze. 1t
'as as if the inmost thoughts of his
cart were being peered into. He i'm
glned the proceedings would be only
primal. and that perhaps he might
save the court house to walk to his
'ifes temporary home.
His counsel were quite right not to
iscourage him beforehand as his
trength is low and he is condemned
, diet of milk and eggs. which does
OF enable him rapidly to recover his
,st strength. A full diet Just now
)uld not fail to bring on Bright's dis
ase.
He was at first greatly depressed to
arm that he would be confronted with
crowd of hostile witnesses and that
le trial might last fortnight or three
eeks, or even longer. Then, steel
Ig himself he cried;
you must prove' yourself man.
reyfus. YJu must struggle for your
Onor and not give in until you have
cared 1t once and forever But what
ave you done, Dreyfus. to make peo-
e thus rend you? Were you born
nder a malignant star? II so, fight
sainst fate and wrestle until you
ave thrown the evil angel"
From long habit he speaks to him
III when intending to converse with
stors.
Sunk by n British Battleship.
Torquay. Eng, Aug. 9.-The British