The Red Cloud chief., 1899-08-25
lAB0Ri PINS THEM DOWN.

HIS very PRESENCE IN the court ROOM
Give. Iifc to the Trial.
Maitr Labor was abte TO attend to
his duty before the court Wednesday,
and was a~pplauded Is he entered the
ocurt room. His very presence seemed
to give new life to every one, especially
the prisoner. lie opened today with
an eloquent speech, and Generals
Roget. Billot, MERCER and Boisdeffre,
with other military witnesses, gave
m another anxious glances and put
their heads together TO exchange OBJ
viously disagreeable impressions as
Labor piled the smaller military fry
who occupied the witness stand sue
ccssivcly today with discerning quest.
ions.
Labor ~cornered MERCER on the
Schneider letter, which the latter had
used in evidence, and which Colonel
Schneider had repudiated as a forgery.
The general was surprised when La
bori suddenly demanded that Me-cier
be recalled. Evidently he hoped the
tribunal would support him in refus-
ing to explain how he got a copy If
the letter which was of n later date
than his incumbency at the ministry
Of war.
But Labori was not to be denied. He
insisted that MERCER should give some
explanation. Then, after h~esitating,
Mercier declared hat he would assume
all the responsibility attached to his
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Labori intended IL should he, was n
demonstration of communication by
the general staff Of part at least, of the
secret dosser to an ordi mary soldier,
such as MERCER became Immediately
on leaving the ministry of war. When
Labori had attained his object and
forced a confession of grave violation
of law on the part of General Mercier,
he gave a smile of grim satisfaction,
aad then added significantly:
II shall have other questions to put
to General Mercicr."
Another series OF questions put by
Nj. Labor concerned Lajoux, a spy
formerly in the service. Of the French
war Office, but packed of to South
America, according to various military
witnesses, because he proved a swim
dler.
Lobori asked how IL was, II that
were so, that Lajoux was still received
monthly payments.
Commandant Rollin, completely taxi
EN- aback, replied that a cessation of
payments was under consideration.
The impression conveyed to Labori's
questions and the replies given was
that Lajoux was being paid by the
war Office to keep out of the way in
the interests Of Esterhazy, who Lajoux,
in a letter read in court offered revela-
tions in the Dreyfus affairs, indicated
as the real traitor. NJ. Labori's cross
examination in this matter, therefore,
was a distinct advantage to the &C
! cused.
Labor announced that he intended
to recall several witnesses.
The first witness today was NJ. Gren.
ier, the former project of Belfort. His
testimony was favorable to Dreyfus
and distinctly hostile to Esterhazy.
Major Rollin Of the intelligence de-
partment was asked by NJ. Labori dur
ing the course Of the formers testi-
mony how a certain document Of a
later date than Mercier's ministry
came into General Mercier's possession.
Rollin said II was not his business to
explain, but counsel insisted, ask ing
whose business it was. Finally NJ.
Labor asked Colonel Jouaust to re-
quest General Mercier TO explain. The
general rose and said he declined to
answer. NJ. Labor insisted, but
Mercier still refused to answer and
Major Carriere, the government COM
missary, supported him on the ground
that the examination was entering on
a matter width ought not, In the in.
terest of the country, be discussed
publicly.
NJ. Labori then declared in a loud
voice that he would reserve to himself
the right to take the necessary meAs-
ures to obtain the desired information.
The next point was made by Dreyfus
in his reply to Major Loilin. The lat
ter had remarked that all the prison
ers papers were seized when his rooms
were searched in 1894, and Colonel
Jouaust said that certain papers from
his text book, the school of war, were
found missing. To this the prisoner
%retorted: mot in 1894, my colonel"
This caused some sensation, as the
obvious Interpretation was that the
pages were torn out at the war Office,
and that then the fact was used against
him as an i%nsinuation that he had
communicated the missing pages to
foreign agents.
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Two hundred Indians in Foreman
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