The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-08-17
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virgin must take place at the festival of
the Assumption. He has ordered the
clergy, III the interest OF peace 70 con-
me che procession to the Cathedral and
other churches.
Inc general conclusion deduced from
me episcopal pastoral has been that the
requisites, who are either Jews, Free
thinkers or blasphemers, intended to in
sui religion and breed disturbances. As
a consequence, a sullen feeling is shown.
As matter of fact. nobody more deeply
regrets the Introduction of the Assumption
procession in the former capital of Brit
amy than the friends of Dreyfus, partic-
ularly his friends in the press
Inc latter had hoped to find the process
sion rich in local color and an interesting
subject for dispatches
Io-day's witnesses were Senator Guerin,
VINO was colonial minister at the time
Dreyfus was sent to Cayenne; Nine Hem
ny, widow of the suicide. and NJ Lebon
who was colonial minister for more than
TWO years, and who ordered the palisade,
or hlSh fence, to be paced around the
hut ON the Isle of Devils. Guerin is a
provincial attorney in Carpentras, where
they know nothing of the Dreyfus case,
papers.
happen to know that he was acquaint-
ed with the prisoners late father, who
was naturalized a Frenchman in 1873 at
Carpentras where two of his three daugh-
ters have since married. This, posi-
bly,, accounts for the tone of kind feeling
in NJ. Guerin's deposition.
Nine. Henry, dressed in deep mourning,
came from the convent where she is stay
ing. She says her age is g. She IL
commonplace and vulgar and shows in
her figure and complexion that she shared
the good cheer of which the late Lieut.
Col. Henry was so fond. There was very
little in her evidence.
l notice two lies. One was that she
saw Henry one night at the dining room
table passing the bordereau on a sheet Of
Summed paper and that it was torn in
small fragments. Now the photograph l
was shown of 1.-THE photograph which
was done for the Intelligence department
shows it was simply torn half way
across, and was not in fragments. The
other lie was that Esterhazy was not
known TO Henry before the Picquart duel
but she afterward admitted that Henry
knew Esterhazy many years previously in
Tunis. She was scarcely audible, but it
hardly mattered, as she delivered herself
of a lot of fusian about Henry's patriot
ism and devotion to the army.
Gen. Roget, like all the other genrals
who preceded him, came as a witness, but
he acted as public prosecutor He and
they reminded me of a DEVILS advocate,
but devils advocate in good earnest
Roget was dead set against the unfortu-
nate Dreyfus. who must have been tor
tured while the general went on with
statements deductions, innueudos and sug-
gestiOns that We're all jam to all the Off
GERS present.
If Roget was not speaking in good faith
his statement was UNANIMOUSLY wicked. But
he made a point. Mai Hartman, who
testified before the Court of Cessation
about the gun mentioned in the bordereau,
said it had been tested in 1880 and that
every one knew all about 1t in 1894. This
Roget denied, and the president of the
courtmartai, who is an artillery officer,
seemed to indorse him.
According to Roget the gun had been
tested in 1894 only, and spoken. of in only
one journal, the Yacht, the editor of
which, Capt Weyl, was then an intimate
friend of Esterhazy. "Who was this
Weyl?" said Roget. "He was the uncle
by marriage to Matthew Dreyfus"
The accused quivered with rage, like
one half impaled and starting up he pro-
tested at having to sit still for two hours
while tortured by a witness who tore his
| very heart out.
What is very strange is that Weyls re-
| lations with Gen. Du Pellieux and Es-
| terhazy were never probed, although they
were often taken up.
Nj. Lebon brazened out the charges that
he had sent barbarously cruel orders to
| Devils Island. At the same time ii looks
| from his evidence as if serious plan
for enabling Dreyfus to escape was on
foot. Had he escaped in 1896, NJ. Lebon
| would have seemed to all of France an
accomplice of the traitor" The former
| minister of the colonies seemed inspired
merely by the instinct of self-preservation
our guardian angel in the material, but
never in the moral order.
| Lebon is a sanctimonious prig, a Prot
estaut, but of the sort known in France
| as "some jesutical Protestants." He
wrote a poor history of France for a series
| published in London. His evidence told
| more against himself than against Drey-
| fus. Emily Crawford.
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