The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-08-24
FALSE TESTIMONY.
The Evidence Given by Du Brieul Was
Manufactured.
WITNESSES BECAME RATIFIED
Under the Steady Fire to Which They
We're Subjected.
DREYFUS' CAUSE WAS MADE STRONGER
Not a Single Specific Fact Was Clearly
SuhStanfiated
DREYFUS' CAUSE WAS MADE STRONGER
Not a Single Specific Fact Was Clearly
SubStantiated.
ORtyFus is IN EXCELLENT SPIRITS
NJ. Lnbori VIII Prosecute the Papers
which Declared the Recent At
tack Upon Him Was Fake.

| Renucs. August 2s.--The session OF the
| Dreyfus court martial today was com
paratvely uneventful, The dispositions
were not productive of any really thrill
| ing incidents. The systematic production
| of the iimsiest trash which the prosecu-
,ion deems profitable to ,nflict on the
Judges and which tho latter accept as evil
dcnce was proceeded with. Much of tho
ridiculous testimony of the morning was
devoted to an attempt to blast Dreyfus,
private character. though when MaN2s
Labori and De Mango had finished with
the witness their bubbles of tittle-tattlo
We're badly pricked,
Much OF the time was occupied in read
Ing the testimony of Esterhazy and Mile.
Pays before the court of cessation. during
which many of the audience left the room.
NJ Labori again distinguished himself in
laying bare the weak points OF the evil
dcnce He was less fierce, however, than
yesterday. though quite aggressive enough
to arouse the latent hostilties OF the
judges, which showed itself In various
ways.
NJ. Labori Is no favorite either with Ma
jor Carriere. the governments commissary,
and the latter makes no serious effort to
conceal HE feelings toward the lawyer.
NJ Labor bore llttle effects OF the traces
OF the outrages on him. He rose. sat
down and moved his body and limbs APP
parently without much difficulty. Only
occasionally he puts his hands TO his back
as though suffering pain.
Nine Rehan. the actress, was an in
terested spectator In court today.
During some OF the dispositions NJ. La
bori appeared very nervous. He was I'M
able to remain sill an instant changing
his fingers and Shaking the papers in his
hands. Counsel was almost too Impatient
to wait until the witnesses concluded their
testimony.
General Gonse mounted the stand with
quick step and apparently light heart.
But he left 1t badly mauled by NJ. Labor.
General Gonse began by declaring no
came to defend his honor against those
driveliing' against him. But, when his
cross examination was finished he re-
turned to his seat thoroughly discounted,
for NJ Labori had driven him into corner
on the attempts of the general stan to
shield Esterhazy and had shown that the
general staff, for which Gonse was respon-
sible, had engineered Esterha2ys escape
from the hands of justice. The confident
tones OF tie general had by then dwindled
into the provcrhinl still, small voice and
his defiant hearing had changed into the
abashed air of a school boy caught telling
u lie
TIE day proved a poor enc for the gen.
eraI staff TWO good samples OF the men
put up to sully Dreytus' private character
we're the third and fourth witnesses.
First, Major Du Cbatelet repeated an al
legged conversation with Dreyfus regarding
n lady ut whose house Dreyfns is alleged
TO have gambled and lost money But
when cross examined Du Chatelets nem-
DRY failed him entirely. especially when
asked the name of the lady and the street
she resided in and the sum Dreyfus lost
Next Nj. Du Brleul showed equally as
tonishing forgcifulness of important points
of his evidence concerning Dreyfus' ac-
uuantanceship with foreign attache and
when NJ. De Mango capped his successful
examination OF those points by promising
TO show that M. Du Brieul's record IN the
law courts Is far from clean, the witness
left the stand badly discredited
NJ. Du Brieul. describing himself as
private gentleman, proved most entertain
ing and moreover, gave NJ LABOR the
first opportunity OF making lew pes"'s ~
favor of Dreyfus.
NJ. Du BrIeul one of NJ. Quesnay de
Beaurepaire's witnesses, told gossipy sto-
rv of meeting Dreyfus at the house OF an
acquaintance, NJ. Bodson, In 1854, wnen
Dreyfus was a lieutenant, and to seeing the
latter conversing with man described 10
the witness as a German attache. Inls
was the sum OF his testimony, which was
dotted with flashes OF unconscious hlimor,
as when NJ. Du Brieul said he told MS ac-
quaintance that he could not frequent his
house IL the German visited him. The ac-
nuaIntance. II appeared, excused the fact
by saying the German was not his, but his
wife's. friend, which caused general
laugh In court, becoming louder when 81,
Du Brieul remarked that he had no preju-
dice AGAINST Drcyfus for visiting his ac-
auaintance, or rather his acquaintance's
wife. adding: III every officer who Is In
love with his neighbours wife Is dismissed
from the army there would be very few
left"
NJ. Labori took M. Du Brieul in hand and