The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-09-07
SALVATION OF CAPT, DREYFUS
NOW HINGS ON Il Word FROM
EMPEROR WILLIIM.
to Intervene the Accused's Recon-
demnation Seems Certain-.NO Word
from the Kaiser Yet-Breathless Anx-
fety FcIt-King Humbert at Turin.

fety FoIt-king Humbert at Turin.
| Rennes, Sept. 6.-The salvation OF
| Captain Dreyfus hangs on a word from
Emperor William. This is the general
| opinion here tonight. If the kaiser con
| sents to allow Colonel Schwartzkoppen
| the German military attache in Paris
| in 1894, to testify before the court mar
| tial, or to send a deposition, or, what is
| considered still more probable to allow
his deposition to be accompanied by
the actual documents mentioned in the
bordereau, then Dreyfus is saved. If the
emperor, however, decides that it is not
in the interests of Germany for Colonel
Schwartzkoppen to intervene, then Drey-
fus' case is hopeless and his condemna-
tion certain.
Tonight the eyes Of France are look
ing across the frontier to Stuttgart,
where the kaiser is staying, and anx-
iously awaiting his decision. He is in
the position of the spectators of glad
iatoIial combat in the colosseum in an
cient Rome where Dreyfus, lying at the
feet of his antagonist and watching
whether the emperor points his thumb
up or down. AT late hour this even
ing he had given no sign either way,
and F'renchmen are awaiting with
breathless interest the first indication of
his will.
To all intents and purposes Emperor
William stands to-day the arbiter of
the internal peace of France, for every
one anticipates that King Humbert will
follow his lead. This is probably the
explanation of the delay. Emperor Will
liam has gone to Wurtemburg from
Alsace-Lorraine, and King Humbert is
at Turin. Communication between the
two monarchs is therefore somewhat
complicated; and, as they will undoubt-
edly agree upon Identical measures in
replying to Maitre Labori's appeal, it is
possible that several days will elapse
before their decision is known.
The general opinion held here is that
Emperor William and King Humbert
will allow Colonel Schwar tzkoppen and
Colonel Penizzardi to be examined by
a rogatory commission and their depo-
sitions TO be sent to Rennes with sup
plepaentary evidence from the originals
of 1Isterhazy's treachery and treason
able communications. The anti-Drey-
fusards are extremely exasperated at
what they characterize as Maitre Labo-
ri's trick He had long been seeking
an excuse to invoke the Intervention of
the German and Italian sovereigns and
seized the appearance of Cernuschi as
his opportunity, declaring that the ad
mission of the evidence of this foreign
er justified his application regarding
and Panizzardi.
Maitre Labori insisted that the APP
pearance of Cernuschi on the witness
stand was quite without precedent but
the -Dreyfusards point out, and
with certain amount of reason that
the counsel for the defense as really the
first to introduce foreign testimony as
they summoned the English journalist,
Rowland Strong, on the question of Es-
terhazy's confession to having written
the bordereau. Any way it can be safe
ly asserted that the admission of Ger
nuschi as witness for the prosecution
came as a veritable godsend to the de-
fense. giving them almost at the last
moment a more or less legitimate basis
for Maitre Labori's application to sum-
mon the German and Italian attaches.
The anti-Dreyfusards assert that the
members of the court martial will ignore
the affirmations of Colonels Schwartz |
koppen and Panizzardi, because they
that the testimony of these |
officers will be given by order, with a
view To save their own spy, but, in
less prejudiced circles, it is believed |
that the court cannot disregard the SOL
ann declarations of the two attaches
without giving rise to a still graver sit
lation in political sense than now pre-
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