The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-08-22
AND Captain Dreyfus Made to Suffer for Ben
eft of Those Who Made It.
COLONEL PICQU
Ill .ourt-Martial Shows up the Conspiracy of the General Staff
70 flace on Dreyfus the Treason of Others-Thc CoIoners Testi.
mony Causes a Sensation-He Shows the Falacy of the
Charges Against Dreyfus-Esterhazey Shown to
be the CuIprit-The Effort to Discredt
Force of Pcquart's Testimony.

the TACT that it was addressed by
Schwarzkoppen to Panizzardi and not
vice versa, as long believed.
After giving his reasons for believ-
Ing Dreyfus was not the person re-
ferred to in that document, Picquart
showed how Patty de Clam e~ndeavored
to ascribe the authorship of the docu-
ment to PaniZZardi, with the view Of
establishing a connection which, in
reality, did not exist between the vari-
u documents in the Indictment
against Dreyfus.
The document which referred to the
French agents journey to Switzerland,
of which SchwartZkOppen is said to
have been informed, was only slightly
commented upon by the witness as he
did not attach importance to it.
The minute detail with which the
colonel dealt with the evidence and the
c~learness of his language and his de-
auctions had great effect upon the au-
dience and elected general admira-
ton.
The former chief of the intelligence
department concluded his eXamina-
ton of the first portion of the secret
dossier by saying: May l be allowed
to express deep regret at the absence
Of Major du Patty de Clam. 1t seems
to me indispensable that this officer,
who wrote the commentaries on the
secret dossier, should be summoned to
give evidence here. He would give us
his "reminiscences and l would help
him. CLaughter.)
"But," Colonel Picquart added, since
I ann dealing with this question of h
commentaries of Major du Patty de
Clam, permit me to point out to you,
gentlemen, that this document was not
the property of any particular minister.
1t was classified as belonging to b in
telligence department, and. as o see,
it formed part Of a we'll defined dossler
"a dossier which was shut up in n
of the drawers of my desk, and which
was distracted from it. This commen-
tary, therefore, is upon a secret dossler
document which was improperly re-
moved from. my department." (Sen-
SatiOn.)
Continuing the witness said: Men
ton was made yesterday of the disap-
pearance of documents. That is the
case in point"
Turning to the second portion of the
dossier, Picuuart described a numDe
of in it as forgeries n
said the police reports therein contained
showed nothing serious against Drey-
fus. He explained that they embodied
those mostly utilized by police spies In
order to dupe the intelligence depart
ment, and asserted that their informa-
ton was mostly worthless, embroidered
or false and prepared in order to make
interesting reading.
DREYFUS' KEEN INTEREST.
Dreyfus displayed the keenest inter
est in Picquart's protracted analysis or
the dossier. to which the whole audi
ence listened with profound attention.
The members of the court-martlal and
the former ministers Of war were equal
ly interested.
Concluding his examination Of the Sc
cret dossier, Colonel PicQuart EXPLAIN
ed how he had acquired h conVlc-
ton that the bordereau was written py
Esterhazey, and how he a~scerraang 1a
that the anti-Dreyfus proofs were
worthless. He began by detailing
he first learned Of the existence of Es-
terhazey and his efforts to discover
| something about him. The witness
earnestly asserted that the first occa-
sion on which he saw E~Sterhazeys
name was when he read the address OF
the Petit Bleu. He said he was not
! acquainted with E~sterhazey n never
had Esterhazey watched.
Previous to thi the utmost efforts
had been made TO prove the contrary
and to show PicQuart knew ESterhazey
before the discovery Of the Petit Bleu.
Turning to the leakage at headquar-
tiers. the witness described the nego-
tiations Of Major Lauth, with the SOY
Richard Cuers at Basic, showing how
the SOY promised information about the
leakage and how he, Picquart, was in
duced to allow Lieutenant Colonel Hen
! nv to accompany Major Lauth to Basic.
Picauart also described the vague re-
plies of Henry when questioned on the
| subject of EsterhaZey before his depar-
| ture and the futility of the visit to
| Basic, because of Cuers' refusal, when
he saw Henry, to impart the promised
information.
This incident caused the witness to
| wonder whether, instead OF trying TO
make Cuers speak, Henry and Lauth
had not done everything possible ITO i'm
pose silence upon him.
EsTERHAZEY SUSPECTED.
After referring to Esterhazey's repu-
tation for gambling and debauchery.
Colonel Picuuart said: II knew Es-
terhazey was anxious to enter the war
office and I did not regard his desire IA
vorably I communicated my impres-
sions to my chiefs, who approved all
my steps, and the application OF Ester
macy was rejected. His insistence,
however, only increased my ~uneaslness
regarding him and I resolved to oD-
tain a specimen of his handwriting. l
was Immediately struck with the SINH
larity to that of the bordereau, and.
forthwith, I had the letters of Ester-
hazey which were in my possession pho-
tographed and showed the photographs
TO Major de Clam and NJ. Bertillon (the
handwriting exper) between August
25th and September 5th. NJ. Bertlllon
| said: That is the writing of the bor-
dereau.' NJ. Bertillon tried to discover
where I had obtained the handwriting,
but the only information I impaired
] was that it was current and recent
handwriting. NJ. Bertillon hen suggest.
7 ed that it was a tracing and ended by
| saying that if it was current hano:
| writing it could only have emanatao
! from some whom the Jews had been ex-
/ ercising for a year in imitating the
writing of the bordereau.
seWJhen I saw beyond a u that the
haodvr;tinr Of the bordereau was Els.