The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-08-30

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simultaneously with my friend Sand
herr"
Replying to the president, Cordier
declared that the approaches of the
Dreyfus family to Colonel Sandherr
We're not attempts at corruption, and
that Dreyfus' brothers remark, Our
fortune is at your disposal" was only
the expression of the famiy's ardent
desire to save an innocent member of
il.
Witness well remembered hearing
that Esterhazy and Henry were in the
! Intelligence department together about
| the year 1878, but, he added, Esterhazy
had not since been employed there, and
II he had any relations with the depart
| ment they must have been clandestine.
Replying to Colonel Jouaust's request
to state what he knew regarding Hen
rvs relations with Picquart, Cordier
said that goodfellowship prevailed in
the department until the appearance of
Henry, who had been forced on Sand
herr. Henry had close relations with
the supreme chief and his colleagues
suspected that he might report what he
heard in the office divisions and what
| oNNtLISb liz LliC ICpeii llilCllI. boOiiiC sup
ported Sandherr and others supported
Henry. Among the latter was Gribelin.
1t was then, while the division was
rampant, that the witness handed over
his department to Colonel Picquart,
Henry was much incensed at being SUI
perseded by a Junior officer, and re-
solved to do everything to supplant him.
and, added the witness, the Henry for
gerry could have had no other object
but to ruin Colonel Picquart with the
view of giving Henry his place,
Maitre Labori asked the witness what
he knew in regard to the arrest of Drey-
fus and Cordier replied that his recol-
| lections on that point were not very
definite. He found difficulty in recall
| ing the names Of those who were pres
ent at the dictation scene, but he was
Informed on several OCCASIONS as to what
| occurred. Il remember" he declared,
that one of the proofs advanced
| against Dreyfus was that, during the
| scene he looked in a mirror. That is
| going too far. If Dreyfus looked in the
| mirror it was because he had seen au-
| other head besides his own there. There
was an arrangement of mirrors. And,
since it must be told, will say it. Be-
| hind the curtain were two ears, listen
! ing. Dreyfus therefore, might have
| seen something besides his own face in
| the mirror
/, M. Labor questioned the witness in
regard to the letter mentioned in M. de
la Roche-Vernet's evidence referring to
the spy &C. G. Co. which was dispatch
ed to the war office at the time of Pic
quarts arrival. Cordier explained that
it was a letter from an Italian lady
with whom the department, at that
time, was in correspondence through
an intermediary at the foreign office.
II greatly respect Italian ladies in
general" said Colonel Cordier, but not
when it is a case of espionage, and l
advised Picquart not to make too much
use of the lady's offers, saying to him:
There must be no petticoats.
AT this juncture M. Labori informed
the president of the court that he had
received a telegram signed Pages"
announcing the dispatch of a letter rel
alive to the relations between Colonel
Sandherr and the Dreyfus family.
Counsel said that he had himself receiv-
ed telegram as follows: Il declare
Colonel Sandherr told me distinctly that
neither before nor after the conviction
was an offer Of money made to him."
Colonel Jouaust announced that ne
would not read the letter because he
knew nothing of the writer, and asked
the usual question of Dreyfus who re-
marked that he would refer merely to
the scene on October 15 preceding his
arrest ut was" he said, so fantas-
J..
nothing connected with it. 1t was con-
Quoted under such conditions that / do
not know what manner of brain could
have conceived it, and when l left the
extraordinary scene my head literally
reeled, so l cannot remember the facts |
and details"
Major Lauth and Colonel Cordier.
Major Lauth, having been permitted |
to speak, said that Colonel Cordier's |
leave of absence commenced September |
10, and not September 20, to which Cor
der retorted that he was much sur
prised at contradiction on such an un
important point. But. nevertheless, his /
original statement was true. Continu- |
ing, the major commented upon Colonel |
Cordier's testimony, especially the state |
ment that there were no anu-Semites |
on the headquarters staff, remarking |!
that there was one exception, and that |
this was Cordier himself, who was al
ways expressing antipathy to the Jews, |
especially when there was question ,
of introducing Dreyfus to the depart |
ment.
YES" exclaimed Cordier, quite true.
/ was an anti-Semite, but my opinions
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