The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-08-25
MBRClDR IS SHOWN UP

Compelled to Acknowledge a
Grave Violation Of Law.
LADORI HITS THE PROSECUTION.
Attorney for Dreyfus Scores Several Toll.
ing Points In Cross-Exnmination of wit.
nesses-Two Internal Machines Filled
With Guncotton Rece tved by Labor
RENNEs. Aug. 2s.-Yesterday was
Maitre Labori's day at the Lycee, where
Captain Dreyfus is standing trial on the
charge of treason. Labor was the CEN
trail figure of the scene. His mere pres
ence brought brightness into the court
o and fresh light into the proceed
ings. Labor did what people had AZ
pected. He galvanized the dormant de-
Tense into an active, living thing.
When NJ. Demange found nothing to
ask a witness, NJ. Labori's quick eye
had discovered weak spots and he came
forward with searching questions. He
opened with an eloquent speech and the
audience could have listened for an
hour to his rich, melodious voice, modu-
lated tones and then impassioned out
bursts, accompanied by energetic and
speaking gestures.
Generals Roget, Biilot, Mercier and
Boisdefre. with the other military wit
nesses, gave one another anxious chances
and put their heads together to u.
change various disagreeable impressions
as Labor pressed the smaller military
fry who occupied the witness stand sue
cessively with disconcerting questions.
Labori cornered MERCER on 1.-THE Schnei-
der letter, which the latter had used in
evidence and which Colonel Schneider
had %repudiated as a forgery. The gem
eral was surprired when Labor sud-
denly demanded that MERCER be re-
called. Evidently he hoped the tribunal
would support him in refusing to ex-
plain how he got a copy of a letter
which was of later date than his incum-
bency at the ministry of al But La
bori was not to be denied. He insisted.
that MERCER should give some explana-
ton. Then. after ~hesitating, Mercier
declared that he would assume all the
responsibility attaching to his possession
of the document. This, as Labor in
tended it should be, was a demonstra-
ton of communication between the gen.
eral staff Of a part Of the bordereau to q
common soldier, such as Mercier became
on leaving tie ministry of war. When
Labor forced a confession of grave vio-
lation of law on the part of General
MERCER he gave a smile Of grim salts
faction and then added significantly: ri
shall have other questions to put to
General MERCER"
Is Liable to Arrest.
General MERCER must now be spend
ing a very miserable evening, for as the
admission of this matter and with the
additional charge of communicating se-
cret documents to the court-martial Of
1894, he is liable to arrest at any mo-
ment. Indeed, some people think it
not impossible that he will be lying in
the military prison, adjoining the cell
of Captain Dreyfus, before the week is
out.
Another series of questions put by
M. Labori concerned La Joux, a spy
formerly in the service of the French
war Office, but packed off to South
America, according to various military
witnesses, because he proved a swindler.
Labor asked how it was, if that were
so, that La Joux was still receiving
monthly payments.
Commandant Rollin, completely
taken aback, replied that a cessation of
payments was under consideration.
The impression conveyed by Labori's
questions and the replies given, was
that La Joux was being paid by the war
Office to keep out of the way in the in
terests of Esterhazy, whom La Joux, in
a letter read in court, Offering revela-
tions in the Dreyfus affair, indicated
as the real traitor. M. Labori's cross.
examination in this matter, therefore,
was a distinct advantage to the accused.
Captain Dreyfus pursued the attitude
he took up Monday and replied to the
statements of hostile witnesses with
arguments and the presentation Of
counter facts, only once giving way to
his feelings and offering a cry of protest.
This wa at the conclusion of Colonel
Bertin's deposition, when, with broken
voice, the accused declared his love Of
France and the army.
Internal Machines for Labori.
M. Labori last evening received two
mysterious parcels, believed to be infer
nal machines.
The Internal machines sent to M. La
bori have been opened in the military
laboratory at that place and have been
found to be filled with g~uncotton.
BoER SITUATION IMPROVES.
Believed Now That a Modus vivendi win
BE Accomplished.
PRETORIA, Aug. 23.-It is ascertained
on the highest authority that no definite
reply has been sent to the proposal of