Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1899-09-02
Important Witnesses Testify in lie.
half OF the Prisoner.
EVIDENCE QUASHED.
A Livery stable Hand Tells Of Saddllns
a Horse for Dreyfus, but His
Employer Refutes the isser-
tIons Of the Man.


est Of the audience by remarking;
"Maidre Labor the other day asked in
formation 10 be obtained regarding the
character Of a certain witness. Iwould
not have acceded II ihs witness had moi
expressed a similar desire Theinforma
ton which has reached me may b. read ,
The clerk Of the court accordingly read
= reportregarding NJ du Breuil, the Pa
risian friend Of NJ de Beaurepaire. who
testified Aug IL TO the effect that Drey
fus met German attache at the hOus
Of a mutual friend named Bods0n. ans
where ecrossexamination reflected severe
ly on his reputation.
A groom named GERMAN then dc
posed seeing Dreyfus al the German
army maneuvers at AlsAce. The gen
eral effect Of the testimony Of the wit
ness was rather uniavorable TO the pris
oner German declared he saddled
horse for Dreyfus to follow the maneu'
ver- and said Major Infieyille accompa
MED Dreyfus. adding the major told tn,
witness the name Of his companion
Jouaust then questioned Dreyfus ana
although be did not confound the pris
oner in any way. Dreyfus made veal
reply. declaring that he could not re
member whether he hired a horse Of
Germans employer or not
The next two witnesses however
gave strong testimony in favor Of Drey
fus and sadly knocked Germans testi.
mony about His employer. names
Kuhlman, got up and declared all Ger.
main said wa untrue aud Major Iufrc
VILE followed and declared be never
knew Dreyfus - Germans illusions to
him We're baseless
A witness name Villef told tale o.
how he overheard a conversation b.
tween two German officers. in which tn,
remark was made that mobilization
plans were expected from Dreyfus Tn,
cafe however. has since disappeared
and as there is no means Of verifying
villefs story. It certainly should moi
have much effect on the judges
Two or three witnesses support Drey
fus on the artillery question. which wa,
next heard and Commissary Fischer ties
titled that he was charged 20 investi
gate the leakage Of documents At Gun
merry school &; B5GTEss sHi found moth.
ing 10 incriminaie Dreyius
Lieutenant Bernheim testified that he
lent Esierhazy the documents dealing
with artillery aud was unable % get
them hack, and Artillery Lieutenant
Brugere. who attended the Gunnery
course az Chalens. testified that IL wa
easy for an outsider 20 obtain particu.
lars about guns He said he himself
had on one occasion lent firing manual
70 an infantry officer.
General Roget asked 20 be confronted
with the witness and said the latter
wrote VI Cavaignaic. then minister OF
war. violent letter Of resignation. IN
which he. declared II was a distonor to
serve In the French army
This declaration caused scene, foi
Lieutenant Brugere, who. turning tc
General Roget cried; Il protest against
General Rogets words. affirm never
said any such thing.
General Roget then backed down.
saying: We'll. that is the general sense
OF the letter
A roar OF disgust came from the audi
ence at this apparent underhandness up
on the part Of the general and Lieuten.
ant Brugere emphatically declared Gen
eral Roget wrong
The next witness was Captain Car
valho, young artillery officer whc
proved an excellent witness for Drey
fus He gave his evidence clearly. and
boldly and emphatically declared ther,
was no special precautions 20 keep the
mechanism Of the ''is0 short" gun a se-
cret Moreover he added from April
1894, the artillery officers had a descrip
tion Of the hydro-pneumatic brake given
them Here, said Captain Carvalho
'is an actual copy Of the manual which
hand over 10 the courtmartial
NJ Labor then had an animated dis
cussion with Colonel Jouaust. who at
first refused the counsels request &,
read letter which the latter received
from a man named Corning, setting
forth the firing manual had been copied
by men referred 10 "a "A and "B
Colonel Picquart in reply 10 NJ. La.
bori confirmed the statements named in
the letter aud said be thought Major
Lauth might say something on that
point, whereupon the major rose and
declored he did not know Corning.
Labori then asked to DO allowed 10 ques.
tion Major La1th, but Colonel Jouausi
refused whlss ,aused something Of a
] sensation