Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-09-05
Today's Testimony Favored
Prisoner Despite Lame
Replies to a,Groom.
LABORI GETS A LETTER.
Co,opel Picquart Confirms IT'S contents
General Sebert Declares the Bor-
dereau Displays an Ignorance
Which Clears Drey1us.

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Rennes, Sept. 1.-(By Associated
Press AT the opening of the Dreyfus
trial this morning groom named Ger
main testified that he saw Dreyfus at
the German army maneuvers in Alsace.
He said he saddled a horse for him to
follow the maneuvers with. Major In
freville, who told the witness Dreyfus'
name. Dreyfus made rather lame
reply, to the effect that he had no rec
election of the matter. However,
Germain's employer Kulman came for
ward and declared that all that Ger
main had said was untrue and Infraville
followed, asserting that he never knew
Dreyfus. Captain Lemmonnier, a
probationer on the headquarters staff
at the same time as Dreyfus, deposed
that the prisoner told him he was we'll
acquainted with a certain German po-
sition because he had followed the AL
satan maneuvers. Dreyfus replied
that Lemmonnier must have mixed up
his remarks. The prisoner said he was
acquainted with that part of 'Alsace
because he spent his youth there, not
because he had followed the German
maneuvers. A man named Villon then
told how he had overheard a conyersa-
= tion in Berlin cafe, between two Ger
man officers, in which remark was
made that the mobilization plans We're
expected from Dreyfus. The cafe
however, has since disappeared and
that are no means of verifying Villon's
story.
German said these maneuvers were
in Mulhausen in 1886. The witness ad
mitted that he had been convicted O
embezzlement in 1898, and it was shown
that he was convicted of the same Grim,
In 1898. The witness admitted that he
wrote his story in a letter to Beaur
paire. which letter was published. Ii
answer to the witness, Dreyfus ad
initted that he was in the habit o
spending a month or two every yea
at Mulhnusen, but positively affirmed
that he was never present in either of
fetal or sonhi-official capacity at tn
IL ~ crman Kaneuvers. nor had ever dinet
lunched with any German officers
!e declared that the place mentione,
as merely Il small drill ground, ;
# caring in Hartz forest where it wa
possible to execute maneuvers. HI
ight have seen the regiment drillin.
while at, Mulhausen. He rode hi
brothers. horse, but remembered moth
ing about the horse mentioned by Ger
main. as.
Commissary Fischer testified that h
had charge OF the investigation of TIL
leaking documents at the gunner.
school at Bourges and found nothin!
to incriminate Dreyfus. Lieutenan
Bernheim testified that he lent Ester
hazy documents dealing with artil
1ery and was unable to get them back
Artillery Lieutenant Breuger testifie
that it was easy for an outsider to OF
tain particulars about the guns. Re
get tried to discredit the witness b
declaring that he wrote violent lei
ter Of resignation to the minister 0
war declaring it was a dishonor /
serve in the French army; but Breug
er Indignantly denied it, and Roge
Backed down, saying that, that wa
the general sense of it. Artillery CAP
tain Carvalho emphatically declare
that there were no special precaution
to, keep the mechanism of the 500