The Mena star., 1899-08-31
The Expert Testified as to Why He
 Thinks Dreyfus Guilty.
HIS DEMONSTRATION" IS FEARED.
The Dreyfuaards Apprehensive That the Judges of the Court-Martia1 May Re Gulled by the Handwrit-
 Ing Experts 'sEvidence.v

the handwriting expert who is at the head of the anthropometricd department of the prefecture of police of Paris, had concluded the first installment of his so-called demonstration of the guilt of Capt. Dreyfus, prominent Dreyfusard referred to him as the fin de siecle Gag liostro. The Dreyfusards refused to regard him as anything but the prince of quaclxs. They cover his remarks with ridicule and protest that the ad- mission of his fantastic theories as evil dence before the court-martial is dis grace to France. 'C'est une honte" was the remark heard on all sides when the session closed and the audi ence, mainly made up of Dreyfusards, was being pressed outside by the gendarmes, who clear the court room as soon as the court adjourns.
 Nevertheless even the Dreyfusards do not deceive themselves as to the effect M. Bertillon's testimony or demon stration' may have upon the judges, who. they fear, will be gulled by what the Dreyfusards consider spurious tes- timony. All the judges have passed through the Ecole Polytechnique, the highest school of science in France, and they are thus peculiarly interested in such ''evidence'' as NJ. Bertillon's Moreover, with the aid of the innumer- able diagrams and specimens of writ ings which he submits to them, they may be able to follow his reasoning intelligibly, which is more than any of the audience could do yesterday. If the judges accept Bertillons premises that Dreyfus, as an expert spy, did not write ordinary handwriting. but in close imitation even contriving to give the letters tho appearance of hav- ing been traced in order to be able to repndiate them as forgery if detected then the structure built upon this groundwork may be scientifically cor rect.
 Even Dreyfus, when shown Bertil- lon's demonstrations, admitted the in- genuitv and plausibility of the system, though he naturally declared that it was built upon false basis.
 A remarkable feature of Bertillon's deposition was the heat and excite ment he put into what was expected to be calm, dispassionate exposition of his theory. He thundered, shouted and waved his arms as though engaged in some terrible dispute. Once he lit erally shriebed and numbers of the usual audience who had been unable to follow him and was taking the air in the court yard rushed back into the hall, breathlessly inquiring what had happened and imagining that he was Illuminating some dreadful deuuncia- tion of the accused.
 Their excitement was turned into hilarity when they found that he was momentarily impressing upon the judges the significance of the exact space, measures in centimetres, be- tween two words in the bordereau. The military witnesses, all of whom sit in bunch, leaving Col. Picquart and Nj. Rertulus severely isolated, fol- lowed M. Bertillon's statements with grave and wise expression of counten- auce, upon which never suspicion of a smile appeared, as though they un- derstood every word. Evidently they had received mot d'ordre to preserve this attitude for, without seeing the diagrams, they could not have under ctoDh dii1 DtbLcT tiidn ulu Lne general public.
 The Echo de Paris announced that the counsel of Dreyfus had obtained possession of certain documents men, toned in the bordereau, in Esterhazv's writing, which they would produce in court next week as a coup de theatre The correspondent of the Associated press inquired as to shis in competent Dreyfusard quarters yesterday after noon. He was assured that the state ment was erroneous, but was also told that the defense intended, in the event of Capt. Dreyfns being recondemned, 10 ask the German government to com municate these documents, proving his innocence, and that they had reason to believe such a request would be grant ed.
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