Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-08-18
CONFRONTED BY MADAME HENRY.
Bertullus is Called a Judas and Declines
to oArgue-Picquart's Evidence.

Bertullus is Called a Judas and Declines
to oArgue-Picquarts Evidence.
After Bertullus had closed Madame
Henry, widow of the colonel who sui
cided, demanded to be heard and told
of her husband telling her of friendly
talk he had with Bertullus. Said she:
Il said to my husband: Are you sure
of this man? Are you sure he is sim
cere? / am very much afraid that his
kiss was the kiss of a Judas l was
not wrong. This man is indeed the Ju-
das 1 imagined"
NJ. BertulIus said he did not desire
to reply to Nine. Henry, adding: She
is only a woman"
II am not a woman" exclaimed Nine.
Henry, furiously; Il speak in the name
of my husband"
How shall 1 reply to madame?'
asked NJ. Bertullus. she is defending
the name of dead man and that of her
child
Colonel Picquart was then called to
the witness stand. He described the con-
sternation in the war office when the
treason was discovered and the relief
experienced when it was thought the
guilty person had been discovered. 1t
was then the witness discovered the
similarity between the handwriting of
Dreyfus and that of the bordereau, and
he had recourse to Du Paty de Clam,
who was imposed to have graphologi-
cal knowledge" Laughter.1 Then the
witness described what he character
lied as the regular steps" taken by
General MERCER to accomplish the ar
rest of Dreyfus. Beyond the border
eau" added the witness, there was
nothing against Dreyfus-absolutely
nothing"
His impression during the investi-
cation, continued Colonel Picquart,
was that the acquittal of the accused
was probable, as the evidence was in
sufficient Witness believed he had
even told the minister of war that the
condemnation of the accused could not
be secured unless the court martial had
been shown the secret documents which
it had been agreed to submit to the
court" The colonel next declared that
in 1894 he did not know the contents
of the secret dossier, but he believed,
like all the other officers, that it con-
tanned frightful proofs against the pris-
oner. When he became acquainted
with it's contents, however, he found
that his earlier impressions were en-
tirely wrong"
During the course of his testimony
Colonel Ficquart asked to be confronted
with Du Patty de Clam, and to be per-
mitted Ito deal with some of his pc
cularities,' when Patty de Clam is in
the witness box. Next. the colonel ex-
amined the bordereau and declared
Dreyfus could not have disclosed part
of it. Colonel Picquart declared he had
never seen Dreyfus copy the smallest
document in the war office. In the opin-
ion of the witness the department
where the bordereau was discovered
ought to have been searched when the
discovery was made. This. he ex-
plained. was the department in which
Patty de Clam worked. and that was
the department which was working on
the plan of the concentration of the
troops and the Madagascar expedition
He added: "It was in Major Patty de
CLAIMS department t3rat the search
should have been made, or, rather, in
his private room. where he worked
quite alone" Later on the witness said
he wondered If it was not to avoid the
risk of punishment that Patty de Clam
advanced the date of the reception of
the bordereau at the intelligence de-
partment. so as to make it prior to the
date of his CPaty de Clam's) arrival in
the third department.