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declaring himself ignorant of matters
! which should have been known to every
| officer of the general staff.
Inc witness said he was cognizant of
Dreyfus' relations with loose women. In
support of this assertion, he mentioned
an alleged voluntary statement made by
| Matthew Dreyfus, brother of the prisoner.
| In the witness presence, that he had
been obliged to pull his brother from the
clutches of a woman of this description
living near the Champs Eysees.
M. Gribelin recapitulated the discovery
of the leakage at military headquarters,
! the arrival of the bordereau, etc, and
dwelt on the system of espionage con-
Quoted under cover of diplomatic i'm
munity, by agents "a" and "B" and
&C.
DISCOVERY OF BORDEREAU.
Maj. Lauth followed. He traversed the
ground covered by the evidence before
the criminal division of the court of cas-
satiOn in regard to the circumstances
under which Henry communicated the
bordereau. He said that when the Dor
dereau reached the intelligence depart
ment Henry was absolutely the only Of
/ ficer who knew the agent who fur
nished 1t, and was the only officer known
to the agent. Henry, he explained, had
appointments with the foreign spy in
question only on the evnlngs at or 8
o'clock at night, at various places, so it
was impossible for Henry to hand the
papers received to Col. Sandherr the
same evening.
Next, discussing the petit bleu, Maj.
Lauth said it reached Col. Picquart, en-
closed in a packet, early in March. In
cidentally, the witness mentioned the
mission to Nancy on which Henry went,
and said that while he was absent his
wife came to the intelligence department
to ask for his whereabouts, as she knew
nothing of his departure
1T was the same with all officers of
the department. said Lauth. Our fami-
lies never knew where we were gong
when we were sent on a mission, and It
was through the department that they
correspondent with US. That proves that
things were not conducted In the fourth
bureau as alleged by Col. Picquart, and
the officers were not so negligent and
careless as he has asserted
Witness maintained this alone disposed
of Picquart's assertion that Henry was
in the habit of working at home in the
presence of servants. AS a matter Of
fact, he added, the officers were very
reserved before their families ContInu-
ing, witness proceeded to speak of Pic
quarts orders to destroy all evidence Of
the petit bleu having been torn, and to
determine the office or origin by afixing
a postmark
Maj. Lauth's extremely long deposition
was listened to in profound silence. He
protested against Picquart's allegations
against him in the course of the Traver-
nier inquiry, when Picquart represented
Lauth as the instigator, and perhaps also
the writer of the Henry forgery.
UGLY ALLEGATIONS.
Capt Juneke followed He said he was
a probationer simultaneously with Drey-
fus, but in another department of the war
office. He saw the prisoner great deal
and held conversations, in which, he al
legged, Dreyfus spoke of great sums he
had lost in gambling and intercourse with
loose women.
lone day" the witness proceeded,
when we were visiting the Concours
Hippique, we met three immoral women
who bowed to us. Dreyfus returned their
greeting and 1 said to him: We'll, for
a married man, you have nice acquaint-
ances' He replied that they were old
friends of his bachelOrhood and, point
ing to one of them, said her name was
Valtesse and that she had a house on the
Champs Elysees, where she gave nice par