Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-08-19

RENNEs, France. Aug. l9.-When the
second trial by courtmartial of Captain
Alfred Dreyfus, charged with treason,
was resumed i'll the Lycee Colonel Pic
quart, former chief of rAe intelligence
department of the WAR office, was called
TO the witness stand and continued his
deposition. He first replied to General
Roget's attacks upon him.
Roget was given permission to reply,
which he did later on.
Maitre Mornard. who argued the case
i'll behalf of the Dreyfus family for the
revision of the prisoners sente nee be-
fore the court of cessation, was present
TO assist NJ Demange, of counsel for
the defense.
Colonel Picquart later took up consid-
Grafton of the secret dossier.
This dossier." said the witness,
"nay be divided into two parts. The
first conta ins two documents:
''One-A document known as the
D'Avignon document, the terms of
which a, about as follows: Doubt the
proofs Service letters. Situation dam
gerous for me with French officer. No
information from an officer of the line.
Important only as coming from the
ministry. Already somewhere else.
''Two-The document containing the
words 'Certe canaille de D.
"Three-A document which is uoth-
ing but the report of journey to Swift
zerland made in behalf of foreign
power.
'1he second part of the dossier,"
continued Ficquart. consisted partly
of u supplementary review of the first.
It contained the gist of seven or eight
documents, one of which, 'cette canaille
de d. will serve for the purpose of
crmparison.
lit also contained the correspondence
Of attaches "a and b."
These initials, it should be borne in
mind, represent Colonel Schwartzkop-
pen, formerly German military at
tache at Paris. and Major Panizzardi,
the former military attache of Italy at
the French capital.
The witness next explained why Major
Du Patty de CLAIMS translation of the
D'Avignon document, which has been
classed as idiotic, was open to doubt,
and why the document, If it had any
meaning whatever, was as applicable to
Esterhazy as to Dreyfus.
Regarding the correspondence OF the
military attaches, the witness demon
strated the insignifcance of the in
formation asked for.
Colonel Picquart then took up the
"Cette canaille de D." document. He
called the attention of the court to the
tact that it was addressed by Schwartz
koppen to PanaZZardi, and not vice
verst, as long believed.
Alter giving his reasons for believing
Dreyfus was not the person referred to
in that document, Picquart showed
how Patty dc Clam endeavored to as
cribe the authorship of the document
to FanaZZardi. with the view of estab-
fishing connection, which, i'll reality,
dld not exist, between the various docu-
ments III the indictment against
Dreyfus.
Ihe document referring to the French
agents journey to Switzerland, of
which Scllwartzkoppen is said to have
been informed, was only slightly COM
mented upon by the witness, IS he did
not attach importance to 1t.
He spoke OF Patty de CLAIMS commen-
taries On the secret dossier. This conf
mentary was upon secret dossier docu-
ment which was improperly remuvrt.
from his (Picquart's department.
Turning to the second portion O. the
doseier, Picquart described Il nulni ..r oI
documents in it rs forgeries anu said
the police reports therein coatained
showed nothing serious against Drey-
fus.
Continuing his examination OF the
Secret dossier, Colonel Picquart ey
planned how he had acquired the con-
victiou that the bOrdereau was written
by Esterhazy and how he ascertained
tnat the anti-Dreyfus proofs were worth
less.
The witness earnestly asserted that
the first occasion on which he saw Is
terhazy name was when ne read the
address of the petit bleu. He said he
was not acquainted with Esterhazy and
Eever had EsterhaZy watched
Previous to this the utmost efforts
had been made to prove the contrary
and to show Plcquart knew Esterhazy
before the discovery OF the petit Dleu.
What the witness gathered about Es-
terhazy's character, he continued,
created the worst impression upon him,
but he learned nothing to connect Ester
hazy with any act OF espionage. There
fore, ne did not mention his suspicious.
An agent, however. was ordered to
watch Esterhazy, who had completely
compromised himself through his rela-
tions with an English company, OF
which he had agreed to become di-
rector.
THAT could not be permitted i'll tine
case OF Il French officer" said Picquart.
Moreover, Esterhazy gambled, led
life of debauchery and lived with
Madaroselle Pays.
Major Ltuth and Heny, he said, went
20 Basic 10 see Il spy who promised to
expose the leakage at the war office, but
returned without the information. He
wondered whether they had not imposed
silence on the spy.
He told General De Boisdeffre of his
information regarding EsterhaZy. The
latter applied for place III the war
office. Then he said:
Il communicated my impressions to
my chiefs, who approved all my steps,
and the application of Esterhazy was
rejected.
His insistence, however, only in
creased my uneasiness regarding him
and | resolved TO obtain q specimen of
his handwriting. was Immediately
struck with rhe similarity of his hand
writing and that of the bordereau and,
forthwith had the letters of Esterhazy
which We're in my possession photo
graphed and showed the photographs to
MAJOR Du Patty de Clam and NJ. Ber-
till0n (the handwriting expert. be-
tween Aug. u and Sept. >.
The colonel emphasized this point be-
cause 81 Bertillon affirms he saw the
photographs in May, 1896. ana made a
note of them, while the ltt@rs were
not written on that date.
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