Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-09-01
Is Shed Upon the DreyfuS
Case by a German.
SENDING OF DOCUMENTS
They We're Enclosed in Dolls, Sent to
England and Then Taken to Ger
many--Dreyfus Had Nothing to do
With the Matter.

! atlanta. Ga, Aug. 31.-The Jewish Sem
timent. in its regular weekly edition to-
morrow afternoon, will print a story
bearing with almost startling directness
on the Dreyfus trial. Several statements
apparently new to the now celebrated
case, are given in detail with the names
of those who are aid to be in possession
of the information which will throw
much new light on the trial. For the
first time. it is believed the mode of car
rylnS from the French war
office to the German government is given,
1t shows that dolls were used as the
means of conveyance and that the papers
went first to England and Their to Ger
many. The identity Of the 'veiled lady,
IS also made known. The story which
the Sentiment viii print comes from a
man who was employed several years
age by the German government as
maker Of relief maps, and who, after
quitting Germany. served in the United
States army during the war with Spain.
He shows his discharge papers, which,
denote that he was a staff officer. The
lnformer says he was born in Denver,
Col. The story, after some Introductory
remarks, reads:
~ was translator Of documents at the
great staff headquarters at KOniggrat-
zelstrasse. No. 9, Berlin. I never heard
the name Of Dreyfus mentioned in CON
nectiCn with the French war office mer-
chandiSe shipped to the above address
via Belgium and London. I translated
the information regarding gun No. 20.
The original document never left the
French war Office and the copy could
only have been written out through the
direct agency or c~onnivance of a chief
of department. Dreyfus was unknown
at the German secret service bureau in
person or by name from 1890 to 1894.
This | most solemnly affirm. The plans,
specifications and details of gun No. 20
of the bin shell and of the French
war vessels Jauregibery, Charles Martel
and Lazar Carnot, together with plans Of
mobiliza tion, We're purchased through
Germany's embassy in Paris, presided
over by Prince Hans Heinrich Pless, and
as much as $1,000 American money was
sent BY postoffice money order and tele-
graph in payment for the merchandise
These payments We're made in two parts
through Nh. Franz. a doll manufacturer
of So%nnenberg. Germany, and Alvin
F~lorsohuets, bank director of Sonnen-
berg. The medium of women was EN-
ployed in transacting the business.
Il met Count Esterhazy several times
in person at dinners given by Baroness
Delden, who was Esterhazy's sweetheart.
He furnished much of the information.
These We're never received
at the embassy-alW1ays ait a church, q
public function or a private dinner party
The French spies We're always On the
alert and only through such means coulC
their watchfulness be circnmyented.
The Baroness is the party referred
to in the Dreyfus trial as the 'veileo
lady She received from Prince Pless 9
regular pension. Every six months re
mittances are mad anonymously II
Baroness Delden through the Credi'
Lyonna of Paris. 1t is we'll known a.
! German headquarters of the staff thai
amounts are forwarded by Prince Henry
Pless. The Credit Lyonna is innocent OF
the purpose for which the money is used
| mention thisf fact because the clerks OF
the bank will corroborate my statements
am also in position to name the post
office in England where the money was
paid to the agents of Germany employed
in Paris.
Mr.. Franz used to send dolls to Paris
to be dressed. In the body of these dolls
important documents We're concealed anC
they We're sent first to a village postofiice
i'm England and forwarded from there +
~Sonnenberg and then to Berlin