Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-04-10
RODEZ AND BOREL
Receive Sentences for Publish
ing Oreyus Dispositions.
The Figaro Continues Publications,
Saturday, Of Testimony.
Hartman Says He Knew hydraulic Brake and
Other Secrets.

Paris, april 9.-The revelations made
by Figaro in publishing the testimony
| furnished TO the court Of cessation in
the Dreyfus case, came before the cor
| regional court, Saturday, when the
two managers of the paper, NM. Rodez
| and Borel, were sentenced in default,
to f.5OO fine and costs for publishing
the testimony in the case.
The Figaro continued its publication,
Saturday, of the evidence given before
| the court Of cessation in the Dreyfus
case, and gave the deposition of Mai.
/ Hartmann of the 22d Artillery. who
| was called as a witness for the de-
1 fence.
| He deposed that that he knew about
the hydraulic break since 1881. gave
! tull details of its manufacture and cit
| ed the case of NJ. Boutonnet, an en-
pioyee Of the archives department. who
was sentenced in 1890 for giving q
foreign detachment secret documents.
| including details Of the brake, which
were not modified from 1890 to 1894.
| The major also handed the court the
\ text Of a lecture at the military schoo!
| Of st. Cyr, in 1892. describing the brake,
and said he did not believe. the docu-
ments in the Bordereau came from an
! officer attached to the war office, as the
| brake had not been tested at the ar
tillery school in 1894. He had been con-
nected eight years with the technical
section, and never knew Dreyfus to ask
to see documents. A foreign artillery
officer could easily obtain any informa-
ton about the cannon of 12O calibre
| The major then gave details of the
Robin shell, which, he explained, has
no resemblance to the German shrap-
mel shell found. There was no secret
process in its manufacture He said
the libraries of the military clubs of
Paris and Versailles had copies of the
lectures delivered before the military
schools, but. so far as he. knew, none
of them We're missing.
The Echo de Paris says it learns the
court of cessation is about TO. order a
supplemental investigation of the
points raised by the evidence of Gen.
| Roget and Examining Magistrate Ber-
tulus. who will be confronted. Lieut..
! Col. Picquart will also be examined,
according to the statement made.
The premier NJ. Charles Alexandra
Dupuy, in the course of an important
speech to his constituents, today, at
&c ny sdiu tlldt liie SITUATION DOM at
home and abroad was eminently Salts
factory. He referred apDrovingly to
the recent agreements with Italy and
Great Britain and said that France
was now free for industrial and COM
mercial development and large field
of colonizing.''
Reverting to home affairs he said:
The agitations are only on the sur
face. Beneath are calm industry and
security. The end of the Dreyfus af-
fair appears to be in sight and the
complication will be unravelled by the
court of cessation, whose Judgment
will be acknowledged by all.
THE government, however. attaches
Importance to reiterating it's determi-
nation to repress all polemics which
shall call the national army in uues-
ton. As soon as the court of cassa-
ton has given judgment the govern
ment will take the necessary meas
ures to determine responsibilities and
VIII act accordingly, if that should be
necessary but these acts and the
punishment of individual faults will
not affect the army, which is our hope
for the future and the indispensable
guarantee of the constitution and the
law