New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-08-19

"After my interview with Generai oohSe
aid not work any longer on my own ihl.'a''Ve
7 saId nothing more until the return OF uene'"'
Gonse on September 10. AT that time HS'e
hazv was. at the great man9uvres.
Nsxt the witness dwelt on the runors IN sep
,or,hor 1896. OF the project Of replacing Dreyius
nv n man Of straw. and the discovery OIL Tue
,oroed Weyler letter, supposed to be connecteo
,,,h ,.e same project At about the same tii'ie
.,o 90 r,paien for and against Dreyfus was START
ed by the newspapers. M,
A, ,his stage Of his deposition, Coione' ~
ouart who had been speaking FOR TWO anu
hal, hours was visibly distressed lie hao DC
casional attacks Of coughing, put Ha""eeu "
continue Colonel Jouaust not showing any -
,,otion m suspend the session OF the court III
order to give him needed rest
mi, Witness then turned to the newspaper
.,,ocLs IN Dreyfus saying that the Information
regarding the bordereau contained In them con-
vinced him that they had been inspired by some
one closely connected with the Dreytus aia'''
Tho, could not he added. be attributed to the
Drevfus family while they contained express
s,ons familiar to Du Patty de Clam, whom II
would be interesting to hear on the subject
The witness next said that he asked permits
cior 20 inquire into the sources OF the articles,
but was forbidden to interfere in any way what
conse on September Is, Colonel Pcquart said:
when I asked General Gonse for permission
IN continue the investigation, insisting on the
danger of allowing the Dreyfus family to pro-
coed with their investigation alone. the General
renlied that 1t was impossible, in his opinion,
and in the opinion Of General De Boisdenre ana
the Minister of War, to reopen. the affair. When
I pressed the point, in order to make General
Gonse understand that nothing could prevent It's
reopening II Il could be believed that Dreyfus
was innocent General Gonse replied: III you
say nothing nobody will know
GoNsE REBUKED BY PICQUART.
General replied firmly, what you tell me
"a aboninable do not know what shall do
But won't carry this secret with me. Ihis
assertion caused a great stir in the courtroom
"I at once left the ROOM" added the witness.
"That IL what occurred. know my account Is
disputed but / positively swear it." He en-
nhatically smote the bar in front OF the witness
box and looked in the direction Of the Generals.
Tho Colonel next described his intentions with
regard 70 Esterhazy. which Generals Gonse ana
De BoIsdeffre had forbidden him to carry out
He attached particular Importance TO this point
as II contained clew to subsequent occur
rences Later the witness said that whiie Du
Patty de Clam evidently acted wrongly IN DIS
Ruising himself with n false beard and piue
srectacles. perhaps he was authorized TO 90 So
After a few minutes suspension OF the session
Colonel Picquart resumed his deposition snow
ing how through an article In the "EclaT OF
September 10 he satisfied that Esterha@y
had been warned Of the suspicious against HIM
In order to make the proof complete the VIII
| ross continued his Investigations with the ut
| most discretion. In his opinion the only event
| =, Importance IN the Dreyfus affair since the
discovery OF the bordereau was the Henry lot
| gerry perpetrated on October 81. 1895 1t must
have been handed Immediately to General
Gonse.
| lust before Henry perpetrated the Forgery an
agent named Guenee. Henry's right hand man.
,.onarod renort declaring that M. Castelin.
Republican Revisonist, Deputy for the Laon
| r,y,s,on Of Aisne was about to play the hand OF
| tho Drevfus family by unmasking In the Cham
| her ~ IDENTITIES. the prisoners accomplices, thus
| having the affair reopened.
| PERSECUTION OF THE WITNESS.
Colonel Plcquart incidentally complained pn-
terly while he was still Chief OF the in'eiiisehoe
Department, that Henry's tool Guenee shouiu NC
allowed to make reports against uhe "i'"e'''
who had then established connection between
| tho ronorts OF Guenee and the false deposition
| NJ Henry who had testified that he had seen
the witness seated in Maftre Leblos's ONCE with
| the document containing the words Cette ca
| naille de D." before them.
| Each new scheme, said Colonel Picquart' was
| a complete development of the one preceoihs'
| The next feature of Colonel Pcquart's deposi-
ton was his recital Of the intrigues against MN
| and the pressure exercised by Henry, with the
| IN wit blame
municating information to the newspapers
rbor turning TO the distant mission upon which
no was dispatched Picquart described the irri-
| .o.,or no feIt when he saw that he was being
| removed because he was no longer wanted as
| boad of the Intelligence Department. He ex-
| nloinod that II this disgrace had been frankly
| oyoved IL would have been much less painful
| to him. The Colonel also said that during MS
absence his correspondence was tampered WIN
Dealing with his mission 10 Tunis, whlch
| Colonel Picquart said ought to have been IN
trusted to a Commissary Of Police. the witness
declared that 1t was then that Henry, abandon
| ing his underhand intrigues. began a campaign
| of omen persecution. Henry wrote TO the witness
| accusing him of communicating Information 10
| tho nress with disclosing the contents OF secret
documents. and with attempting to suborn or
ncers in connection with the petit bleu II was
! then that Picquart learned or the existence Oh
the forged secret documents directed against
himself and foresaw his own ruin II the Drey-
fus affair was reopened and, to safeguard him.
self. he intrusted to a lawyer friend a certain
letter from General Gonse, at the same time
ecouainting the lawyer with what he knew OF
Esterhazy, and nstructing the lawyer now ne
should intervene. IF the occasion demanded IT,
THIS lawyer. NJ. Leblois, communicated with M
| hon n =
| dents of the Senate, and the representations OF
| the latter to Premier Mene's government fol-
lowed.
P1couARTs EXILE TO TUNIs.
When Picquart's furough was due General