Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1899-09-02
ANOTHER DOSSIER.
Reference to One Brings a Demand
That 1t Be Read Though the
Court Objects.
BORDEREAU DATE CHANGED
A Discovery to That Effect Made One SOL
dier Decide That Dreyfus Was limo
cent Generals Who We're Very
Much Excited.

Rennes, September 2.-There were
many generals present this morning al
the Dreyfus trial. Interest centered il
the testimony of Major Hartmann, Of
the artillery, who has done great serv.
ice for the defense He resumed his
deposition regarding artillery matters
bringing out points in the phraseology
of the bordereau indicating the writer
could not be Dreyfus. The witness
wished to enter into the question of the
robin shell, but on General Deloye OBJ
jecting to the statement in open court
the president of the court decided to
hear this testimony in private.
In response to questions from Labori
and Demange for the defense, Hart
mann said any officer attending the
Chalons camp could have obtained suffi-
cient information to write notes on
troops and Madagascar matters.
Labori then recalled General Mer-
ciers attack on Captain Freystaetter,
on the latter's declaration that the Sc
cret dossier as communicated to the
court in 1894, contained a document
concerning a shell, for which Mercier
called the captain liar. Hartmann af-
firmed it was quite possible that par
ticulars about certain shell should
have leaked out in 1894.
General Deloye insisted that Dreyfus,
in conversations with artillery officers,
could have secured information on the
subjects mentioned in the bordereau, to
which the major retorted that if any
artillery official had been questioned by
Dreyfus he would already have come
forward to say so as matter of strict
duty.
General Deloye, questioned by Labori
and Demange, said the inventor of the
robin shell told him Dreyfus never
asked him for particulars about his
shell, except on a minor point. The
general added he came as a technical
witness to show that Dreyfus could be
guilty, adding it was not his business to
say whether he believed him innocent
or guilty.
Labori asked Deloye if he knew
whether documents which could have
been betrayed by a traitor, especially by
the writer Of the bordereau, We're i'm
portant, whereupon the general turned
to the counsel and excitedly cried:
Don't ask mel"
This exclamation created sensation,
x1ybi ioh xr,ba nd I'D
that there was sufficient in the border
eau to establish that the traitor knew
the Importance of the documents he
was giving up. The witness added:
when I read the bordereau I was dis
mayed"
Hartmann, in reply to Deloye, reiter-
ated that the author of the bordereau
was ignorant of artillery matters, for
eff he meant 12O hydraulic brake he
gave particulars of what was long
known, while if he meant 120 short he
employed the wrong expression"
Mercier here mounted the stage and
that the writer Of the border
eau might very well employ the term
hydraulic brake" because that was
the term used by the Germans for such
brakes.
M. Havet, member of the institute,
took up the bordereau from grammat-
ical point Of view, declaring the con-
viction, after studying closely the
styles of Dreyfus and Esterhazy, that
the latter wrote it.
The letters exchanged between Col.
Picquart and Gen. Gonse at the time
the colonel wanted thorough investi-
cation of the case were read.
Labori then pointed out to Gonse that
these letters never alluded to the al
legged confession of Dreyfus.
Gonse replied it was because he al
ways advised Picquart not to mix up
in the Esterhazy and Dreyfus cases.
Dreyfus here added he had been con-
demned, and his case could not be re-
opened, but they were bound to see if
there was not another traitor.
The general made bitter complaint
that his letters had been communicated
to M. Scheurer- Kestner former vice
president of the senate, who published
them in book entitled "Pontius Pi-
late" Bf
Picquart said he gave Gonses letters
to his lawyer when ne realized that he
was the object of abominable intrigues
and when he received in Tunis a letter
with threats from the late Colonel Hen