The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-08-22
Makes Out a Strong Case Against the De-
tendant Dreyfus
SOME WHOLESALE CHARGES
Foreign
Out
Officials lis
fession- The Leakage of In
War Ministry Continued Dreyfus
Imprisonment.

Rennes, August 19.-Nl special in
cident occurred this morning when the
trial of Captain Dreyfus was resumed
at the Lycee.
The first witness called was Major
Cuignet, formerly attached to the min
istry of war. The major was not in
uniform, as he is not at present at
tached to any corps.
Major Cuignet prefaced his testi-
mony by stating that while on head
quarters staff he gave Dreyfus a gen.
eral scheme for the mining of railroads,
owing to the latter's persistent re-
quests for such information. Dreyfus,
the witness said, took copious notes
and when his house was searched these
notes were not discovered. He does
not know what became Of them.
After launching the above declara-
ton, which he apparently considered
to be weighty evidence Of the treachery
Of Dreyfus, Major Cuignet proceeded
to recount in detail the task which
General Gonse assigned to him in May,
1888, of classifying the documents n
the Dreyfus, Esterhazay and Picquart
cases.
The first question 1 will ask bere,''
said the witness: us Dreyfus guilty?"
My conviction of his guilt is based on
three grounds:
Il. His confessions TO Captain Le-
bruno Renault.
technical nf ha
tents Of the bordereau
"3. The results of the examination
of the secret dossier.
Il will add to these three points the
evidence of the expert Bertillon Qaugh-
teri as in direct proof and the means
employed by the Dreyfus family to Sc
cure the prisoner Decentralization. pro-
test that campaign has been UNDER
taken against justice, truth and our
country"
The majors outburst of heroics
evoked synical smiles and indications
of dissent, coupled with marks of dis
sent from the assembled generals.
The witness next spoke of the secret
dossier Of the war ministry, containing g
information relating TO the interview
between M. Trarieux, former minister
of justice, and Count Ternielli the
Italian ambassador, which country"
said Cuignet, benefited by the treach-
cry
Regarding the confessions said to
have been made 10 Captain Lebrun-
Renault, the witness said he still be-
Heved they were authentic.
Continuing, the witness .reasserted
that the bordereau was written by
Dreyfus at the end OF August, and in
cidentally, the major protested against
Colonel Picquart's insinuations against
du Patty de Clam. He then returned
to the secret dossier Of the war Office,
from which, he declared, the court was
sure to draw independent deductions.
''The first portion Of the dossier,"
he said, shows that in 1893 there was
a constant leakage in the ministry of
war. We have had proofs of the plans
of fortificationsd reaching the hands of
a foreign power"
The witness then invited the courts
special attention to the document in
which, he said, would be found ample
proof Of the prisoners guilt.
DREYFUS DENOUNCFs THE WIT
NESS.
At this stage of the proceedings
Dreyfus rose and interrupted the wit
ness shouting: THAT is a manifest
lie''
Another document of the dossier ac-
cording to Major Cuignet, showed be-
yond dispute that the bordereau actu-
ally passed through the hands OF Col
onel Schwartzkoppen. This, to the
witness, established the authenticity
Of the bordereau, an examination of
which he pointed out, proved Schwartz
koppen and Pannizzard had the clos
est relations in all matters of espion-
age.
Referring next to the dispatch of
Colonel Schneider, former Austrian
military attache at Paris, denouncing
as forgery letter purporting to have
been written by the attache, in which
he was represented as referring to ef-
forts being made by Schwartzkoppen
and Pennizzardi to conceal their rela-
tions with Dreyfus, the witness main
tanned that General Mercier's state
ments on the subject were correct and
that the authenticity of the letter had
been proved. The intelligence depart
ment, he added, had other documents
from the same attache.
Major Cuignet said he noticed the
importance Of Colonel Schneider's rep
resentatiOn had not escaped the court,
"nor those who are fighting so hard
for the rehabilitation of Dreyfus."
L heard it said,' the witness con-
tinued, "that an emphatic denial has
been addressed to us alleging that the
report is a forgery. / do not know
what truth there is in this denial. 1t
is said to be dated from Ems, and We
in Franca know that telegrams from