Little Falls weekly transcript., 1899-08-22
PlCQUART'S EVIDENCE.
Hastsrful Presentation of tho Dreyfus
Side Of tho Case.

Side Of tho Case.
Colonel Picquart first took up the
''cette canaille de D." document and
called the attention of the court to the
fact that it was addressed by Schwartz
koppen to Panizzardi, and not vice
versa, as long believed. After giving
his reason for believing Dreyfus was
not the person referred to in that docu-
ment Picquart showed how Du Patty de
Clam endeavored to ascribe the author
ship of the document to Panizzardi,
with the view of establishing connec-
tion which, in reality did not exist, be-
tween the various documents in the in
dictment against Dreyfus.
But" added Picquart, "since am
dealing with this question Of the COM
mentaries of Major Du Patty de Clam,
permit me to point out to you, gentle"
men, that this document was not the
property of any particular minister. It
was classified as belonging to the intel.
igence department, and as you see, it
formed part of we'll defined dossier
"a dossier which was shut up in one Of
the drawers of my desk, and which was
abstracted from it. This commentary,
therefore, is upon secret dossier doc
ument which was improperly removed
from my department" [Sensation.]
Continuing, the witness said: "Men-
ton was made Thursday of the disap-
pearance of documents. That is the
case in point"
Described . Number ol Forgeriss.
Turning to the second portion of the
dossier Picquart described a number Of
documents in it as forgeries and said
the police reports therein contained
showed nothing serious against Drey-
fus. He explained that they en-
bodied the theme mostly utilized by
police spies in order to dupe the intelli-
gence department, and asserted that
the spies information was mostly worth
less, embroidered or false OF prepared
in order to make interesting reading.
In the inquiry made by M. Quesnay
de Beaurepaire Qormer president of the
civil section of the court Of cassation),
continued Picquart, ''you have an OK.
,cellent example of the sort Of people
who can present in the most specious
guise what amounts absolutely to moth
ing.
"You cannot imagine, gentlemen,
what people, in order to get money, if
only modest 20-franc piece, have
brought to the intelligence department
in the shape of so-called information
which examination has proved to be
worthless"
Concluding his examination of the
secret dossier, Colonel ePicquart ex'
planned how he had acquired the con.
viction that the bordereau was written
by Esterhazy and how he ascertained
that the anti.Dreyfus proofs were
worthless. He began by detailing how
he first learned of the existence ot lis.
terhazy and his efforts to discover some.
thing about him.
Didn't Want It Investig ated.
Describing his interview with Gen.
eral Gonse, Sept. Is. after having con
fided to Gonse his suspicion of Ester.
hazy, Pacquart said:
''When I asked General Gonse fol
permission to continue the investiga.
ton, insisting on the danger of allow
ing the Dreyfus family to proceed with
their investigation alone, the general
replied that it was impossible, in hif
opinion, and in the opinion of General
Boisdeffre and the minister of war, tt
reopen the affair. When l pressed the
point, in order to make General Gonse
understand that nothing could prevent
its reopening if it could be believed
Dreyfus was innocent, General Gonsf
replied:
If you say nothing, nobody will
know
"General,'1 replied, what you tel
me is abominable. 1 do not know what
shall DO, but won't carry this secret
With me-" Great sensation.J
;At the conclusion OF Colonel Pic