The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-09-07
WORLD WAITSHISWORD
Humbert Will Follow Germanys Lead
Schwartzkoppen and Panazzardi Will
Probably Send Written Dispositions
Labor Flares Up-Jouaust Rudely
Orders Him to Sit Down.

Rennes, Sept. 6.-The salvation of
Capt. Dreyfus hangs on a word from
Emperor William. This is the gene4al
opinion here today. If the kaiser con-
sents to allow Col. Schwartzkoppen, the
German military attache in Paris in
1894 to testify before the court martial,
or to send a deposition, or, what is
considered still more probable, to allow
his deposition to be accompanied by
the actual documents mentioned in the
dossier, then Dreyfus is saved.
If the emperor, however, decides that
it is not to the interest of Germany to
allow Schwartzkoppen to appear, then
Dreyfus' case is hopeless and his con-
demnation certain.
Tonight the eyes of France are look
ing across the frontier to Stuttgart,
where the kaiser is staying, and anx-
iously awaiting his decision. He is in
the position of the spectators of glad
iatorial combat in the Coliseum in an
cient Rome, with Dreyfus lying at the
feet of his antagonist and watching
whether the emperor points his thumb
up or down. At a late hour this even
iiiS lie ndu BlNeH no sigh eIlHGE way,
and Frenchmen are awaiting with
breathless interest the first indication
of his will
To all intents and purposes Emperor
William stands today the arbiter of
the internal peace of France, for every
one anticipates that King Humhert
will follow his Lead. This is the ex-
PLANTATION of the delay.
The emperor has gone to Wurtem-
Humbert is at Turin, and while they
will agree upon the Identical measure
in replying to M Labori's appeal, it is
possible that several days will elapse
before the decision is known. The gem
eral opinion held here is that Emperor
William and King Humbert will allow
Coils. Schwartzkoppen and Panizzapdi
to be examined by rogatory commits
sion, and their depositions to be sent to
Rennes with supplementary evidence
from the originals of Esterhazy's
reasonable Communications. The anti
Dreyfusards are extremely eXasperatSd
at what they characterize as Maitre
Labori's trick"
He had long been seeking an excuse
to invoke the intervention of the Ger
man and Italian sovereigns, and seized
the appearance Of Cernuschi as his OPP
portunity, declaring that the admission
fled his application regarding Schwartz
koppen and Panizzardi Maitre Labor
insisted that the appearance of Ger
nuschi on the witness stand was quite
without precedent, but the anti-Drey-
fusards point out, and with certain
amount of reason, that the counsel for
the defence was really the first to, in
troduce foreign evidence, as they sum
moned the English journalist, Rowland
Strong, on the question of Esterhazy's
confession to having written the bor-
dereau.
Anyway, it can be safely asserted that
the admission of Cernuschi as a wit
ness for the prosecution came as ver:-
table godsend to the defence, giving
them almost at the last moment more
or less legitimate basis for Maitre La
boris application to summon the Ger
man and Italian attaches.
The nti-Dreyfusards assert that the
members on the court-maEtial will ig-
more the afsdavits of Sehwartzkoppen
and Panizzardi, because they recognize
that the testimony of these officers will
be given by order, with view to save
their own spies, but in less prejudiced
circles it is believed that the court can
not disregard the solemn declarations
of the two attaches without giving rise
to a still gEaver situation in an inter-
national sense than now prevails
Today's public proceedings were
marked by several episodes. The first
was Gen. Zurlinden's admission of<the
erasure and substitution of Esterhazy's
pame in the petit bleu could not have
been perpetrated by Col. Picquart, and
It must be attributed to some one in
side the general staff
The second was the declaration by
M. Paleologue that the secret dossier
contaiped document which showed
that Col. Schwartzkoppen admitted his
relations with Esterhazy, and that
Schwartzkoppen, in the opinion of Pale
ologue, sent to Esterhazy the Identical
petit bleu, on which he was detained 10
months on a charge of forgery.
The other was Gen. Billors inslstence
that Esterhazy and Dreyfus were ac-
completes, which led to an impaxsioned
protestsby the accused, and to thrilling
scene between Maitre Labori and Col
Jouaust, resulting in the advocates ex-
cited denunciation of Col. Jouausts
treatment of him. a declaration tanta-
mount to an accusation of open par
TALLY.
Gen ZMrlnden's admission that Col.
Picquart could not have perpetrated the
erasure in the petit bleu was a startling
incident Because although he de-
slared that the matter formed only a
small point in the prosecution of Pic
quart, and that, so far as he was con-
cerned, the proceedings were only in
stituted so las not to allow French
officer to lie beneath the blow of the
charges brought against him by Major
Lauth, yet the fact that Col. Picquarr
languished 10 months in prison, under
these unproven accusations, cannot be