Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-09-08
DECISION AGAINST DREYFUS.
Court Refused to Hear Testimony Of
Foreign Military Attaches.

Court Refused to Hear Testimony OF
Foreign Military Attaches.
MAKING CLOSING SPEECHES THE
ARGUMENTS OF C UNS E L
HAVE BEGUN, AND IT Is EX-
PECTED A VERDICT WILL BE
RETURNED NEXT MONDAY
ARMY WITNESSES HAVE LEFT
RENNES.
RENNES, September AT the OPP
ening this morning of the Dreyfus
court-martial Maitre Labor, leading
counsel for the defense, announced that
he had received a semi official intima-
ton that Col Schwartzkoppen the for
mer German military attache at Paris.
and Maj. Panizzardi, the former Italian
military attache at Paris, would be I'M
able to appear personally before the
court. Counsel therefore proposed that
rogatory commission should be tele-
graphed to receive the dispositions.
Office, and Maj. Carriere did not oppose
NJ. Labori's application. Maj Carriere
pointed out, however, that the propos-
ed step would involve a deviation from
the usual procedure, in making long
adjournment necessary. Counsel for
the defense replied that the court was
entitled to adjourn for 48 hours, and in
case a longer period was required he
suggested that short session be held
tomorrow, when the court could ad-
journ until Monday.
NJ Labor then drew up formed ap-
plication that Col. Schwartzkoppen
and Maj Panizzardi be cited as wit
nesses and that seven questions be tel
egraphed to them which they were to
reply to under oath. The questions
were to be: If they had ever received
the documents mentioned in the bor-
dereau; if they had received the firing
manual; when they had received it and
from whom; whether either of them
sent Esterhazy the petit bleu, copy
of which was to be telegrphed, and fin
ally if they ever directly or indirectly,
, had any relations with Dreyfus.
The court deliberated for quarter
of an hour and on returning, the pres
ident, Col. Jouaust, read it's decision,
declaring it incompetent to grant M.
Labori's application.
Major Carriere, at 1920 a. M, began
his speech closing the case for the pros
ecution. All the generals and other
officers who were seated in the witness
chairs rose and left the court room
just before the government commissary
opened, in accordance with the orders
of the minister of war, Gen De Gallffet,
to leave Rennes within two hours after
the pleading had begun. There was an
interesting scene in the court yard Of
the Lycee, where the officers took leave
of each other. They appeared to be in
good spirits.
Maitre Demange, of counsel for the
defense, will probably occupy the whole
of tomorrow in his speech for the de-
Tense, and NJ Labor will speak on
Saturday. The verdict will be rendered
Monday, because the police authorities
are opposed to the announcement of
the verdict on Saturday, if it were pos
sible to do so, on the ground that it
would be likely to lead to trouble on
Sunday.
After NJ Labor had submitted his
application to the dispatch of a roga-
tory commission to receive the deposit
tons of Col. Schwartzkoppen and Major
Panizzardi, the chief of detectives, M.
Cochefert, deposed favorably regarding
the attitude of Dreyfus when Col. Du
Patty de Clam dictated the bordereau
to him. The witness said Dreyfus only
appeared to be troubled afterward,
when Du Patty de Clam questioned him.
NJ Cochefert referred to the revolver
found on a table near the desk at
which Dreyfus was then seated, and he
recounted how the prisoner, on perceiv-
ing it, cried; Il will not kill myself;
l will live 10 establish my innocence. =
The clerk of the court then read a
letter from Capt Humbert to the eff
feet that Dreyfus had expressed a keen
desire in 1894 to enter the statistical
section of the war office, and saying
that he met Dreyfus once carrying some
voluminous packets of maps and docu-
ments and remarked that he was acting
very imprudently.
Dreyfus then rose anod calmly ira
/ versed Capt Humbert's statements, de-
/ claring them to be inexact-
/ Gen MERCER afterward came to the
( bar and said that he felt the deposit
ton of Capt. Freystaetter was bound to
have produced considerable impression
on the minds of the judges. He spoke
, of the attacks made on him since the
! captain had testified, saying the Drey-
/ fusard press had been calling him a
! false witness. The general declared
/ that he gave an order in 1894 that
nothing should be done with the var
/ ious translations of the Panizzardi dis