Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1899-08-26
Dreyfusards Ridicule the Hand
writing Experts Testimony.
HIS SYSTEM is INGENIOUS
Witness Delivered Aimsel. ;;xcltedIy, with
Much Waving of tho Arms and Vo-
cal Empllases. Proceeding of the
Courtmartial Yesterday.
(HN THlcGIanh.l

ment Of the prefecture of police u
Paris, had concluded his first install
ment of his So-callcd lrrnnnstra tion nf
the guilt Of Captain Dreyfus q promi-
n@nt Dreyfusnrd referred to him as the
lin de, steele CaSliostrO"
The DrcyfuSlrtls refuse to regard
him as anything but the prince of
Guacks. They cover his remarks With
ri&icul" and protest that the admission
OF his fantastic theories us evidence be-
tore the courtmartal is Il disgrace 10
France.
'Gcst une hontc. was the REMARK
heard on all sides when the session clos
ed and The audience. mainly made III. Of
DrcNfusards. was being pressed outside
BY tn" Scndarmcs. who clear the court
room rs soon as the court ;.diollrns.
DO NOT DECEIVE THE.MS IcLEl1;:
Nevertheless. even the Dreytus;lr,,s
90 not deceive themselves as % the ci-
iect NJ. Etrtillon's testimony ''dan-
onStration' may have upon the Judge
who. they fear. will be sullet by What
he breyfusards consider spurious All
the Judges have passed through The
Ecelc PolEtechnique, the highest school
Of science in France. an,! they are thus
peculiarly interested in such '.c.,i.lenre''
as NJ. Ecrtllons. Moreover. with the
aid Of the nnumerabia diagrams AID
specimens Of writing which he submits
to them. they may be able to follow his
reasoning inte!liscntly. which is more,
than any member of lh. audiences could
do today. If the judges ;,ccep. I;ertil-
Ions prenises-tnat Dreyfus. as an AZ
pert SPY. did not Write ordinary hand
writing. but in close imitation. cvcn
rontfiNing 70 give the letters the an
Iea.ancc Of having been traced in order
to he able to repudate then. as !, for
gerry il dctected-then the strilct,,"e
built upon this groundwork may ~
scientifically correct.
INGENIOUS SYSTEM
lens demonstrations; admitted the In
SenIlty and pllusibilitE of the system
though he naturally declared that il
was built upon a false basis
y remarkable feature OF NJ. Bertil-
Ions deposition was the heat ana ex-
citemcn; he put into what was expected
TIC b.: 4 calm dispassnnate exposition
OF his theories. He Numbered. shouted
and waves! his arms as though, be .yaS
enSaScd III some terrible dispute. Once
ne literally shrieked, and numbers Of
the usual audience. who had been In
able 10 FOLLOW him and We're taking the
air in the court yarl, rushed back into
the hail. brcathleSsly nquirins MilAy
haze happened and imagining that he
WIS Illuminating some dreadful denun-
ciation OF the accused.
PROVOKED HlLARlTY.
Their excitement was turned int, hill
merely imprcSsins upon the judges the
SiSnlilcaHcc 81 the exact space. meas
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