The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-09-07

of the dlctation scene He said he no.
ticed Dreyfus showed great perturbation
after having been questioned by Du Patty
de Clam
The witness added that on a side table
| was a revolver, and Dreyfus. noticing the
weapon exclaimed:
f.. will not take my life. l will live
and prove my innocence. =
After Lieutenant Bernheim had been
recalled and explained to the court the
uses Of the Graduation Bar, which Gen
eral Mercier produced for the Courts
benefit, letter was read from Captain
TIumbert. Of the Engineers, who, like the
witness Gallopin, met Dreyfus carrying
documents from the Geographical De-
| partment
Humbert also referred to the desire of
Dreyfus to enter the Statistical Section
In reply to the usual questions Drey-
fus said that Captain Humbert's recol-
Elections were not exact adding
I'm regard to the papers mentioned per-
haps il is advisable to have the Commits
| ariat Tables of Plan 13 produced when
you will see that they are of no great I'M
portance. 1t is certain I was acquainted
with five or six tables, the printing of
! which / was instructed to superintend." :"
Colonel Jouaust.-"Did you apply to
fColonel Sandherr with theAview to enter
| ing the Statistical Section.
Dreyfus:-No, no.
Colonel Jouaust:-Did you not express
such desire to your comrades?
| Dreyfus:-No.
General Mercier here reappeared on the
scene. After saying that the evidence of
| influenced the judges, he referred to the
attacks on himself made by the Revision
ist newspapers. saying that in conse-
quence of Freystaetters assertions he had
been described as a forger, and it was
great satisfaction to him now to be able
| to reply to Captain Freystaetter by ad-
ducing in addition to the testimony of
Colonel Maurel, an addition of his own
| testimony, which was SO frmed by Col
onel Du Patty de CLAIMS deposition.
Continuing, the General said that infor-
nation which he had happily been en-
abled to obtain would completely enlight-
| en- the judges. He maintained that ip
/ 1894 he gave orders that the various trans
lations of the Panizzardi telegram re-
ceived from the Foreign Office should not
! be taken into account, and he declared
that the testimony of GeneraIde Boisdeffre
and NJ Gribelin ON this point incorrect.
The sealed envelope handed to the court
martial of 1894, the General also said, was
made up in his presence and did not con-
tain the Panizzardi telegram. 1t was
sealed by Colonel Sandherr and< Colonel
Du Patty de Clam was entrusted with con-
veying it to the court-martial- He, the
witness, had questioned the officers who
acted as judges in the court-martial OF
| 1894, in regard to the presentation to the
court of q secret envelope. All. with a
single exception, had assured him that
they did not remember reading the Paniz-
zardi telegram, although they could not
declare under oath that 1t was not among
the documents.
| These officers apologized for the vague
ness of their recoliections after the lapse
of FIVE years. Mercier asserted that
| these statements themselves constituted
proof but he thought it necessary to point
out contradictions in the evidence Of
Captain Freystaetter. He read an old
letter from Freystaetter to friend in
which the Captain expressed his beilef
| in the guilt of Dreyfus. The General
quoted a number of statements to the
same effect, alleged TO have been made
/ by Freystaetter.
| General Mercier, continuing. he said he
reproached Captain Freystaetter for en-
| gaging in newspaper discussions, which
! perhaps resulted in his ideas that others
were being substituted for his personal
/ recollection, which indicated certain
! theory of lunacy, Mercier mentioned that
/ Freystaetter, while in Madagascar, was
once guilty of disobeying his commander,
and, on another occasion, the Captain ex-
| ecuted 20 natives without trial.
The allegations of General Mercier
caused SO much excitement in court that
/ Colonel Jouaust requested the General
not to enlarge on the suDJect.
/ In conclusion Mercier invited the judges
to Pay no attention to Captain Freystaet-
ter statements but to accord to the evil
dence which he, himself, had the honor
! to give all the confidence and moral au-
| thority they would have reposed in it if
| the Freystaetter incident had never hap
| pened
/ Maitre Demange said he agreed with
General Mercier that the Freystaetter in
cident could be dropped without injuring
Thank God,d said the lawyer II am
| here in Court of Justice, where the ques-
ton of Justice is being discussed before
/ honorable men and loyal soldiers. Then
| let this incident be forgotten
/ The reports of experts were next read
showing that the tracing paper on which
| the bordereau was written was similar to
paper used by Esterhazy, and official rec
ords were produced showing Dreyfus was
! wrong in regard to the number of pro-
bationers in 1894.
The prisoner admitted his recollections
were perhaps not precise.
M. Labor said he regretted Cernuschi
| was not present, as counsel desired to
| question him, and, in any case, he, M
Labor. wanted to add to the dossier GER
| tain letters showing Cernuschi had suf-
fered from insanity and was destitute of
moral sense. The defense had discov-
cred that applications had been made for
lCernuschis extradition and ha was pro-
M fo ha
unreliable Counsel also said that, al
though representing himself to be a poll
tical refugee If Cernuschi had not left
| Austria he would have been placed in an
asylum for the insane.
| M. Labori then asked that Letter re-
ceiyed from the witness Genier should be
read
The Government Commssary admitted
receiving it, but said the letter was of no
| Importance.
Counsel thought otherwise and read a
copy of the letter which Grenied had sent
him simultaneously with Major Carriere.
The letter referred to an pistl from Es-
terhazy showing the later's great inter-