The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-08-17
Ey Having to Listen to Witnesses
Who Declaim Against him
Rather Than Testify.
WIDOW OF COLONEL HENRY
who Committed Suicide, Delivers
Herself of Lot of Fustian
and a Few FalsehOods.
THE UNANIMOUSLY WICKED
DemeanOr of General Roget Tow.
ards Dreyfus..More of Prose
cutor Than Witness.

ards Dreyfus''MOre OF Prose-
cutor Than Witness.
Copyright, 1899, by The Associated Prsss.)
RENNEs. August 16.-The Bretons
ore frst cousins Of the Irish, though
without Irish wit and gnIety. But they
have a greater taste for personal
adornment and picturesque costumes.
They are very like the Irish In their
sympathy with outlaws especially in the
outlawry due to serving cause by un-
lawful means, dear to the common peo-
ple. We see this In the vain attempts
Of the police to seize the man who shot
H. LaborE in the back The whole
country has been vainly secured for
him, but as oil the country folk refuse
to give Information or only speak to
mIsead, the police will probably go on
searching fruitlessly.
The Catholic feeling Of the whole dis
trIct has been aroused against Dreyfus
and runs higher than ever since the
archbishop issued pastoral, announc-
ine that no open air procession in hon
or OF the Virgin must take place on the
festival Of the assumption.
Improper Deductions.
He has ordered the clergy, in the fn-
terest of peace, to confne the process
sion to the cathedral and other
churches. The general conclusion de-
duced from the episcopal pastoral has
been that the Dreyfusards who are
either Jews free thinkers or blasphem-
ers, intended to insult religion and
breed disturbances. AS a consequence
a sullen feeling Is shown. Ms
As a matter Of fact nobody more
deeply regrets the Introduction OF the
assumption procession in the former
capital Of Brltauny than the friends OF
Dreyfus, particularly his friends in the
press. The latter had hoped to find the
procession rich in local color and an IN
teresting subject for dispatches,
Yesterdays Witnesses.
To.day's witnesses were Senator
Guerln, who was colonial minister at
the time Dreyfus was sent to Cayenne;
Madame Henry, widow Of the suicide,
md NJ. Lebon, who was colonial minis
ter for more than two years, and who
ordered the pallsade or high fence, to
be placed around the hut on the Isle OF
Devils.
GuerIn Is a provincial attorney in
Carpentras, where they know nothing
Of the Drevfus cnse, except what they
have learned from the papers.
/ happen to know that he was ac-
Quainted with the prisoners late fnth-
er, who was naturRliZed q Frenchmln
in 1874 at Carpentras, where two OF his
three daughters have since married.
This, possibly, accounts for the tone OF
kind feeling In n. Guerin's deposition.
Madame Henry, dressed IN deeD
mourning came from the convent, where
she is staying. She says her age ls
twenty-six. She Is commonplace ana
vulgar, and shows In her hgure anu
complexion that she shared the good
cheer OF which the late Lieutenant Col
onel Henry was so fond. There was
very little in her evidence.
Two Lies.
noticed two lies. One was that she
saw Henry one night at the dining
room table pastIng the bordereau on a
sheet Of gummed paper and that 1t
was torn in small fragments. Now the
photograph was shown Of 1.-THE pho-
togrnph which was done for the intel
jIgence dcpartment-shOws It was slm-
ply torn half way across and was not In
fragments. The other lie was that EE-
terhazy was not known to Henry before
the Picduart duel, but she nfteTward
admitted that Henry knew Esterhazy
many years previously in Tunis. She
was scarcely audible, but II hardly
fnattered. as she delivered herself OF n
lot OF fuAtiRn about Henry's patriotism
and devotion to the army.
General Roget, like nll the other gen"
erals who preceded him, came as n Wit
ness. but he noted as a public prosecu-
tor He and they reminded me OF q
DEVILS advocate. but devils advocate
in good earnest. Roget was dend set
against the unfortunate DreyfuB. VINO
must have been tortured while the gen.
cral went on with statements, deduc-
tions, inuendos and suggestions lhat
were nll Jam to all the officers present
InfRmously Wicked.
II Roget was not speaking in good
faith, his statement was lnfnmously
wicked, but he made point. Major
Hartmann, who testified before the
court Of cessation about the gun mem
toned in the bordereau said It had
been tested In 1880 and that every one
knew all about Il In 1924. This Roget
denied and the president Of the Court
martial who Is an artillery oihcer'
seemed to endorse him. According to
Roget. the gun had been tested In is94
only and spoken Of In only one Journal,
the Yacht, the editor Of which, Capt.
Weyl, was then an intimate friend Of
EsterhnZy. who was this WeyiT"
enId Roget. He was the uncle by
mnrrInge OF AIatthieu Dreyfua." The
HccuBed quivercd with rnge, like one
half lmpaled. and starting up he pro-
tested at having To cit Btlll for two
hours while tortured by n witness who
tore his very heart out
Colonel JOuRusts manner had re-
iuxed on the two previous days, but
when the circumstance Of Weyl making
the revelation about the gun was mem
toned. II hardened into tho utmost
severity.
wcyI Sent to Coventry.
What is very strange is that weyl's
relations With General du Pellieux and
I3s,erhazy were never probcd, although
they we're much taken up. Wcyl was
Bent to coventry by the Nationallsts for
having written articles favorable TO
England in tho journal des DebntB. He
was nt the same time excluded from the
Dfnpa ~ Nha Vy,tntulRv nf marine. To