Northern Weekly Gazette. — 1899-06-10 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

MAJOR ESTERHAZT.  "identified" the writing of the Bordereau with the writing of Dreyfus. pronounced the specimen of Eaterhazy's writing which Colonel Picquart allowed him to be the writing of the Bordereau. Piequart himself was convinced that Etterhazy was the writer of the document which had ruined Dreyfus. He appealed to Generale Gone and de Hoisdeffre. "Tt is my duty to assure you," he said, "that it is necessary to act at once." Unfortunately, the generals did not adopt Pieguart's advice,. Then began a new  was appointed juge d' instruction, and found there was " no case," hut Esterhazy. with a boldness which was in itself suspicious, demanded that • court-martial should be held on him, end held it was. The offences charged against him were that he had written the Bordereatt and waa in treasonable correspondence with Schwarzkopoen. lie admitted that the handwriting of the Bor. derau was his own, but thq it was a tracing made by Dreyfus upon his writing, and then put together. As to the petit bleu, that was a forgery by Picquart. The court-martial, which was a! court even more remarkable than that which had condemned Dreyfus, accepted Esterhazy's story land acquitted him. Picquart was a witness, but when he entered the box the court immediately made itself a secret court After Esterhazy's acquittal Picquart was arrested and imprisoned, and then tried before a military court of enquiry, charged with showing and indulging documents, and giving to his lawyer Leblois his correspondence with General Gonse. The last charge only was found proved, and Picquart went back to prison, and was afterwards dismissed the army. And now arose another champion for Dreyfus, Emile Zola. the novelist. He sent to the in January, 1898, a copy of a letter he wrote to President Faure, in which, after reviewing the whole case, he brought forth a series of aeciwationa against Colonel du Poly de Clam, Generals Mercier Billot, de Itoisdeffre, Goose, and de Pelheux; against the three experts BelIhomme, Varinard, and Couard; against the War Office, end against the Court-martial. "I itemise the first court-martial," he wrote, "of having violated the law in condemning an accured person on it document kept secret, and I amuse the second court-martial of having, in obedience to orders. covered this illegality by committing in its turn that which is a crime—knowingly acquitting a guilty person." Zola was tried in February, 1898. The jury wanted absolute proof of Dreyfus's guilt before they would convict Zola. Into the court, therefore, came Generals de Pellieux and de Boisdeffre. and quoted the note from Panizzordie and Schwarzkoppen mentioned above. De 13nisdefire confirmed de Pellieux, and exclaimed to the jury, "'You are the jury; von are  him and his predecessors on rotten foundations crumbled down. On the 10th of August it became suddenly known that Colonel Henry (then the head of the Intelligence Department) confessed to having forged the principal of the three documents quoted by Minister of War Cavaignac as absolute proofs of Dreyfus's guilt—the very document Picquart had offered to prove was a forgery. Then came the news that Henry was a prisoner in the fortress of Mount Valerien, and finally that he had committed suicide with a razor. As a result of these events Cavaignao retired, and Zurlinden, the Governor of Paris, was appointed War Minister. After a week's study of the Dreyfus papers he resigned, and General Chanoine took his place. Revision of the trial was now in the air, the Cabinet promoting it. Chanoine went to the Chamber and announced that as representing the ainay he could be no party to revision. Brisson was defeated and resigned, and the present Cabinet came into power: Dupuy as Premier, Freyeinet War Minister, Lehrer Minister of dueties. Before the fall of the Brisson Cabinet, however, the then Minister of Justice, Berrien, had appointed a Commission to enquire whether there was any new fact justifying application for revision. The Commission was divided in opinion. whereupon Sarrien, through the Proeureur carried the matter to the Court of Appeal. Last week the judges of the three Chambers of the Court of Appeal met at the Palais de Justice to hear the report of M. Ballot-Beaupre. President of the Civil Chamber of the Court of Appeal (the successor Beaurepaire), on the appli; cation in favour of revision of the Dreyfus case, for which the world has been waiting for eight ;months. The report was a long and exhaustive cue, aid it dealt with the question of the Eordsreau as the ore question at issue. Is the Bordereau in the handwriting of Dreyfus? " Gentlemen," said M. Ballot-Beaupre, "after a profound study of the question I, for my part, have oAlto to the conviction that the Borderegin was written not by Dreyfus but by Esterhazy." And the new fact unknown to the judges of 1894  Therefore, the knighthood conferred upon tie world-renowned explorer, who is an honoran freeman of the northern metropolis, and who k I married to a well-known North-country lady artist. nee Miss Dorothy Tennant, daughter ot Sir Charles, Tennant, the great chemical manufacturer, has created a feeling of sincere satisfsiction in the North. where the deeds of the eaplorer were always discussed with intense keels. nees, and his name reverenced with remark. able tenderness and regard. H's varied career has fascinated the people of England, and nowhere has his adventurous life been so closely followed as by the inhabitants of our great torthem industrial towns. Sir H. M. Stanley helped to found the Congo Free State on behalf .1 the King of the Belgians, who devoted from his private purse the magnificent sum of £50.000 per annum towards the enterprise. The Brusse!s African International Association. with which Sir Hugh Gilzean-Reid, LL.D., is so closely associated, hive done much to encourage the development of the great basin of the river Congo. but Sir H. M.. Stanley did even more. whilst acting as Governor of the Congo Free State which he diecovered. From 1866 to 1678 Sir Henry was a ,journalist, and in addition to commanding the Livingstone seareh and the I Anglo-American expeditions he was chief agent of the International Atrobiation in Africa Stea-1 ley. who circumnavigated the Central I African Likes. really r'ade the present development of Africa Towline, and well deserves the honour Her .Majeety has awarded him. Sir Henry is a Welshman, hie I real name being Rowlands, hut he az,vmod tLe name of his adopted father when he went to New York. He has carved out him own career, and it is a most illustrious one, creditable to Wales, creditable to journalism, and creditable to the best traditions of British exploration. No 11111.13 , who has heen of late years singled out for new I dignities has better deserved it than Sir Henry, and his warm eulogy of Major Marchand./ crossing ef Abyssinia, a country of which Sir Henry , gained experience as a war correspondent, is a j clear indication of his unbiassed judgment and I freedom from all prejudice and jealousy.