| Show DRHfS CASE DRAGSSLOWLY I Weak Points InProsecutons Testimony Laid Bare + FAVORABLE TO THE CAPTAIN I The Evidence of General Gone Held Up to Ridicule I Attempt By the Officers of the General Gen-eral Staff to Sully Dryfus Reputation Repu-tation Was a FalurM Jaue Socialist Leader Says That t Dreyfus Must Be Acquited For I No New Evidence I Being Brought Against Him i f I I Rennes Aug 3The session of the I ourt today was comparatively uneventful I un-eventful The depositions were not productive I ducte of any really thrlin incidents I The systematic production ot the flimsiest II flim-siest trash whIch the prosecution deems profitable to inflict on the judges and hkh tle latter accept as evidence tle a was proceeded with Much of the ridiculous ri-diculous testimony of the morning was devoted to an attempt to blast Drey ius private character though when laltres Lbori and Demange nad 1m ished with the witnesses tnelr bubble of ttetatle were badly pricked I Much of the time was occupied in I reaamg the testimony of Esterhazj and I Mile ± as before tne court of cassation cassa-tion during which many of the audience I audi-ence left tne court M Labori again distinguished himself in laying bare the i weak points of the evidence He was less fierce however than yesterday I though quIte aggressive enough to arouse the latent hostility of the judges which showed iself in various little I ways sLaborl I i Laborl Is no favorite with Major Carriere the govewment commissary and the later makes no serious etorts to conceal his feelings towards the lawyer law-yer o M Lbori bore little traces of the ef fets of the outrage upon him Ht rose sat down and moved his body and limbs apparent without much difficulty Only occasIonally he put his hands to his back as though suffering pain His wife followed his every movement through a gold and tortoise ihel loirnette Watched Labori Every Movement Mme Rejae the n frssa galn a Intercted hpedtatorin cOUrt today especial when M Labor was on his feet and his voice va vibrating rtn through the hal Her eyes watched his mobile features across which flitted ever changing expressions of Indigna indiga ton anger or satisfaction with the keen interest which spectators in a theatre the-atre follow her own atng During some Cf the depositions M Laborl ap peared very nervous He was unable to remain still an Instant twitching his fingers and shaking the papers in his hand Counse was almost too Impa tlent to wait unt1 the wItnesses concluded con-cluded their testimony The only dangerous opponent oC Dreyfus today was General Gonse who I mounted the stage with a quick step I and apparently lighthearted nut he left I badly mauled byi Lborl I General Gonse began b declaring he came to defend his honor against those I drivelng against hIm But when hIs cr53examlnaton 4as finished he I returned < his seat tiFoughy discom Jnea lor M Lanorl had driven him Into a orner on the atempt of the general stat to shield Esterhaz3 and had shown that the general stf for whic Gonse was responsible had engineered Ester hazs escape from the hands of jut tce The confident tones of the general had by then dwindled into the proverb te ial still small voice and his defiant bearing had changed into the abashed air of a school boy caught telling a lie I Th day proved certainly a poor one for the general taiT Two por sta Sam boa sm pies of the men put up to uly Dreyfus private character were the thIrd ari I fcurth witnesses ar First Major du Chatelet repeatej an repeate a alleged conversation with Dreyfu re I ding a lady at whose hOI < e Drfu I is alleged to have gambled and lost I money But when crossexamine Du Chateets memory failed hIm entirely especIally when asked the name of the lady and the street she resided in and the sm Dreyfus lost Next M Dubrelul showed equal a tonishln forgetfulness of important 1tsof hs evidence concerning Dr fus acquaintance with a foreign at tache and when M Demange capped his successful examination of capp points by promising to thow tat M Dubreiuls record in the law courts Is far from clean the witness left the sad badly discredited Says Dryus Will Be Acquitted The correspondent of the Associated Press talked this afernon with Inure I-nure the socialist leader who with Mathieu Drefus aees Maitre Lbori every day after the session and who is acquainted with the entire tactics of the defense Id Jaure sid r a convinced that Dreyfus will be acquitted He must be acquitted for no new fat has bee brought up against him The generals r believe are gin to make their stand on ECtlons system which they intend in-tend tl submit as proving Dreyfus guilty Intelligent men laugh at I but it is very ingenious and has the merit in thee the-e e of the generals of being incm prehenslbl to an ordinary man and am thus clcate to impress him if supported staffBertillons sup-ported by the puppls of the general I Bertlons theory has are been Introduced by some of the military witnesses wit-nesses who declare theIr confidence in it The trial In my belief will last i about another twenty days 3r Labrl has decided to prosecute I La Croix one of the leading clerical organ or-gan and Le Liberal Parole together wIth Id Dumont proprietor and director dI-rector of the later paper personally for declaring the recent murderous attack at-tack upon him a fake As M Labor was enterIng the court he was informed by a newspaper mn that General Roget yesterday reive documents from Major Count Ester hazy who is now in London Counsel 1 was much interested and gleaned all the information possible On the arrival ar-rival in court of General Roget It was noticed tat he carried a bulky envelope en-velope containing the dment referred fered t Outside of thIs there was no incident worth noUng at the openIng proceQ legs Te seoa began with the los tmony of minor witnesses Including < 1 Comptroler Roy and Major Dievielle The late who is employed in the German section of the second bureau of the war office deponed that Drefus Whie on the general staff could have had aeceas unperceived to documents I during certain hours of the day The prisoner plying admitted he was present during those hour but ex plalned that his presence was connected connect-ed with ills duties ffia Wifes risnd I The fourth witness Id DubrieuI describing I de-scribing himself as a private gentleman I I gentle-man proved most entertaining and I moreover gave Id Laberi the first opportunity op-portunity of making a few point in favor of Dreyfus Id Dubreul who I I was one of l Quesna de Beaurei I palrcs wItnesses told a gossipy story I I of meeting Dreyfus at the house of an acquaintance Id Bodson In lS9 when Drerfus was a lieutenant and to seeing see-ing the later ccnverslng with a man described to the witness as a German atache ThIs was the sum of his tee tmQl which was doted with flashes of imonslous humor as when l Du brieul sid he told his acquaintance that he could not frequent his house I IC the G ran visited him The ac quaintane i appeared repled excusing ex-cusing the fact by saying the Cerman cas not his but his wifes friend whIch caused a l t eral laugh In court which became louder when M Du breul later remarked that he had no prejudice against Drefus for visiting his acquaintance or rather his acquaintances ac-quaintances wife adding If every ofcer who is In love with his neIghbors neIgh-bors wife is dismissed from the any there would bc very few left M Labori took the witness In hand and beautifully ascertained that he only knew the visitor was a German attche because he was told so and he did not know whether he was a mIll tary or a civil atache H did not eVEn know his name In fact the whole story was ot the rlmset description Moreover a foreIgn military atache would he nothing to gain by cultivating vatng the acquaintance o a sImple lieutenant as Drefus was then Dreyfus when he rose to reply to this witness spoke in a quiet convincing convinc-ing vOle denying that he had any reiatlOns With a German attache milItary tan or civil 31 Labor finished with 1 Debreul by asking for the production of hIs record In the law courts whIch counsel hinted was discreditable The prisoner was very indignant durIng dur-Ing 1 DUbrieuls deposition and once tried to interpose but the president of the court Colnel ouaust wave him down telling him he might reply when 1 Dubreul finished whIch he did as the wines uttered his conclualng words requesting an inquiry because I must be made known here who is I lying and who is spe3lclng the truth Notorious Ignorance of Etrhy The statement of the prisoner caused a dedp Impression The next witness Captain Yaldant testified to seeing llLeblols in Colonel Piquars office at the beginning of 1896 Captain Lerond of the artillery who followed him spoke of the notor j ious ignorance of Esterhazy in artillery jnatters showing he could not have dl I rulged what was promised nf the bor = I dereau Captain Lrond also deposed that Picquat in October 189 connected i I Esterhnz with espionage Colonel Pictlart confronted the witness and denied the allegation I Esterhazy was caned as the next wit ness but there was no response and so the court ordered the reading of his evidence as given before the court of i cassation When Esterhazys deposition had orid lf been finished Id Labori asked that Es terhazys lettem to the presIdent of the republic be read In which Esterhaz is saId to have threatened If the scandal continued that his sovereign the Emperor Em-peror would intervene General Gonse here asked to be allowed al-lowed to respond to Esterhazys testimony mony as given before the court of cassation cas-sation and declared In a loud voice that Esterhazs statements that he was the instrument of the general staff was an absolute lie The general traversed Esterhazys evidence contradicting statement after statement and declarIng declar-Ing that Esterhazy could only have had relations with Major du Paty de Clam and the late Lieutenant Colonel Henry The general absolutely denied having had any relations with him Caithot Sac the Dssier Caot Counsel asked that the dosier on taming the documents relating to the inquiry into the relations of Esterhazy and du Paty de Clam instituted by Major Travernler on behalf of the mi iarv authorities hould be communicated I communi-cated to the court and discussed To this the government commissary Major Ma-jor Carriere replied that he had applied ap-plied to the military authorities on the subject but his request had been refused re-fused fusedajor Major Carriere added that he hoped de Clam would be able to come to court in a few days He added that a medical medi-cal consultation in this connection would take place tonight and that the decision would be anounced tomorrow Leading counsel then submitted to General Gonse a number of searching questions on Esterhazs relations with the general staff The general a anile a-nile became very excited especially when asked if there was not an intrigue in-trIgue in favor of Esterhaz and if he did not take part in it i its false its false shouted the general and from his manner one ani would imagine he spoke sincerely unless un-less he is I fine actor The general however was visibly disconcerted at several of M Laborls questions The wItness voice grew so faint that it was scarcely audible Finally counsel asked why Esterhazy was not arrested after the inquiry and General Gonse replied Because General Saussier deemed i proper to leave him at liberty I yes retorted 1 Lbori but General Gen-eral Sacssler must have been deceived by the general stat This abrupt declaration accompanied by an expressive gesture was in counsels coun-sels best style and caused a sensation amid which the general returned to his seat looking very i at ease Major Gendron who deposed yesterday yester-day was recalled after General Gonse and supported the lters statements General Debolsdetre then jumped to his feet and denIed in the most forcible forci-ble manner Esterhazys statements adding ad-ding that had he been present he would have given him the lie with aU the contempt he deserves scr The name or lle las was called but as there was no response the evidence evi-dence which she gave before the court of CDssaton was read Genez Lebeln de Dionne testified that Dretus declared the Alsatians were happier under Germany than under un-der France DreYfus the wines also saId complained com-plained of hIs position at the school of war The prisoner replied vigorously denying deny-ing that he ever spoke of the Alsa titan as alleged but admitted using hard words once on account of hIs position siton at the school of war which he declared were evoked by hearing that no Jews were wanted on the general staff |
