Show I DRYUS AN INNOCENT MAN 4 Esterhazy Confesses That He Wrote the Bordereau I DONE UPON ORDERS OF HIS SUPERIORS Declares That He Holds Proof o Their Guilt Says the Men Who Induced Him to Commit the Crime Have Aban doned Him and He Will Now Speak Out and Tell the Truth Denounces the Chiefs as a Set of Scoundrels Why He Kept So Silent t London June 3Tho Chronicle says that Major Comto Ferdinand Wnlsin Esterhazv called at Its offlro last even ing Friday with a confidential friend cnfdental and after declaring that the time had arrived when the whole truth should be told although hitherto by reason of constant orders and inducements he had kept silent on the essential point made the following statement The chiefs of the army have disgracefully dis-gracefully abandoned me My cup is full and I shall speak out Yes raising his voice and glancing I around it was I who wrote the bor dereau I wrote it upon orders received re-ceived from Sandherr Esterhazy the Chronicle says then proceeded to explain that for months before 1893 moral proofs had been obtained ob-tained of leakages which were only possible through officers belonging to the ministry of war and it was necessary neces-sary to catch the guilty party by ma tonal evidence Hence the bordereau When asked what the chiefs of the French general staff would say to ibIs v confession Esterhazy shrugging his I shoulders disdainfully replied He Holds the Proofs They will lie as they know how to lie but I have them tight I have proofs that they knew the whole thins and shared the responsibilty wit ne and I will produce the proofs He then denounced the chiefs a a set of scoundrels who have abandoned aban-doned me basely adding But at onetime time they used to come and than Mme Pals for her assistance Esterhazy asserted that quite recently I recent-ly the chiefs sent M La Gumire a former for-mer deputy to London with seductive offers to him to keep silence Now they are using threats he shouted but I will not be deterred The Daily Chronicle got Esterhazy to sign the notes of the interview |