| Show caignet cuignet BEFORE COURT IT former french war office tells his stor story Y BELIEVES DREYFUS GUILTY sis iris statement contradicts his hi previous depositions in ila several instances the Pil prisoner vehemently protests against the denunciations leveled against him gen gem also gives his deposition at one stage of proceedings proceeding I 1 drefus declared a liar rennes aus aug 19 no special incident occurred lit morning when the second trial by mccurt maralia of 0 capt alfred tires of the fourteenth arall artillery charged with treason was resumed at the die the first w atness called today was mal maj Cul gnet formerly attached to the ministry of war the witness who declared ho he waa its convinced ot of tho the prisoners guilt was cross examined by M demange of counsel f or C r the defense who succeeded in pointing pointe n g out that several of 0 his Eta temen as contradicted his pt previous evious depo depositions stio ENEMIES OF DREYFUS the r stage dage was occupied today successively ces by three enemies e of dreyfus fus biej Cul gnet gen de S do balefire sale fire and gen gonse who nho from until 11 a a 31 in mainly themselves to reiterating what they had previously y said ln in evl evidence dence against the pil prisoner who w he to followed lowed them with characteristic composure posu re when the moment camo came for or him to reply the prisoner del delivered IV ered one of oc those brief litter utterances arces of 0 indignation chic has had such a powerful effect upon up nel his aers hearers the to conff ig monologues delivered by the I 1 witnesses c ases a at t the beginning aate I 1 hear heard 1 N walh it h a ce certain rt ain restlessness which settles into general drowsiness upon the part of the majority of the audience who are unable to c catch atch one out of ter ten words spoken in consequence ot of the deplorable acou acoustic stio properties of the hie courtroom room the ic ie porters are arc at an equal disadvantage as only a score of them immediately beneath the stage can follow the proceedings intelligently f the telegram legrair te of 0 denial as to the authenticity of a certain letter sent by col schneider the austrian military to the figaro which it II was I 1 generally thought would be discussed I 1 yesterday was introduced today by 31 liaa a J Cul agnet who was mas very emphatic in his testimony DID NOT SHOW TO ADVANTAGE maj 1 did not show to great great advantage in the cross examina tion lion lie he jai Is a well knit smartly ural foamed young officer and began his evidence in a loud voice in obvious citation of col whose tearless 1 es s manner land and resonant tones matte made such puch an impression yesterday maj evidently however committed an all indiscretion I 1 in dragi dragging g in col name which caused a sensation in court the judges began to lo ian I an their heads together and look serious e IOUs then maj carriere Carrle rei the government commissary rowe rose and with a praise i worthy absence of his usual cani barn i Morrel pg gestures and carefully avoiding mention of col schneiders name made a few a refusing lu in behalf of the government Go Goern emment ment to lo accept responsibility tor for Cu ignets indiscretion t the luct fact being that the th government has begun to get apprehensive of tiou ble if the foreign attaches name continues to be handled andied li about the court as has frequently occurred since th the opening of the triniy 81 SMILES JILES of 01 incredulity other parts of Cu ignets evidence evo evoked ked smiles of incredulity and suppressed laughter laughl cr as when he decla iod his belief in lit Bertil lons mon wonderous derous when IL X demange took up the majors cross crosb examination in itself maj cagnet cuignet immediately showed uneasiness which wasi was accentuated every time counsel for the defense asked a i pointed question especially where counsel threshed out the contradictions jill Culp nels evidence before tho the court of cessation cassation dreyfus too was effective when he rote rose and protested against Cu ignets titter tiller attack during the course of his deposition alaj buignet cuignet referred to tho the extraordinary dossier dosal cr u which aich it Is in doubted however the will consent to produce Cu ignets reference to these documents was very mysterious and as nobody took look the trouble to question mm ian on the subject stable evidently little weight was waa attributed to his remark AN indiscreet STATEMENT another indiscreet statement of the 1 I witness was that the secret dossier only it contained the pick of the documents N ili the minister of war had lit in its p aso and said 1 I thino think the court ought to see the rest of th the e documents it would then ihei tee see th that tt the dreyfus affair Is in part of a big matter ind that there was not only 0 ona 0 spy PY the court would cold A a see that the military jittery attaches do nothing but spying gen de followed follow d ile he Is spoke poke la in a blunt manner and lit in somewhat Bome what aff tones but with a certain or ajr of alch had its effect on tho the judges idge was treated with jbv obvious IOUs de deference ferenc by the members of the ie court martial martial but he did not ap felir to the novelty of 0 being questioned anae it by a junior officer one of the judges MS who wished tor for a few harm lim a explanations SCORES POINT the cross examination by IS M 1 bei mange was not very productive the advocate puts hla his questions in a loor sor ry to you sort of tone quite different lu lerent from the hard lunging man her of M lubore gabort M demange Dr mange however low one point when gen de df alre insinuated that ho be knew col I 1 Pl quart equart had le lallona with the drey 1 s family in 1836 1806 counsel questioned him in with aith tho the result that the general M is obliged to admit that he be had no proofs of tho the accuracy ot of his big state slate chent but relied on Impre fons lien n gonse save gave his hie evidence in a tone ill ills most interesting re rc rk wits was with reference to the letter of lr vol 01 ol schneider whom however ho he vas its careful not to ato nime but the whole hole if telegram of tile hie figaro ho he air lul ily declared deil ired to be a lie as aa he be said lat lave have in our bureau many letters 91 linx v us to lo aarm the authenticity ai 0 I 1 the letter HAD DRAMATIC L ELEMENT the ho most lost interesting portion of the proceedings was tile 1119 last halt half hour uhan hen gonne bonste billot cat and drey fus tu were on ga their feet in a sol aorien leg 0 f confrontations a move which he how ever tr hall had dramatic elc clero ments enta and which produced Plod much emotion emott on in it courts court and occasioned ed from dreyfus unexpected outbursts of feeling the arl I 1 tal nn spoke today with lie art an indignation which aich rang sincere but never ver k those chords chord which n thrilled saturday bau 11 hill lear bearers last monday and 1 tl he confrontations of f dreyfus and th B I 1 n Pl 1 equart cau lt with ath oon gen gonse conse and n billot more on olde bide issues lii suei which oil 14 tint lint alimi pe 4 ot at fundamental JIM apor tant e and cahnt be raid paid to lo hale hat e bad an much effect either way so BO tar far as an the th testimony itself is concerned but from the hie point of view ot of the prosecution it Is always a clever game to biting the generals on oil the stage in the role of indignant defense of tile tha honor of the airn aim for or as super superior for officers their appearance ts Is bound to exercise a cei tain impression on the judges all of whom are of junior rank moreover today save gave gen billot tho the opportunity for ono one of those melodramatic on the loyalty loyally of former ministers of war N which h tell always go down domn alth the crowd and which I 1 tills morning elicited an outburst of cheering from the public in court couraw ft hatch alch I 1 demonstration we wa quickly suppressed by the gens gans daroca and tile hearan va mas adjourned until monday the president of the court col jou aust asked dreyfus it if he had anything to say bay whereupon the prisoner abose and again vehemently protested against the denunciations leveled against hire him an inno innocent fent man mail gen dp was waa tile tho next witness called following N I 1 the evidence lit in detail STORY maj the first witness called was not in uniform a as he be ts Is not at present attached to arly corps I 1 leforc beginning an account of the special especial investigations into the case which I 1 was to make by ministers of war from II 11 Cava lenae ignac to lo M de 1 lid ald ill the 1 I w ish to mention a personal fact which in conjunction with the evidence already heard will constitute fresh proof of the prison prisoners ees indiscreet behavior when ulten employed on the head headquarters quartets staff tan 1 I was on the stair when dreyfus was a probationer during the latter halt halll of ISM among other duties I 1 was waa connected m ith the railroad rall roid service said and the mining of railroads with the view of interrupting Interrupt lm traffic in of needle Is hardly necessary to point out tho the secret of oc such buch matters mattera dreyfus was a probationer on the eastern railroads and had been ordered to specially tidy study the mining on them an and possessed information relating doldy to them WANTED TIM SCHEME one day dreyfus asked mo me to give him the general scheme of mining which aich I 1 possessed giving as the rea ra son bon for the bequest that he was wab anxious to increase ills knowledge and that it mits wn ne cesary for him to know the general re nerol scheme in order to properly carry out tho the work entrusted to him I 1 replied that I 1 did not see the necessity of giving him the scheme arid and that in any case CAPS he had better apply to his own chief maj berlin dreyfus pretended ded berlin mould not impart any anfor information ma day after day lie he pestered poet cred me so that finally having no reason to distrust mm I 1 began giving him explanations dreyfus displayed the keenest interest Inter tet and took copious notes when later his house was searched these theae notes were not discoverable I 1 did not know M what hat became of oc them hut lot it I 1 is a to believe they were ills troyed considering tho the importance he seam d in t attach to the information al n find aid the pea otonce shou it lit in pi it uter after launching laun chins the above dIs disara kra tin lon which a aich he apparently consid red to be ae weighty evidence of the treachery of f dreyfus maj alaj buignet cuignet proceeded to recount in detail the task which gen on gausp assigned aus lemed to him in may 1898 of classifying the documents in the lh dreyfus Lster esterhazy hazy and ric quart cases tile the first question I 1 will nill ask hero here said bald tile the witness Is dreyfus guilty MY aay conviction of bla big guilt Js 3 based on three grounds first his con confession confedra ferA to capt lo lit brun renauld second the technical tec nature of the contents content 4 of the bordereau third the results of the examination of the secret dossier I 1 will add to these three points the evidence of oc o C the expert Bear tillon laughter as aa indirect proof the means employed by the dreyfus family to secure the prisoners ichaba illation I 1 protest that a campaign has been undertaken against justice truth and our country EVOKED L CYNICAL SMILES the majors outburst of 0 herlock evoked cynical smiles and indications of dissent coupled with mark of assent from the assembled generals the ps next spoke of oc the secret dossier r of tile the war ministry containing information relating to interviews ilet ewt p Tante ux fourner minister ot of zi ustice ond and count Ter nielli the italian ambassador which country paid buignet cuignet Cui gnet benefited by the i t try r ry Y regarding the confessions said to have been made to capt sold auld the witness m sald ald ha it still believed they were authentic ad adding 1 it l people do riot not believe the cinfel confessions s to capt las ic I c brun ronauld renauld they aill believe no human testimony too continuing flat fitness re pe that the bouderau bor derau was amrit written I 1 en by dreyfus at ai the end ot of august Auf fuat and incidentally 1 lally the M major ajor protested against col Pic quarts ansin lations agn trist paty it dc 0 clim cl im lie ho then retail ned to the secret fr cret dossier of the war 0 nica from which lie in declared the court was suro sure to draw important deductions LEAKAGE IN THI WAR OFFICE the he first portion 0 of the lie dessimer des sider he to said that in there wax wan a constant leakage in the ministry of f war nar we have had bronts of the plans of fortifications reaching tile the hands of oc a foreign power it la Is known to a certainty from the letter of an agent it a foreign that the th stolen plans plan I 1 s emanated front from the ti it of wa war r A vast network of 0 c bad therefore been to cn against us headed by agents belonging to tile the power og lis A col at the german military sat atta tacho chr the agents of other portera also collaborating witness then in invited the courts attention to tills this dossier in m nelch aich he said aou would ill be ix found ample proof of oc the guilt CALLED WITNESS A LIAR at tilts thu stage of the proceedings dreyfus rose and interrupted the witness wll shouting that its tf a manifest lie after this the witness recited lu detail his reasons for the belief th that the abenth supplying thy the information lr cor mat ion vaa ao a staff officer lie he thru then e endea dea noted ed to show that t r a hie with foreign aLL Achas cou could 1 d only have byo carried on by a probationer aner in the de apartment part ment occupied by dreibus itus us the witness especially to the pan warm telegram ot of november 2 1894 2894 lie explained left an impression on him that lit in am dreyfus was an old fri frind friend nd or the italian government another litT document of the hie dossier according to maj buignet cuignet culi Cui gnet net showed beyond dispute that the bordereau actually just ly passed through the iho hands bands of col Schwartz koppen this to the witness i tile the authenticity of the bordereau and examination of oc which he pointed out proved and had the closest relations in all matters ot of espionage i SCHNEIDER DISPATCH referring next to the dispatch of 0 col 1 c li nelder foi arnier mer austrian military y at tache at paris denouncing as a forgery argery ii letter pur purposing polIng to have been written by the in m which he has w as represented as referring ferring to efforts forts tr being made by and pan kajii i to conceal their relations with dreyfus witness sa maintained that gen mcie heillers meillers Me iLlers 1 18 statements on oil the subject were that tile he authenticity ot of tile alie letter had been proved the intelligence delai derailment dep ailment t nien I 1 he added e d had other documents from tho same atta clie in lla its posses ion maj buignet cuignet t pointed out that the e ider document was included jai in th the d dossier ter and that ill Chani Cna oln mho v ho had the secret documents in his chare bad shon it to the hi court in behalf of tho the of war therefore N claimed col schneiders rs contradiction woi beally addressed to tho the french government sensation bookas Book Bo aldys hs added buignet cuignet Cul Cui gnet 1 I wish vis h to point out that the t lie denial la in a person permon ol of somewhat less kog than ion allies it is ia therefore rosel blo that ahli denial was imposed upon him renewed Re gllnn tin th witness dwelt admiringly on the alie conclusions of M bernillon Ber lillon that 1 lister hazy had bad learned to imitate the handwriting of 0 the bordereau arter after its publication li lit in the matin matill D POLICE 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