| Show Is GETHING bourgeois made blade a clean breast yesterday THE UPROAR IN THE I 1 HE AUDIENCE E madame statements State monti menti are do denounced As absolutely false the testimony grows interesting PARIS march 13 the approaches to palais de justice is thronged today by excited crowds there has not been B each u c 11 an excitement since the beginning 1 g 0 of f th the e panama scandal the crowds are coni composed posed of all classes from the ilits militant socialist to the wealthy merchant ami and fina financier acier an ominous murmur of or angry talk and menacing ing frown on oil the face of tha lower lasses in tho the throng reminded one of ill the 0 days preceding the tile commune the court boorn was thronged with a many as could obtain admittance tile prisoners see seemed tiled them themselves elves revived by new interest which their case awakened borne thought the features of charles de lesseps bore a look of triumph while even Bail laut looked less crushed than any time pevious pic to abts pitiful confession As 0 boon O as the court opened Pre presiding biding judge de jard jardines I 1 ties ordered that bourgeois Bo urnis late mini minister str of justice justic be sum summoned nione to testify at borne botne time d during 1 g I 1 lip day deputy remand fernand siege liege of puy pay da do dome who belong according to his own statement to tho the party of appeal to the tile people testified to the tile accuracy of tho the statement meni that yves ye guyot was the source of the report that Con constans tans had commini com muni dated to 10 president carnot in council at ulysee a list of deputies implicated in the alleged panama briberies bribe ries count caffar elli eill monarchist deputy for kiano gave similar testimony which was cor abed by the radical deputla deputy deput Va 1 brousha Bro ushe advocate lagrass dentan demanded d that constans conj be a summoned this tills was 01 objected J cited to 1 by the advocate te general who sai said tk I 1 that at calli tig witnesses must have some limit deputy sainte mortin martin union conservative who has been a member of the committee on application of the Pan panama nitia canal company comfor tor for leave to issue lottery bonds tes lia fined that he lie did not bee sung leroy olle one of tile defendants accused of changing his v vole ote in the committee commit tep as the result of a fa t bribe ribe leave the committee room just before tha the critical division on tile bill saint martin said lie had been told that bails Sans leroy went out to see arton arlon lie ile added afterwards that sans bails opposition lo 10 the bill closed the tile ni market arket A member of the same committee tes that he lie did notee not hee sana sons leroy leave the room on the occasion in question wit ness remember that there was an alter cation over the vote voto v ao h sana satis leroy kave in support of t ao it 1 11 and that bans bails leroy told the conijn fcc ucc ne was bound to comply with the ajl of his M gouard testified today that lie knew the of alenri cottu and it was at the tile initiative odthe of alie secretary that he saw bat police commissary bicoll Nicoll with tt a view of effiec en acting ting an arrangement between the tile ment and panama director directors this government interview Iter vow led to discussions which took place between madame cottu and M 1 I so go hidur hi ivoury our chief detective of the department the m witness t said ho lie acted entirely on I 1 his its own re J p in bringing bri neing about the Int ervie ly M bourgeois Bourge late minister of justice next took tho the stand iio ile spoke with firm ne 99 and energy and showed a disposition I 1 n ot S lo 10 receive cecii vei tiny y thing t h ing that could explain his position toward the panama case ease and the defendants lie ife emphatically aly repudiated all insinuations contained in III the evidence of madame battu cottu he III eaid said he lie denied dented having authorized anybody to act behalf lie ile said ho lie only permitted cotta to see her tier husband from motives Cs of humanity there waa was a brief passage between bourgeois and at bur bassage beaux which ended with the latter dayi saying nobody I 1 here doubted the sincerity of ie comis evidence charles do lesseps here aro e and in a boll manner and ill tones that rang through the court room bald IM M bourgeois attacked me A little while ago well mons monsieur cicur here I 1 am face to face arith with you what have you to eay say to me 1 delesseps Do e lesseps looked defiantly at bourgeois while a violent uproar from tho the a audience a greeted this sudden ebullition on oil the part of taft loading leading defendant whose tha C conduct 1 q b up p to this time tinie had been nt at least within I 1 the 1 rules of orderly proceed ure judge des jardina Jardins indignantly spoke up 1 I cannot allow thee dialo dialogues gues the law must be recognized recognize a by all tho tile audience calmed down and bourgeois to reply in ft it deliberate 1 i guage to M 1 I barbeaux lie said the rf affair air as the result of a 11 maneuver the tile authors of which he lie did lid not know with tabi 31 bourgeois retired from the witness aland and madame cottet was recalled she declared hollard told her tier he ile would go and see bourgeois in fit regard to her tier M X gollard followed INI madame adame cottu cotta on the tile stand and her tier statement to the effect that he had told her tier he would see bee bourgeois bat tint added nobody authorized me to say so M bourgeois aroe arose and exclaimed if a anzono avorie knows that I 1 acted contrary y to the dt dictates ates et ot honor let him speak at words tho uproar in the audience was renewed many taking part with bourge bourgeois and others others with his ills accusers when hearing bearing was resu resumed ined Soil oury loury was recalled iio ile made a I 1 long 01 ig statement to the effect that neither aa B bourgeois our geots nor any other minister was in a n away cespon a able for his interview with I 1 madame adame I 1 cottu he lie himself originated the idea of a conference with her the charges that he lie threatened e atice I 1 ed madame cottu or I 1 promised her tier all any favorin favor ill return for the information shye she might give were utter utterly ly ra false ise |
