THE DREYFUS CASE.

Auckland Star, Volume XXIX, Issue 227, 26 September 1898, Page 5

THE DREYFUS CASE.

I A JUDICIAL DEADLOCK

E?,TERHAZY'S CONFESSION,

MOffiE ASTOUNDING DEVELOP-

MENTS,

A JOURNALIST SHOT,

(By Electric Telegraph.) (Press Association—Copyright.)

(deceived September 26, 8.50 a.m.)

PARIS, September 25

The judicial commission appointed fey the French Cabinet to consider the Question of re-opening- the Dreyfus ■fcase was equally divided for and •against a new trial. The dissenters hold to the legal condition that a .warrant for re-opening the case had not been fulfilled. Colonel Picquart is confined in a military prison in Rue dv Cerche Midi, Paris. He is not allowed to see friends or lawyers. There is much popular enthusiasm in the army at the prosecution _of Colonel Picquart. A great ovation ■was accorded to General Merrier, of the 4th Army Corps. The 'Temps' states that M. Zurlinden outwitted the Cabinet and obtained the signature of General Chamdine, who succeeded him as Minister of War, for the prosecution of Colonel Picquart, by' a trick. M. Eugene Clemenceau, writing In the 'Aurore,' has declared that the military caste which has been seizing France ever since the Revolution is so dangerous that a crisis has occurred. Madame Parlmer, wife of a deputy whom the journal La Lanterne attacked in connection with the Dreyfus case, failing to- find the proprietor and the editor, shot the sub-editor thrice because the paper assailed her daughter. , _ ' LONDON, September 25. The Observer states that Esterhazy declares that he wrote the: bordereau at the request of Colonel Sandherr, one of the members of the courtmartial which tried Dreyfus and has since died. It was intended to constitute the material proof. of Dreyfus guilt, the Military Intelligence Department merely possessing moral proot against Dreyfus. He obeyed Sandlerr's order without the slightest hesitation. He realised it was a forgery through the French agents at the German Agency. The bordereau appeared to emanate from thence.