DREYFUS COURT-MARTIAL

New Zealand Times, Volume LXX, Issue 3825, 22 August 1899, Page 6

DREYFUS COURT-MARTIAL

.MAITRE LABOR!. RECOVERING. PARIS, Sunday. General Gonse, who was UnderChipf of the Etat-Major of the army in 1894, admitted*..in’ the course of his examination atj',ille n ßenne'S court-martial, that while tlie bordereau lie noticed the similarity between the handwriting of Esterhazy and thar of Dreyfus. He said that he instructed Colonel Picquart to separate the documents bearing the two handwritings at both the first court-martial and the proceeding: before the Court of Cassation.

Maitre- Labor]senior counsel for Dreyfus, who was shot in the hack a few days ago, has so -far recovered that he expects to be able to appear in Court again to-inorrow.' j' LONDON, Sunday.

Mr Terrell, an English barrister, who is on a visit to Rennes, describes the trial of Dreyfus as being characterised by an air of unreality.

He believes that Colonel Jouaust,, President of the Court-martial, favours tho acquittal of the prisoner. As to the other members of the tribunal, he considers it likely that' instructions from their superiors- a*to- likely to outiveigli ther military prejudices.

EVIDENCE OF DREYFUS’S INNOCENCE.

M. Ballot-Beaupre in his report to the Court of Cassation read the) address ot the Procureur-General. M. Manau, citing new tactg! ahdj ;( new documents, to the number of ten, which tended to establish tho innocence of Dreyfus in the eyes of the law. These were: 1. The Henry forgery.

2. Tile change in the date of the bordereau (from April to August). 3. The contradictions' between the expert evidence of 1894 and 1897 (the change of opinion on the part of the expert Charavay). ‘4. The absolute similarity of the paper on which the bordereau was written. with that on which Esterhazy’s letters from 1893 to 1895 were written.

3. The phrase, “Je pars en manoeuvres/ which could " not have been wl’.tten by Dreyfus. 6. Tho report from the Prefecture of Police concerning the private life of Dreyfus which was' hot produced at ne trial in 1894.

7. The 'scehe when Henry burst into tears in the cabinet of M. Bertulus, the Magistrate. 8. Ttie Tanizzardi dispatch’ '

9. The official documents establishing that Dreyfus had ho relations with any oY the foreign Embassies. 10. Documents showing t hat Dreyfus riever confessed his guilt.