THE DREYFUS CASE.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 11506, 19 August 1899, Page 5

THE DREYFUS CASE.

MOKE SENSATIONS,

STARTLING EEVELA.TIO]N'S

EXPECTED.

Proas Association—By Telegraph—Copyvighi PARIS, August 18.

(Keceived August 18, at 10.45 p.m.)

Detectives are protecting General Her cier.

M. Monard, counsel for the Dreyfus family, temporarily replaces M. Labori.

General Roget, in cross-examination, admitted that Esterhazy was guilty of suspicious conduct in several instances submitted. He believed Esterliazy's statement regarding the offer to him of a bribe of £24,000 if be confessed to the authorship of the bordereau. This statement caused laughter. Witness described Dreyfns's inquisitiveness in re-gaud to t'ho mobilisation plans.

Dreyfus exclaimed: " Roget's statements were argument. He produces no evidence I had any acquaintance with the concentration scheme."

M. Bcrtulus repeated his former testimony. Witness discovered that Esterhazy , had an accomplice- in the Int.e'Hgenco department. Dreyfus was ibsolutely innocent. This caused a sensation. Witness insisted on the absence of motive, It was-a magistrate's first duty to seek a. motive.—(Sensation.)

, Colonel Picquart's testimony produced a favourable impression.

(Received August 19, at 0.25 a.m.)

General Roget testified that he had received a letter from Schneider, the Austrian attache in Paris, dated November, 1897, which disproved the denials of Schwarlzkoppen and Fannizardi, therefore Dreyfus was guilty.

M. Demange suddenly produced Schneider's declaration, made yesterday, that the letter.was a forgery.

In "the opinion of some judges the questions put are interpreted to imply that the original bordereau, written on heavy paper, has reached Colonel Jouaust, president of the court-martial.

•Startling developments are expected.

ivi. Bertullus pointed to Henry as Esterhazy's accomplice, adding that the Court of Cassation declared the bordereau was the work of Esterhazy. The Court of Cassation, he said, was supreme in matters of justice. This caused another sensa-

LONDON, August 17.

M. Labori is slightly worse, and feverish. The bullet has not yet been extracted.

General Roget, in his evidence before the court-martial, described Esterliazy as the victim of odious persecutions.

BERLIN, August 17:

The German newspapers declare that Dreyfus is placed in a pillory and' is defenceless. The Cologne Gazette, in an inspired article, says that no conscientious man believes Dreyfus had .any dealings with Germany. He is indubitably innocent.