The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 5, 1899, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1899. SIX MEN TRAPPED IN 4 BURNING FOREST The Fire Was Blazing @dround Their Place of Refuge When the Wind Sud- denly Shifted. Sept. 4.—Forest Super- Border, who returned this ernoon from fighting the terrific for- t fire in the Sierra Madre Mountains, an exciting story of the narrow > of seven men last Wednesday lay down to die, but t the last momnt s and the tools with t the fire were burned. 18 Ontario men under Ranger Allen began fighting the fire tonio Canyon some few miles Ontario, They made a fire d stopped the fire, as left several ow while they cut toward Cucamonga, astward a was traveling down the mountain | toward the men faster than a horse can trot. At first the men started down the mountain, but the flames rushed toward them and the smoke nearly overcame them. They were confused and did not know In which direction to | go. As the smoke became denser they knew that they must lie down with | their faces close to the ground or be | stifled. There was a bare chance of the | fire burning over them without killing them. They lay down to die, having but little hope of escape in that awful furnace. | Then suddenly the wind changed and | Allen looked up and saw a green spot nearby through the 5 “Come on bo; small creek of the Cucamonga. body of the fire, one | was a o was raging. It was | In this place the fire made but little & and the men carried their headway. The men had time while the 3 ir hands. Cucamonga Can- | fire slackened a bit to make their way yon was three miles away. All about | to a rocky place, devoid of brush, was deep brush. The flames could be | where they fell exhausted. 1 wbove on the slope of the San | Their knees and shins were badly Antonfo. z bruised and skinned. Their coats, vests, | As the le party neared Cucamonga | picks and shovels' were lost. In spite Canyon a heavy wind began blowing. | of this encounter Supervisor Border Very quickly the smoke settled to the | says the men did not desert, but are ground, coming from above in great | still fighting the fire. The Supervisor vaves. Hot and stifing tongues of | will commend them highly to the Gov- flame shot out now and then. The fire: ernment in his report. | | e g Chambers on Affairs in|{Will Not Explain the Samoa. Henneman Case. _— e e Spectal Dispatch to The Call. Special Dispatch to The Call. INGTON, Sept. 4—Chiet Justica | NAPA, Sept, 4—The authorities of the rs of Samoa is here to confer | Napa Insane Asylum are either unable or als and submit his report to the | disinclined to explain the disagreeabls @ represented in Samoa. | revelation made in the case of Mrs. Mary (4 a discussion of the p eman, the unfortunate woman who a 3 Judge Cham-|was found wandering aimlessly last Fri- seen to-day, spoke in an inter- | day night and arrested in Oakland. The rer on some of the general | woman is in a delicate condition and at- Samoa and also clearsd | tributed her misfortune to some one con- to his own status thstanding reports Chambers s on con- Chief , more- e State De- 1 the theory jon of the of- absent 1 as arily that it b been f to Washington to 1y partment, whe: f Justice by triplicate inclined to think, tion being taken powers, as some X[ urse of an en to In ported nees led between uite t to the three sent di- = Hohen- harbor itude nt end al ware- r construction 2400,000. Samoan peo- able it dealt at 1 tract He Sa- and by plan island wil prove ad- re for some s will be t x me Tripp, the S to Samoa, . tate Department talk with the n of the latter from CHANGES AT STANFORD. old Muckleston of Trinity College Appointed Instructor in Latin STANTORD UNIVERSITY, Sept. 4.— w instructor, Harold v inity College, Canada ed in the Latin ¢ usband will tak rd, who goes pro- v will department for the ar grad s. Pro- the electrical engineer- being unable to return is looking for some ADVERTISEMENTS. A Hieppy Mother Frolicking with her baby makes one of the prettiest les ever seen in the home. But nothing is sadder to see than the unhappy mother, weak and neryous, striving {n vain to hush the cries of her weak and nervous babe. There can be no happiness for either mother or child without health. Doctor Pierce’s Favorite Prescription * has done wonders” for many a woman, by restoring her health and open- ing for her the way § to happy mother- hood. This really wonderful medi- cine is not a cure- 3 all. It isa prepara- 4 tion specially de- signed to cure dis- eases peculiar to women, It dries debilitating drains, g heals inflammation and ulceration, 29 cures female weak- 8 ness, and removes the causes which generally make f women nervous and sleepless. There 1s 1o alco- hol in *Favorite Prescription” 15 no opium, cocaine or other w. Blacker, of 629 Cather- racuse, N. Y, writes: “Yonr done wonders for me. or h was very poor; I had four i ig Dr. Pierce's Fa- fon and ‘Golden Medical Dis- much better heaith, and now I have @ fine healthy baby.” Use Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets with “Favorite Prescription” if the bowels are inactive or irre; Judge | | to | nected in an officfal capacity with the asylum. The asylum authorities scout the woman's _charge as preposterous but in doing €0 they admit that disgracefully negligent conditions.attend the admission of women to the asylum. Dr. Dosfer, who has charge of the fe- male ward of the insane asylum here, says he knows nothing of the particulars of the case of Mrs. Henneman. He throw no light that will prove the tru accusation. It appe um authorities take no itions 1o learn the physic condition of women admitted as patients. The officers thus lay themselves open serfous consequences, such as th ent affair. B also show v the character of pe; | charged patients are given over upon their release he present case is an example. On May 13, 15%, Mrs. Mary Henneman | received into the Napa Insane an order made by | ~of San Francisco. e comp was filed by the woman's husband who declared that the woman ‘‘began to show of mental aberration about two | years ago at the time when her younger | child was born; that she is dangerously violent tim threatening life and omplaining that her husband-had sold | the furniture of their home; that on eral occasions she put on her clothes and wandered about the s | A few weeks later her husband took an entirely different view of the situation and of the condition of his wife. At his instance Mrs. Henneman was discharged on June 11, 189. The husband said wished to send his wife to her relatives in the east. That not Judge he the husband did keep his promise was demonstrated by in Oak- | the arrest of his unfortunate w land, MURDERFR THREATENED BY A NEW YORK MOB Attempt to Wrest the Slayer of Po- | liceman O’Keefe From a Guard | of Police, | NEW YORK, Sept. 4—Michael Farrelll, the Ital on-Keeper, who shot Po- liceman Patrick O'Keefe yesterday when the latter was about to a him for violating the excise law, made an attempt to escape from the two detectives by try. ing to jump from an e >d_train plat- form. He was hel {ming and tur |ing. ‘In front of the Courthouse a crowd of about 1000 persons F required a dozen court offici for the Italian to the c Farrelll, when urtroom. igned, denfea the ad been shot by Guiseppi Ferriolie. He w remanded in order to allow the of- ficers to make an investigation. = Mrs, Farrelll also was remanded for examina- tion. It was sald In court that Farrelll was at one ‘Ime a resident of New Orleans gnd was a member of the Mafla. His saloon in New Orleans, jt said, was the headquarters of the gang and it was there that the plot to assassinate Chief of Po- lice Hennessey was hatched. SIR ROBERT REIN'S ARGUMENT ENDED Junior Counsel, Askwith Takes Up England’s Case in the Ven- ezuelan Dispute. Sept. 4.—Sir Robert Thresie formerly Attorney General of | | Parrs, Reld, Q. C | Great Britaln, to-day concluded his ar- gument before the Anglo-Venezuelan Boundary Commission, presenting _th case for England. Counsel sald ‘hug Ex:g? land and Venezuela before the tribunal held abeolutely the same footing, the question being one of comparative title. George Askwith, junior counsel, contin- he argument’ of England’ He t given the legal view of the pre v. Mr. Askwith referred to ving claim to the whole of Amer- alling the presentation of Venezu- whimsical. Mr. Askwith said uropean nation admitted this nish claim and that the Dutch when v obtained thelr independence upheld ir right of settling in the West Indies and carried it into effect. — - |CHINESE WOMAN KILLED AT FRESNO | Struck by a Bullet Fired Through a Double Partition. - FRESNO, Sept. 4.—Shortly before 12| | o’clock to-night a Chinese woman was | shot and killed in Chinatown. She was sit- ting in a shed and was shot from the out- side through two partitions. Nothing wi of the murderer, who is supposed . zhbinder. This is the first outbreak since the highbinder war of last winter, but it is expected to precipitate anotaer war among the tongs. i APPEAL FOR AID. | Porto Rican Relief Committee Issues a Call to Americans. NEW YORK, Sept. 4—The Central Por- | to Rican rellef committee has Issued an- other appeal to the people of the United | States on behalf of the sufferers from the lhurrlca.ne. The appeal declares that $1,- 500,000 will be required to procure for the destitute the bare necessaries of life. ze against him and said that O'Keefo | TLANTA, Ga., Sept. 4—The gen- | tleman who claimed to know how | the French War Office secrets reached Germany and the names of those instrumental in their | transfer from France was seen to-day by the Atlanta representative of the | | Associated Press. All the matter given | in the Jewish sentiment story sent out | in these dispatches Thursday night was gone over and substantiated as far as | possible, and much information tend- | | ing to amplify and elucidate state- ments made there was obtained. The additional and highly interesting infor- mation was - elicited that the letter- heads, envelopes and consular seals of | the United States Government were used as a safeguard in transmitting the | French War Office documents from that | country to Germany, and also that one | of the chief actors in the ‘under- ground” system at the time the traffic in French War Office merchandise was going on held the position of L‘nlted‘ States Vice Consul in a little German city. The informant gives his name as Charles E. Bentheim, and his discharge papers, which are regular and duly signed, show that he was a private in | Company M, Two Hundred and Second New York Volunteers, during the war with Spain. He was, he says, not at camp drill over ten minutes, but was put into the commissary department and later transferred to the head- quarters division, where he became brigade clerk. He accompanied the | Two Hundred and Second New York to Cuba, and in addition to duty as brigade clerk was called upon to per- form the duties of stenographer at the court-martials held from time to time | at Pinar del Rio, where the New York regiment was stationed. The paper to the adjutant general's office in ‘Washington :commending his dis- charge is signed by Willlam E. Horton, as: ant adjutant general, and came from General William Oates, bri- gade commander. The stamps of dif- ferent railway companies from which he obtained half-rate transportation on his discharge papers are piain. Ben- theim is an artist and this is the avoca- tion given in his discharge papers. Since he left the service of the United States he has been traveling over the South and is at present on his way from Montgomery to Washington, where he says he will visit the sculptor Trentanove. Bentheim says he has no interest in' the matter and wished no notoriety. His name was given only at the last minute and under pressure. His story was not told with that even- ne: denoting rehearsal, and hig con- versatlon shows that he {8 fully ac- quainted with the cities of Germany and the French capital. He says that although he has known these things for a long time, he has never made pub- | lic the information of which he is pos- sessed. This is the story: I was born in_Denver, Col vears of age. When quite Sent to Paris to be educated. several countries on the Continent, pur- suing my s, and finally to Germany Here I w yved about four years, | each y nslator of documents and the Government, and am 35| 1 was s of the gen- , Berlin. During my ral times translated _papers {nformation concerning French fortifications, arsenals. | warships and land plans, and know all those concerned in the purchase of this information. The obtaining of intelligen regarding the French army and navy w operated by the rvice depa Imperial Ministry of Mari as at one time under the ¢ marck rr von Moltke in always on the alert for mation. When s ment was obt 1 from the office Minister of rine or the War Dep ment in Paris it taken to Prince Heinrach Hans Pl sentative in P: to the house where a copy the German repre- s. Through him it went of one 5 sweethearts, was made.. A few hours Jater the original paper was returned to the flice whence it came. The next move was to get these papers to Berlin. Herr Franz, a toy manuf: turer at Sonneburg, Germany, aided in | this. He would send dolls to Paris to be | dressed. In the body of these little play- | things these copies of drawings and de- | scriptions were securely sewed and startod | on their journey to the Father nd, From | Paris they were sent by post to Holmrook, | a village in England. Here another agent was located. He was Herr Lindau, at| that time a partner in some mining opera- | tlons being carried on there. Lindau per- formed his duty by remailing the doll | | messengers to Herr anz at Sonneburg, | | and once there they were safe. From | Sonneburg they were brought to the great | | headquarters by Herr Franz. Once, I rec- | ollect, a document of this nature was | brought in by the Burgomaster of Leipsic, whose name 1 cannot recall. Herr Alvin Florschuetz, a bank director of Sonne- burg, was also in the scheme. About this time, by the way, Herr Florschuetz was recommended by the German Government as Consul for this country at Sonneburg. He was accepted, and, later on, being allowed for clerk hire, put his wife, Lina, in that position, ving_her name 'on the reports as L. [lorschuetz. All the time that the traffic ifn “War Office merchandise,” as it was known, was going on Herr Florschuetz was Vice Consul of the United States. ‘““Was the doll plan the only one adopted as a means of communication between the two countries?” was asked. Béntheim replied: Oh, no, Several times I received docu- ments. of this kind in the regular United States Consular envelopes. 1 remember It was a large white en- it distinctly. velope with the usual “Official business only” and something about a penalty on it and sealed on the back with a white paper seal about the size of a half dol- | lar and had a serrated border on it. The cagle was the center figure and above it in a semicircle were the words United States Consulate. On the other half of the circle and below the ea v | single word *S; | course con iderable correspondenc on between those few people regarding the W Office traffic, and this was done on the letterheads bearing one line inscription ‘‘United States Consulate, Sonneburg.” Nearly all the d ptions of war vessels, new inven- s, armor plate, underground mines, fortifications, etc., were on letterheads bearing the inscription “Ministre de la Marine, _Par “Ministre de la Guerre, Paris 7 Whenever Frigate Captain Sigl, was in charge of this work at Berlin went out on a scouting trip by himself carried a supply of United States sta- , and I have seen information of s kind from the French War Office come into the staff headquarters in an envelope bearing the consular seal of the United States Government. This, you will | | know, was a safeguard, as nobody would | open a letter with this seal on it. Flor- | schueiz, however, did more traveling | from Germany into France than either Sigl or Franz, and he always had some of this paper in his satchel. He would not go into France direct, as that would bring upon him too close scrutiny at the frontier. He would go first to Bremen and from there to Southampton. Here he would board a steamer, either from Cherbourg or Toulon, and land without any trouble. 1 will tell you how Florschuetz got the plans of the new submarine boat, Goubet, while it was being built at Toulon. This Florschuetz told me himself at a theater }n Berlin a week or two after he return Tom the expedition, going ‘who I | Emba He landed at Tou- ) documents emanal Information. lon and went to a hotel. Here he sent | a note to Mme. Janssen, telling her what | he wanted. He then proceeded to Monte Carlo for a day or two at the tables. It was arranged, of course, that if there was any trouble over the work word would be sent him. Mme. Janssen is the ife of val oficer and had the entree to the arsenal at Toulon. She se- cured all information desired and it was handed to Herr Florschuetz on his return to Toulon in less than one week. Information regarding the construction of the war vesscl Gymnote, at that time bullding at Cherbourg, was obtained in | the same manner. I will cite another case to show how ea anything that G v wanted e “obtained. A sergeant in the iaval arsenal at Toulon, Thomas by at the request of one of the five women skirmishing around there at the time, purloined a drawing which gave clearly the inside of the fortress with the location of the submarine mines in the harbor. This information, I know, | went to Esterhazy, but it took a half. dozen women to get it to him. This drawing was copled at the home of one of Prince Pless’ sweethearts in Paris and the original drawing returned two days . Thomas was found out and is now in | stem was such 1 of the meet- | connected with any | ing arsenal or For in: fortf 1¢ if gun were to be nt would be loitering near the testing place ,and I remember that on o ion when an experiment | of thls was concluded a rough d sketch of the result was handed the Ger- man agent before the officers left the | This was sent posthaste to Often a report on the test of ention would be in the hands German Government before it | reached the Ministry of War in Paris. This caused many laughs in the office at | staff headquarters. During all this time I never heard of Captain Dreyfus and did not know there w such a person until I heard of his arrest Mr. Bentheim was asked who handled the money for the maintenance of this information bureau. His reply was: | Captain Sigl handled all money for this and termed It, to Herr William did not, of cou v direct deallngs with | those wh work, but knew where the me The money, as I have said, the secret service »m v Marine, and I or_{ts equiv- ¥, passed Into the and Frans, and d them personally in terlin. This > the “worker: the American fund of q mittances are mu 1vmously to the 3aroness de De ugh the Credlt Lyonnalse in Pa bank is entirely innocent of the for which the is used, e record will cor- rate this s ement. Baroness e Delden was the sweetheart of Prince Henr: but or transferred her af- fectlc She is the “velled court-martial. Bentheim was, questioned as to for leaving Germany and his reply was to the effect that a quar- rel with the BEmperor over another mat- ter caused it. He was arrested and place in the fortress at Potsdam. He continued: | At that time I did not have my pass- | ports on my person, but sent word to Mr. Chapman Coleman, then secretary of the o} / at Berlin, who came quickly to | ance, it being proved that | 1 American eitizen, I was released n after left the country. Mr. Cole- man will confirm what I have said. Mr. Bentheim said he arrived in New | York from Berlin late in April, 1898. | There was plenty of war talk then and | he enlisted on August 5 of that year in | the Two Hundred and Second New Vork Regiment. Continuing he said: While at Camp M s transferred s to ¢ lady" of the Renne to the Quarterma rtment and | later made I was dis- 2 hington Barracks January | of this year and received my money | . day_following. I was the only man of the Hundred and Second New Yor Washington. At this | t in Cuba. Brigadier 10! t whose headquarters I‘ clerk, recommended, my muster out at my request, and Adjutant General | Horton, who iS now_in the Commi; Department of the War Office in Wash- gton, signed in Cuba the pas: me my honorable di ers were finally signed by Colonel r, who was at that time t Myer. Mr. Bentheim was told that the tact! that his story should appear at this | time with so much startling informa- | tion would cause considerable doubt as to its authenticity, and to this he re- plied: I will go with you before a notary pub- lic and swear that everything I have told you is the truth, or I will swear in a | milar way to any United States officer or member of the German Emb: story is absolutely true, and you are at liberty to communicate with any of the persons 1 have mentioned in an effort at corroborating. = & ———— DREYFUS DENOUNCED BY AN AUSTRIAN REFUGEE Fifth Week of the Court-Martial at Rennes Opens With a Sen- sation. NNES, Sept. 4—As the end of the fus trial comes within sight the French Government i beginning to display fears that the verdict may give rise to troubles, and orders have just been re- cetved by two regiments of infantry and one cavalry regiment, already within hail of Rennes, to hold themselves in readiness to march on the town at the first sign of dlsorder, to occupy all strategic points and repress all manifestations In their inception. Local anti-Dreyfusard organizations, by their anti-foreign articles, have already singled out foreigners as enemies of the country, and there is little doubt that forelgn journalists will be the first vic- tims of the violence of the mob—mnot so much Anglo-Saxons as Austrian, German and Russian Jews, who form a majority of the press representation of their re- spective countries. To-day’s session opened rather badly for Dreyfus, as a surprise was sprung upon the defense In the advent of an Austrian political refugee, Eugene Cernuschi, who came out with a flatfooted denunciation of the accused, which, even though it may eventually be proved a pure fairy tale, is bound for the moment to exercise a ma- lignant influence upon the French people, who have not seen Cernusch! and are thus unable to form a personal opinion of the man who launched these direct accusa- tions against Captain Dreyfus. Cernuschi’s appearance 18 undeniably against him. Nobody even suspects that he is what he claims to be, a scion of the royal Servian house. On the contrary, one would take him to be a groom dressed | in his best Sunday suit. It was remarked that as soon as he had delivered his testi- mony and M. Labori had asked to have him put on oath at to-morrow's session behind closed doors, In order that he might be punished if guilty of perjury, he lefg the courtroom and Wwas not seen again. | Cernuschi’s testimony, which was In the form of a letter to thé president of the court-martial, Colonel Jouaust, was most | unequivocal. = He claimed that on three distinet occasions, twice In_France and once at Geneva, he was told by a high- | placed foreign officer that Dreyfus had | communicated treasonable documents to a foreign power. In the third instance, Cernuschi said, the officer showed him ting from and | | sitting~ at GERMANY'S BIG DEALS IN FRENCH ARMY SECRETS American Consul Alleged to Have Acted as the Go-Between in the Purchase of that this officer left France hurriedly two days prior to the arrest of Captain Dreyfus. g"he allusion was evidently to Colonel Schwarzkoppen, the military at- tache of the German embassy in Paris in 184 whose movements were coincident with those described as the movements of the officer in Cernuschi’s deposition. Now, this evidence is of transcendental importance to the prosecution, and it is incredible, unless Cernuschi is proved to be a humbug, that the Government com- missary, Major Carriere, should have ad- mitted that he had received a letter from him offering important testimony and { thrown it aside on the ground of its com- from a gomica_l refugee. The de] on evoked expressions of incredulity. One suspicious feature was the fact that although the witness sald he could not ~ speak French _ fluently his letter to Colonel Jouaust asking an opportunity to_testify was drawn up lwerfect rench. He explained that he had been assisted by his wife in writ- m% the letter. 'his introduction of a forelgner as a witness tor the prosecution gavo M La- boti an opportunity to submit the most importiant request he has made through- out the trial—u request which, if granted by Colonel Jouaust, though this is ex- tremely doubtful, certainiy would have momentous consequences. M. Labori announced his intention, in view of the step taken by the prosecution in calling foreign evidence, to ask that inquiry should be made through the reg- r diplomatic channels as to whether €éccuments mentioned in the bordercau were actually communicated and, if so, by whom. This involves an application tc the German Government which the courc-martial is scarcely likely to prove. In any case the application means the lengthening of the trial for several weeks. The introduction of Cernuschi and the other- developments of the day, it is gen- erally predicted, imply another fortnight's the least. Cernuschl will be heard to-morrow behind closed doors. At the same time there probably will be an examination of the secret dossier, to which Captain Cuignet referred this morning and which M. Labori immediate- 1y asked to have produced in court. This dossler consists of twelve or thirteen doc- uments, and it is difficult to see why, if they had any value, the etat major have not had them produced earlier. The etat major are not in the habit of holding ack documents calculated to prove of the slightest service to their cause, as is shown in the case of the note concern- ing M. Hadamard's doubts of the inno- cence of his cousin, which was Incorrect, but was nevertheless included in .ae se- cret dossier, while the important docu- ment stating, on the authority of the French Minister to Rome, that an Italian military attache paid Esterhazy 200,000 francs was studiously omitted from the secret dossier. It is perfectly evident that the Italian attache did not pay Esterhazy such a sum on account of, as the French ing sit] | say, his beautiful eyes, and the document | was the best evidence that Esterhazy is the traitor. Nevertheless the etat major carefully Kept this out of view. M. Painleve, the distinguished mathe- matlcian, cornered General Gonse on the latter's falsified version of M. Hadamard's remarks concerning Captain Dreyfus and the manner in which his woe-begone appearance aroused pity for him. General Roget also appeared 1o begin to feel at last the ceiving of late. He showed naught of his cruel, brazen front to-day. On the con- trary his face was quite livid when he left the stage after a very poor display and he quitted the courtroom as soon a: the proceedings were over, excusing him- self to his brother generals. Mercier and others of a higher grade, on the ground of feeling ill. The session ended with an exposure by M. Hennion, chief of the Paris detectiv of the disgraceful tactics of the etat ma Jor in suppr Captain Dry serting a docu- ment more or less unfavorable to him. Dreyfus began to-day, with the largest attendance seen in the Lycee. The inter- est in the trial grows as the denouement h SIX to ten days is given as the outside limit for the further duration of the trial. There was an exceptionally large number of ladies present to-day, thelr bright costumes giving a gay look to the courtroom. The session opened very Interestingly with the appearance of the witness M. Cernuschf, He was dressed in a brown lounging suit. His features are unpre- pos ing, and, in fact, his general ap- pearance did very little credit to the Ser- | vian royal house, to which it is alleged | he belongs. His letter to Colonel Jouaust offering hgs testimony stated that, hav- ing been mixed up in political troubles in eign Office of a central European power. This friend, the witness said, told him that certain foreign agents In France might denounce him, the first name men- tioned being tbat of Dreyfus. Another forefgn officer, a foreign general of staff, similarly warned him. One day the wit- ness said, when he was visiting the lat- ter, he saw him take from his pocket a voluminous packet containing the mili- tary documents. The officer said that in France one could buy anything, adding, “What is the good of Jews if you don’t use them?"” Being asked if he ascertained the name of the traitor in this case, M. Cernuschi replied: ‘‘No; because the officer had already sald Dreyfus was his informant.” This answer, and the tone in which it was delivered, evoked a movement of in- credulity among the audlence. Major Carriere, representing the Government, asked the court to hold further examina- tion of this witness behind closed doors, in view of the diplomatic side of his testi- mony. M. Labor{ then announced that since the prosecution had summoned the aid of for- eign officers he intended to make applica- tion to have complete steps taken through forelgn channels to ascertain whether the documents mentioned in the bordereau were delivered to a forelgn power, and if so by whom. This announcement, if Colonel Jouaust consents to the applica- tion, will have most Important conse- quences. The words of M. Labori created a deep impression, as they made it evi- dent that counsel for the defense was on the warpath to-day. The second witness called to-day was M. Andre, clerk to M. Bertullus, Judge of the Court of Cassation, who received ihe confession of the late Lieutenant Colonel Henry. M. Andre deposed that he over- heard Lieutenant Colonel Henry exclaim: “Don’t insist, I beg of you. The honor of the army must be saved before every- thing.” The next important witness the well-known mathematician, M. Painle: who began by tearing M. Bertilion’s s tem of argumentation to piec M. Pain- leve then entered upon a personal topic, which quickly won him the close atten- tlon of the audience and brought on a dramatic scene, which kept the specta- tors in a state of excitement until he finally left the bar. M. Painleve referre to his evidence before the Court of sation, and protested vehemently again: the ver on given by General Gonse of a tion with M. Hadamard, cousin in which M. Hadamard ex- dld “Never,” M. Hadamard doubt the innocence of nis cousin.” General Gonse asked to be heard and tage. After declaring that r was insignificant, Gen- uated that the faith of 1d M. Painleve in the in- mounted the the whole mat eral Gonse ir M. Hadamard nocence of Dreyfus must have been strengthened recently. M. Painleve replied warmly, lnslstinq that he never had any doubt of Dreyfus’ innocence. The two men then went at it hammer and tongs. Painleve faced General Gonse with his arm folded and thrust home his questions and retorts until General Gonse became red in the face. Then General Roget joined in the dis- cussion. M. Labori began a cross-examination of General Gonse regarding a certain doc- ument in_the secret dossier, to which General Gonse had referred, but which had not berfn submitted to the court. M. Labori, not recelving satisfactory icl strokes the etat major have been re- | | | | | | | Austria-Hungary, he has been obliged to | Ee. | seek refuge in France, where he had a( | triend who was a high official of the For- | | | | i | JOHN Y. McKANE IS REPORTED TO BE DYING i ! i R S R R e EW YORK, Sept. 4—John Y. McKane, formerly the political boss of Coney Island and whose trial and conviction in 1894 for ballot box stufing gave him national notoriety, is dying at his home in Coney Island of acute dyspepsia. Physicians who held a consultation to-day said he would not survive the night. At 2 o'clock this (Tuesday) morning Mr. McKane was unconscious and sinking rapidly. It was not believed that he would live until daybreak. = answers, and finding that Colonel Jou- | ings. The commissary proved indirectly & aust declined to allow him to press the strong witness for Dreyfus and a corre- matter home in the wi he wished, be- ' spondingly damaging witness for the gen- came extremely indignant and protested | eral staff. His evidence brought out a with considerable warmth against )1- stance of duplicity on the part onel Joucr-ust's veto suppre This ca! a little onel Jouau the latter y a certain d o ihe Brenoh Embassador at Rome |and naturally had consultations and close geh‘;:l\'e to the payment of money to relations with officers of the bureau. Major Count Esterhazy by an Commissary Tomps began his testimony 'ht had not been included in the by paying a high tribute to Lieutenant dossier presented to the court. Colonel quart’s_correct attitude and General Gonse replied that he had not uprightness in the Dreyfus inquiry, while considered the dispatch of sufficient im- ;:{vhexi ‘;?A:x’&‘ir’;;rllglll to umlermlx(x‘%lg‘!‘reri portance to be included in the dossier | pY nSIBUAtORS FiColaney in to Colonel Jouaust here allow some of M. Labori’s questions. Labori was fuming with indignation, but was obliged to submit. M. Laborl asked General Gonse who compiled the secret dossier. “I did,”_shouted Commandant Cuignet, induce’ him to attribute to Picquart the communication of the bordereau to the Matin, in which journal, it will be re- membered, the bordereau was first pub- lished. Then Commissary Tomps came to the most important portion of his, tes- 1 vhi d to icting of his from the body of the hall. imony, which led to a restrl Gommandant Culgnet then came to the | evelations. The witness was asked if he had ever investigated the Paulmler af- bar and declared that he had omitted all | B had ever Investisated the documents from abroad, “because for- | fall, which was as followes, = o o0 0 eigners were interested in decelving us.” : o 4 g : Schwarzkoppen, the German military at- « nmmhandant flcu!glnut_ flddfdm%«m"nm” tache at Paris, and it was alleged that dispatch existed, relating to a conversa- Aot pLand : e S onibetween et tortle gEoveralgnnand v o EavEOnISCIWETKKop et desidoay s ents S ed by Dreyfus. French military attache, in the course | Qo' e e ;r,}‘gngfifm of which the sovereign, said: made to get at the truth of this story, What is now occurling in France Is | pyt Paulmier disappeared, and therefor proof of the powers of the, Jews. although the general staff could not prove This dispatich, said Cuignet, although |{he story, it could not be disproved. against Dreyfus, was also omitted from | "Ry tha question regarding . this case, the secret dossier. | Commissary Tomps replied that he had As he made this statement Command- ant Cuignet turned to a brother officer, sitting in the place set apart for wit- not inv Labori e affair, whereupon M. stigated t Hennion, sub- suggested that ) chief of the political pol , who 1s now nesses, and smiled with the self-satisfled | in Rennes superintending the precautions air of a man who had made a distinct | for the ety of witnesses, may have 2 L Dbeen intrusted with the inquiry into this . Demange and Labori immediately | case. arose and expressed surpr that fresh jonel Jouaust called to Hennion, who evidence agains hould be in- | w; nt in the courtroom, ““Come here troduced in tI M. Labori als and t fy.” M. Hennion ascended the platform and | took the oath. He declared that he did ing these doc- expressed curio: mage wh uments concerning e: being held back by general s and | investigate the case and actually found he insisted that ~all these documents | Paulmier. who told him there was not should be submitted to the court behind | a word of truth in the whole story. He ver seen any paper bearing the Dreyfus. hori at once called attention to closed doors. had The question of the reports drawn up | name by Commandant Cuignet and Officer Kat- | M tines dealing exhaustively t the general staff had sup- dossier, w then introdu , and Gen- Hennion’s report in favor of eral Billot arose to explain t, the state- and only declared that the re- t ct that he ‘took this re- ment was ine: received representing Paul- port aw with him. | raceable. T gave this report,” he sald, “to M.| Commandant Cuignet and Captain ignac, the former Minister of War.” | Junck then arose and insisted that only id M. Labori, “let us have | the report that Paulmier could not be traced had been received at the office of the general staff. M. Hennion replied, refterating that he had_forwarded a report to the gemeral staff, giving Paulmier s emphatic denial | of the whole story, M. Labori asked Commandant Cuignet and Captain Junck where the report was that they said had been recelved by tha general staff stating that M. Paulmier | Could not be found. The officers inter- rogated were obliged to admit that they | were unable to find the report. This prac- tically closed the matter. The court adjourned after deciding to sit with closed doors to-morrow to inves- tigate M. Cernuschi’s testimony. & explanation of what be- came of the report.” Colonel Jouaust called for M. Cavaig- nac, but the former Minister of War was not in the court-room and an officer was sent to seek him. Meanwhile the testimony of a_couple of minor witnesses was heard. The pro- ceedings described in the foregoing were exciting as at one time when General Chanolne and M. Paleologue were brought upon the stage to explain Commandant Cuignet’s statements there were flve wit- nesses at the bar, all speaking at once, and interrupting one another. The testi- mony throughout was interspersed with heated scenes between M. Labori and Colonel Jouaust. M. Cavaignac could not be found In the precincts of the Lycee, and it was de- cided to hear him to-morrow. commissary ,of the secret police named Tomps was called by the defense. His testimony concluded to-day’s proceed- Site for Parnell Statue. DUBLIN, Sept. 4—The corporation has granted a site near the Rotunda in Upper Sackville street for the proposed statue of Charles Stewart Parnell. If you go to your tailor through friend- ship, of course we can’t expect to interest you, but if you consider buying clothes a business investment, we want to be heard, and there are chances that we will. Say you buy one of our tailor-made suits and are pleased with it, then you are pro- tected from imperfections for one year. But if you are not pleased your money is waiting to be returned to you at your say so. A fair and square business proposition— your money’s worth or your money returned. 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