Yesterday was chiefly devoted to the Story of the Con'ession. Capt. Lebrun-Renault came forward with x fine impassibility and repeated his ori inal version of what he declares he heard Dreyfus say just hoefore his degradation, Tam innocent. The War Minister (General Mercier) knows that if I revealed secrets it was to obtain others of gre.ter importance." To take the most. charitable view of this witness, he is a marvel of obstinacy and selfishness. Rather than admit that he might have misunderstood words uttered under the influence of excitement, Captain Lebrun-Renault is ready to help to send the unfortunate man back to De Accorling to his own statement the Captain wrote Nothing special to note" in his report of the day's proceedings. He says he afterwards noted the Confession in his pocket-book, which he kept for some time, then tore out the leaf and burnt the rest of the pocket-book. He kept. this leaf for four years, allowed M. Cavaignac to copy it, and then burnt the original. What are we to think of a man who first destroys what is indispensable to prove the genuineness of a paper and then does away with the paper itself just at a time when it is needed to support his assertions? Dreyfus' words are said to have been ove~- heatd by a Captain d'Attel, who was in the next oom for five minutes; but Capt. @Attel, like Lebrun-Renault, never re-Bape @'Attel is mow dead. hut that, did red what he had heard to his superiors.
not prevent the prosecution from making a desperate effort to utilise him. A Capt. Anthoine was brought forward to state that Capt. d'Attel mentioned the confession to him, but he was unable to say whether Capt. a'Attel heard the words'in question from the prisoner's own lips. To confirm this "confirmation" another officer went into the avitness box to repeat the same story told him by Capt. Anthoine on the authority of Capt. d'Attel; this is a very good sample of the manner in which the prosecution is carried on.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.