M. Labori.--“... which are authentic and still more serious. For weeks
she has been the object of all sorts of threats. Major Esterhazy visits
her house daily, with the support and protection of the police, who
do not prevent him. And Major Esterhazy threatens her with death,
if she gives up the letters. Mme. de Boulancy has also in her hands
telegrams from Major Esterhazy of a later date, in which he begs her
to give him the letters, and this is a fact known to more than one
witness. For instance, there is M. Tysse. We shall be told directly
that he will not come because, it seems, the Crédit Lyonnais threatens
him with discharge if he comes, and promises to pay his fine if he
does not come. We submit these facts to the jurors, and we ask them
whether it is M. Zola, or the minister of war by his complaint and his
limitations, who is creating in France a situation which, whatever may
be said, is really revolutionary.”
M. Albert Clemenceau.--“It was not until this morning that Mme. de
Boulancy became afflicted with heart trouble, but for two days we
have known that she would not come, and that, in the fear that the
court will send an expert physician to examine her, she will remain in
bed all day. I must add that Mme. de Boulancy has informed the court
that she lives in the Rue de Berlin. I beg the court to send either a
doctor or a sheriff’s officer to that address. He will not find Mme. de
Boulancy there.”
The Judge.--“She lives in the Boulevard des Batignolles, No. 22.”