The Judge.--“First of all, M. Bertillon, will you tell us what this
plan is?”
M. Bertillon.--“The significance of this plan in this case is
sufficiently great, in that it is a material proof that the experts
in the first trial were of the same opinion as those of the second.
But I am absolutely determined to say nothing, unless the documents
are produced,--as well those that were taken from the blotting-pad as
those that were seized in the war department. I am perfectly willing
to make my demonstration public, but I ask that the court put me in a
position to do so by furnishing the documents. Then I will make the
demonstration. But I warn you that it will be rather long. Perhaps it
would take two sessions.”