M. Bertillon.--“I recognize that I was wrong Saturday in allowing
myself to be dragged upon this ground. But I will add one word to
settle the question,--namely, that the point to which I called
attention is still missing. But I am fully determined, from this on, to
take shelter behind the court’s decree forbidding any mention of the
Dreyfus case.”
M. Labori.--“And I am determined, as counsel, to demand that the
decree of the court shall be observed completely, or not at all. I
affirm that this is an exact copy of the document of which M. Bertillon
made use in 1894. In vain will he affirm the contrary.”
M. Clemenceau.--“Was it from his consultation of the situation
yesterday that he got the idea of sheltering himself behind the court’s
decree? M. Bertillon has seen neither the minister of war or the
prefect of police. He tells us that he has consulted the situation. We
ask how this situation led him to refuse to speak today of the things
of which he spoke day before yesterday.”
M. Bertillon.--“The counsel will understand that, in my personal
situation, after having been concerned in the serious matter of 1894,
I feel from time to time internal ebullitions,--that my situation is
painful and tormenting.”
M. Clemenceau.--“The witness tells us that his situation is tormenting.
He means that he is an official, and that, as such, there are things
that embarrass him.”