The Judge.--“You may go on. The witness has told you that he will not
answer you.”
M. Clemenceau.--“Has not the witness said that he learned of it
through a letter signed ‘Speranza,’ received in the country, October
20, 1897, in which Colonel Picquart was denounced, and in which it
was said that Colonel Picquart had paid soldiers for specimens of his
handwriting? [Silence.] Did not the witness learn through the note
published in ‘Le Matin’ on October 10, ten days before the 20th, that
M. Scheurer-Kestner knew who wrote the _bordereau_? [Silence.] When
the witness returned to Paris, did he not observe the resemblance in
the writing, and did he not say that there was a frightful resemblance
between the writing of the _bordereau_ and his own? [Silence.] Will the
witness explain concerning the veiled lady, and the circumstances under
which she conveyed to him the liberating document? [Silence.] Did not
Major Esterhazy have four meetings with the veiled lady? [Silence.] At
the second meeting, near the spot where now stands the Bridge Alexander
III, did not the veiled lady hand to Major Esterhazy an envelope
containing a liberating document? [Silence.] Did not Major Esterhazy
declare before the council of war that he had carried this document,
this liberating document which affirmed his innocence, in an envelope
to the war department, without knowing what the envelope contained?”
[Silence.]
The Judge.--“Go on.”
M. Clemenceau.--“When the witness deposited this liberating document
at the war department, did they not give him a receipt for it?
[Silence.] When he appeared at the war department with a secret
document stolen from its most secret closet, was not Major Esterhazy
afraid of being arrested as an accomplice in a robbery? [Silence.] Has
not Major Esterhazy made endeavors to find the veiled lady again?”
[Silence.]
The Judge.--“Go on.”
M. Clemenceau.--“Will Major Esterhazy tell us what, in his opinion,
were the motives that led Lieutenant-Colonel Picquart to accuse him?
[Silence.] Does Major Esterhazy admit that he has written articles
signed ‘Dixi’ for ‘La Libre Parole’? Is Major Esterhazy aware that ‘La
Libre Parole’ lately declared that the articles thus signed were from
his pen? [Silence.] In these articles did Major Esterhazy seriously
insult Colonel Picquart, and especially accuse him of having been
bought in 1896? [Silence.] Does Major Esterhazy admit having had
relations with Colonel de Schwarzkoppen?”
The Judge.--“Oh! nothing about that. Not a word concerning foreign
politics.”