New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-11-15
TPElSON TRIAL IN FRANCE.
.,,rrLrRY CAPTAIN ACCUSED OF SELLING
80 FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS MILITARY DoCu.
NrNrs STOLEN FROM THE GEN
r.c,r ct ,Fl"S OFFICES

t.,prrGN GOVERNMENTS MILITARY DOCV-
urNrs STOLEN FROM THE GEN
EgAL sTAFFs OFFICES
. .s.ont cable dispatch from Paris reported the
-. ,here of Captain Dreyfus charges Of high
as. The latest Paris papers at hand publish
particulars OF tha regretable incident which
s'" N.sinc great excitement throughout France.
orras. was made October l6 but ken.
~. hv the Mlniste: Of War for nearly fortnight
So, end of which time some lndiscretion was com,
go and the facts began to leak out The ar
ih,.s officer Is NJ Alfred Dreyfus captain in the
w. Artillery Regiment. He lived with his wife and
~ ~ biljrsn in a sumptuous apartment in the Ave-
10" In Trocadcro in the fashionable quarter Of
~. He married. five years ago. Nile. IIadamard
rh,.r Of a well-known diamond dealer. CAPTAIN
.f,s Il Of Hebrew extraction. His father is one
- ,ss wealthiest cotton manufacturers at Mnl-
80, a French city now annexed to GERMANY
- nrcvfus family is allied with many Hebrew
nies influential in France. and on this account
,n,or was spread 10 the effect that for this rea-
- .se arrest hal beer kept secret long and that
r.,,s were made b. N"Known bankers in Paris
" cave their coreligionst. Drcysus was born at
w.m,rsen in 1S9 lie entered the Polytechnic
ss,,l IN ISIS ard was made lieutenant OF artillery
" ,ss, and captain in 1SS9. He was attached 10
- Second Bureau % the General Staff where
lure plans OF mobilization and of other military
.s,res Of great Importance are discussed pre-
..nl and drawn up. Some OF these confidential
,,unuen;s have been sold by Captain Dreyfus TO
-, Italian Government which communicated them
. us allies of the Dreibund. Germany and Austria
:, 4. add,l. also that tho traitor, who Is said 10
- made confession had given to his foreign
,sSssrls The names of some French officers sent
i.hr"sd or a secret mission. and two of whom
sn.ss,sJ last year at KEEL by the German authori-
,s II is difficult to divine the motives which led
Ecnar preyfus to commit his reasonable acts
,,afwas rich. and made great display in the Bots
4" Rouogn" with his equpages. 1t is possible.
,orsvsr that as he was gambler. he may have
nesisd money 20. pay unexpected losses. 1t is also
ia mai he was Jealous OF his fellow officers who
~, ga bcen sent or foreign missions. and that he
sought revenge
g., II Cochefart CommsSarv of Police. All the
,.gcials who had been employed in investigating
w. case AMI affecting the arrest had been sworn
- secrecy under pain OF dismissal. VI. Cochcfert
,yaye]led through the south % France and Italy,
rsence he returned With sufficient evidence 10
.rsiy the arrest Of the Captain. which VAS
s~erfsd when the latter was leaving cafe In the
ponhyard ST German. 1t appears that the first
syspicion OF treason was aroused by the dcclara-
lion OF a woman. who was arrested two years
SEQ AS being spy in the interest of foreign
l;ofernnen; No definite facts are yet known.
however. in regard TO that treason case and the
french Minister OF War. General MERCER. is vio-
isn,ly blamed by the press for keeping the public