New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-09-04
HAS DREYFUS ESCAPED?
REPORT THAT THE ALLEGED TRAITOR
HAS LEFT LIE GRAND SALUT.
THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT SEEKS TO ASCERTAIN
THE TRUTH OF THE REPoRr~sERioos
TROUBLE LIKELY TO FOLLOW
ITS CONFIRMATION.

TROUBLE LIKELY TO FOLLOW
ITS CONFIRMATION.
Davis sent mo information has reached
,be French Government regarding the report Oh
tho. escape of Captain Dreyfus. formerly OF the
1,ro,ch ARMY and an attache Of the war MINI
,s,rv who was publicly degraded and sentenced
90 ,,fo IMPRISONMENT in a fortress upon coh'lc-
,,or of having sold to foreign Government
We Denartment secrets. The authorizes nave
..,os,anhed 10 the Governor of French Gu'aha
,or q confirmation or denial of the report
,r,,o ooh,o report concerning the alleged escape
~ CAPTAIN Dreyfus from his prison IN the Isle ..
e., on the coast OF French Guiana, may nc onN
sailors yarn told by the captain OF br'"s"
..,nor THAT escape seemed TO have been mace
utterly impossible thanks TO the eN''ao,"l,a''
measures of protection taken by the rrehVh "o'
crument 1t is remembered that DTeyius' io',
nunu Of the Polytechnic School was empoSe" III
,nc oacc of the Ministry Of War where ne sloi'
sn,o,,s relative 10 the mobilization OF the
rrench army and delivered them to the German
,.robass,, He was sentenced to life imprisonment
IN January 1896. and most of the french p"p'.N
asserted then that he should have been sent u
the platoon of execution =, nd
1-b.v -ecalod the case of traitor Bazaine, VINO hau
surrendered In 1870 to tho Germans the ci'y OF ''
cd his army of 10000 men. lie was sentenced 10
aea,h bv the Council OF War at Versailles IN iS''' p"'
In
.ba sentence was commued 10 life imprisonment III
the isle OF sain,e Marguerite. near Mafseh'es rom
which Marshal Bazaine quietly escaped soon ai'ei
his arrival The Government was accused men
of haVlDg conriVed the escape throuei, ~ 49,
pathy for an ex-Marshal OF the Empire an9 ~, 1a
hrother-.n-arns OF President McMahcn. ''oIs uo
after Bazaine's Night scandal was raised y, oS
on tho discovery that Marshal De Clssey Minister VI
War was on intimate terms with Baroness vi vi
KAMA n female spy in the German service. 7on ae
other evidences OF the work Of German SPIES III
France had raised public temper 10 nign ptcss'
uhen The treason Of Captain DreyfuS was e.
Tine opposition papers complained OF the Hli1'Ss
of his sentence and announced that he woulG ilo1
.tav long in prison, since he was wealthy ana pc
ionced 10 the clan of the rich Hebrews so inllu-
ential they said. in Ministerial offices HoWeNeI'
the French Government took specal precau'tsoIIs,
II ordered that the barren and isolated Isle OF ie
Grand Salut should he evacuated by us Few cOnNIVt
residents and reserved exclusively for the keeping
Of Captain Dreyfus lie was transported 'n1Ie
from his temporary confinement at the isle OF re
as soon as all preparations had been perfected ne
lived in the Grand Salut alone, with guardians Wno
were even ordered never to speak 10 him. ana WIN.
ont any communication with the exterior woru: II
would seem very strange that permission shoui1
have been granted to his wife, the daushier Gl ~,
Hadamard. "a wealthy diamond dealer In Parls, 20
come and share the captivity of her husband II
this be true. and II Captain Dreyfus has really es-
caped frightful uproar will be raised In france;
and grave political consequences may De eNpecteo
IN arise over the fight Of the traitor.