The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-09-06
MADAME pREYFUS APPEAL.
Besought the Minister CT Justice to
Revise the Case.

New York, Sept. "a dispatch to the
Herald from Paris says: Following is the
text of Madame Dreyfus demand to the
minister of justice for a revision of her
husbands trial:
Il had the honor in the month Of July
to place before you a request in which 1
asked you TO exercise the right conferred
upon you by law-and which is conferred
upon no one elSe-to transmit TO the court
OF cessation for reconsideration the
Judgment rendered against my unfortun-
ate husband, in violation of article 1G1 of
| the military code.
again to address you, a second time ap-
peaiing to you, because the law which
governs such revision does not permit
me directly and by my own agency to
invoke justice. You, and you alone have
the right 10 effect a revision of a judg-
ment bringing with it condemnation, on
the ground of the discovery of new facts,
tending to establish the innocence OF the
condemned man, quite distinctly and
without reference to or assistance from
all the revelations of many months past,
which nave thrown SO much light upon
the Judicial error of 1884 and which have
caused such profound emotion and excite
ment throughout the country.
1T IS not possible that you, above all
others, should not be struck by the fol-
lowing facts:
First, there is the examination of the
bordereau, which was made in the trial
OF January of this year The result of
communicated
TO my counsel, the council OF war refusing
them access to it, but / have certain in
formation that the conclusions draw from
the examination were not the same as
the examination of 1894
There is also, following this exposure
a confession made by one OF the prin-
ciDal accusers and witnesses against my
husband in his trial, in which he admits
that he forged a document that the min
lister of war, in his speech to the cham
Der, July last, declared to be proof posi-
tive or the guilt of my husband, though
1t was written long after his condemna-
ton.
This proof therefore. crumbles to
pieces and destroys the value of the depo-
sitions which convinced the Judges in
1884, since this witness of the culr1a bility
OF my husband has been convicted of the
crime Of forgery under circumstances of
which you are fully aware.
But, NJ. lie Ministre, as I have just
told you, In the case of a revision inSti-
tuted by law for judicial errors, the right
to demand such revision belongs neither
to the innocent man, who has been un-
justly condemned, nor to his wife, nor to
his children. That right belongs to you
alone. | now, therefore, NJ lie Ministre,
beseech you to use without delay the
rights which are conferred upon you by
law, which are only conferred upon you
both for the annulment and revision of
a verdict which was neither just nor
legal.
Il beseech you to hear the voice almost
unanimous, of public opinion, and put an
end to the sufferings of an innocent man,
who has always been loyal soldier, and
who has not ceased, amid the tortures of
love for the fatherland and his faith in
justice being finally done him.
I beg you will receive. NJ lie Ministre.
the assurance of my most distinguished
consideration
(Signed)
'LUCIE ALFRED DREYFIIS'