The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-09-08

4 pleading letter reached the Queer
Regent OF Spain.
Not one Of these potentates but expires
sed friendly concern and a desire 20 see
the Dreyfus case probed 10 the bottom
Opinions from these high sources pro
| duced a vast number OF reflected opinions
! of The same nature. The pebbles dropped
! by Nine. Dreyfus were sending out some
! far-reacting ripples
! The Steele, the most powerful of the
Dreyfus papers. published all the cor
respondence between the exiled husband
and waiting wife. The letters made many
converts to the Dreyfus side in what has
| become to be called tire Panama Mill
! taire'
| Nine Dreyfus next saw Minister OF
| War BIllot, and later his successor, Min
| lister Cavaignac. She laid before them
what she considered undisputable proof
of her husbands innocence. She saw,
too, the Foreign Minister, NJ. Manaotaux,
and brought some evidence to his atten-
ton.
Her incesant, sluth-Iike upturning of
evidence secured the trial OF Colonel
Esterhazy, a fellow officer of Captain
Dreyfus, upon the charge Of treason for
furnishing Information of the War De-
partment to the German Government.
| The evidence against EsterhaZy was not
sufficient to convict. He escaped with a
Scotch verdict, but the doubt IN the
minds of the French people was growing.
Esterhazy had not been fully exonerated.
Was he the culprit? If not, who had
written that memorandum found in the
hos
Was it Dreyfu or? The French army
and civilians were thinking about the
Dreyfus case with more interest, If less
fury, than at the time of the officers trial
and degradation. The leaven of Nine.
Drepfus's placing was working.
She secured the keen personal interest
OF NJ lola, the greatest living novelist.
Aroused by the case brought to his door,
az it were, by the beautiful, saddened
wife Of the exiled officer, lola wrote some
infamatory pleas for justice for Captain
Dreyfus. They were published in the
Aurore, and by their attacks upon the
integrity of the off1ced of the court-mar-
tial that had condemned Dreyfus, aroused
the populace to a frenzy of debate that
resulted in numerous street fights, filed
the prisons and all but precipitated a
general riot. lola and the publishers of
the Aurore were sued for libel. They
were tried and received sentences Of i'm
prisonment for one year. They declared
themselves like Dreyfus, martyrs of an
anti-Jewish conspiracy. The Parsians
were inflamed almost TO the mob pitch.
The work Of Captain Dreyfus's faithful
young wife was telling.
Max Nordau, pessmist, philosopher
dipped his pen in concentrated gall and
wrote of the wrongs of Captain Alfred
Dreyfus and the corruption of the French
army. Nine. Dreyfus smiles upon this
last evidence of her success. Nordaus
example wasinfectious. Writers on both
sides of the continent contributed the
labors of their pens TO the cause of Cap
tain Alfred Dreyfus. prisoner for life in
the Isle du Diable Mr.. David Carvalho
and other expert caligraphists gave the
weight of their evidence in the prisoners
favor. The eliminating document was
pronounced a forgery.
Colonel Picquardt and Colonel Henry,
friend and foe. respectively, of the con-
demned man, fought a duel in the woods
on the edge of Paris. Truly the ball set
growing a wonderous size.
Last Wednesday the city wrang with
the sensational disclosure made by Colo
mel Henry of the French army, and two
hours later of his suicide at the military
prison at Mont Valerin.
To NJ. Cavaignac, Minister Of War,
whom Nine. Dreyfus called upon, be it
remembered, Colonel Henry acknowledged
that he wrote the letter which had con-
victed Captain Dreyfus. 1t was the one
alleged TO have been written by a member
OF the German Embassy to an Italian
attache pointing to Dreyfus as the guilty
man.
Paris was stupefed by the confession.
The anti-Dreyfus portion of the Paris
press, was silent, the pro-Dreyfus contin-
gent jubilant.
Colonel Picquardt, a warm friend OF
Captain and Mrs. Dreyfus. secured the
arrest of Colonel Henry. He was brought
before the Minister Of War. and, being
pressed. made a full confession, the malice
of which shocked the Minister and Gen
eral Rogert. who was present.
on Tuesday evening all Paris was agag
with the story. One person was calm.
cry of gratitude TO heaven she was quiet,
saying only: 1T is coming. The END is
very close now. Thank Cod
II is confidently expected that Colonel
Henry's confession Will reopen the Drey-
fus case. Nine. Dreyfus's direct appeals
have been refused upon technical grounds.
but no evasion. it is believed, can pre-
vent a repetition of the famous trial.
Il IS all the work Of a frail, beautiful
tender. woman. one who believed IN her
husbands innocence and spared neither
time nor money nor effort nor prayer il
his behalf
II he is made again an honored citizen
OF France. the country for whom he
chesred even while it degraded him. as
Christ upon the cross prayed. Father.
forgive them. for they know not what
they do" re viii owe his liberty 10 the
noblest matron Of them all. she who
wrote: II am convinced OF my husbands
absolute innocence and mean 20 prove IL
Jehovah. God OF Providence viii ere long
crush his enemies and restore him 70
me-
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