Phoenix weekly herald. [volume] (Phoenix, Maricopa County, Ariz. Territory) 1896-1899, 1898-11-24
DREYFUs IN BRIEF.

The Court of Cessation having grant
the application for revision of the
l)reyfus court martial. and as con
sequence the fifth act Of the grand
melodrama being about to begin, n
summary of the antecedent action is
II order. Nearly five years ago there
was taken from the scrap basket of
the German ambassador in Paris. a
manuscript outlining the mobiliza ton
nians on the Vosges frontier 1t was
the janitor of the embassy. man in
the pay of the French War Office. who
did the trick At the head of this of
fee was General Boisdeffre. Among
the sbualterns was Dreyfus. The
LATTER was triply unpopular. First. be-
cause he was Jew Second. because
he was n Hebrew. Third. because he
was Semitic. On the manuscript Gen.
Boisdeffre instantly scented the foetor
judaicus. But two noses being better
than one it was submitted to Patty du
Clam. He also thought 1t pungent.
Colbert. the expert of the Bank of
France. to whom it was then sent. and
with it q specimen of DrevfuS hand
writing smelled a rat indeed. but
where or what he could not say. The
report of Bertillon was equally inccn-
elusive But at the War Office the
odor was patent Dreyfus was sum-
moned and ordered to copy the manu-
script His palsied hand refused In
place of a pen he was given a revolver
Again his hand refused. Paragraph 3
of the Constitution of 1913 had abol-
ished the death penalty for political
offenses. Pehind the law it was oh
vious that he proposed to skulk ''You
are a scoundrel," said Boisdeffre; Il
arrest YOU"
4 Dreyfus tossed thereon into prison. |
was put through the third degree 1t /
resulted in nothing In the trial which !
cnsued so sure did his acquital Seem |
that it was expected that he would re-
-eive the Legion of Honor 1t was an
other cross he got. At the last mo-
p,ent There was produced a letter from
Colonel Won Schwartzkopren. Military
Attache to the German Embassy. in
he course of which the writer. after
ouching not over delicately ON certain
ndelicate matters. wound ND as fol-
ows: lie tsic) canail1e de D-devi-
mt trop eXigeant." This letter alleg-
d to have been found in the rooms of
Iajor Panizzardi an italian diplomat
0 whom ii was addressed. was not
to the accused on to his
ounen. 1t constituted what has since
cen known as the piece secre te." the
ecret document on which Dreyfus
ras condemned A month later. in
be square of the military school, the
1-iSoner WAS degraded. Without the ,
.oh cried: Down with the Jews. ,
rom within. Dreyfus answered. 81 ,
m Innocent" That innocence his bro
Ter. ,Marlieu Drevfus. presently set
mt to establish. With the aid of ,
cheurer Kestner-the last of the AL =
,tian IDENTITIES still sitting in the :
iving Fsterhazv M. charged will fhe :
of the waste-hasket manu- !;
ript. Acquittal at once. embraced :
Y the judge and hailed by the mob. I
I'd that swashbuckler but mounted a
and pranced on the boule-
lrds he miglt have been proclaimed
ctator. Yet meanwhile doubt
int Mt first. then famed into fame
Zola. had been expanding. To ex
lguish it. NJ. Cavaignac. Minister of
ar in the recent Brisson Cabinet. u
ated to the Chamber OF Deputies. a
at. apart from the manuscript. fire. :,
table evidence of DreyfuS guilt was p
ntained in n second niece secrpte ~
lat''nnece. another Schwartz-Copl en-
Henry. chief of the n
'ench Spy DEPARTMENT. recently pd- ,,
itted he had forged. In Wow of the 7,
cts one may wonder which is The ~
ore curious and typical of France !,
g story of the Iron Mask. the MIR .,
7 of the Duo ii Enghcin. or the Tor
emada trial and torture of this hap- T,
IS Jew.-Edgar Saltus in Golfers q,