The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-11-06

SpOHutHce anu pdpGTS remaining II
Paris We're confiscated and ransacked
I Esterhazy kept up his communication
with Du Patty de Clam, and later ex
planned the transmission of the secre
document by whole romance about I
! yelled lady, with regard to which tn,
war department afterward pretended t.
have made an inquiry
On December 4, 1897. the Dreyfus af-
fair again came up in the chamber oil
deputies, and on the declaration Of
General Billot and NJ. Meline thai
Dreyfus had been Justly ana legally
| condemned, the chamber upheld the
authority of the decision aud de-
nounced as detractors of the army M
I Scheurer-Kestner and all those who
impugned the judgment of 1894. M Me-
| line declared that there was now an
Esterhazy affair."" but no longer a
''Dreyfus affair.""
M. Scheurer- Kestner by an interpret
lation addressed to General Riliot, in
| the senate, urged the imposslbility OF
/ trying Esterhazy without Introducing
| the memorandum. He carried his point
and it was sent to Commandant Rova-
/ ~, who had charge of the inquiry
! proper. But that officer followed the
same course as did General de FelIeux,
and directed his inquiry against Pic
quart and in favor of Esterhazy Final
~, Commandant Ravary was rot al
lowed to draw up his own report. but
another drew it from his notes. With
such proceedings it was to be expect
ed that Esterhazy would be acquitted,
and he was declared innocent on Jan
uary II, 1898, Meanwhile anticipating
| q popular demand for a revision 3of the
Dreyfus case false news was spread
abroad tending to show that it would
bring on war with Germany. Let
tiers were forged from Count Munster,
from Dreyfus to Emperor william, and
from the emperor to Dreyfus
M. Emile lola the novelist, who had
already supported the cause OF Drey-
fus, first in the Figaro" and later in
the "Aurore." on January IS published
letter in the 'Aurore," entitled 'JAc-
cuse." In it he denounced with pas
slonate eloquence all who had taken
part in the condemnation of Dreyfus
in 1898, and in the acquttal of Ester
hazy and defied the government to
prosecute him. The government ac-
cepted his challenge, but prosecuted
him solely for having said that Ester
Hays judges had acquitted him by
order He was tried in the court of as
sizes, Paris The trial lasted from Feb
ruray to February % The president
of the court prevented. so far as pos
sble, the witnesses summoned by lola
from giving any evidence on the Drey-
fus question, but in spite of the Judge
the witnesses and Zolas counsel, Mai
ire Labor, established the illega1ity of
Dreyfus's condemnation, the triviality
of the facts of which he had been con-
demned, the error committed by the
judges in regard TO the memorandum,
and the certainty that the memoran-
DUN was ESterhaZy's work. Cen de
PellieuX was instructed to give the jury
summary of the forged correspond
ence manufactured by Colonel Henry
in which Dreyfus was mentioned by
Panizzardi to Schwarzkoppen. General
de Boisdeffre certified TO the Authentic
ity of the correspondence, and threat
ened the jury with the resignation of
the whole general staff if lola were
acquitted. Thus intimidated, the COM
PLEASANT jury condemned lola without
eXtenuating circumstances, While the
crowd applauded Esterhazy as the in
carnation of the honor of the army.
lola appealed to the court of casa
ton. That court quashed the judg-
ment of the court of assizes, on the
ground that the proceedings against
lola should have been brought by the
court-martial which he had attacked,
and not by the minister of war The
members of the court-martial brought
a fresh action. The trial was removed
to the court Of assizes at Versailles, but
lola pleaded a technicality in the in
dictment and the case was again re-
ferred to the court of cessation A
third time it came up before the court
of assizes at Versailles, and Zola again
appealed to the court OF cessation to
uphold the connection between the
Dreyfus and Esterhazy affairs, and
was condemned by default lola had
meantime left France to await an OPP
portunity more favorable to an I'M
biased judgment of the case.
Meanwhile the elections had brought
change in the government, and with
it M. Brisson became premier and M.
Cavaignac minister of war. On assum-
ing that office the latter announced
that he intended to make a personal
study of the Dreyfus case, and ON July
made a speech in the chamber Of
deputies that aroused such great en-
thusiasm that the chamber voted al
most unanimously that it should be
placarded all over France. He based
his assertions of Dreyfus' guilt on the
pretended confessions made by Dreyfus
to Captain Lebrun- Renault, just before
the degradation of Dreyfus, on the two
documents relating to the spy 3D." and
on the correspondence ascrihed to NM.
Schwarzkoppen and Panizzardi.
Six weeks after Cayaignac's speech
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i,a,5izza ard c9,resnondenee and Two
otbar. doc,,r,s,7te ana taken 10 nrison
where he committed suicide the next
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ricn,,9rf bae stood firmly for tbe truth
and bae sscrificed Hi safefv his mil
IT, f,,tl1re and almost His life when
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Esterbazv Mile paws and peThaps On
paw NJ clam we're 70 he arrested for
ec,,s.e,,, ha caused the arrest of pic
d',isrt e., ba1.inp violated the law of
es,9tonaee nv consulting a LAWYER when
~ ,,5ae head az the jntellirence bureau.