The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-09-08
HIS N|FE'S FIDELITY
Is That to Which Dreyfus VIII
Owe His Liberty.
SHE HAS NEVER DOUBTED
Story Of Her Heroic Efforts in
His Behalf.
New York, Sept. The Journal says:

I
! Jehovah, God or Providence will ere long
crush his enemies and restore him to me.
LUCE EUGENE DREYFCS."
These words Of Nine. Dreyfus addressed
to the editor Of the Journal. are the proph
ecy Of me ever faithful wife and the
most untiring seeker FOR justice that the
world knows about today.
From the time the charge OF treason
was brought against her husband, Cap
tain Alfred Dreyfus. she has believed in
his innocence.
When he was degraded before the army
of France in the public square in Paris,
she raised her hands 10 heaven and vowed
that she would never rest until she had
proven his innocence.
When Colonel Henry confessed last
week that he had forged the letter that
was the chief evidence against Captain
Dreyfus, Nine. Dreyfus fell upon her
knees in an ecstacy of Thanksgiving.
at is coming. He will be freed. o.,
God, 1 thank Thee" she cried.
Her face was that of a glorified Meme
sis Nemesis she is proving to be to
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chiefest Of her husbands enemies, her
sad face has always had a Gorgon hor-
ror about it. Who knows but that this
spell may ilave driven him to make the
needless and fearfully discriminating con-
fession to the French minister, last week
and later to suicide? 1t was a confession
that will in all probability force a reopen
ing Of the Dreyfus case. This is the end
toward which Nine. Dreyfus has worked
INCREASINGLY for more than three years.
In the autumn Of 1894 a scrap of paper
was found in the waste basket in the
Office of the Germa nEmbassy. 1t was
a memorandum of certain information to
a hostile power regarding the disposition
Of the army. 1t was an unsigned letter
which read:
WITHOUT news indicating that you wish
to see me- send you mean while, Mon
sieuer several interesting pieces Of in
formation:
1. "a note on the hydraulic brake of
the 10th, and the manner in which it
is used.
2. "a note on the covering troops (sev-
eraI notifications will be made by the
new plan).
3. "a note on the notifications Of the
artillery formations.
T. "A note relative to Madagascar.
5. 1.-THE project of the firing manual
of the field artillery Oath of March 1S94)
This last document is extremely diff
cult TO procure. and I can only have it
at my disposal for few days. The Min
istry Of War has sent few numbers to
the corps, and these corps are responsible
for them, and each officer having one
must return it after the manouevres. If,
therefore, you wish to take from it what
interests you and keep il at my disposition
should wish tht I copy it in extenso and
send you the copy.
AZ am going to start for the manoue-
vres."
The handwriting was said to resemble
that Of Captain Dreyfus, OF the Four
teenth Artillery, then engaged on special
detail in the Department of War. On
the strength of this resemblance of hand
writing, Captain Dreyfus was court-mar-
tailed upon a charge of furnishing infor-
nation of the War Department of France
TO the German Embassy. Three handwrit
ing experts said the letters were written
by Captain Dreyfus. Two were convinced
that il was not. At a moment when ii
appeared that it would be impossible to
convict the French officer upon evidence
so slight, a letter was handed to the
presiding officer. Upon thisradloiaHrodl
It purported to be a letter from a Ger
man attache TO an Italian attache in
Paris, limiting strongly that Captain Drey
fus was guilty. Upon this evidence he
was convicted
on January 5. 1895. the unhappy man
was taken 10 the Champs du Mar. the
largest parade ground in Paris. where
&c00 French troops had assembled. The
verdict or the court-martial having been
read, a lieutenant snatched the officers
sword from his hand and broke II across
his knee. He tore the buttons and epau-
letes from Dreyfus uniform while the
frenzied crowd screamed "Oh, traitre!
Traitre.'
Meanwhile Drcyfu's voice could be heard
shouting "Vive la France. Vive la
France The spectacle was 50 pitiful that
many of the spectators who mad come
TO execrate shed tears
Captain DreyfUs was banished 10 the
Isle du Diable. of the coast of French
Guiana, South America. 1t was formerly
a leper island. II is so unhealthy that
some Of his guards have died there. and
so lonely that one becomes insane. He
sleeps in chains and is kept in an iron
cage. He has grown grey and dscrepi.
in three years.
Despite all this. Nine. Dreyfus pleaded
to be allowed tosfare his exile This
poor boon was denied her. Meanwhile
her husband wrote der from his place of
exile: Il rely upon you to solve this
horrible mystery"
Then Nine Dreyfus set to work. Every
waking moment was given to plans for
the vindication 81 her much-wronged hus-
band. All her sleeping moments were tor
tured by dreams Of her husband dying in
the far-ofT Isle du Diabie. And while she
worked she prayed.
She journeyed 70 Berlin and threw her
self az the feet Of the Emperor William
OF Germany.
a word from YOU. sire-only a word.
Say 70 the French ministry that You never
reviewed Information from my hsband''
The German Emperor spoke the word
she craved. He directed that s. be Off
cially given out that no information mad
ever come % the German Embassy from
Captain Dreyfus. Prominent German Of
fcials followed the statement OF their
sovereign in interviews for the press. IN
conversation. and even in sfterdinner
speeches. This was q powerful beginning