Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-11-02


fishes a Sensational Article Saying That
Secret Articles Have Been Burned-M.
Dupuy Said To BE Having Trouble in
Forming n New French Ministry.
Paris, Oct 31.-At last the wheels of
Justice are turning and the creaking
steals across the white-crested waves
to the Isle du Diable, where, in his sun
eaten solitude, sits Alfred Dreyfus, the
victim of a secret trial, revision of
which has just been ordered. The
court of cessation gave heed to the re-
port Of NJ. Bard and accepted the in
junction Of Public Prosecutor Manau-
Dreyfus gets a revision.
A supplementary inquiry will be in
stituted, but Dreyfus will not breathe
the air of liberty as his friends had
hoped. His release was not ordered by
the court. This must not be considered
a constructive refusal to release the
prisoner. for strong appeal was made
which the court declined absolutely to
grant.
Dossier Said To Be Burned.
And now comes a sensation which
may not down unless the morsel prove
a delusion-it is that the secret dossier
and other documents dear to Dreyfus,
could his friends but use them in his
behalf have been burned. This story
was started by NJ. Yvos Guyot, whose
claim is printed in the Steele. He says
the papers were burned some days ago.
In support of this is the knowledge that
General de Boisdeffre, soon after Drey
fus was sent to his ocean-bound cell,
ordered that all these documents should
be consigned to flame. He is said to
have been angry when he learned his
orders had not been carried out The
sudden appearance of a wild-eyed,
roughly dressed dynamiter of world
wide reputation, bearing a loaded and
primed bomb under each arm, in the
court of cessation, would have caused
little more CONSERVATION than did the
closing words of Public Prosecutor
manaus address to the judges.
Must Find the Culprit.
M. Manau declared the court could
not annull the sentence imposed upon
Dreyfus without a retrial of the prison.
er. He added:
You must fix the responsibility. II
Dreyfus Is innocent, the culprit must
not go unpublished"
The public prosecutor. continuing,
proceeded to argue on the same lines
as M. Bard, the reporter of the case,
urging a revision of the trial and
dwelling upon the fallibility of the
writing experts. He also suggested
that Major Esterhazy should testify on
the subject of the bordereau, saying:
He can admit it's authorship with
| impunity, since court-martial has ac-
| quilted him Of being the author Of It,
But What a service he has rendered to
the countryain confessing that he is its
| author, and what service he will rem
, der to unhappy Dreyfus.''
NJ. Manau concluded with denouncing
''the villainous attacks on the partisans
of revision" and made strong plea
that the court be not influenced by out
side pressure. but that it decide in ia
vor of a revision of the case, and the
immediate provisional liberation Of
| Dreyfus.
Letter from General Come.
| At this stage Of the proceedings NJ
Bard read letter from General Come
| to the president of the court of cessa-
ton, in which the general said:
II have just heard of memorandum
| introduced in court, in which Picquart
| accused me of dishonorable action.
never previously heard of this memoir
andum, and I wish to deny most for
mally Picquart's allegations. I think
my word is of greater value than that
Of a man imprisoned on the suspicion
| Of forgery"
The reading Of the last statement
called forth loud protests in court. The
reporter added that as Colonel Pic
| quarts memorandum was publicly read
1t was only justice to read General
Comes denial The president Of the
court ordered that the generals letter
be added to the documents in the case,
and the court adjourned.