Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-09-02

in forging the letter. which would satisfy
the nation of the justice of the sentence
which would be undesirable on the highest
political grounds. In that case Henry
might have posed as martyr to misguided
patriotism,
The tradition OF the intelligence depart
ment which at the time of the condemna-
ton of Dreyfus was under 4 conspicuous
ant-Semite, Colonel Sandherr, would prob
ably have led a blunt mind like Lieutenant
Colonel Henry's TO construe the slightest
hint from above OF the deslrability of KILL
ing off the anti-Dreyfus agitation into
order to do so by any means.
Colonel Sandherr, who was then suffer-
ing from an inc,pient paralysis, seems to
have been the head of n general conspiracy
TO hunt Jewish officers out of the French
army. Dreyfus. man of naughty de-
meanor, but of vast strategic knowledge,
would naturally be selected as n victim of
these Vaccinations.
1t is asserted that Colonel Sandherrs
last days were haunted by a fear, amount
ing to terror, lest the illegal and flippant
nature of the evidence upon which Captain
Dreyfus was condemned upon which Captain
and weaken the prestige of the intelligence
department, and that he en1oined upon
Henry, his subordinate, to guard the de-
partment's traditions at all costs.
The carelessness of the authorities in al
lowing Henry TO have a razor and in not
watching him is generally interpreted as
conniyance. and perhaps, as persuasion,
since officers under arrest and likely TO be
condemned should, according to military
regulations, be constantly watched, while
Lieutenant Henry was left hours alone and
allowed to lock the door on the inside. If
there was persuasion. II is not likely to
have been difficult. Had Henry been ex-
PEELED from the army. both himself and
wife would have lost all pension rights. AS
II is. the widow becomes entitled to a
handsome pension.
This seems a more likely motive than the
explanation based upon the alleged inco-
herent letter he left behind that he had
lost his reason.
Having died uncondemned. his remains
are entitled TO military honors, but his
brother Will take the body TO Pougy, near
Chalons. where Il will be buried on Satur-
day with the strictest privacy.
Several officers of the general staff, 1t is
said, tonight, have asked to be sent back
to their regiments. General Renouard, the
new chief-of-staff. Is understood to have
free hand and to be at liberty to replace
all the stan officers IL he thinks fit. 1t is
expected that he will resort to process of
publication.
The governments position is most un-
happy. Notice of interpretations in the
chamber of deputies multiply President
Faure is censured for leaving Paris at
such critical moment. Great efforts are
being made to get the signatures of a ma
tority of the deputies. which is necessary
ber.
The movement in favor of revision in
bounds. Considering recent events, Major
Count Walsin Esterhazy retains an ama1-
ingly cool attitude.
In the course of an interview yesterday
he expressed establishment that Leuten-
ant Colonel Henry was allowed to have a.
razor. Henry's death, he said. was re-
grettable, because, doubtless he had other
Count I5sterhazy Intends to appeal against
his enforced retirement from active serv-
ice in the army.