The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1898-09-22
DRfYfUS IS IN DANGER
BY REASON OF A REBELLION OF
GUIANA CoNVICTS
THE GUARDS ORDERED TO KILL
If Any Attempt Is Made to Release
the Prisoner-Col. Picquart
Fears Murder
Associated Press Special Wire.

Associated Press Special wire.
LONDON, Sept. 21--A special dispatch
from Paris says the Deputy representing
French Guiana, in the Chamber has re-
ceived a dispatch announcing that a mu-
iiny has taken place among the convicts at
Cayenne. the capital of French Guiana. The
mutineers, 1t appears, overpowered and
murdered their guards, then stormed the
military store house and seized the arms
and ammunition there. They are now, ac-
cordng to the dispatch, besieging the prin-
Icipal prison and 1t Is feared that they may
succeed in freeing the four thousand con-
vlcts confined in the building. Reinforce
ments have been telegraphed for to the is
lard Of Martinique.
Devils Island, where Alfred Dreyfus,
the former Captain in the French Artil-
lery, is confined under sentence for having
sold secrets Of war office to foreign gov
eminent. is but a short distance from Cay
Ienne and 1t is possible that the revolt of
convists may be the death-knell of the
prisoner, whose condemnation has so
stirred up the French nation, for his guards
are under strict orders to kill him II any
attempt is made to release him. or II there
Is any possibility Of his escaping.
Picquart's Persecution
PARIS, Sept. 21.-The papers here say
he Minister Of War, General Chanoine has
examined the documents in the Dreyfus
case. and has ordered the prosecution Of
former Colonel Picquart on the charge Of
forgery and using forged documents.
In Fear Of Murder
PARIS, Sept 21-The trial of Colone,
Picquart and NJ. Loblols, lawyers, on the
charge of revealing documents concerning
| the national defense, was to have begun
| today before the Correctional Tribunal. The
public prosecutor, however. asked for an
adjournment on the ground that The prose-
cution Of Colonel Picquart on the charge
| Of forgery and using forged documents had
been ordered by the Minister of War. M.
| Laborie, who was counsel for NJ. lola dur
| Ing the latter's famous trial. Indignantly
opposed the adjournment, which, he SAID,
was an attempt 20 hand over Colonel Pic
quart into the clutches of the military au-
| .norities.
| Colonel Picquart then rose and made a
statement which caused q sensation. He
| said
This is, perhaps, the last time shall
speak in public, for shall sleep perhaps,
Therefore, I wish to declare that if find
there the strangling cord of Lemercier Pr
card, or the razor of Colonel Henry, 1t will
be murder, for have no idea of committing
suicide"
| The audience was intensely moved, and
shouted. "Vive Picquart!"
| The judges, however, after a short DELHI
Grafton, decided to indefinitely adjourn the
case, and Colonel Picquart was led away
between policemen.
| Lemercier Picard, the man referred to
by Colonel PicQuart, was detective, un-
derstood to have been employed In the
Dreyfus affair, who was found hanged in
his lodgings about year ago under circum-
stances which cast a doubt upon the
theory put forward that he had commit
| ted suicide.
The air tonight is full of rumors Of SEN
sational developments. Among other
things it was anticipated that Col Pic
quart was already in the Cherche Midi pris-
on. Il appears, however, that the authorities
of the La Santa prison refused to deliver
him up in the absence of the necessary for
malities, but there Is no doubt that he will
be in the Cherche Midi prison tomorrow.
The Dreyfusites are somewhat despond-
ent, the military, who were responsible for
the shelving of the Picquart trial having
apparently regained the upper hand, and 1t
is feared that Picquart will be kept in pris-
on and his trial indefinitely postponed In
order to keep his mouth shut.
The Italian government declines to re-
lease Signor Panizzardi as military attache
here until the Dreyfus case shall have end
ed, owing 70 the gross insults offered TO
Signor Panizzardi through the newspapers.