The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-09-10
DEMANDOF NINE. DRtYfUS
The Wife of the French Exile Ap-
peals to M. Sarrien, the
Minister of Justice.
DEMANDS A REVISION OF The TRIAL.

the Receipt of the Request, and In
tImated that the Matter Would Re-
ceive Attention When the New Minister
for War shall Have Been Appointed
New York, Sept. Ga dispatch to
the Herald from Paris says: .
Following is the text OF Nine. Drey-
fus' demand to the minister of justice
for a revision of her husbands trial:
Mime. Dreyfus' Appeal.
Il had the honor in the month of
July, TO place before you a request in
which l asked you to exercise the
right conferred upon you by law-and
which is conferred upon no one else
to transmit to the court of cessation
for consideration the judgment rem
dered against my unfortunate hus-
band, in violation of article 1O1 of the
military code.
Il have the honor, now, monsieur lie
ministre, again to address you a sec
ond time, appealing to you because,
the law which governs such a revision
does not permit me directly, and by
my own agency, to invoke justice.
You, and you alone, have the right to
effect a revision of the Judgment
bringing with it condemnation, on the
ground of the discovery of new facts
tending to establish the innocence Of
the condemned man, quite distinctly
and without reference to or assistance
from all the revelations of many
months past, which have thrown so
much light upon the judicial error OF
1894, and which have caused such pro-
found emotion and excitement
throughout the country.
st is not possible that you, above
all others, should not be struck by the
following facts: First, there is the
examination OF the bordereau, which
was made in the trial of January of
this year. The result of this eXamina-
ton was not communicated to my
counsel, the counsel of ministry of
wal refusing them access to it. But l
have certain information that the con.
illusions drawn from this examination
were not the same as the examination
of 1894.
There is also, following this eX-
posture, a confession made by one of
the principal accusers and witnesses
against my husband in his trial, in
which he admits that he forged a
document that the minister of war, in
his speech to the chamber on July Z,
last, declared to be proof positive of
4hn rIi1f Of nv hI1cl,DnI though II
was written long after his condemna
ton.
This proof, therefore, crumbles to
pieces and destroys the value of the
positions which convinced the judges
in 1894, since this partisan witness of
the culpability of my husband has
been convicted of the crime of forgery
under circumstances of which you are
fully aware.
But, monsieur lie ministre, as | have
just told you, in the ease of Il revision
instituted by law for judicial errors,
the right to demand such revision be-
longs neither to the innocent man who
has been uniustly condemned, nor tc
his wife,nor to his children; this right
belongs to you alone. l now, there
fore, monsieur lie ministre, beseech
you to use without delay the rights
which are conferred upon you by law.
which are only conferred Upon you
both for the annulment and revision
of n verdict which was neither just nor
legal.
Il beseech you to hear the voice
now almost unanimOus,of public opin-
ion, and to put an end to the suffer.
ings of an innocent man, who has al
ways been a loyal soldier, and who has
not ceased, even amid the tortures of
an unmerited punishment. to declare |
his love for the fatherland and his
faith in justice being finally done him.
Il believe you will receive, NJ. lie
ministre, the assurance of my most
distinguished consideration.
[Signed1
LUCE ALFRED DREYFUS."
VI. SarrIen Informs His Colleagues.
When the cabinet met the minister
of justice. VI. Ferdinand Sarrien, in
formed his colleagues of the receipt
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