The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-09-05
Touching Appeal to
the Minister of
Justice.
HIS DUTY is POINTED OUT
ONLY ONE WHO CAN REOPEN
THE CELEBRATED CASE.
In Her Communication the Wife
Tells of the Undying Loyalty
of the Prisoner of Devils
Island.

PARIS, Sept. Anime. Dreyfus has
sent in the following demand to the
Minister of Justice for a revision of
her husbands trial:
NJ lie Minstrel had the honor in the
month of July to place before you re-
quest in which 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
reconsideration the judgment rendered
against my unfortunate husband in vio-
lation of article l01 of the Military Code.
have the honor, now, NJ. lie Ministre, to
again address you a second time ap-
pealing to you, because the law which
governs such revision does not permit
me directly and by my own agency to
invoke justice.
You and you alone have the right of
revision of the judgment bringing with it
condemnation, on the ground Of the dis
covery of new facts tending to establish
the innocence of the imprisoned 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 profound
emotion and excitement throughout the
country. 1t 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 results of
this examination were not communicated
to my counsel the counsel of war re-
fusing them access to it. But have
certain information that the conclusions
drawn from this examination were not
the same as the examination of 1894.
There is. also, following this exposure
the confession made by one of the prin-
cipal accusers and witnesses against my
husband in his trial, in which he admits
that he forged the document that the
Minister in his speech to the Chamber or
July last declared to be proof positive
of the guilt of my husband, though it was
written long after his condemnation. This
proof, therefore, crumbles to pieces and
destroys the value of the dispositions
which convinced the judges in 1894. Since
then this partisan witness of the culpa-
bility of my husband has been convicted
of the crime of forgery under circumstan
ces Of which you are fully aware.
But NJ. lie Ministre, as have just TOLD
you, in case of revision instituted by Law
for judicial errors, the right to demand
such revision belongs neither to the limo
cent man who has been unjustly con
demned. nor to his wife nor to his chill
dren. This right belongs to you alone
Now, therefore, I beseech you, NJ L,
Ministre, to use without delay the right!
which are conferred upon you by law
which are only conferred upon you botf
for the annulment and revision OF a yer
dict which was neither just nor legal
beseech you to hear the voice, now al
most unanimous, of public opinion, anC
put an end to the suffering of an limo
cent man who always has been a loya
soldier and who has not ceased-eve1
among the tortures Of an unmerited pun
ishment-to declare his love for tn,
fatherland and his faith in justice beint
finally done him. 1 beg you will receive
NJ. lie Ministre, the assurance of my mos
distinguished consideration.