New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-10-30
THE DREIFUS CASE.
\ kEVIEW OF THE CHARGES AGAINST
ORANGES FAMOUS PRISONER.
SUCCESSFUL. IMPORTS or DEEYFCs's FRE#Ds
roR A REVISION OF THE TRIAI.-TIIE
REVELATIONS TINT MAY LEAD
TO IT'S RELEASE.


Captain Alfred Droyfus is to-day the most
famous prisoner in the world A summary or
tho principal events which have placed him on
this undesirable emiucnce, far as they have
n,cn published follows
ON November l. 1894. the anti Semitic press
a. Paris announced that the Jewish staff officer.
Captain DTeyfus had betrayed France and had
Teen confined in the military prison. With one
accord they poured invective on the alleged
TIA tor and on all Jews and demanded theH
wholesale expulsion from the army
The Minister of War at that time General
hie-cier He had been the object of violent at
tacks By Rochefort and Drumont, and was
anN.ors TO regain prestige by some startling
act The chief of staff was General De Bots
deCrrc. associated with clerical and royalist
circles The head of the Intelligence Bureau
was Colonel Sandherr who was compelled 10
r,sisn in 1896 because Of incipient insanity. lie
was an Intense Jew-hater Chief OF other hn-
reaus were NJ du Patty de Clam. who saw spies
everywhere; Colonel Henry who had risen from
TIC ranks brave but coarse and capable OF
carving zeal to criminal lengths, and NJ. Berlin
tn son OF jewish mother, and perhaps FOR mat
r.,.on all the more disposed 10 make show OF
aini-Semtic fervor
Among the officers then employed on the
General STAFF was Alfred Dreyfus. the first Jew
who ever received an appointment OF the kihd'
lie came of a rich and patriotic Alsatian fam
Ny had refused brilliant business opening ID
order to enter the army, and had passed
through in turn the Ecoe Poytechnique, the
Ecole d'Appcaton d'Artillerie and the Ecoie
de Guerrc He had married in 1890 Mile. Hada-
,nard daughter OF a wealthy Partisan merchant
4 devoted husband and the father Of two chill
arcn. he lived entirely for his family and his
work.
SEEKING FOR A SCAPEGOAT
In sertember 1894 the Intelligence Bureau
,oceiyed with other papers one which had been
written three or four months before, enumerat-
Ing several documents delivered by an unknown
spy to Major Won Schwarzkoppen the German
Military Attach6 The Minister anxious TO en-
nance his own reputation and hearing mat
.reaeorable acts were being committed, sought
the traitor among the general staff itself 1t
was n fruitloss search until one day the late
Marquis de Moras, fanatical anti-Semite. nav
ing heard Of the inquiries. said to NJ ber''h
that the traitor could only be The jew Oh 'he
general staff" This remark was repeated To NJ.
du Patty de Clam and Colonel Sandherr, VINO
received the suggestion with joy. As M. du
Patty dc Clam said that he recognized the mana
writing Of Dreyfus in the memorandum, he was
at once intrusted with the judicial inVestlga-
ton Experts in handwriting were summoned
and NJ Colbert. the most eminent French au-
tho,'tv pronounced agains, the supposed DIey-
fus authorship This 50 onraged NJ. du Patty
dc Clam that NJ. Colbert was aftcrward com
rcllcd 10 apologize. From Al. Bcrtillon he re-
cciyed q more favorable opinion. But NJ Her-
tillon is not Q handwriting expert, but a police
official who has invented a system for judging
handwriting by which it is possible to prove
that any document has been written by any
body His favorable opinion was given on
October H.
Next day Dreyfue was submitted to an Oidca
at the hands Of Du Patty de Clam, which con
sisted in debating to Dreyfus text III "hlch
were enumerated the documents Of the memo
randum. All unconscious as Dreyfus was as To
what was happening in the middle Of the dicta-
tjon he was arrested on warrant da'ed oclo-
Der II. on the ground that his hand uenpied
He WAS at once conveyed TO the military prison
Later AZ the trial the judges could discover no
signs Of the trembling OF the hand, and then
DIN patv de Clam Contended the fact that ne
did NOT tren}ie showed thai he must have pre-
pared himself for the ordeal
The arrest was said TO be Illegal according 70
French law. for it should have received the
sanction OF the Military Governor OF PARIS
General Saussier, who later rcprmandcd COM
raudaut ForZinetU for having accepted the
prisoncr General Saussier would probably not
have been easily satisfied Of the culpabihtY OF
man who had no motive for such cr'me-
neither lax Of money. nor vices, nor sympathy
with Germany and who on the contrary, Hau