The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-08-31
scOundreI rLercier Should be Jailed.

That an enormous crime committed by a French
army officer in 1894 is longer doubt The
trial at Rennes however the perpetrator
but the vicm the criminal Mercier and the
rtarspangled generals who occupy bench of
nesses in the court Lyceum little Breton
capital the Thus much has been made
clear beyond by the testimony of the con-
pators themselves crime consisted in securing the
conviction of innocent by means of documentary
evidence known to be false clandestiney commun
Gated to the court martial 1894 The papers on the
strength of which Captain Dreyus was convicted were
1hree-he 'bordereau," "canale de D. letter and
garbed version of Panizzard dispatch The first Of
hese unsigned supposed to have been sent to
Foreign military atache. in which the enumerated
umber from the archives Of the French en
era stan touching plans of mobilization other import
ant matters documents are supposed to have been
Enclosed with the note bordereau latter is al
legged to discovered among the waste pansr ~
foreign embassy in Paris The borderesu" had bn rc
porated indictment of Dreyfus and he had an or,o
'uny to defend himself against of having been
It's author The other documents formed part Of the
secret dosser which was introduced evidence behind
Inc prisoners back and without the knowledge of his con
sell Captain Freystaetter one of the members Of
me court martial OF 1894 has testified his judgment
vas influenced the contents Of the secret dossAr The
argument that their effect material and that the
court would have found Dreyfus guilty without them ,s
therefore as false IS irrelevant
Inc SUBSCRIPTIONS submission Of documents TO a court
was an resulay which, according criminal code NJ
france Is indicabe and punishable by and mprson
'nen and even if General had been guilty merely
0f an honest OF should be put behind ba
ais proceedings, howver not merely irregular but
dishonest He admitted other day that the capaie
re letter did not apply Dreyfus and that even IN
1884 and before the submission the secret dossr he ss
feced that the allusion might somebody else The
version OF the Panizzard dispatch was secretly
handed 10 the court martial OF 1884, one prepared
~ Du Patty de Clam The original cipher and the in
'arpretation thereof consequently matter Of considerable
'hcuy Two readings Of the dispatch which are proa
by fairly accurate by expert
q the French war once foreign Office respectively
neither Of which incupated the prisoner In sle NJ b
TACT however that those corrected versions were knovr n
General Aereer the minister of war the rarbed ssio,
q bu Pay de Clam nevertheless included in the
tecret dossier which the court General Msr
er heretcTe not only Influenced that tribunal mprop
cry out ne also deceived it He witness against
teow oheer; his crime morally If not legally per-
jury and the fact that consunmatea nv indirsto
ony makes Il more heinous
Every statement OF fact made above &c sunnor,a5 by
The evidence OF the decorated offender and his
General Mercer 70 be has cunnineIy protected h
ser from responsibility for his criminal action He has al
united that the dosser submitted to the o. a. ,s
IN accordance 20 his wsh but he denies having given d.
rect orders to that eject merely exered moral s,s
On his too willing understrappers Neither win he Go
knowledge responsibility the makeup Of N. sos.,
hut he shifts that OF guilt upon a dead mar o,
kAndherr The only living witness who could throw light