The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-09-02
QUE DREYFUs Trial.
1t Is Completed In Less Than an
Hour.


Hour.
The morning session of the Court de
Justitia opened at S:31 in session pub
leo with NJ. Jouaust Guy presiding
There was a stir in the audience TO al
low Major F7orzinetti de Grubsie TO
bring in the official docket and open
1t before the court
M Dreyfus Knott" read the judge
as he looked over his spectacles at a
covering pickaninny in the corner
Bring him before the court" Excite
ment-)
"Oh, my colonel. here am at once
more to plead Knott guilty not" says
NJ Dreyfus Knott, trying to tear his
chapeau in his nervous hands
-'Sacres you are guilty, you plead
tother way before the charge is read,
cried NJ Jouaust Guy.
Colonel Brongnihart Gregg: i read
the charges. You know the difference
between work and labor You are
charged with being a hobo de vagranr,
you look surprised. You admit it, No
you are guilty or you would not have
that oyster can in your pocket
The name of Captain LebTun- FRenautt
Hendricks Of the night patrol Of North
Topeka guard. the recipient Of the So
called confession from the prisoner,
was called and he walked sEnartly to-
ward the witness box, saluted the court
and threw his sky piece de KEPT on the
table. He then stood at attention
awaiting questions
The president of the court, n Jou-
aust Guy, said: You We're entrusted
with the task of conducting him from
the Cherche Midi box car to the in
junction factory in North Topeka, there
to await the coming of the patrol
wagon
Captain Lebrun-RenauIt Hendricks:
4 was He had a pair of brass kHucNs
in his pocket He said. I'm innocent.
I have them TO crack walnuts with. In
three years my innocence viii be ac-
knowledged. He told Du Patty de Clam
Bundy, who drove the wagon, that the
receipt he had in his pocket for killing
chinch bugs was the real bordereau-"
(ExcitemenC-)
NJ Jouaust Guy: You are guilty.
Esterhazy Snow of Lawrence wrote
that chinch bug exterminator. You
stole il and secretly gave il to q farmer
in Nebraska" CExcitement)
No, my colonel, said Dreyfus Knott,
with tears in his voice, that was a
receipt for corn cure that L gave the
farmer I am innocent"
One of the judges of the court: You
have been indiScreet. You have had
relations with journalists. I saw a story
in the paper that all the joints in To-
peka We're not closed.
NJ Dreyfus Knott: NO, my colonel.
I have never seen a journalist The
stakes were too high stayed OUT
He stayed out. He is guilty of
breaking the Cubbison law (Sensa-
tiOn)
Colonel Brongnihart GREGG: do you
know how many ties there are from
Schenectady to Troy2"
7 do not"
He does not He is guilty" Ex-
citement)
DO you like Iirnburger and beer?a
IS, my colonel Parbleu, wish I
had some"
He wishes he had some. He is most
guilty"
Do you know NJ Bud Weiser?''
I do when I taste it
He does" Great excitement.) He
is secretary of the beer trust
How do you spell the last name.
With a w or a 'V'?''
I spell 1t with a we. my colonel
He spells it with a we "
can you play golf2''
No. my colonel, but I can play
shinney-t'
He can play shinney. Do you know
the difference between sausage and
golf links2-
i do not. my colonel"
NJ Jouaust Guy asked Captain Lee
brun-R enault Hendricks if NJ Dreyfus
Knott said anything when arrested:
Captain Lebrun- RenauIt Hendricks:
1t Is not for me TO reconcile the in
consistencies of a sentence in which
the material facts are the same. but
he said Just burst the news TO
mother I heard this sentence I was
only a kind of photograph. and I re
peat it without comment
Parbleu, all, ha, he is guilty. pro
longed sensation-)
NJ DreyfUs Knott was returned to
the cell overlooking the Rue de Fifth
street and the court adjourned to test
the last evidence seized in a joint raid. /