The Jewish South. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1893-1899, 1899-01-27

m ID language denounced the 'Esterhazy trial as
..|e sham accused the War Minister and all the
|II..ks of the General Staff of being members of
0n.piracy 6ffraud and deceit, proclaimed Dreyfus
lnocent, and dared the Government to prosecute
him.
49, lola PROSECUTED.
The challenge was answered. The prosecution
tf lola was decided upon, but it determined to
base the accusation simply upon few lines OF the
eter charging the judges in the Esterhazy trial with
having acquitted upon orders, man whom they held
to be fuilty, and not upon the whole letter
IN the trial. which took place before the Court of
Assizes Of Paris every effort was made by Nd. Zolas
COUNSEL Maitre Labor in order to bring about
|6.olete examination of the Dreyfus case, but these
bzfs were generally thwarted by the presiding
1ke, Justice Delegorgue, and the trial resulted IN
.oIa's conviction. He sentenced to one year OF
IMPRISONMENT and fine of five thousand francs, for
Ibel against the military court sensational Incl
lent of the trial had been the assertion by of the
Witnesses General de Pellieux, that there in the
War Department letter, written in 1896, which
contained additional and absolutely convincing
proof Of Dreyfus guilt General de Pellieuxs asser
lion was corroborated by the Chief of the General
Staff, General de Boisdeff1e.
One of the results of the trial that it began to
be generally admitted that Dreyfus's conviction had
been procured by means of secret documents which
Madame Dreyfus based request for revision,
which answered negatively by the Government,
as they held that the fact of the introduction of
secret documents had not yet been proved.
Upon appeal, the Court of Cessation annuled the
proceedings against lola, upon the ground they
ought to have been initiated, not by the War Minis
ter but by the libeled court ITSELF and when at
tempt made to begin a trial, Maitre Labor
managed to force postponement of the same, and
lola disappeared from the country.
In the meanwhile, new elections had taken place,
and cabinet of more radical tendencies than
the Melne Cabinet. had into office. It had for
it's War Minister NJ Cavaignac who, few days
after taking office, delivered before the House speech
setting forth of the proofs of Dreyfuss guilt
Among these proofs he quoted the letter of 1896
which had been alluded to in the lola trial. The
next day. in open letter, Lieutenant-Colonel Pic
quart, who had been retired on account of his advo
cacy of Dreyfuss offered to prove that this let
ter forgery.
few weeks later Lieutenant Colonel Henry adj
mitted that he had forged the letter himself Hewas
instantly put under arrest, and few hours after
being led to the Mont Vaerien fortress, committed
suicide.
HENRYs CONFESSION AND SUICIDE.
Colonel Henry's confession and suicide brought
about complete revulsion Of public feeling IRE
spective of their opinion about Dreyfus innocence
guilt the people insisted that trial in which self
confessed forger had been of the principal wit
tesses must be revised, and it known that
the Cabinet agreed with the people.
In spite of the opposition of two successive War
Ministers, the first steps prescribed by the law for
the revision of criminal trial were soon taken
letter Of the Minister of Justice placed the whole mat
ter in the hands of the Court of Cessation.
On October 25th, the Houses, which had adjourned
for their vacation three months before,
sumed their sittngs Their first session will ever
main memorable one in the parliamentary annals
of France. Goaded into complete loss ofselfcontro
h.zo ;.,SrIt;ro1 of he Semitic