Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-09-01
JUSTICE IN FRANCE.

Memphis Com mercial-Appeal Judge
Did you say your name was Alfred or
Alphonse Dreyfus? BE careful how yo,;
/ reply.
Dreyfus-Alfred Dreyfus is my came.
| Judge-Ah. ha' What did you say.
Alfred Dreyfus is my name" instead Of
My name is Alfred Dreyfus?'
Dreyfus Peally rnnn colonel, I don't
J~udge-Iou hesitate. You look cOnfus-
ed. l note the fact that you uucrosseu
your legs when l asked you this question.
That is proof Of an uneasy conscience.
What have you to say?
Dreyfus-I ant
Judge-He can't. This is Il confession.
He is guilty. ~(Sensation.) &
Dreyfus-No, mon colonel. I am mo
cent.
Judge-If you are innocent. perhaps
you will tell Where you We're the night
before last at Is minutes past 10?
Dreyfus-In Jail.
Judge-Where We're YOU on January IL.
1895?
Dreyfus-In jail.
Judge-Where We're Q on the night
of March 8. 1897
D~reyfus-In jail.
Judge-Where were YOU when the SUI
burban was run IN 1898?
Dreyfus-In jail.
Judge Observation-Disclosures in Jail,
w. tIIS GdldlIlG cldlIllS 10 ue innocent.
Once more, where We're you on February
%, 1889?
Dreyfus-In jail.
Judge-Sacre hleu. You convict your
self. There was no February 90. 1899. We
shall see. You wrote the bordereau.
Dreyfus-No, mon colonel; l am inno-
cent.
Judge 1sternly)-How long have you
known William Patterson?
Drayf1c-I IA 1,n+ l.r,u- NTn,.ia,. Da+
terson at all.
Judge-You are not the man who
struck him?
Dreyfus-1 new r heard Of him.
Judge-He never heard Of Billy Patter-
son, the man who was struck. He dis
sembles. Do you smoke cigarettes?
Dreyfus-Yes.
Judge-Is the tariff a tax?
Dreyfus-It is.
France imposes a tariff and YOU say it
is a tax. Have you even felt like 30
cents.
Dreyfus-Yes, mon colonel. / feel like
% cents now.
Judge-Do Q still deny that you
wrote "Curfew Shall Not Ring Tonight y
Dreyfus-I never denied it, because I
never heard
Judge-You see, he claims tina he
wrote -Curfew Shall No Ring Tonight"
Dreyfus-But, mon colonel, l know no
thing about 'sCurfew.'' don't claim
Judge--Rut you won deny. Perhaps
Q also wrote :" The Beautiful Snow"
Dreyfus-Really y, mon colonel, you do
not allow me to explain.
Judge-You see, he cannot explain. Do
you use Pears soap
Dreyfus-I do not.
Judge-The reporters will observe that
he does not use soap. Do you believe in
the free coinage of silver at 16 to / indie
pendent of any other nation on earth?
Dreyfus-I am afraid that
Judge-He is afraid to speak. He is OPP
posed to sound money. Whom do you
consider the greater military genius
MERCER or Esterhazy?
Dreyfus-I cannot say; both of them
possibly.
Judge-Have you not been in cores
horse Jake since this trial begun.
Dreyfus-I have not.
JudSe-Do you deny that you have re-
ceived a cipher telegram from Hinky
Dink yesterday morning?
Dreyfus-I do.
Judge-You change color. Your guilt is
now established. You can explain no.
thing. You claim the authorship of po-
ems which We're written by Mile. Ella
Wheeler and you are always in Jail and
you can't ever prove an alibi on the Goth
of February. II is therefore established
that o communicated secret docu-
ments to the German government, and
that you wrote the bOrdereau.
Great applause in court, mingled with
the polite invitations to "conspuez" and
bias everything and everybody, and fol
lowed by a few cheerful assassinations
on the outside.