The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-08-08

Jouaust-A witness afirms you went.
Dreyfus-It Is false.
Jouaust-You had relations with
woman2
Dreyfus-Yes.
Jouaust-WhRt nationality
Dreyfus-Austrian.
Jounust-How could you have such
relations, you and officer on the general
stan?
Jounust-Your books were well kept.
You had special resources. Passing
through the Champs Elysees IN 1891,
you remarked: Here lives certain
lady. Suppose we call on her. nave
lost heavy sums at her house
Dreyfus-It Is false. have never
gambled. Never, never.
Dreyfus then swore that he did not
know Major Du Patty de Clam or any
other Of his aecuseTs.
JOuaust-COlonel Du Patty de Clam
says that your writing at his dlctation
was less firm when he made you under
go trial on the day Of your arrest.
Dreyfus-My writing has not much
changed.
Here a non-comn1lssIoned officer who
was standing In front Of Major Carriere
crossed the platform and handed Drey-
fus his writing on the day OF his arrest.
Dreyfus replied by insisting there was
nothing to show any pefceptive change
Col. JouRust then spoke OF the inter-
view with Du Patty de Clam.
Dreyfus replied; II never confessed
anything to Du Patty de Clam."
A Dramatic Scene.
Here occurred one Of the most dra-
matte scenes in the examination. Drey-
fus, tremendously excited. swayed to
and fro for a moment and then all his
pent-up emotion and Indignation broke
forth and he cried in q piercing voice,
heard throughout the court and even
by those standing outside: 1T Is In
iquitOus to condemn an innocent man.
l never confessed anything. Never"
Dreyfus as he uttered the words,
raised his right Wbite-gloved hand and
held It aioft as II appealing to heaven
to Yindlcate him.
Jouaust-Dld you say 'Tf handed
over documents 1t was to have more
important ones In return|
Dreyfus-No.
they will recognize my innocenceT
Why did you say three years?
Dreyfus-I asked for all means OF In
vestigation. They were refused me.
was Justified in hoping that at the end
Of two or three years my innocence
would come to light.
Jouaust-Why three years?
DTeyfus-Because certain time Is
necessary to obtain light.
Jouaust-Had you an arriere pensee
(after thoughO?
Dreyfus-NO.
Col Jouaust then said:
"At the time OF your condemnation
Du Patty de Clam went to see you In
the CherChe Midi prison. What passed
beween you?
Dreyfus-He asked me II had not
given unimportant Information In or
der to obtain other information. re-
piled No and added that It was iniqui-
tOus to condemn an innocent man.
also asked him to beg the minister OF
war to seek full light on the AFFAIR.
Jouaust-Didn't you say to him, re-
ferring to u foreign military attache,
that you would cut his throat with u
poignnrd?
What He Did Say.
Dreyfus-No. I asked Du Patty de
Clam to hive the investigation contin-
ued. said: Amy government which |
has means Of Investigation can have the |
foreign military attache questioned. II
/ were in Its place, rather than have |
an innocent man condemned, ! would |
force them to speak. even II had to
hold n dagger to their throats."
Col. JOuaust then said: Coming to
the day OF your degradation. What |
passed between you and Captain lie |
Brun Renault? What did you tell him?
Dreyfus-Nothing. It was really a |
sort OF broken monolOgue on my part. |
/ felt that everybody knew OF the crime |
with which I was charged and 1 |
wished to sny that was not the guilty |
party. I wished to make clear that |
the criminal was not he whom they had |
before their eyes and 1 said: "LebTun, |
will cry aloud my Innocence In the
face OF the people"
Jouaust-DId you not say "the minis
ter knows handed over documents"
Dreyfus-No. II I spoke OF minister
who knew was innocent, referred to |
n conversation / previously had with |
Du Patty de Clam.
Earlier In the examination Col. Joua-
ust asked: Had you relations with u
woman living in the Rue Dizer?"
Dreyfus replied: "I had no intimate
relations with her"
Jouaust-I don't mean from moral
polnt Of view, but from n military point
OF view. This woman was suspected Of
spying. Why did you visit her?
The Woman in the Case.
Dreyfus-I only learned that at my
trial in 1894. Major Gondrlon introduced
me to her. and as Gondrlon belonged
to the Inquiry bureau, ne ought to have
known II she was suspected.
Dreyfus' voice was hnFsh, nlsal and
nowise sympathetic. He spoke very low
at first and later as he grew more used
10 his surroundings he spoke louder,
more confidently and distinctly. The
prisoner responded with military pre-
cIslon to the first questions OF the Judge,
who opened with an abrupt order to
stand up. Dreyfus thereupon stood
and Col. Jouaust continued:
"YOur name?"
alfred Dreyfus."
"YOur age?"
"ThIrty-nlnc years"
"Your professlon?
Captain OF artillery"
"Where were you bornT
"Mulhouse."
Col, Jouaust treated Dreyfus brusque-
ly. almost brutally, and II was matter
OF satisfaction to the friends OF the
prisoner when the latter set the judge
himself right on certain dates connect.
ed with Dreyfus' stay on the general
stan, II was an unimportnnt point,
but It was eloquent testimony to the
kcenness OF Dreyfus' intellect.
The prisoner sat most Of the time
with his legs stretched out, his spurs
resting on the ground, his hands Joined
and resting In his lap. He repelled the
inslnuations that he had relations with
German officers during his stay In AL
sncc. In fierCely Indignant tones.
An evening newspaper here to-day
caused n sensation by including among
the supplementary witnesses whom
Colonel Jouaust has announced he In
tends to personally summons, the name
OF Dc Muller officially described ns
merchant Of Lille. but whom the paper