The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-09-03
FRENCH JUSTICE.
Desperate Effort to Show How II Is
. Administered.

.t Administered.
fred or Alphonse Dreyfus? Be careful
how you reply.
Dreyfus-Alfred Dreyfus is my name.
Judge-Ah, ha! Why did you say al
fred Dreyfus is my name instead OF MY
name is Alfred Dreyfus?
Dreyfus-Really, mon colonel, I don't
Judge-You hesitate. You look confused
legs when l asked you this question. That
is proof of an uneasy conscience. What
have you to say?
Dreyfus-I can't
Judge-He can't. This is confession.
He is guilty. (Sensation.)
Dreyfus-No, mon colonel, am innocent
Judge-If YOU are innocent, perhaps you
at Is minutes past 10?
Dreyfus-In jail.
Judge-Where were you on Jan. II, 1896?
Dreyfus-ln jail
March g. 1897?
DreyfuS-In jail.
Judge-Where were you when the Sub
urban was run in 1888?
Dreyfus-In Jail
Judge (triumphantly)-Alw in Jail,
yet this canaille claims to be innocent.
Once more, where were you on the 18th of
February, 1899?
Dreyfus-In jail
Judge-Sacre bleu! You convict your
self. There was no 18th of February. 1899.
We shall see. You wrote the bordereali?
Dreyfus-No. mon colonel am innocent.
Judge (sternly) - How long have you
known William Patterson?
Dreyfus-I do not know M. Patterson at
all.
Judge-Are you not the man who struck
him?
Dreyfus-I never heard of him.
Judge-He never heard of Billie Patter-
son, the man who was struck. He dis
sembles. Do you smoke cigarettes?
Dreyfus-Yes.
Judge-Is the tariff tax?
Dreyfus-It is.
Judge = You are a traitor to France.
France imposes tariff and you say 1t is
tax. Have you ever felt like 80 cents?
Dreyfus-Yes, mon colonel. ! feel like S5
Judge-Do you still deny that you wrote
"Curfew shall not ring tonight?"
Dreyfus-I never denied it, because I
Judge-You see, he claims that he wrote
"Curfew shall not ring tonight.
Dreyfus1,,But, mon colonel, | know moth
Judge But you don't deny. Perhaps
you also wrote 1.-THE beautiful snow
Dreyfus-Really, mon colonel, you do
not allow me to explain.
Judge-You see, he cannot explain. Do
you use Blanks soap?
Dreyfus--I do not.
Judge-The reporters VIII observe that
he does not use soap. DO you believe In
the free coinage of silver at sixteen to one
independent 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-Mer-
cier or Esterhazy?
Dreyfus-I cannot say Both of them,
possibly.
Judge Have you not been, IN CORE
spondence with Jack Chinn and Deadhorse
Jake since this trial began?
Dreyfus-I have not
JuOpe-DO Won CenV that Won received q
cipher cablegram from Hinky Dink yes
terday morning?
Dreyfus-I do.
Judge-You change color. Your guilt is
now established. You can explain nothing
You claim the authorship of poems which
were written by Mile. Ella Wheeler. You
are always in jail, and you can't even
prove an alibi on the 18th Of February 1t
Is therefore, established that you com
municated secret documents to the Ger
man government, and that you wrote the
bOrder6au.
Great applause in court, mingled with
the polite invitation to ''conspuez" and "a
bas" everything and everybody, and fol-
lowed by a few cheerful assassinations on
the outside. - Memphis Commercially
peal.