The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-08-29
JUSTICE IN FRANCE.
How Learned Judge Proves Dreyfus'
Guilt
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Judge-Did you say your name was AL
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: don t
Judge-You hesitate You look confused.
I note the fact that you increased your
gs when asked y on this quest on. That
is proof of an uneasy conscience. What
have You to say?
Dreyfus-I can't
Judge-He can't. This is a confession.
He is guilty: tSensation)
Dreyfus-No. mon colonel. l am inno-
cent
Judge-Iff you are innocent, perhaps you
last ut fifteen minutes past ten?
Dreyfus-In jail
JCdge-Where were you on Jan. II 1896?
Dreyfus-ln Jail
Judge--Where were you on the night of
March 3. 1897?
Dreyfus-In Jail.
Judge-Where were you when the Su-
burb22 was run in 1895?
Dreyfus I'm jail
Judge umphantly)-Always in jail,
yet this canaille claims TO be innocent.
Once more. where were you on Feb. 70,
Dreyfus-In jail.
Judge-Sacre bleu, You convict YOUR
self. There was no Feb. .. 1899. We shall
see. You wrote the bordereau.
DreyfEs-No mon colonel; | am inno-
cent.
Judge (sternly)-How long have you
known William Patterson?
Dreyfus-I do not know Monsieur Pat
terso- 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
Dreyfus-Yes.
JUDGES the tariff a tax?
Dre-- fuS-It is.
Jucge-you are traitor to France.
France imposes u tariff and you say it
is tax. have YOU ever felt like 30
cents?
Dreyfus-Yes. mon colonel. 1 feel like
- ce::ts now.
Judge-Do you still deny that you
wrote "Curfew Shall Not Ring To-
night"
Dreyfus-I never denied it. because
never heard
Judge-You see. he claims that he wrote
'Curfew Shall Not Ring Tonight"
Dreyfus-But. mon colonel. l know moth
ing about "Curfew." ] do not claim
Judge-But you won't deny. Perhaps
you also wrote The Beautiful Snow
ID Dre ei,dI mon colonel, you do
Judgc-You see. he cannot explain. Do
You use Pears SOAP?
Dre-fus-I do not.
he does rot use soap. Do you believe in
the free coin' &c of silver at Is to l indie
pendent of any other nation on earth?
Dreyfus-i am afraid that
Judge-He is afraid 10 speak. He is op-
posed to sound money. Whom do you
consider the greater military genius, Mer
cier or Esternazy?
Dreyfus-I cannot say; both of them.
possibly
Judge-Have YOU not been in CORES
pordence with Jack Chinn and Deadhorse
Jake since this trial began?
Dreyfus-I have not.
Judge-Do you deny that you have re-
ceived a cipher telegram from Hinky Dink
morning?
Dreyfus--I Go.
Judge-You change color Your guilt is
now established. You can explain moth
ing. You claim the authorship of poems
which were written by Mile. Ella Wheeler
and you are always in Jail and YOU can't
even prove an alibi on the 10Th of Febru
ary- II is therefore established that Won
communicated secret documents TO the
German government, and that you wrote
the bordereau.
Great applause in court mingled with
the polite invitations to '.conspuez'' and
'bas' everything and everybody. and fol-
lowed by a few cheerful assassinations on
the outside.