The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-08-08

no wise sympathetic He spoke very low
| at first, and later, as he grew more
used to his surroundings, he spoke
| louder. more confidently and distinct
! ly. The prisoner responded with mill
| tary precision to the first questions of
the judge, who opened with an abrupt
| order to stand up. Dreyfus thereupon
stood, and Colonel Jouaust said:
Your name"
alfred Dreyfus.''
Your age?"
'Thirty-nine years."
| Your profession?"
! Captain of artillery"
Where were you born?"
| 'Muihouse."
| Col. Jouaust treated Dreyfus brusque-
". almost brutally, and it 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
staff. 1t was an unimportant point, but
| it was eloquent testimony to the Keen
ness of Dreyfus intellect.
! The prisoner sat most of the time with
| his legs stretched out, his spurs rest
| ing on the ground, his hands Joined and
resting on his lap. He repelled the
| insinuations that he had relations with
German officers during his stay in Al
SAGE, in fiercely indignant tones.
The widow of Lieut. Col. Henry,
dressed in deep mourning, was present
in court and replied to her name in
the roll call of witnesses.
Col. Jouaust then addressed Drey-
| fus, as stated, adding as he handed the
prisoner a long slip Of cardboard, upon
which the bordereau was pasted: DO
you recognize this document
Dreyfus replied, with passionate
outburst mo, my colonel, / am inno-
cent. 1 declare it here as 1 declared
it in 1894. am a victim ------." His
voice here was choked with sobs which
must have stirred every spectator in
court, as he ended his reply, with the
words, Five years in the galleys! My
wife, my children, my God, l am limo
cent, Innocent"
Col. Jouaust said: "Then you deny
it?"
Dreyfus replied: Eyes, my colonel"
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 between your"
Dreyfus: HE asked me if 1 had not
given important information in order
to obtain other information. l replied:
No, and added that it was iniqui-
tous to condemn an innocent man. l
war to seek full light to the affair"
Jouaust: Didn't you say to him, re-
ferring to a foreign military attache,
that you would cut his throat with a
poinard?"
Dreyfus: mo. 1 asked Du Patty de
Clam to have the investigation contin
ued. 1 said: Any government which
has means of investigation can have
the foreign military attaches question
ed. If 1 were in it's place, rather than
have an innocent man condemned, 1
would force them to speak, even if /
had to hold a dagger to their throats!'
Col. Jouaust then said Coming to
the day of your degradation what
passed between you and Capt. LIE Brun
Renault? What did you tell him?''
Dreyfus: Nothing. 1t was really
series of broken monologue on my
part. I felt everybody knew of the
crime with which I was charged, and 1
wished to say / was not the guilty
party. l wished to make clear that
the criminal was not he whom they
had before their eyes, and 1 said: lie
Brun, I will cry aloud my innocence in
the face of the people.
Jouaust: did you not say, The min
lister knows l had other documents?'
Dreyfus: mo. If | spoke of min
lister who knew 1 was innocent, l re-
ferred to a conversation 1 previously
lad with Du Patty de Clam" Earlier
in the examination, Jouaust asked,
Had you relations with a lady living
in the Rue Bisette?" To which Drey-
fus replied:
II had no intimate relations with
her.
Jouaust: 81 do not mean from a moral
point of view, but from a military
point of view. The woman was sus-
pected of spying. Why did you visit
Dreyfus; II only learned that in my
trial in 1894. Maj. Greudion introduced
me to her and as Greudion belonged
to the inquiry bureau he ought to have
known if she was suspected"
The court proceeded to the roll call
of witnesses the most notable absen-
tees being Esterhazy, Du Patty de Clam
and Mile Pays Dreyfus half turned
his head toward the seats of the wit
nesses, especially when the clerk of the
court mentioned Esterhazy. But when
no response was received, Dreyfus re-
turned to his previous attitude, look
ing straight in front of him, at Col.
Jouaust. Altogether about 100 wit
nesses will be called on both sides
Maj. Carriere, the governments COM
missary, then said that, in view of the
official mission of Gen. Chanoine and M.
Paleologue to furnish the court with
all the necessary explanations respect
ing the secret dossier, their dispositions,
| as witnesses, would be dispensed with,
adding that the consideration of the
dossier would probably occupy four
days.
The court afterwards retired to de-
liberate upon the case of the absentee
witnesses the soldiers in the court room
bringing their weapons smartly to
| present and then dropping the butts
| heavily 10 the ground. This perform
ance was repeated every time the court
retired. Dreyfus was withdrawn into
an inner room during the courts re-
| tirement
Nine. Dreyfus visited her husband
this afternoon and found him hopeful.
! although much unnefved, as the rigor-
GUS examination, especially the unfeel-
Ing demeanor, displayed toward him by
| Col Jouaust proved tremendous strain
upon him.
Ihere are many persons present at
the trial now under the impression that
the harshness of the presiding judge
| was assumed and intended to disarm
the enemies of Dreyfus. who are only
anxious to interpret ordinary courtesy
] into the grossest partiality toward the
| prisoner If this be the case and such
| an explanation is quite plausible, Drey-
rus Is naturally unaware of it, and the
erect upon his highly strung nerves
may easily be conceived.
| A meeting of the correspondents Of
foreign papers was held this evening
to protest against the manner in which
| they have been treated in the distribu-
| tlon Of tickets to the trial. The English
| and American press men, who are the
greatest sufferers from the unintelli-
| gent way In which the tickets were al
! lotted. took the leading part in the pro-
ceedings, which ended in decision to
make the strongest representations in
! the proper quarters in favor of an amal-