The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-08


Yes, possibly"
did you follow the German maneuv-
ers?"
No"
did you converse with German off,
GERS"
II deny it absolutely
What was your object in going to
Alsace?"
For instruction"
You studied transportation"
Eyes"
You wrote certain information re-
garding the manufacture of the Robin
she'll You said this information was
requested by a professor of the military
SCHOOL,"
This was false
"I am told you asked officers indis-
Greet questions.
1T is not true"
Did you go to Brussels in 1892"
"No."
"A witness af1rms you went"
1T is false"
you had relations with a woman?"
Yes"
What nationality
Austrian"
You, an officer of the general staff
Il committed no ndiscretion."
your books were we'll kept. You had
special resources Passing through
Champs Elysee in 1891 you remarked,
Here lives a certain lady. Suppose we
call on her. have lost heavy sums at
her house.
1T is false. ! have never gambled.
"Dld you know Major Du Patty de
Clam?'
NO"
Did you know Major Henry?"
"No"
you have no motive for animosity
against them?"
mo"
And Colonel Picquart?"
II don't know him
"And Lieutenant Colonel Esterhazy?'
Il don't know him
You never wrote him?"
NO"
Colonel De Clam says your writing
at his dctation was less firm when he
made you undergo trial on the day
of your arrest"
MY writing has not much changed"
Here a non-commissioned officer who
was standing in front of Major Car
riere crossed the platform and handed
Dreyfus his writing on the day of his
arrest. Dreyfus replied by insisting
there was nothing to show any per-
ceptible change in his writing.
Colonel Jouanst then spoke of the
interview with De Clam. and Dreyfus
replied:
It never confessed anything to De
Clam"
Here occurred the most dramatic
scenes in the examination. Dreyfus.
tremendously excited, swayed to and
fro for a moment, and then all his
pent-up emotion aud indignation burst
forth, and In piping voice, heard
:, throughout the court room and even
by those standing on the outside, said: ::
1T is iniquitous to condemn an in
nocent man. | never confessed any
thing-never."
Dreyfus, as he uttered these words
| raised his right white gloved hand and
held 1t aloft as if appealing to heaven
to vindicate him.
Colonel Jouanst then said: AT the
time Of your condemnation Du Patty
de Clam went to see you in the
Cherche Midi prison. What passed be-
tween you?"
Dreyfus-He asked me if l had not
given unimportant information in Or
der to obtain other information I re-
piled No" and added that it was in
iquitous to condemn an innocent man.
I also asked him to beg the minister
fair.
Jouanst-Did you not say to him,
referring to a foreign military attache,
that you would cut his throat with a
poignard?
Dreyfus-No. I asked Du Patty de
Clam to have the investigation con-
tinued. said: "Any government
| which has means of investigating can
have the foreign military attaches
questioned. If l were in its place,
| rather than have an innocent man
condemned, l would force them to
speak, even if had to hold a dagger
to their throats."
Colonel Jouanst then said:
Coming to the day of your degrada-
Captain Lebrun Renault? What did
you tell him.
Dreyfus-Nothing. 1t was really a
sort of broken monologue on my part.
I felt that everybody knew of the
crime with which I was charged and 1
wished to say l was not the guilty
party. l wished to make clear that the
criminal was not he whom they had
before their eyes, and I said: "Lebrun,
I will cry aloud my innocence in the
face of the people,"
Jouanst-Did you not say: THE
minister knows 1 handed over docu-
ments?"
Dreyfus-No. If I spoke of minister
who knew / was innocent, | referred to
conversation I previously had with
Patty de Clam.
Jouanst-Did you say: IF I handed
over documents. It was to have more
important ones in return?'
Dreyfus-No.
Earlier in the examination Colonel
Jouanst asked; Had you relations
with lady living in the Rue Bisett?"
Dreyfus replied: Il had no intimate
relations with her"
Jouanst-I do not mean from a moral
point of view, but from a military point
of view. This woman was supected of
spying Why did you visit her?
Dreyfus-I only learned that at my
trial in 1894 Major Gondrion introduced
me to her. and as Gondrion belonged
to the inquiry bureau, he ought to have
known if she was supected.
Jouanst-Dd you say: "In three
years they will recognize my inno-
cence?" Why did you say three years?
Dreyfus-I asked for all means of
investigation. They were refused me.
l was justified in hoping that at the
end of two or three years my innocence
would come TO light.
Jouanst-Why three years?