Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-08-17

a cause by unlawful means dear to the
common people.
We see this in the vain attempts of the
police to seize the man who shot M. Labori
in the back. The whole country has been
vainly secured for him, but, as all the
country folk refuse to give Information, or
only speak to mislead, the police will prob
me Catholic feeling. of the whole dis
trict has been aroused against Dreyfus
higher than eyer tine Sa
no open air procession In honor OF the
virgin must. take place at the festival Of
the assumption. He has ordered the clergy,
In the interest of peace, to confine the
procession to the cathedral and other
churches. The general conclusion deduced
the Dreyfusards, who are either Jews, free
thinkers or blasphemers, intended to. in
suit religion and breed disturbances. AS
consequence, "a sullen feeling Is shown.
AS a matter of fact, nobody more deeply
regrets the Introduction of the assumption
procession in the former capital of Brit
tany than the friends of Dreyfus, particu-
larly his friends in the press. The latter
had hoped to find the procession rich in
local color and an interesting subject for
NJ. Labori had been living in house un>
sheltered from the sun and in rather
busy quarter. 1t was thought desirable to
transfer him to a more quiet suburb. and
he is now at Professor Basch's house, quite
in the country; though close to Rennes. It
granite, and snugly. slated, with a farm
yard on one side and on the other large,
old-fashioned, shady garden. The place Is
surrounded by high walls that might stand
siege.
The removal took place on hand ambul-
ance cart, which one man drew and two
pushed. Labori suffered fearfully on the
| way. the bullet still being imbedded in the
dorsal muscle. There is, however, no fever,
| though he chafes dreadfully at losing the
opportunity to tackle the military Witness
es. 1t has been remarked that the Drey-
| fus case brings him fame and bad luck.
| Since he. first concerned himself with it,
| he has been attacked with pleurisy and
typhoid fever, and now he is shot in the
| back.
| in the hope that the trial might be ad-
journed, pending his recovery. 1t was a
rather unreasonable expectation. however
desirable from the view point of the de-
! tense. M. Demange's application for en-
adJournment was roughly dismissed. Nine.
| Labori. to show that her husband was re-
was sorely disappointed at the news she
| even more so.
| To-day's witnesses were Senator Guerin,
who was colonial minister at the time
bRreytus was sent to Cayenne; Nine
Henry, widow of the suicide and NJ. Lebon
VINO was colonial minister for more than
wv two ., years, and who ordered the ,palisade
or nigh fence, to be. placed around the hut
| on the Isle of Devils
Guerin is a provincial attorney in Carpen.
| tras' Where they know nothing of the Drey.
tus case, except what they have learned
| from the papers. I happen to know that
ne was acquainted with the prisoner
| in 1873.
rms, possibly, accounts for the tone OF
Kind feeling in NJ. Guerin's deposition.
NINE: Henry, dressed in deep mourning
came from the convent where she is stay
ing. She says her age is 26. She is com.
monplace and vulgar, and shows, in her
ngure ana complexion, that she shared
me good cheer of which the late Lieutenant
Colonel Henry was so fond. There was
very little in her evidence. 1 noticed two
lies. One was that she saw Henry one
nlght at the dining room table pasting the
poraeIeau on sheet of gummed paper ant
tnat II was torn in small fragments
NOW, the photograph I saw of 1.-THE
photograph which was done for the intell
gence department-shows t was simply
ments. The other lie was that Esterhaz,
was not known to Henry before the VIC
quart duel. but she afterward admitted
,nat Henry knew Esterhazy many year.
audible. but it hardly mattered, as she de
livered herself of a lot of fustian abou
Henry's patriotism and devotion to tn,
army.
General Roget, like all the other generals
who preceded him. came as witness bu
he acted as a public prosecutor, He ant
tney reminded me of a devils advocate
but DEVILS advocate in good earnest
Roget was dead set against the unfortu
nate Dreyfus, who must have been tortured
while the general went on with statements
| deductions, innuendos and suggestions tha
were all jam to the officers present
II Roget was not speaking In good faith
his statement was UNANIMOUSLY wicked Blu
he made a point Major Hartmann, VIII,
| testlfled before the court of cessation abou
the gun mentioned in the bordereau, sal,
1t had been tested in 1880, and that every
one knew all about it in 1894 This Roge
denied, and the! president of the court
martial, who is a military officer SCENE,
to indorse him.
According to Roget. the gun had beel
tested in 1884 only, and spoken of in onl,
one journal. the Yacht, the editor of which
CAPTAIN Weyl, was then an intimate frfen'
of EsterhaZy.
WHO was this Weyl?" said Roget. "E
was the uncle by marriage of Matthie,
Dreyfus."
The accused euivered with rage. like on
Eaif impaled, and, starting up. he proteste
at having to sit still for two hours Will
tortured by witness who tore his yer,
heart out.
Colonel Jouaust's manner had relaxed q,
the two previous days. but when the cir
cumstances of Weyl making the revelation
about the gun was mentioned it hardened
him into the utmost severity. !.
What fs very strange Is that Weyl's re
lations with General Pellieux and Genera
Esterhazy were never probed, though the,
were much taken up. Weyl was sent t,
written articles favorable to England ii
: the Journal Des Debats. He was at tn
same time excluded from the offices of tn
ministry of marine, to which, as editor O
a nautical journal, he had had free en-
trance.
1 thought at the time of the articles I,
the Journal Des Debats, that they wer
! fair, well written and creditable He mus
, have known Alfred Dreyfus, since he wa
Matthfeu's uncle-in-law. There are man
Nationalists who regarded him as a sp
of England and denounced him to the ma
. rine minister, but the Nationalists are al
ways rabid.
NJ Lebon brazened out the charges tina
, he had sent barbarously cruel orders {
; DEVILS island. At the same time it look
from his evidence as If a serious pa
for enabling Dreyfus to escape was on foo
, Had he escaped in 1896. NJ. Lebon woul
have seemed to all of France an accom-
, plice Of the TRAITOR" The former ministe
. of the colonies seemed inspired merely b
the instinct of elf-preservation-our guar
. dian angel in the material but never in tn
, moral order
NJ. Lebon is sanctimonious prig. a Pro,
: estant. but of the sort known in Franc
y as "Jesuitical Protestants." He wrote
,, poor history of France for a series pub
lished in London. His evidence told NOR
: against himself than against Dreyfus
!, EMILY CRAWFORD.
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