Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-08-20
A NEW CHRONOLOGY OF THE FAMOUS
CASE

8 A NEW CHRONOLOGY Uf me rAmOuS
CASE.
1894 September o5-Colonel Sandherr
sends to General MERCER document
1.-THE bordereau) thought to implicate
Dreyfus In traiJorous acts.
October 1-Dreyfus is suddenly detach-
ed from French War Office under
suspicion and surveillance.
October 14-EIis commiutal appears to
the Cherche-Midi Prison are made
out and he is summoned before the
Minister of War;
October 15-He is placed under arrest.
October 16-His wife is informed of his
arrest
October 2S.- First hint Of arrest made
public.
November First official announce
ment of the arrest.
December 6--M Demange is allowed to
see Dreyfus, who has been Kept in
close confinement.
December 19-His trial by secret court
martial on a charge Of high treason
begins.
sentenced to be publicly degraded
from the army and imprisoned for
life.
1S95-January 4-Sentence of degrade
ton is carried out in the court yard
of the Ecole Militaire.
January 14-Casimir-Perier, President
Of the French Republic, resigns his
Office.
January 17-President Faure is elected
January f9-Dreyfus is taken to the
prison on the Isle De Re, Of La
Rochelle.
March 10--He is taken to Devils Island
OF the coast of French Guiana, South
America.
sIsrch 22-Commandant d'Attel, an
army officer is found dead in rail-
way carriage between Paris and
Montmorenci.
789s-May 14-Colonel Picauart, hav-
ing his suspicious aroused concern
ing the authorship of the bordereau,
begins a quiet investigation.
November 10--Le Matin publishes a
fac-simile Of the bordereau and sus-
picion is at once directed to Ester
hazy as the author
-August-Detective Picard, en-
ployed on the Dreyfus case and who
concerning officials of the War De-
partment, is found hanging dead in
his lodgings in Paris. Verdict of
suicide is generally discredited.
October Observation-Disclosures, Vice
President of French Senate, an
nounces that he is convinced of Drey-
fus' innocence and that he has proofs
of it.
October 30-M. Demange (Dreyfus'
counseD detects illegality in the
Dreyfus court-martial and decides to
apply for q retSial,
November 2-Scnedrer- Hestner shows
proofs of Dreyfus' innocence to the
Minister of War.
November 12-Scheurer-Hestne an
nounces his belief that Esterhazy
wrote the bordereau.
November 15-Mathieu Dreyfus, broth
6T~ of the captain, denounces Ester
hazy to the Minister of War as the
author of the bordereau.
November 16-Esterhazy demands
court-martial
November 25Emile Zolas first letter
about the Dreyfus case appears in
the Aurore.
November 26-The Duke of Orleans is
sues an anti-Dreyfus manifesto from
London.
November 2S-LetterS written by Es-
terhazy defaming the French army
and nation are published in LIE FL
caro-.
November 30-Major Forzinetti, at one
time jailer of Dreyfus, publicly an
nounees belief in his innocence
1S98-January 10-Esterhazy's court
martial begins, ending next day in
his aeqnttal
January 13-Zola's 81 accuse" letter is
published in the Aurore.
January 14-Clemenceau publishes in
the Aurore a strong appeal for the
fullest exposure in the Dreyfus case
January 15-Memorial for revision of
the case signed by many prominent
men is made public.
January 22-Prime Minister Meline
makes a remarkable statement in the
Chamber Of Deputies, declaring the
Dreyfus and Esterhazy cases are res
judicata''
February First trial of Zola and
also of nj. Perreaux editor of the
Aurore, begins, resulting February
23) in verdicts of guilty in each case
and sentences of fine of $500 for
each, with one years Imprisonment
for lola and four months for Per-
reux.
February 25-Professor Grimaux, who
had testified for the defense in the
above trial, is removed from his po-
sition in the Ecole Polytechnique by
the government.
April 2-Clemenceau accuses General
Blot Of trying to intimidate the
Court of Sassation into Rpholding
Zola's conviction The Court grants
the first lola appeal and the verdict
against him is quashed
April S-Members of the Esterhazy
court-martial decide to push the case
against lola. Count Henry Casella
publishes in the Steele an exposure
MARVELLOUS DEVELOPMENT