The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-09-03
FRENCH JUSTICE.

From the Memphis Commercial-Ap Appeal
Judge-Did you say your name was
Alfred or Alphonse Dreyfus? Be care
full how you reply.
Dreyfus-Alfred Dreyfus is my name.
Judge-Ah, ha! Why did you say
Alfred Dreyfus is my name instead
of My name is Alfred Dreyfus?
Dreyfus-Realy, mon colonel, 1
Judge-You hesitate. You look con-
fused. l note the fact that you I'M
crossed your legs when asked you this
question. That is proof of an uneasy
conscience. What have you to say?
Dreyfus-I can't ---
Judge-He can't. This is a confess
sion. He is guilty. (Sensatoin.)
Dreyfus-No, mon colonel, l am inno-
cent.
Judge-If you are innocent, perhaps
you will tell where you were night be-
fore last at Is minutes past 10.
Dreyfus-In jail.
Judge-Where were you on Jan. II,
1896?
Dreyfus-In Jail. ..
Judge-Where were you on the night
of March 8, 1897?
Dreyfus-In Jail.
Judge-Where were you when the
suburban was run in 1898?
Dreyfus-In Jail.
Judge (trumphantly)-Alw in Jail,
yet this canaille claims to be innocent.
Once more. where We're you on the
goth of February, 1899?
Dreyfus-In jail
Judge-Sacre bleu You convict
yourself. There was no goth of Feb
ruary, 1899. We shall see. You wrote
the bordereau.
Dreyfus-No, mon colonel; l am in
nocent
Judge (sternly)-How long have you
known William Patterson?
Dreyfus-I do not know Monsieur
Patterson at all.
Judge-Are you the man who struck
him?
Dreyfus-I never heard of him.
Judge-He never heard of Billy Pat
terson, the man who was struck. He
dissembles. Do you smoke cigarettes?
Dreyfus-Yes.
Judge-Is the tariff a tax?
Dreyfus-It is. -.r -..-4 .s....
Judge-You are traitor to France.
France imposes tariff, and you say it
is a tax. Have you ever felt like 80
cents?
Dreyfus-Yes, mon colonel. 1 feel like
25 cents now.
Judge-Do you still deny that you
wrote "Curfew Shall Not Ring To-
night?"
Dreyfus-I never denied it, because
Judge-You see he claims that ne
wrote "Curfew Shall Not Ring To-
night"
Dreyfus-But, mon colonel, I know
nothing about "Curfew." / do not
Judge-But you don't deny. Perhaps
ole D,
Dreyfus-Really, mon colonel, you do
not allow me to explain.
Judge-You see he cannot explain.
Do you use Pears soap?
Dreyfus--I do not.
Judge--The reporters will observe
that he does not use soap. Do you be-
lieve in the free coinage of silver at
Is to 1 independent of any other ma
ton on earth?
Dreyfus-I am afraid that -
Judge-He is afraid to speak. He
Is opposed to sound money. Whom do
you consider the greater military ge-
MUS, MERCER or Esterhazy?
Dreyfus-I cannot say. Both Of them,
possibly,
Judge-Have you not been in CORE
spondence with Jack Chinn and Dead
horse Jake since this trial began?
Dreyfus-I have not.
Judge-Do you deny that you received
a cipher cablegram from Hinky Dinky
yesterday morning?
Dreyfus-I do.
Judge-You change color. Your guilt
Is now established. You can explain
nothing. You claim the authorship of
poems which We're written by Mad
emoiselle Ella Wheeler. You are al
ways in Jail, and you can't even prove
an alibi on the Goth of February 1t
is therefore established that you COM
municated secret documents to the
German government, and that you
wrote the bordereau.
Great applause in court, mingled
with the polite invitations to CON
spuez" and bias" everything and every
body, and followed by a few cheerful
assassinations on the outside.