The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-09-10

and he went there the next morning.
He was received by Major Du Patty de
Clam who said that he was very busy,
and asked the captain to help him by
taking down letter that he would die
tate. There were three other persons
in the room, who were strangers to
Dreyfus, and-a circumstance that only
struck him afterwards-an arrange
ment of mirrors by which his every
movement and expression could be seen
by everybody present. Du Patty then
dictated to him the memorandum which
afterward became famous as the Dor
dereau. At one point Du Patty sudden
ly asked Dreyfus what was the mat
ter, and asserted that his hand shook
Dreyfus replied that his hands were
cold. Then he was left alone in the
room, and found a loaded revolver ly-
ing among some papers on the table
beside him. Half an hour later nj.
Cochefort, head of the detective police,
accompanied by Commander Henry of
| the second bureau, entered and Drey-
| fus was placed under arrest on the
charge of high treason, and taken to
| the Cherehe-Midi prison, all the time
protesting his innocence. The order
| committing him was dated October IA,
| the day before he was arrested or ex-
| amined.
On October 28th hint of the arrest
was conveyed to one of the Paris news
| papers, and the next day an ambiguous
| note appeared in that journal asking
| # it were true that an important mill
tary arrest had recently taken place
| This set everybody talking, for in
| France anything concerning the army
| is considered of paramount importance
| Wild stories were afloat, and the ex-
element reached fever heat when the
| news was confirmed, on November /,
| by the appearance of a brief official
| communication in all the papers. Drey-
fus was kept in close confinement until
) December 9Th, when his counsel, M
! Demange, was allowed to see him On
| December 18TH Dreyfus was arraigned
before the court-martial, which was
| held in the Conseil de Guerre building,
! opposite the Cherche- Midi prison. Great
CROWDS gathered to see him cross the
street, and shouted: Death to the
| traltor!" The trial was secret, and
lasted until December 22d, when the
court found the prisoner guilty. and
| sentenced him to transportation fol-
| life, after being submitted to military
| degradation.
On the morning of January 4th the
condemned man was ordered to put on
a captains uniform that had been spe-
clally prepared by having the lace on
| and the buttons and trimmings on the
again strongly enough to stay in place.
| tunie taken off and then stitched on
| but so loosely that they could easilv he
torn off The sword that he was made
to buckle on had also been filed on each
side about half way down the blade,
He was then searched handcuffed.
| placed in prison van, and taken by a
military escort to the Eeoe MilitaIre
| "a w ho4
into the centre of hollow square of
troops. He had already twice asserted
| his innocence to Captain Lebrun- Rem
aud, who commanded his guard. The
morning was misty and rainy. and the
courtyard was muddy waste, round
which doomed the buildings with win
| doWs filled with faces, while a vast
crowd that surged and pushed in the
! avenue without uttered loud and mem
| acing cries against the prisoner, AZ
| exactly nine o'clock the drums rolled
/ the troops presented arms, and the
regimental band played a melancholv
| tune. The sentence was read Drevfus
standing firmly with head erect his
| left hand resting on the pommel of his
| sword, and his eyes looked suuarelv
in the eyes of General Darras, who
commanded the troops. Then gigan-
tic adjutant tore the triple band from
the captains cap the buttons from his
coat, the gold lace from the collar and
! sleeves, and the red stripes from his
trousers. AS the adjutant flung them
on the ground. Dreyfus threw m his
arms and cried in a voice heard far he-
yond the limits of the courtyard.-
You are degrading an innocent man.
| Long live France!" A roar of execra :
ton answered him: death to the
traitor!" and the big adjutant rough
ly tore the sword belt from him.
wrenched the sword from its scabbard
broke it across his knee, flung the frae-
ments on the ground, and stamped on
them. Then, amid howls from the mob
without, the degraded officers, a gro
tesque and lamentable figure. in his de-
faced uniform, was marched round fine
hollow square, protesting his inno-
cence, and crying Long live Francel''
while the drums rolled in order 10
drown his voice. Finally, after being
photographed and measured as a Grim
inal, he was driven in the prison van
to La Sante prison, and thence taken
on January 10, to La Rochelle, where
he was embarked for the neighborine
lie de Re, on which is the prison where.
in convicts sentenced to Transportation
await their embarkation. Mobs ali
along the route sought to attack him,
and the guard of gendarmes had ia
struggle hard to keep their prisoner
from being murdered. He was eventu-
ally taken to the lie du Diable, off the
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