Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-08-08
viewed BY CRAWFORD
Noted Woman Correspondent Tells
OF Her Impressions at the
Dreyfus Trial.


Famous Prisoner Put Through .
Terrible Ordeal-How He
Looked and Acted.
Answers Firmly the Harsh Ques-
tions Of the Judge-Colonel
Henry's Widow.
|lCopyright, 1899, by Associated Press.
Rennes, Aug. S.-The ancient capital
OF Brittany was never less moved,
never more sluggish than on this mem
orable day. 1t seemed hundred thou
sand miles away from Dreyfus and his
exciting case. He (Dreyfus) had been
known to be excited, but he had been
keeping a stiff upper lip and Sunday
he refused to see the last set of photo
graphs OF his children brought from
Paris by his brotherin-law. He had
remarked to his brother, Matthew
Dreyfus, on the strangeness Of his fate,
SO strange that he himself could not
yet realize 1t. Nothing, he said, as
tonished him more than to find factions
dtsputing furiously about him and to-
learn that he was an object of hatred
to most of the officers. He said 1t
grteved him to think that II there were
an acquittal 1t would not change their
minds.
But he was spared such unseemly
manifestations as those which SO shook
Zola's nerves last year and terrified
his wife. There was no bowling In
front Of the PRISON. There was no cry
ing OF Death to the traitor" or Death
to the Jews or anything like that. The
Paris journalists, who had come to re-
| port the trial, seemed Gained by the
lquietude of this dead city.
| 1t was expected that the Dreyfusites
and -Dreyfusites would shun each
| other and put up at different hotels, but
| they have tacitly agreed to sink their
4 differences In each others company.
| They not only lodge at the same no..
4 tells, but they take their meals at the
same tables and amicably pass to each
lother the dishes. Rennes does not want
them to be theatrical and so they do
| not pose as ferocious patriots, but are
glad to drop the characters assumed for
the drama-loving public of Paris.
| No idea exists in Rennes that the
eyes of the world are upon her, yet
there must be within her walls 800 press
men representing journalism all the
world over. 1t never before occurred to
me what a far-reaching institution the
press is, or at least / never realized It
|so peculiarly
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