Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1899-10-19
JUSTICE IN FRANCE.
HOW THE DREYFUS TRIAL LOOKS TO
AMERICAN EYES.
II You Can't Prove the Prisoner
Guilty by Direct Means, There Are
Always CircumIocutory Methods
That VIII Bring the same Result.

That VIII Bring the Same Result.
Judge-Did you say that your name was
Alfred or Alphonse Dreyfusf Be careful
how you reply.
Dreyfus-Alfred Dreyfus is my name.
Judge-Ah, ha! Why did you say al
fred Dreyfus Is my name instead of
MY name is Alfred Dreyfus?"
Dreyfus-Really, mon colonel, | don't
Judge-You hesitate. You look con-
fused. | note the fact that you uncross-
ed your legs when ! asked you the ques-
ton. That is proof of an uneasy con-
science. What have you to say?
Dreyfus-I can't
J%udge-IIe can't. This is a confession.
He is guilty. (Sensational)
Dreyfus-No, mon colonel, l am inno-
cent.
Judge-Tf you are innocent, perhaps
you will tell where you were night be-
fore last at 1915?
Dreyfus-In Jail.
Judge-Where were you on Jan. IL,
1896?
Dreyfus-In Jail.
Judge-Where were you on the night
Of March 3, 1897?
Dreyfus-In Jail.
Judge-Nhere were you when the
Suburban vas run in 1898?
Dreyfus-.In jail.
Judge Observation-Disclosures in Jail,
yet this canaille claims to be innocent.
Once more, where were you on Feb. 20,
1899?
Dreyfus-In Jail.
Judge-Sacre blcu! You convict your
self. There was no Feb. 20, 1899. We
shall see. You wrote the bordereau?
Dreyfus-No, mon colonel, / am inno-
cent.
Judge (sternly)-How long have you
known William Patterson?
Dreyfus-I do not know NJ. Patterson
at all.
Judge-Are not you the man who
struck him?
Dreyfus-I never heard Of him.
Judge-He never heard of Billie Pat
terson. the man who was struck, He
dissembles. Do you smoke cigarettes?
Dreyfus-Yes.
Judge-Is this a tariff tax?
Dreyfus-It is.
Judge-You are n traitor to France.
France imposes a tariff, and you say it
is n tax. Have you ever felt like 30
cents?
Dreyfus-Yes. mon colonel. l feel like
% cents now.
Judge-Do you still deny that you
wrote "Curfew Shall Not Ring To-
night?"
Dreyfus-I never denied it, because I
never heard
Judgc-You see. he claims that he
wrote "Curfew Shall Not Ring To-
night"
Dreyfus-But, mon colonel, l know
nothing about "Curfew." | do not claim
Judge-But you don't deny. Perhaps
you also wrote The Beautiful Snow"
Drcyfus-Renlly. mon colonel, you do
not allow me to explain.
Judge-You see, he cannot explain. Do
you use Blanks soap?
Drcyfus-I do not.
Judge-The reporters will observe that
he does not use soap. Do you believe in
the free coinage of silver at 16 to | indie
pendent of any other nation 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 genius
MERCER or Esterhazy?
Dreyfus-I cannot say. Both of them
possibly.
Judge-Have you not been in corre-
spondence with Jack Chinn and Dead
horse Jake since this trial began2
Dreyfus-I have not.
Judgc-Do you deny that you received
a cipher cablegram from Hinky Dink
yesterday morning?
Dreyfus-l do.
Judge-You change color. Your guilt
is now established. You can explain
nothing. You claim the authorship of
poems which were written by Mile. Ella
Wheeler. You are always in Jail, and
you can't even prove an abb on the 18th
of February. 1t is therefore established
that you communicated secret documents
to the German government and that you
wrote the bordereau.
Great applause in court, mingled with
the polite invitations to "conspuer' and
"abattre" everything and everybody and
followed by n few cheerful assassina-
tons on the outside.-Memphis ComWsg.
cial Appeal.