The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-08-20
EVENTS IN DREYFUS CASE.
Chronology of the Important Steps
That Have Been Taken.
From the Cincinnati Enquirer.

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That Have Been Taken.
From the Cincinnati Enquirer.
The chronology is as follows
1S94-Sept. 20, Col. Sandherr sends to Gen.
MERCER, secretary of war, document
known as the bordereau. thought TO impH-
cate Capt. Alfred Dreyfus in reasonable
acts.
Oct IS, Bertillon pronounces the border
eau to be in the handwriting of Dreytus.
Oct IS, Dreyfus placed under arrest
Nov. 9, NJ. Demange is assigned as his
counsel.
Dec. 10. his trial by secret courtmartial
begins
Dec. %. he is found guilty and sentenced
to be publicly degraded and imprisoned for
life
lSS5-Jan. 4. sentence of degradation is
carried out in the courtyard of the Ecoe
Militaire.
Jan. IA, President Casimer-Perier sudden
ly resigned from office.
Jan. II, President Faure is elected.
March 10, Dreyfus is taken to the prison
on Devils Island. off the coast of French
Guiana, South America.
1S96-May I, Lieut.. Col. Picquart head Of
the Intelligence bureau, receives the Petit
Rleu and his suspicious are aroused as 20
the author of bordereau.
September, as the result of Picquart's
investga tons Vice President Scheurer-
Kestner is convinced that the bordereau
was not written by Dreyfus.
Nov. 10, the Matin published a fac-simile
of the bordereau and suspicion is directed
toward Maj. Esterhazy.
lS97-August, Picard, detective employed
in the Dreyfus case, found dead in his
Paris lodgings.
October, Senator Scheurer- Kestner an
I, 4 nf IS
innocence.
November. visits the minister of war
with the proofs.
Nov. y. Matthew Dreyfus denounces
Esterhazy as the author of the bordereau.
Feb Z, first trial of zola and PerreauX,
publishers of L'Aurore, in which his let
ter appeared saying that Esterhazy was
| acquitted by order"
Nov. 16, Esterhazy demands a court
martial.
Nov %, Zolas first letter about the
| Dreyfus case appears in the Aurore.
| 1S9S-Jan. 10, Esterhazy courtmartial be
| gins. He is acquitted.
Jan. 10, Zola's letter, known as the
| "Jaccuse' letter, printed in the Aurore
Feb. 7, lola and PerreauX, publisher OF
the Aurore on trial for saying Esterhazy
was acquitted by order"
Feb %. they are found guilty and SEN
fenced to fine and imprisonment.
July g. Maitre Demange forwards TO the
minister of justice Nine. Dreyfus's first
appeal for a retrial of her husband.
July TO- Col. Picquart declares the letter
of SO, the new evidence a forgery.
Aug. 80, Col Henry confesses that HI
| forged the letter of So
Aug. 81, is arrested and is found deaC
in his cell, with his throat cut
Sept 9, Maj. Esterhazy fees from Par
to London
Sept. %, the French cabinet votes 70
a revision of the Dreyfus case, and thu
| papers are sent to the Court of Casa
| ton.
Nov Is, Dreyfus is notified of the i'm
| pending revision.
1S99-Iarch p, French Court of Casa
ton Court of Appeals) orders the secre
| dossier submitted.
June 8, the Court of Cessation orders
a new courtmartal for Dreyfus.
Aug. Z Courtmartial convened at Rennes
| the ancient capital of Brittany, with Col
Jouaust as president of the court.
The Extraordinarily this mean
| memoranda written on the border or edg
! of anything. 1t was brought to the in
| telligence department of the French wa
office in September, 1894, by an Alsatial
| servant, probably the concierge of Vol
| SchWartzkoppen, the German military at
| tache. 1t was torn into small pieces, OF
paper so fimsy that it could not be pho
| tographed, and was unsigned and undat
ed 1t contained reasonable revelation
concerning French military affairs. Drey
fus was charged with being its author
because of the handwriting. one eXper
declared the handwriting to be that o
Mai Esterhazy. After he left France h
| is said to have admitted this.
The Secret Dossier-A dossier is tn
| brief in a case. 1t means literally a bun
die of documents laid back to back (dos
a-dos). The secret dossier now being con
sidered by the court at Rennes contains
some 400 documents (pieces) of sort no
suited. for political reasons, to be pre-
scented in open court.