The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-03-28

throughout France as 1.-THE man Of the
manacles."
The malice Of which Dreyfus was made
the victim may be measured by the fol-
lowing extracts from an anonymous
brochure written By NJ. Deniel's superior
and abettor. NJ. de la Loyere. director Of
the penitentiary administration:
''The arrival Of Dreyfus in Guiana cele-
brates the centennial of deportation. and
it may be added that ne introduces into
this lamentable history new element. Wa
must classify him as an exception, phe-
nomenon. His soul is the product of an
accident of nature. He is a monster II
thoe who issued the decree naming Devils
Island as his residence intended a sym
boiism in assigning him TO the refuge of
lepers they could not have succeeded bet
ter. Dreymus baffied mercy, which re-
manned mute from establishment after hay
ing been seized with horror in looking up
on him.
Meanwhile, fall the convicts he is
treated the best. While Clement Duval
political maniac and humanitarian dream
or, is put on precisely the same footing as
the worst malefactor and subjected to
hard labor in all it's severity, Dreyfus has
no occupation other than that of wiping
the lenses of his eyeglasses. In his case
truely the disproportion between the
crime and the punishment is too fragrant"
When NJ Denel was ordered TO relieve
Dreyfus of the manacles and chains he
found that his responsibility became ex-
cessively burdensome In his chamber on
D Tel 51a hoI
tablshed. There with the aid Of a SPECIAL
mechanical contrivance and plenty OF tele-
scopes, he could at any hour see the pri-
son of Dreyfus and explore its approaches.
At his bedside he placed a telephone
which enabled him 20 communicate az any
moment of the night with the lookout in
the tower or the guard in the lobby of the
Captains cell. Moved by a caprice su-
spician, an idea, for nothing, on every oc-
casion and without any occasion-Ding!
ding. And the guards must respond in
stanter.
One day during storm the telephone
communication was interrupted. No ans
wer came to the oft-repeated and sense
less call What could this mean? All, sur
prise! Conspiracy! flight! Dreyfus had es-
capped al last!
Scarcely waiting to dress himself NJ.
Deniel rushed to the boathouse. A cancel
quick! And off he went to Devils Island,
sick and almost crazed until he was let
into the lobby of tbs iron-ribbed cabin and
saw Dreyfus TRANQUILITY working away on
his architectural desgnes.
At the sight he burst into tears like a
historical woman. Such is the keeper-in-
chief of Captain Dreyfus on Devils Is
land
Afterwards NJ. Deniel, after having TAX
en- every precaution against the guard re-
ceiving any intima ton of his design, sent
a boat patrol out to Devils Island for the
purpose of ascertaining whether they were
vigilant- Faithful to their instructions
they fired on the canoe when it came with
in range and severely wounded one Of its
occupants, thus satisfying with the blood
of an innocent countryman the inordinate
if not insane zeal of the special commits
sioner," who had informed all his fellow
passengers on the voyage to Cayenne that
he bore with him "a great secret of state"
Once Holland sailing vessel, whose
master knew nothing about the lone pri-
soner of Devils Island, was fired on while
a mile from shore, passing the point.
Captain Azernal of the steamer Horton,
having been compelled by bad wether to
pass through the tabooed zone, was con-
demned to prison for his failure to pro-
pitiate the diety of the storms. Even the
worthy commander. Rotte of the Vile de
Transatlantique company, suffered con-
Il hox
lade from the Hotchkiss tower of prison
point. His offense consisted of having
been borne from his route at the west Of
Devils Island to the east by adverse winds
and tides The Captain of French cable
steamer suffered similarly for a like ad-
venture.
During the first years of exile Dreyfus
was permitted 70 receive literary and
scientific publications, after having been
carefully scrutinized. The first magazine
was withheld by VI. Deniel because it con-
tainad an article unfriendly TO the mill
tary court that had condemned Dreyfus.
The imaginative penal envoy further fear
ed that the typogra phical arrangement
concealed cryptogram, TO which the pri-
soner held the key. For the same reason
the letters sent to Dreyfus by his wife
have never reached him. What ne re-
celves are coples-mutiIad tons and derange-
rents of the originals-made by cipher
socialist. Once Nine. Dreyfus sent
naper cutter between the leaves on an in
fuential review. The discovery became an
affair Of state. and the further transmits
sion Of reading matter to the prisoner
was interdleted.
Nor IS this the worst feature Of he stu
alton The guards are imprisoned on the
stand with Dreyfgis Their plight mag
be realized from the epigTammatlc de-
scriptlon that 1.-THE island IS 50 small il
would be a prison cell. even # i had
neither prison nor paIisa5e." Moreover me
watchers are not permitted 70 send Or re-
cefve any letters save those whicn pass
me severe censorship OF " Deniel- IN
comnarsson with the keeper OF Captain
Drevflss. SIR Hudson Lowe-tds demon Of
Napoleons life az :. Helena-Would seem
IN have been considerate. even mag
unanimous jailer-
An incident Of peculiar interest 70 EN-
san+s OF u.sychic phe1oueus marked the
,oyara OF N Hess e. the French penal
colony. Al Martinique woman about 2,
wears Of ags-handsome and distinguish
looking bloule-embarked for Cayenne n
= retired SPOT she devoted most q 5er tine
70 reading reyieionis- journals from Psr-s
:. bundle OF which she had brought Eiia
b=r. ard theosophical pamphlets.
Upon learning the mission Of u hess
she struck Up q frank ac9uaiase'1re WIN
aim. and made no e3nceaiuasat q Her no
tive IN gong unatteRdsd 70 Guiana j
w. 70 console Captain D-eyfcs wltH ~