The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-08-07

with current matters and perhaps few
studies of which I forget the subject"
Jonaust-At the military school you
were reproached with saying the Al
satians were happier as Germans than
as F'renchmen2
Dreyfus-No; never uttered such
words.
Jouaust-How do you account for the
bad note against you, written by a Ger
tain general?
Dreyfus-He said he wanted no Jews
on the general staff.
Jouaust-How did you know what he
said?
Dreyfus- Through conversations;
JOuaust-You attributed this bad note
to your religion?
DreyfuS-YeS.
Jouaust-In 1892 you went to Null
house. What did you do there?
Dreyfus-I went there three times, by
way of Basic, without a passport. Once
I arrived at my house, never went
out.
Jouaust-You went there in 1886?
Dreyfus-Yes, possibly.
Jouaust-Did you follow the German
maneuvres?
Dreyfus-No
Jouaust-Did you converse with Ger
man officers?
Dreyfus-I deny it absolutely
JOuaust-What was your object to
going to Alsace2
DTeyfus-FOr instruction.
Jouaust-You studied transports?
Dreyfus-Yes.
JOuauSt-YOu wrote certain 1nfOrma-
ton respecting the manufacture of the
Robin shell. You said this Informal
ton was requested by a professor of
the military school. This was false.
am told you asked officers indiscreet
questions.
Dreyfus-It is not true.
JOuaust-Did you go to Brussels in
1894?
Jouaust-A witness affirms you went.
Dreyfus-It is false.
Jouaust-You had relations with a
woman?
Dreyfus-Yes.
Jouaust-What nationality?
Dreyfus-Austrian.
Jouaust-E1ow could you have such
relations, you an officer on the general
staff?
Dreyfus-I committed no indiscre-
ton.
Jouaust-Your books were all kept.
You had special resources. Passing
through the Champs Elysee in 1891, you
remarked: Here lives a certain lady.
Suppose we can call on her. have lost
heavy sums at her house"
Dreyfus-It is false; I have never
gambled- NeverI Never!
Jouaust-Did you know Major Du
Patty Du Clam?
Dreyfus-NO.
Jouaust-Did you know Major Hen
ry?
Dreyfus-No.
Jouaust-You have no motive for an
mostly against them?
Dreyfus-No.
Jouaust-And Col. Picquart?
Dreyfus-I don't know him.
Jouaust-And Lieut.. Colonel Ester
hazy?
Dreyfus-I don't know him.
Jouaust-YOu never wrote him?
Dreyfus-No.
Jouaust-CoI. Du Patty de Clam says
that your writing at his dictation was
less firm when he made you undergo
a trial on the day of your arrest?
Dreyfus-My writing has not much
changed.
Here a non-commissioned officer who
was standing in front of Major Car
riere crossed the platform and handed
Dreyfus his writing on the day of his
arrest.
Dreyfus replied by insisting that
there was nothing to show any per-
ceptible change in his handwriting. Col.
Jouaust then spoke of the interview
with Du Patty de Clam, and Dreyfus re-
piled: 4 never confessed anything to
Du Patty de Clam
Here occurred one of the most dra-
matte scenes in the examination. Drey-
fus tremendously excited sWayed to and
fro for a moment and then all his pent
up emotion and indignation burst forth
and he cried in a piercing voice heard
throughout the court and even by those
standing outside:
1T is Ubiquitous to condemn an in
nocent man. 1 never confessed any
thing. Never.
A DRAMATIC SCENE
Dreyfus as he uttered the words
raised his right white gloved hand and