The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-09-01
PROOF OF DREYFUs's GUILT
Incidents Of the Trial at Rennes
which show His Treason
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Judge-"Did you say your name was
Alfred or A1phonse Dreyfus? Be care
full how you reply"
Dreyfus-"Alfred Dreyfus is my
name"
Judge-"Ah, ha! Why did you say
alfred Dreyfus is my name instead OF
My name is Alfred Dreyfus?'"
Dreyfus-"Really, mon Colonel, 7
don't"
Judg-"You hesitate. You look con-
fused. I note, the fact that you I'M
crossed your legs when I asked you
this question. That is proof Of an un-
say?"
Dreyfus-"I can't"
Judge-"He can't. This is a confess
sion. He is guilty" (Sensation.)
Dreyfus-"No, mon Colonel, 1 am in
nocent."
you will tell where you were night be-
fore last at fifteen minutes past ten?'
Dreyfus-'Tn jail"
Judge-"Where were you on January
IL 1882"
Dreyfus-"In JAIL"
Judge-"Where were you when the
Suburban was run in 1887
Dreyfus-"In JAIL"
Judge (triumphantly)-"Always in
Jail, yet this canaille claims to be in
nocent. Once more, where were you on
the 29th Of February, 1892
Dreyfus-"In jail"
Judge-"Sacre blue! You convict
yourself. There was no 29th Of Febru-
airy, 1899. We shall see. You wrote the
bordereau?"
Dreyfus-"No, mon Colonel; / am in
nocent."
Judge (sternly)-'How long have you
known William Patterson"
Dreyfus-"I do not know Monsieur
Patterson at adj"
Judge-"Are not you the man who
struck him."
Dreyfus-"I never heard Of him"
Judge-"He never heard of BillieSPat-
terson, the man who was struck. He
Ensembles. Dou you smoke cigarettes?"
Dreyfus-"Yes."
Judge-'Is the tariff a AK"
Dreyfus-'It is"
Judge-"You are a traitor to France
France mpose a tariff, and you say 1t
is a tax. Have you ever felt like thir-
ty cents?"
Dreyfus-"Yes, mon Colonel. 1 feel
like twenty-five cents now"
Judge-"Do you still deny hat you
wrote 'Curfew Shall Not Ring To-
night?'"
preyfus-"I never denied it, because
I never heard
Judge-"You see, he claims that he
wrote 'Curfew Shall Not Ring To
night"
Dreyfus-'But, mon Colonel, 1 know
nothing about 'Curfew.' Do not claim
Judge-"But you don't deny. Perhaps
you also wrote The Beautiful SNOWY"
Dreyfus-"Really, mon Colonel, you
do not allow me to explain"
Judge-"Do you believe in the free
coinage Of silver at 16 to l, Independent
of any other nation on earth?"
D~reyfus-"I am afraid that"
followed by a few cheerful assassina-
is opposed to sound money. Whom do
you consider the greater military geni-
us, MERCER or ~EsterhaZey?"
Dreyfus-"I canno say. Both of
them, possibly"
Judge-"Have you not been in CORE
spondence with Jack Chinn and Dead
horse Jake since his trial began?"
D~reyfus-"I have not"
ed a cipher cablegram from Hinky
Dink yesterday morning?"
Dreyfus-"I do"
Judge-"You change color. Your guilt
is now established. You can explain
nothing. You claim the authorship OF
poems which were written by Madem-
oiselle Ella Wheeler. You are always
in Jail, and you can't even prove an
alibi on the Goth of February. It is
therefore established that o COM
municated documents to the German
government, and that you wrote the
bordereau."
Great applause in court, mingled with
the polite invitations to "conspuez' and
''bas" everything and everybody, and
followed b va few cheerful assassina-
tions on the outside.