Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-08-19

From tie Memphis Commercial Appeal.
Judge-"Did you say your name was AL
fred or Alphonse Dreyfus? Be careful 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?'"
Enthusiastically. mon colonel, I don't
Judge-"You hesitate. You look confused.
note the fact that you uncrossed your
legs when I asked you this question. That
| is proof Of an uneasy conscience. What
have you to say2'
Dreyfus-"I can't"
Judge-"He can't. This is a confession
He is guilty" (Sensation)
Dreyfus-"No, mon colonel, I am limo
cent"
Judge-"If you are Innocent, perhaps you
will tell where you were night before last
at fifteen minutes past 10?''
Dreyfus-"In jail
Judge-"Where were you on January IL.
1897
Dreyfus-"In jail"
Judge--'Where were you on the night Of
March 3. 1907"
Dreyfus-"In jail"
Judge-"Where were you when the Sub
urban was run in 1882
Dreyfus-"In jail"
IN jail,
yet this canaille claims to be innocent.
once more, where were you on the Goth of
February. 1902
Dreyfus-"In jail"
Judge-"Sacre blue! You convict yourself
There was no Goth of February, 1899 We
shall see. You wrote the bordereau"
Dreyfus-"No, mon colonel; I am inno-
cent
Judge (sternly)-"How long have you
known William Patterson"
Dreyfus-"I do not know Monsieur Pat
terson at ALL
Judge-"Are not you the man who struck
him?''
Dreyfus-'T never heard of him"
Judge-"He never heard Of Billie Patter-
son. the man who was struck. He dissem-
bles. Do you smoke cigarettes?
Dreyfus-"Yes"
}1agem"Is the {. !! tariff taxi"
France imposes a tariff, and you say it is
tax. Have you ever felt like thirty
cents?'
Dreyfus-'Yes. mon colonel. I feel like
twenty-five cents now"
Judge-"Do you still deny that YOU wrote
'Curfew Shall Not Ring Tonight?
never heard"
Judge-"You see he claims that ba wrote
'Curfew Shall Not Ring Tonight
Dreyfus-'But, mon colonel. know moth
ing about 'Curfew.' I do not claim
vo Jud aie you 1S don't deny Perhaps
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Dreyfus-"Really, mon colonel, you do
not allow me to explain"
Judge-"Do you believe in the free COIN
age OF silver at 16 to 1 Independent OF any
other nation on earth?"
Dreyfus-"I afraid that"
Judge-'He is afraid to speak. He is op-
posed to sound money. Whom DO you con-
slider the greater military genius, MERCER
or Esterhazy?
Dreyfus-'T cannot say. Both of them,
possibly"
Judge-"Have you not been in corre-
spondence with Jack Chinn and Deadhorse
Jake since this trial began?"
Dreyfus-''I have not"
Judge-'DO you deny that you received
cipher cablegram from Hinky Dink yes
terday morninE?"
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 Mademoiselle Ella Wheel
er. You are always in jail, and you can't
even prove an aibi on the Goth of Febru-
airy. 1t Is therefore established that YOU
communicated secret documents to the Ger
man 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
by a few cheerful assassinations on the
outside.