Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-08-09

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Padelford was the son Of wealthy
Philadelphia. He obtained a divorce
from her ten years ago. She has been
in various institutions for alcoholism.
and only last week was sent to Bellevue
Hospital. She was formerly Elizabeth
Ordway, prominent in Washington So
ciety. Her father. General Ordway,
died, it is said, of broken heart.
COMMENT ON DREYFUs TRIAL.
Mrs. Emily Crawford's View of the
Second Days Proceedings.
| Copyright. 1899, by Associated Press0
Rennes, France, Aug. 9.--Maitre De-
mango. the principal counsel for Capt.
| Dreyfus, expresses himself as we'll sat
isfied with the proceedings thus far.
! Col. Jouaust had to play the part of a
severe judge, but If his voice was rude
and his manner rough toward the pris-
oner. his eye was kind and there were
! no attempts to press home the points
raised by the Indictment.
NJ. Chanoine, the custodian OF the ia
nous secret dossier, said 1t would take
four. days to examine 1t, as the exami-
nation would be behind closed doors
and most of the witnesses have gone to
the seaside. Gen. Mercier remains here,
the guest of Gen. Saint Germain, who
1.tells his friends to be prepared for SEN
| sational evidence that must crush
| Dreyfus and many others with him.
| NJ. Cavaignac talked of LeMans on
his way here. He said he expected two
coups de theatre. We now hear that
one will be an avowal by Gen. Billot
that he said on his soul and conscience
| Dreyfus was a traitor because he was
misled. The other will be Mercier
| driven to BAY The latter will issue
| from this trial ruined If Dreyfus is nc
/ quilted. hear he intends to throw a
searchlight on the secret councils of
the Dupuy government, of which he
was member in 1884. and to show
1 what diplomatic wires We're pulled be-
tween the arrest of Dreyfus and his en-
barkation for Cayenne. Mercier refuses
TO be interviewed. He looks bowed
down with care.
Gen. Bllot, ON the other hand, seems
to have taken out a new lease of life.
| He also is extremely reticent as indeed
/ are all the witnesses of note.
/ NJ. Jaures arrived Monday night. He
claims TO know much more than is in
/
respondence between two military at
| taches, who We're mixed up in the af-
fair, is said by Jaures to be a shame TO
1 human nature. These two officers
wrote under feminine names and in
strain that might have shocked the
yours courtiers Of Nero or the ribald
crowd that gathered around Lots
house in the doomed city Possibly
i nay, probably, the attaches in question
4 never wrote these scented anacreontie
billets. for such they are. Lemercie1
1 Picard was equal to the task of forging
them and he possibly did forge them
4 for a pecun!ary consideration. Hence
i5perhaps, the mystery In which his sui
i eide is shrouded.
4 The counsel for Drayfus met yester-
i day at his wife's residence, the head
i quarters of the Dreyfusite party. and
4 consulted on the present aspect of the
/ affair They went there after they had
j examined the documents of the secret
sldossier in the judges room They dc
4 not see any possibility of repeating the
4 judgment of 1894.
Dreyfus was greatly fatigued after
the first days ordeal He asked anx-
iousiy what the press and public
i thought, and was led to think that
Il opinion is generally favorable. This is
. true. The representatives of national
sst journals. who judge harshly in print.
express admiration for the unfiinohing
constancy he has displayed.
There seems danger that all the evil
! dence relating to foreign diplomatists
II will be given with closed doors. The
public trial will be resumed on Satur-
t day.
| Dreyfus, a member of his family tells
me- has not yet got over his Rip Van
Winkle feeling. He was lost. as he pu,
1t. He remarked to his wife that he was
astonshed to find himself watched BY
the whole world or its proxies, though
he showed no sign of astonishment. He
was thrown in a heap by the searching
and. as he thought. unfriendly, exam
nation by the president of the cour,
martial. He had expected mere forma
proceedings.
NM. Damange and Labori did no,
prepare hlm for hostile tribunal anf
q scrut'nizing public. He felt as IL X.
rays were being cast on him all the time
he was under public gaze.
1t was as If the ininost thoughts OF
his heart We're being peered into HI
imagined the proceedings would be onl,
formal and that perhaps he might leave
the court house to walk to his wife!
temporary home.
He was at first greatly depressed t.
learn that he would be confronted win
a crowd Of hostile witnesses and tina,
the trial might last fortnight or three
weeks. or even longer. Then, steeline
himself. he cried: "You must prov.
yourself man, Dreyfus. You mus
struggle for your honor and not give Ii
until you have cleared 1t once and for
ever. But what have you done, Drey
fus, to make people thus rend you
Were you born under malignant star
If so. fight against fate and wrestl,
until you have thrown the evil angel
From long habit, he speaks to him
self when intending to converse Will
visitors. EMILY CRAWFORD.
WAS HE KILLED BY ATTENDANT
: New York Insane Patient Found
Dead Under Peculiar Circum.
stances.
New York. Aug. s.-An examination
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