Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-08-22
DREYFUS ON THE STAND.

Judge: Did you say your name was
Alfred or Alphonse Dreyfus ? Be careful
how you reply.
Dreyfus Alfred Dreyius is my name.
Judge: Ah, ha ! Why did you say
Alfred Dreyfus is my pame, inste ad OF
my Dame is Alfred Dreyius?
Dreyfus: Really, mon colonel,
dou'i-
Judge: You hesitate. You look con-
fused. | note the fact that you un.
crossed your lea when I asked you
this question. That is proof of an Ut
easy conscience. What have you to
say?
Dreyfus cant
Judge: He can't. This is a confess
sion. He ia guilty (Sensation)
Dreyfus No, mon colonel, | am inno-
cent.
Judge: If you are innocent, perhaps
YOU will tell where you were night be.
fore last at fifteen minutes past ten?
Dreyfus 10 jail.
Judge: Where were you on January
IL, 1896?
Dreyfus: In jail.
Judge: Where were you on the night
of March 8, 1897?
Dreyfus: Ia Jail.
Judge: Where were you when the
Suburban was run in 1898?
Dreyfus In jail.
Judge (triumphantly): Always in
Jail, yet this canaille claims to be in.
nocent. Once more, where were you
on the Doth of February 1899?
Dreytus; In Jail.
Judge: Sacre bieu You convict
yourself. There was no 29th of Feb-
ruary, 1899. We shall see. You wrote
the bordereau
Dreyfus: No, mon Colonel I am
innocent.
Judge (sternly): How long have
you known William Patterson
Dreyfus 1 do not know Monsieur
Patterson at all.
Judge: Are not you the man who
struck him.
Dreyfus: l never heard of him.
Judge: He never heard Of Billie
Patterson, the man who was struck.
He dissembles. Do you smoke cigar
elites?
Dreyfus: Yes.
Judge: Is the tariff tax?
Dreyfus 1t is.
Judge; You are traitor to France.
France imposes tariff, and you say it
is tax. Have you ever felt like 30
cents?
Drevfus Yes. mon colonel. feel
like 25 cents now.
Judge: Do you still deny that you
wro;e "Curiew Shall Not Ring To-
Night ?"
Dreytus: 1 never denied it, because
| never heard
Judge: You see, he claims that he
wrote "Curfew Shall Not Ring To-
Night"
Dreyfus But, mon colonel, know
nothing about "Curfew'" do not
claim
Judge: But you don't deny. Per.
haps you also wrote "The Beautiful
Snow"
Dreyfus Really, mon colonel, you
do not allow me to explain.
Judge: Do you believe in the free
coinage of silver al Is TO independent
of any other nation on earth?
Dreyfus: l am afraid that
Judge: He is afraid to speak. He is
opposed to sound money. Whom do
YOU consider the greater military genius
MERCER or Esterhazy?
Dreyfus: cannot say. Both of them,
possibly.
Judge: Have you not been in corre-
spondence with Jack Chinn and Dead
horse Jake since this trial begao?
Dreyfus: l have not.
Judge: Do you deny that you receiv-
ed a cipher cablegram from Hinky
Dink yesterday morning.
Dreyfus: do.
Judge: You change color. Your
guilt is now stsblished. You can ex-
plain nothing. You claim the author
ship of poems which were written by
Made moiselle Ella Wheeler. You are
always in Jail, and you can't even prove
an alibi on the 29th of February. 1t is,
therefore, established that you commu-
nicated secret documents to the Ger
man government, and that you wrote
the bordereau.
Great applause in court m ngled with
the polite invitations TO 'conspusz' aud
"basn everything and everybody, and
followed by few cheerful as5assina.
tons on the outside Memphis Com
m rcial Appeal.