The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-08-27
FRENCH JUSTICE.
(Memphis Commercial Appeal)

Judge: Did you say your name was
Alfred or Alphonse Dreyfus? Be care
full how you reply.
Dreyfus: Alfred Dreyfus is my
| name.
Judge: All ha! Why did you say Al
rfed Dreyfus is my name, insead of my
name is Alfred Dreyfus?
Dreyfus: Really, mon colonel, /
don't
Judge: You hesitate, YOU look COM
fused. i note the fact YOU uncrossed
your legs when ! asked you this ques-
ton. That is proof of an uneasy con-
science What have you to say?
Dreyfus: | can't
Judge: He can't. This is a confess
sion. He is guilty. (Sensation.)
Dreyfus: No, mon colonel, | am inno-
cent
Judge: If you are innocent, perhaps
you will tell where you were might before
last at fifteen minutes past ten!
Dreyfus: In jail.
Judge Where were you ON january
II, 1896?
Dreyfus: In Jail.
Judge: Where were you ON the night
of March 3, 1897?
Judge: Where We're you when the
Suburban was rum in 1898?
Dreyfus: In jail.
Judge (triumphantly): Always an jail,
yet this camille claimse to be innocent.
Once more where were you on the 10Th
of February, 1899!
Dreyflls: In jail. n
Judge: Sacre bleu! You convict yorr-
SER. There was no Doth of FEBRUARY,
1890. We shall see. You wrote the
bordereau?
Dreyfus: No, mon colonel,1 am inno-
cent.
Judge (sternly) How long have You
known William Patterson?
Dreyfus: i do not know Monsieur
Patterson at all.
Judge: Are you not the man that
struck him?
Dreyfus: | never heard of him.
Judge: He never heard of Billie Pat
terson. the man who was struck. FIe
ASSEMBLIES Do you smoke cigarettes?
Dreyfus. Yes.
Judge? Is the tariff tax?
DreYfus: 1t is.
Judge: You are traitor to France.
France imposes tariff, and You say it
cents?
< Dreyfus: Yes, mon colonel feel
like % cents now.
Judge: Do you still deny that YOU
wrote .iCurfew Shall Not Ring To-
NightY
Dreyfls: / never denied it, because |
never heard
Judge: You see, he claims that he
W
Night
Dreyfus: But, mo ncolonel, / know
nothing about "Curfew." / do not claim
Judge: But You don't deny. Perhaps
you also wrote THE Beautiful Snow"
Dreyfus: Really, mon colonel, YOU do
not allow me to explain.
Judge: You see, he cannot explain.
Do you use Pears soap?
Dreyfus: / do not.
Judge: The reporters will observe that
he does not use soap. Do you believe
in the free coinage of silver at 16 to
/ independent of any other nation on
earth?
Dreyfts: | am afraid chat
Judge: He is afraid to speak. He IS
opposed to sound money. Whom do you
consider the greatest military genius
MERCER or Esterhazy?
Dreyfus: i cannot say. Both of them.
possibly.
Judge: Have you not been IN corre-
spondence with Jack Chinn and Dead
horse Jake since the trial began?
,Dreyfus: | have not.
Judge: Do you deny that you received
a cipher cablegram from Hinky Dink
yesterday morning?
Dreyfus: / do
Judge: You change color. Your guilt
is now established. You can cxplain
nothing You claim the authorship of
poems which, were written by Mademoi-
selle Ella Wheeler. You are always in
jail, and you can't even prove an alibi on
the Doth of February 1t is, therefore.
established that YOU communicated
secret documents to the German Govern
ment, and that you wrote the bordereau.
Great applause in court, mingled with
the polite invitation to ''conspeuz" and
'bas" everything and everybody, and fol-
lowed by few cheerful assassinations
on the outside.