The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-08-06
sTcRy OF THE DREYFUS CASE.
.,- THE ARTILLERY CAPTAIN
,,.,S ACCUSED AND CONVICTED.

Know the Evidence Against
r,.,,-rbe BOrdereau, and How
,,,,. Din Clam Made Dreyfus Tran
The It-suieide Suggested and
s,,..srstion DecIined-The Deg
ragution.
.r,... ,strial of the famous Dreyfus case
,i n. basun before d courtmartial at
7,.,r-s tomorrow, Aug. Z. In view of
~. celebrity of the case, and the fact
hat Il has been five years since Dreyfus
mos convicted degraded and transported
80 D-,,rs Island, TO serve life sentence
:, solitary confinement, II will be OF in
arrest TO briefly review the origin and
,,,,crsss of the cause up TO the time of
Transformation. The facts subsequent
mat even. are matters Of such recent
/ i,5st,r, that they need not be retold. The
,i.tqIs as racounJed below were secured
r.st January by Mr.. Robert II. Sherard
I'm, UsCure's Magazine. Mr.. Sherard Wis
,tf5 Paris for the purpose OF the inquiry.
/ End e..alusted all available sources OF
/ ,orrefr information. What he says,
/ tberr fore. has the combined merits OF
suti.suti.itv and non-partisanship.
The First of the Case.
I'm Nov - 1851. VI. IsNSONeA u Ii hAAioAAN -
.lir.r Of the Jew-baiting newspaper, La
,br- paro.e. of Paris, received an anony-
4 mon. {,,ter announcing that an officer
~ Jewish race had been arrested for high
/ t,.s..,u on the 29th an ambiguous note
4 aDnaared in that journal asking If 1t
1 ,U-ra true that an important arrest had
recently aiken place.
4 Excitement in Paris was at fever pitch
when ON Nov. ,, the name of the officer
tod xaTlG q
II was then learned for the first time,
although his arrest dated from Oct. IA,
A tb9t can't Alfred Dreyfus of the Four
teen-h Regiment of Artillery was the man
Il charged with the terrible crime of high
treason.
At that time it was currently reported
II that the foreign government with which
Drevfus had trafficked was the Italian
Il government and though since then 1t
has been stated, and is generally accept
al that it was with Germany that these
dealings took place, no actual infOrma-
n tion on the subject has ever been given.
n From the very beginning, and with one
"A execution only, a policy of absolute Sc
Il crecy has been observed by the success
Il sive French ministries, for as NJ. Me
"a line pointed out at the Senate any in
81 discretion on this subject might entail the
II gravest consequences on the nation.
No Motive shown.
No valid motive why Dreyfus should
a have committed these acts of treachery
a was put forward al the time of the arrest
Il or ever has been since He was a man of
81 considerable private means. His own prI-
N waite income exceeded $4,000 a year, and
81 his wife, the daughter of one of the rich
NJ est diamond merchants in Paris, had Il
81 large fortune of her own. Indeed, at the
"a time of her husbands arrest, Nine. Drey-
fus had a sum Of $4,000 lying at her
81 bankers waiting for invest ment. On the
other hand, Alfred Dreyfus was not a
Eendthrift He was passionately devot-
FL to his wife and children, and had no
@son outside of his family circle. He
was not a gambler, but a man of steady
# habits, who returned home directly his
york was over. The only luxury that he
a allowed himself was his stable. He had
ame beautiful horses. At school, as in
he army, he was reputed a hard worker
He was never very popular with his COM
ndes, who accused him of naughty man
hers.
His Secret Arrest.
1t has since transpired that for some
g tine previous to his arrest, in consequence
a constant leakage" of documents
Which had been noticed at the second bu-
au Dreyfus had been under the suspicion
his chiefs This suspicion must have
ecome a certainty, when, on Oct l, he
Vas detached from the ministry of war and
sppolnted to service in the Thirty-ninth
@giment at tine Ecole Militaire, for, as
stated, a period of three months. On the
morning of Oct. II he received at home,
INJURIOUS apartment near the Trocadero,
summons to attend al the ministry on the
blowing morning. He left home to go to
ue ministry, in consequence. on the
81 morning Of Oct 10 and was not seen or
heard Of again until the news of his arrest
was made public on Nov. l.
Made TO Transcribe the Bcrdereau.
Meanwhile Alfred Dreyfus had present
himself at the ministry of war, where
was received by Maj. du Patty de Clam.
am very glad to see my dear COM
ale' said the major. I'VE will go out
Dsether directly, and I will then tell you
nat have asked you to come here for.
kt now l am very busy. So would you
SO good as to take down a letter which
VIII dictate to you whilst l am sorting
We papers, 1t is a letter TO Gen. de
@SaelIre about some documents which
mas asked me for"
There were three other people in the
oh' oil strangers to Alfred Dreyfus and
= circumstance which only struck the
hsoner afterwards-certain mirrors had
IN SO arranged that every movement of
features could be seen by everybody
Resent
DufeyIus sat down and took up pen.
Inc major began to dictate. Although I
S'e mad no news from you to the effect
4dI you wish 10 see me, I nevertheless
WA you sir, some information of inter-
men, lnterrupting himself suddenly, he
ru Out: Write properly, my good fell
w. what is the matter with you? Your
an1 seems TO shake"
My myers are cold" said Dreyfus.
ne very careful" said the major, this
very serious business" Then he contin-
W ms dictation as follows:
d IHst' a note on the hydraulic brake 100.
n no% worked when experiments were
secondly, note concerning the cover
MS s ioiees. Several notifications will be
" .,,. by the new plan
& HIaiy' note relative to alterations
AN, Tne formations of artillery corps.
.. ourlhiy' a note relating to Madagas-
n I'nly the draft of a manual of artil-
Wy mel meid practice, March II, 1894.
, NIs last document is extremely din
10 procure and l can only have ii at
disposal for very few days. The min