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

that looks through tears to future
black with uncertainty, in that anguish
which is loves sorest trial, all the
anguish of Imagination, of. doubt, and of
lfear.
She was unexpectedly notified yester-
day that her visit to her husband in the
lafternoon would be her last oppportun-
| ity to see him for some time. Official
further torture of uncertainty and sus-
pense. No intimation was made as to
whether the lapse of time would be only
that necessary to get him over the
frontier into safety in some other coun-
| try or whether Devils island and death
for him, with separation and sorrow for
her, We're to be the result Of today's
verdict
/ And SO this man and this woman, this
father and this mother, sat alone in the
gloom of cell in the Manutention
prison at the bottom of the abyss of
human misery, waiting the dreadful
moment of parting, while hundreds of
miles away little boy and girl played
gleefully together in the sunshine and
told each other that sad fiction, Papa
est en- voyage" This is all they have
ever been told and all they will ever
know until knowledge can no longer be
denied them, or until papa, through the
will of heaven and the weapons on
earth, comes home to take them on his
knee.
4 Papa is zen voyage" and only God
knows whittier papa is voyaging. and
whether he will ever see their baby
I faces again.
Never in all the history of human in
Justice have two people. who have done
so little, been called upon to suffer SO
much.
ling written the pavements of the streets
outside have been ringing with the
sharp metallic click of the iron shoes
Iof cavalry horses against stones.
The duller sound of marching In
lfantry, rapid and steady, company after
company, has varied the martial note.
/. And it does not seem too much to
fall and bullets fly the real authors of
this great crime may not go unpun-
ished.
Il Whatever else may happen, the guilty
souls who have brought this misery
upon the innocent should suffer as the
innocent have suffered and Feel some-
thing of the anguish they have caused.
DEMANGE'S FINAL APPEAL.
This morning broke dull and cheer
less. The gloom was enhanced by the
grave aspect of the audience. The faces
Iof the judges also reflected the solemni-
j ty of the occasion.
Il Demange resumed his speech for the
defense and was listened to with the
Iclosest attention by the court and audi
llence. Demange began by sitting the
evidence as to the technical value of the
lbordereau. He made the point that the
delivery of the documents mentioned in
Il the bordereau had not been proved: that
Iit was mere hypothesis and proceeded
to show that Dreyfus was not possessed
'Iof all the information mentioned, tax
ling up the items in the bordereau seria-
tim, and went on to show that Ester
lhazy had this information and, from
the character of the man, was more
likely to betray his government than
Dreyfus. The latter was wealthy, hon
Iored and had happy home. Why
4 should he risk all that? Esterhazy was
lsoured against the world and always
: looking for a 5-franc piece.
II t,fc
.laccentuated the words: You must not
'lsay the thing Is possibility. The Judge
must have proof that will permit Of no
doubt, no doubt must rest on the con-
lscience of the Judge"
Demange continued to plead until the
lcourt suspended the session at 10
O'Clock. at which time it was announced
Iconclude his speech, after which the
Judges, it was added, would retire to
lconsider the verdict. On reassembling
i Demange resumed his address, conclud-
ling at 1885.
i The peroration of Demange was a
splendid piece of oratory His voice
thundered through the court room and
many VI Tic duuleHce were uoSeu "
4 tears. The speech was very skilfully
arranged and was devoted to demolish-
ing. stone by stone, the edifice built by
the general staff, going over every point
brought up in the bordereau and re-
4 futing the arguments of Mercier and
Roget. He declared he did not believe
Henry and Esterhazy were accomplices.
'lotherwise Henry would have suppressed