The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-08-23
Why Labori's Private Secretary
Game TO the Northwest.
IN SEARCH or ,nFoRMAT'oN.
HoW Uaotenfn9 Back 20 Paris WITH
Facts which VIII Have - ln-
portant Rearing On the Fonsus
Case-Intervfewea asst Before
He Boards Train fer New York;
AAnits the Objeet 81 HIS TRY.

n Leon Bureau private secretary OF
Naitre Labor.. leading counsel for Drsy-
fus. who has beer In Seattle visiting tho
eminent physician and French vice consul.
Adrfene Monod. Ieft yesterday afternoon
1T O'Clock for Paris.
He Is anxious to reach Paris ~ soon as
possible, and will not stop even Q day IN
the East He has timed his itinerary 81
that he viii step from his train to =
steamer In New Fork city.
In an interview just before the train
left. Bureau admitted tor the n.st time
that his trip TO the Pacific Northwest was
for the purpose Of securing Information OF
great valus to DrsyfuA He has obtained
what he went after. and this explains his
desire to reach home without loss Of time
II have ossn to the Great Slave lake IN
the Northwest territory said N. Bureau.
AFTER Information connected with the
Dreyfus CASE. / hope to reach Paris IN
time 20 hand Il over 70 Labor. but oven
II DO not IL viii stu be Of value. am
unable to state the exact nature OF the
1nformaEo1l~I obtained, but. you know. We
must guard against every contingency IN
this cas-. future - we'll - present
Net . Conspiracy.
Rsesg1ng 20 the alleged conspiracy
against Drsyfus. Secretary Bufeau sad;
The impresAsn that. there was Q con-
sptracy Among high otncsals against Dreyr
fus ps1er TO the tisue he was condemned ID
not in oDn1srmity with eur belief or con-
tentton. n h true that the proceedings by
which ~ was robbed Of his honor and de-
graded were Illegal but we do not think
that any desp-dyesi conspiracy had been
matched against him. It was a case Of an
innocAnt man being prosecuted while the
real criminal was in the background In
thissrespect the conspiracy . peculiar. as
will explain.
''Drsyfus. having been convicted !ilex-
ally. revision OF the case opened tine door
10 many complications. II reflected on the
men who had any part In II and made
them liable to prosecution. These were
some Of tho principal reasons why II was
20 hard TO find an official CONTAGIOUS
enough To take up the case again and open
the way 30 an airing Of all which had
taken place. The army party feared the
result OF new trial. and. as the world
knows. u required little less than an up
heavai ID lift the case from the table.
Hereto Nine. Dreyfus.
There was never a moment that Mime.
Dreyfus or the friends Of the captain be-
lieved him guilty. but II was a gigantic
task to overcome the prejudice existing and
chow the woriC what terrible wrong had
been done. Through al thesc dark days
the whole soul OF this noble woman was
given TO thought and labor for the exon
Grafton OF her husbands name and his re-
lease from dismal prison. Although her
path was beset with obstacles seemingly
insurmoantable she never gave up for an
instant. She Was ready to go TO the grave
to clear her husbands name Of crime she
knew him Incapable OF committing. She
had good friends. and the public viii never
know the fui, extent OF their labsrx, To
undo what hac bean done and resurrect
was the task
'Scheur~--kes,ner. formerly vice presi-
dent OF the French senate. succeeded In dis.
covering the illegahty Of the proceedings
stu justice was slothful. /, was the duty
OF the minister OF Justice TO move, hu, ne
did not. Then Pequart hit upon the little
piece OF paper which involved Esteshaxy
In the hordereau. He found Il merely by
chance. hu, II WAS the missing link Then
Alfred preyfus publicly denounced Ester.
haxy. and the world commenced 10 see
that an awful wrong had been done.
Even after fhts year passed before n
Hrisson. minister OF the interior, came for
ward. and crossing the minister OF Jus.
tsre. ordered an Investigation.
Case Cannot Die.
s'Dreyfus II an innocent man The en-,
tire world believes n now. and. x he l. 40,
acquitted. and exonsrated. believe thai
there will be revolution in France. This
case cannot die. An injustice has beer
done and IL must he rsghfed
The army committed grievous erro,
and now Z has ar opportunity 10 redeem
itself. And today Capt. Dreyfus Still re-
tains his admiration for the army, nns.
withstsndsnE what he has passed through .
II = Mr.. Bureaus firm belief that oven
II preyfus is acquitted and he fails To see
how any other eeeisen can he rendered
that prosecutions ~ high officials will FOL.
Low. re saws there has been perjury