The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-02-19
Is He A DREYFUS?

Leavenworth, would have the people
believe that he is an American Drey-
fus. He CLANS that he is being I'M
Justly punished and that he has been
inundated and disgraced through the
Vaccinations Of a lot Of dishonest and
corrupt men, who, to escape punish
ment themselves, conspired against
him and having succeeded in imprison-
ing him now are doing their utmost to
keep him where he is helpless so that
he may not be able to expose them.
In this statement he is supported by
his attorneys and the friends that still
cling to him in his disgrace.
Last week he made appeal to the
federal court at Leavenworth for re-
lease on habeas corpus. The writ
was refused and he was remanded to
await the action Of the United States
supreme court on appeal. In the
affidavit he submitted in support of
his petition for the writ Garter al
legged that he sought release SO as to
enable him to proceed to Savannah,
where an Indictment is pending
against him in the civil court. He
further alleged that he was anxious
to be tried OH that indictment, as he
felt confident of being able to establish
his innocence. He furthermore al
legged that in the civil court he would
be permitted to establish facts and
things the right to do which was de-
MED him in the military court under
whose findings he is now serving sent
ence.
The statement is made that men
high in civil and military authority
are i'll conspiracy against Carter and
that even had he been released he
would not have been permitted to pro-
coed to Savannah, but would have
been Immediately arrested and taken
to New York, where the contractors
alleged to have been implicated with
him are under arrest. The scheme
was, so the statement goes, to hold
him until the habeas corpus proceed
ings in the supreme court had ended
and he would have either been set
free or returned to the penitentiary.
The men accused of being the chief
prosecutors of Carter are Captain Cas-
sius E. Gillette of the engineer corps,
Carter's successor, and Marion Irwin,
United States district attorney for the
District of Georgia. The prisoners
attorneys claim to have affidavits
showing that his trial and imprison-
ment was the result of a gigantic civil
and military scheme, conceived by
men high in authority to get him ou1
of the way and prevent an exposure Of
r~ottenness in civil and military officia:
life.
Without undertaking to pass judg
ment upon the merit of the afidavit'
and the consideration they are entitled
to, or the trustworthiness of the mel
subscribing to them, it does seem tina
the charge of a conspiracy is mad'
somewhat late in the day. In mill
tary courts, the same as in thos
working under civil jurisdiction,
defendant is given every opportunit.
to establish his innocence, if he ca
do so properly. Captain Carter wa
not a novice in military affairs and j
is to be assumed that he was full
aware of his rights and privileges il
the court before which he was tried
It is also reasonable to assume that h
did not sleep on any Of those rights
Besides, he had the benefit of abb
counsel who, it is further safe to at
sumo, safeguarded his interests i
every respect and saw to it that h
was deprived of no right or privileg
the law vouchsafed him in the prem
Uses. Furthermore, his case was he
railroaded through and no snap judge
ment was taken on him. Record an
history show that for months, eve
years, he was permitted to go withor
trial, after charges had been preferre
against him, and that the press an
public censured the administration fl
its apparent favoritism Of him in a
lowing him to &c. thus untried. Eve
when the order for his trial was fna
y issued he was shown every possibl