The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-01-26
DREYFUS IN PARIS.
A Meeting With the Ex-Captain and
 His Wife

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 | Of the Cuignet case, about which | there was so much excitement last
 week, we hear but little at the present moment. The antiDreyfusard and
 anti Government papers, of course, | have prof1ted by the occasion to pour fresh torrents of abuse on the heads of their adversaries, and particularly on that of General Andre, who is re- sponsible for the incarceration of the
 commandant Tn Dreyfusard circles,
 on the other hand, there is a tendency
 to look upon the affair at any rate at
 It's present stage, as unimportant. For. as the commandant Is to be tried mere ly for his insubordination in refusing to answer General Andres questions, and
 not for the purpose of eliciting the
 truth with regard to the Panizzs rdi
 telegram, there seems very little chance
 that any fresh proof of the innocence
 of Dreyfus may come out of the affair
 The one hope was that Panizzardi him.
 self would come forward last week, but
 this he has not been allowed to do.
 In the mean time the unfortunate
 victim of the late terrible scandal is
 here in Paris, with his wife and chill
 dren, leading, unmoested, quiet and
 peaceful life. He, of course, sees mo- body but his most intimate friends, and 1t was by one of them that I was taken
 the other day to call upon him. It seemed strange to be sitting there in an ordinary drawing room talking of ordinary subjects to man the history of whose martyrdom has thrilled the whole world, and who less than two years ago was tortured prisoner. And my impression of him was stranger still I was prepared to find the chilly hammered, unsympathetio man whom all his enemies and great many of his friends and defenders describe him as being. Whether he was all this be- fore and whether trouble has softened him do not know, but there is nothing in the least repellent about him now. The eyes that shine blue behind his spectacles are kind and he has a kind ly indulgent smile and a soft, pleasant voice For the rest, he is rather small, thin man, with slight stoop--the re- suit, doubtless, of his sufferings and a habit shared by many of his race-of sitting with his hands clasped on his knees His features are slight, and not at all of pronounced Jewish type, and he has a rather highly colored conl- plexion. His hair has become quite white and he has grown a small beard.
 Mime. Dreyfus told me that when she first saw her husband after his return from the He du Dable she had found him terribly changed, but that she had now become accustomed to the change She herself is horribly maligned in the photographs that have been published of her. She is really very good look ing woman with a tall, straight figure, a face of the Oriental type, large, clear brown eyes, white, regular teeth, and a good skin. In manner she is very com posed, and she struck me as being in- telligent. She told me a good deal of the awful struggle through which she had gone: of the first terrible times in 1894, when she had no one but her inn mediate family to help her and believe in her husbands innocence; of later on, when SO many kindly sympathizers, moved by a conviction of the innocence of the unfortunate captain, gathered round her. and then of the terrible strain of the Rennes trial and her final despair when he was condemned again. But here came an interruption, made in the quiet, tired voice of the captain: T was not surprised, said he; q had ex- pected it for several days" This, of course, led to a talk of the future, and I found that although there seems no prospect of such a consum- nation, both husband and wife are con- vinced that the innocence of the former will be made manifest to all some day