The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-12-20
Lincoln Conspiracy and
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Retribution has followed in the wake of
that trial. Numerous, not very important.
witnesses died during my Incarceration.
Soon after the verdict some died from sui
eide. and later on some died in the peni-
tertiary, while some served terms In the
penitentiary. OF the members OF the court
who sat in condemnation of me 1 am not
advised, but the prosecuting judge advocate
and his assistants. think. have been called
before the bar of God.
The late Dreyfus trial in France was
counterpart in many respects to my own;
the same means employed and resorted TO,
to convict-viz., forged documentary evil
dence as well as false swearing-the same
arm of the government service sitting in
judgment. But L will say for France that
when the prisoner appeared and stood be-
fore the military court he stood as man,
as guiltess man, not as a condemned con-
vict and felon weighed down In shackles
and chains: neither was he tortured before
and during his trial. and was publicly de-
graded only after conviction.
This miscarriage of justice in his case
aroused the public of all nations in Europe,
and also the public of the United States
The official organs, however, representing
the governments abroad, as well as my own,
remained in passive silence. that no offense
should be given to the nations on friendly
terms. or that any breach of international
law should occur. AT the same time every
nation in Europe, as we'll as the United
States. had been guilty of the very same
thing which was condemned by the press of
the civilized world.
The sentence inflicted upon Dreyfus was
loudly condemned far and near as mis-
carriage Of justice. and the stress upon
the President of the French republic be-
came great that a pardon was granted
Dreyfus. The crime of which he was ac-
cused was false in every particular in his
case his only ''offense'' being that he was
a Jew.
RECEIVED NO SYMPATHY.
In my case, far worse conducted than
in Dreyfus's case. l have yet to learn or
hear of single voice raised in my behalf
or denouncing my treatment, but, to the
contrary correspondents of the press at
times contributed scurrulous articles
against me in which no truth exists, their
hatred not satiated although thirty years
have elapsed.
Age is creeping upon me, I am steadily
marching toward that goal where many
have gone before me and before many
years have passed will reach 1t and there
confront my accusers. and then, and not
until then, will the mysteries surrounding
my unjust trial, torture and condemnation
be truthfully revealed.
SAMUEL BLAND ARNOLD.
Mr. Arnold lived in Baltimore from time
to time UP until about six years ago, when
he decided to seek the peace and quiet Of
a country life. Since that time he has been
residing on a farm near Friendship. Anne
Arundel county. coming to Baltimore at in
frequent periods. About twice each year
he comes to Baltimore and spends some
days at the home of his brother. Mr.
Charles A. Arnold, at the corner OF the
York road and Chestnut Hill avenue. Mr..
Arnold during his residence in Baltimore
had always been looked upon by those who
came in contact with him as a man of
most retiring disposition, and was ever
exceedingly loath to speak of the great
tragedy or it's surrounding circumstances
that had come to wreck his entire life.
In all those years of his life Mr.. Arnold
was undoubtedly what he has described
himself-a misanthropist. On the farm in
Anne Arundel county he has sought Sc
clusion and quiet. free from the busy haunts
of man which he could not find in big
city. Even in his immediate locality in
the country he is simply known as Mr..
Arnold, and but few, if any. know that in
this old man has been locked the story Of
| one of the greatest tragedies of life.
In striking contrast with the once power
| full frame and fiery spirit of youth this
wrinkled old man, with head and beard
| whitened by the passage of nearly seventy
| years. awaits .ne sounding of the last
trumpet. A self-created hermit from the
| ordinary friendships and courtesies OF man.
| kind. he is beloved by the brute creation.
| In his dogs, his pigeons. his chickens and
| the animals of the farm is his greatest
| pleasure centered, and all Of these dumb
| creatures acknowledge him as a friend. In
| these friends of the farm, filled in occa-
| sionally by visits of relatives in Baltimore,
| does Samuel b. Arnold find the consola-
! ton of his declining days
| 1.-THE Endl