The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-04-23
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 vlg'A ALTON Capta, Ssreyfus Appeals
 to Andre. ASKS FOR A NEW TRIAL
Highly Dramatic Letter to
 French War Minister.
Reviews the Tortures of Devils Is- land, the Perjured Testimony Brought Against Him and
 the Farce of Rennes.


 submitted to Minister of War Andre a lengthy letter in which he asks for a re-opening of his case by means of an investigation by the Minister. as the supreme head of military justice.
 The letter, which is dated Paris. April 21, confirms the report that Dreyfus nas been living quietly here for some time. It promises to cause a tremendous ogita- ton among the various clements of the political groups for and against Dreyfus.
 The first part of the letter is an earnest plea that the court which condemned Tim at Rennes was improperly influenced, nrst by the annotated document as ascribsd to Emperor William and second by the false testimony of one of the witnesses, Cxernush. e
 After arguing on the extent to which these contributed to his condemnation, Dreyfus recalls in graphic terms the long series of horrors to which he had been subjected.
 Letter is Dramatic.
 The letter throughout is couched in a highly dramatic style, which is likely to make it one of the notable papers or the case. It refers to Esterhazy IS "one who stands before the entire world as the culprit."
 One of the leading passages. showing the rhetorical style as Follows:
 q will not recall. MT. Minister, what I have endured since 1894. Picture to your self the horrors of a soldier whose whole life was devoted to lrty. to work, to loyalty, and, to profound devotion for his country and who in an instant IS suippeo of his good name and desooiled of the honor of himself and his children. For five years this soldiers is subjected to horrible sufferings.
 .sThey seek to crush him physically, to anniiiiiate him morally. He is absolutely innocent of all crime and struggles in vain to penstrate the mystery. proclaim ing his innocence and struggling with all the forces of his mind and body for that supreme pleasure of vindicatins his good name and character. Days, months. years pass thus fin most cruel agony. amid the tortures of a murderous climate. At last he Is brought back to France, the guilty one is discovered and the soldier hears himself proclaimed innocent by those who before reviled him as a traitor. It was thus. MT. Minister. that hoped to see my martyrdom ended.
 Condemnation Aggravated.
 But, alas, when returned T. found the devotion of friends who had battled for tho truth, 1t was to find also that the deadly hatred had been unloosed within the processes of 1894, was stabbed in the back. I cannot imagine how such con- ditions can prevail through falsehood and deception. But so 1t was and my con- demnation was but aggravated by the re- affirmation of what occurred in 1894.
 When the guilty one was known and unmasked. and Esterhazy was recognized as the author of the treason, the same men who had cheated justice in 1894 again sought in 1899 to cheat justice for the second time by the same criminal man oeuvers. Conscious of these methods, the government of the republic will not per- init itself to keep In prison one who is known to be innocent
 Awaits of Triumph Justice.
 ''In constant thought of ultimate legal revision I have reassembled little by It. tie all the divergent elements of testimony contributing to my conviction. have scorned calumnies and falsehoods. have remained silent with the firm conviction that justice will surely have it's day of triumph. The dictum of criminal tactics, violation of the law twice, committed against me. I now address myself to the supreme chief of military justice and, supporting myself by new facts which have been elicited and by existence of the pretended bordereau annotated by Emper- or William I beg to ask that you insti- tute an inquiry first on the uses made of this false document at Rennes and the consequences 1t produced on the rendering judgment; second. upon the false and fraudulent testimony of Czernaski at Rennes.''
 After deferential salutation the letter is signed Alfred Dreyfus."