The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-04-23
DREYFUS ASKS
FOR REHEARING
Lengthy Appeal Made to French
Minister of War.
JUSTICE WAS DENIED HIH
he NOW DEMANDS THAT TIE
WHOLE CASE BE REVIEWED.
n ARTS. April 22-Mfrea Dreyfas has

n ARTS, April 22.-Alfred Dreyfus has
submitted 20 Minister OF WAS
Andre a lengthy letter. BE- which
he asks for a re0pening of his case bp
am investigation by the minister aI
The supreme head of military Justice
The letter, which is dated Paris. April
FL, confirms the reports that Drer-ua
has been living quietly here t1r some
time. Ii promises to cause "a trr,
mendous agitation among the various
elements of the political groups FOR
and against Dreyfus. The hrs- part
of the letter Us am earnest plea that
the court which condemned him ai
Eennes was Improperly Influenced.
FIRST, by The annotated document
ascribed 90 President william. and.
second by the false testimony OF ono
of the witnesses. CzeruuskI.
After arguing on the extent to which
These contributed TO his condemnation.
Dreyfus recalls iu graphic terms Tho
long series of horrors Co which le ha.
/ been subjected. The letter throughout
/ is codched n "a highly dramatic style.
which us likely 90 make III one OF lla
notable papers of the case.
To refers TO EsterhaZy as Zone who
stands before the entire world as Jl4
cuIDriJ'
An Earnest Plea.
One OF the leading passages. sh0glE4
the rhetorical style. is as follows
II viii not recall AIR. Minister. what
+ have endured since 1884, picture TI
yourself the horrors of "A soldier Wlosf
whole life was devoted 90 duty, u
work. 90 loyalty and to profound DEE
y0tiOn for his country. and who iu aI
. instant is stripped of his good nau4
and desp0iled OF the honor of lis VIE
and his children. For five years -lH
soldier ls subjected 10 horrible suffers
iugs. They seek TO crush him pnysle-
ally. 90 aunlhilate him morally. 1e
absolutely Innocent of all crime aiI.
struggles iu vain 10 penetrate Che m5 So
terry, prOclalminB bis innocence aHi
struggling with AN tho forces or DDS
mind and body for that supreme pleas
ure of indicating his good name anl
character. Days. months years pass
thus I'm most cruel agony. amid ~
fortunes of murder0us climate. 40
last he was brought hack to France.
the guilty one is discovered and lha
soldier hears himself proclaimed ll-
noceut bv those who before revied nln
as a traitor. 10 was thus AIR. Minister.
that I holcl 90 see my martyfl9iA
ended.
"But aIas' - 7 returned 10 find
the devotion of friends who had 0allie4
for the truth. it was 90 ind also tnaL
deadly hatreds had been unloosed.
Demand for Justice.
Gin the processes OF 1884 Was
stabbed in the back. 7 cannot imagine
how such conditions can prefi
through falsehood and deception. but 50
30 was. and my second condemnation
was but au aggravated realllrmalQn or
what occurred m 1894. When the guilty
one was known and unma ked ana
FeterhaZy was recognized as the au-
thor of the treason. the same men VINO
had cheated justice in 1894 again sought
in 1899 90 cheat justice for the secon1
time by the same criminal maueuFrir-
Conscious of these methods. the gov
eminent OF the republic VIII not permit
itself 10 keen in prison one VINO
known 10 Doe innocent
"In constant thought of intimate le-
cal revision. 7 have reassemDled niue
bv little an the divergent elemeiltf
. testimony contributing To nay cnlFie-
ZION / have scOrned caiumnies ana
f4Teeho0ds. have remained Silent
with the firm conviction that Jlslice
would surely have its day OF triumph.
The victim of criminal tactics and Voc
18tiOn of the law twice committed
against me. I now address myself I'd
me supreme chief of military justice.
and supporting myself by new laela
which have been elected and hy the
existence of the pretended Dorlereau
annotated by Emperor William, l beg
no ask that YOU institute an inquiry.
first. un0n the uses made of This Iaiee
document at Rennes and the cons
menCes il produced on those FeAlef-
/ Ing Judgment. second. upon Che -als-
and fraudulent testimony OF CzefnusAl
at Reunes.
After a deferential salulation me i---
/ ter is signed alfred Dreytus.