The Forrest City times., 1906-07-20
THE MEDICATION OF CAPT. DREYFUS


 of treason has been practically as- sured. and 1t is said he will be given the ribbon of the Legion of Honor.
 Prosecutor General Baudouiu, in concluding his address 10 the su- preme court, formally asked the court to quash the verdict of the Rennes rtmartial without re trial.
 '.The peace of the country" the prosecutor said, demands it. and the whole world awaits the courts sum- mary disposition of the subject, which will be a triumph for justice and truth"
 With the government prosecutor asking the court to quash the Rennes verdict without retrial, the supreme courts decision goes without say ing.
 Quashing the Rennes verdict leaves Dreyfus an officer in the French army, cleared of all dishonor. It entities him to command. He will be in the line of promotion.
 The French people years ago ceased to look upon Dreyfus as traitor. Instead he long has been regarded as . martyr, and the judgment of the court restoring him to the army will be acclaimed as an act of national restitution to a greatly wronged man.
 Story of the Dreyfus Tragedy.
 Alfred Dreyfus, a Jew, was a cap tain in the French army in 1893. He was a modest, unassuming man, liv- ing happily with his wife and chil. dren. Fate made him the victim Of one of the greatest conspiracies de- veloped in the history of modern Flu. rope.
 For some months before 1894 it was known to the French government that some French officer was traitorously selling French military secrets to the German staff. It was known that Germany had bought the secret of the French method of charging melinite shells and also the secret that bat teries of the new No. 120 guns had been assigned to the Ninth army corps
 It may be stated right here that 1t is now generally admitted that the real traitor was one Commandant Esterhazy, blackguard. a gambler, and a degenerate, who for some mys- terious reason was shielded by every one in the conspiracy. When he could no longer be used Esterhazy was driven from France. He went to London, where he lived and died in wretohed poverty. after selling the secret of his treachcry to a newspa- per for few shillings.
 No one outside of the conspirators knew that Esterhazy was the officer who was selling French military secrets to the German staff. The task in the hands of the intelligence bu- reau of the French general staff. Tn 1893 the chief of the intelligence bu- reau was Col Sandhurst He set his spies to work.
 Discovery of the Treason.
 It was not until September, 1894, that the spies of the secret intelH- gence department discovered in the waste paper basket of Lieut.. Col von l Schwarzkoppen, the German mili- tary attache, fragments of a paper, which, when pieced together, formed a memorandum, of which this is the translation:
 'tIn the absence of any news indicat- ing your desire to see me, I neverthe, less send you, sir, certain informa. tion of interest: CD A note on the hydraulic brake of 120 (method of operating this pieee); note on the 1 outpost troops Ca few notifications will be made in the new plan) (3) a note on modification in artillery for nation; (4) a note relating to Mada- gascar; (5) the scheme relative to the manual of field firing of March II, 1894. l am just leaving for the maneuvers.
 The foregoing memorandum after wards became known as the famous "bordereau' which figured through. out the entire Dreyfus case.
 Choose Dreyfus for Victim.
 Col. Sandherr. chief of the secret Intelligence bureau. was the first man to directly accuse Dreyfus of writing the bordereau. He it was who first suggested that the writing resembled that of Dreyfus. He pointed out that Dreyfus was native of Alsace, and that he spoke and wrote German as f1uently as he did French. (The bor- dereau was written in German)
 On October 15. 1891, Capt. Drevfus was called to the war office He was ushered into room where he found Maj. Du Patty de Clam seated at a table. He was asked by the major to C-'s~'f-ss-~f~s--~1N-.s---3l