The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1906-07-26
DREYFUS INDICATED
NAME OF FAMOUS FRENCH JEW
Is CLEARED.
Officer Once Degraded as Convicted
Traitor Will Be Restored to Place
in Army-History of the
Tragedy.

sured, and 1t is said he will be given
the ribbon of the Legion of Honor.
Prosecutor General Baudouiu, in
concluding his address to the su.
preme court, formally asked the
court to quash the verdict of the
Rennes courtmartial without re-
trial.
THE peace Of the country" the
prosecutor said. demands 1t, 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 retriai the supreme
courts decision goes without say
ing.
Quashing the Rennes verdict leaves
Dreyfus an officer in the French army,
cleared of all dshonor. 1t entities
him to a 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, Jew, was a cap
tain in the French army in 1898. He
was modest, unassuming man, liv-
ing happily with his wife and chill.
dren. Fate made him the victim OF
one of the greatest conspiracies de.
veloped in the history of modern Eu.
rope. r-
For some months before 1894 It was
known to the French government that
some French officer was traltorously
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. 100 guns bad
been assigned to the Ninth army
corps. z - 5s'-,
/. II may be stated right here that
II is now generally admitted that
the real traitor was one Commandant
Esterhazy, a blackguard, a gambler,
and 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 treachefy TO a newspa
per for a few shillings. "'@-
c No one outside of the conspirators
knew that Esterhazy was the officer
who was selling French military
secrets to the German staff. The task
of discovering the traitor was placed
in the hands of the intelligence bu-
reau of the French general STAFF. IN
1893 the chief of the intelligence bu'
reau was Col. Sandhurst. He set his
spies TO work.
discovery of the Treason.
Il was not until September. 1894,
that the spies Of the secret intelli-
gence department discovered In the
waste paper basket of Lieut.. Col Won
Schwarzkoppen, the German mill
tary attache, fragments OF a paper
which, when pieced together. formed
n memorandum, of which this Is the
translation:
"In the absence of any news indicat
ing your desire to see me, | neverthe
less send you, sir, certain informa
ton of interest: "a A note on the
hydraulic brake OF 120 (method o.
operating this piece); a note on tho
outpost troops "a few notifications
will be made in the new plan); (3)
note on modification in artillery for
nation; 4) a note relating to NADIA
gascar; 90 the scheme relative Il
the manual OF field firing Of Marcl
IA, 1894. am just leaving 10
the maneuvers."
The foregoing memorandum after
wards became known as the famou
"bordereau" which figured through
out the entire Dreyfus case.
Choose Dreyfus for Victim.
Col Sandherr, chief of the secre
Intelligence bureau, was the first ma
to directly accuse Dreyfus of writin
the bordereau He IL was who firs
suggested that the writing resemble
that of Dreyfus He pointed out tina
Dreyfus was native of Alsace, an
that he spoke and wrote German a
Auently as he did French. (The boz
dereau was written in Germany
On October 10, 1894, Capt Dreyfu
was called to the war Office. He wa
ushered into room where he foun
Mai. Du Patty de Clam seated at
table. He was asked by the major
seat himself and to write at dictatiol
Before witnesses Dreyfus began
write a pretended letter. dictated
Du Patty de Clam. beginning with II
significant words, but little by littl
introducing phrases from the borde
eau The witnesses afterwards swoI
that when Dreyfus wrote the wore
dictated from the bordereau his han
trembled and that he complained thi
the room was so cold that he coul
hardly write. Yet the temperature
the room was moderately warm.
Is Arrested and Convicted.
After he had finished writing Dire
fus was informed by Du Patty de Cla
that he was under arrest. He was hu
ried at once TO the Cherche Midi pri
on, where for two weeks he was kel
In close confinement without being
formed Of the charges against him.
At the end of two weeks Dreyf,