The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-07-20

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ing al the Office u rs day specified
Dreyfus vas taken 10 the room Of Co.
lionel du Patty de Clam. where. 20 his
surprise. he found also VI Cochfe-:
chief Of h. secret police, the latter
secretary. and NJ G-ieblin. the ks~ per
~ the records !
7 have injured INV hand" SAIL an.
paty BE Clam Have YOU any cosec-.
t!ou 70 write for half n hour a; XIV.
dictatlon:"
None. whatever. repl - the cap.
tain. who proceeded "a write !mmedI-
ately. without waiting even - warm.
his fingers which were sttr with ocic
The dicsatlon suddenly changed
ami Dreyfus found himself writing
Sir. although YOU have not asked =.
Sc me. ! send you some interesting
intelligence
Why do yoa terembIe:" asked du
Patty De Clam.
To l tremble. Colonel" Then i, is.
because Of the cold" responded he
| young officer.
No a~serted the Colonnel. - j.
because YOU are a traitor. ] arres; you
for high treason
The police head and his assistant
Were waiting the word. Immediately. i
they 100 Dreyfus into custody
searched him, then saw him safely
lodged in a cell Of the military prison
Here The unfortunate man. who had
protested loud. but n vain wa>
visited several times by du raty ir
Clam, who sou&h, {" trap him it ey-.
, cry possible manner
The ffSF trial e Alfred Ih-aNfFa- Ia.
gan behind closed doors on nelem0"r.
10, 1894, and despite ne disagree
ment OF Handwriting experts. be US
convicted, and sentenced 10 b. pub
licly degraded. and to he Transported
to a desert island where he should
spend the remainder IF his life. The
end OF the yea came. and with 81
the refusal Of a new trial.
On Saturday. January :, 1895. the
sentence of public degradation was.
carried out in the square in front OF.
II of the largest military schools.
The captain was first stripped Of ev-.
cry insignia Of rank. the buttons Of
his tunic cut of. the stripes torn from
his trousers, his cap denued Of lis en-
%brOidery. and his sword broken across.
the fee o ia nominal na~linadtrcnlnl
| t4lt Tx vi IL 'tlIiI1ISSI'iitN -
| ticer. after which he was marched all
around the square where his former
comrades and his former men were.
drawn up with hundreds of others.
4 AM INNOCENT, WYE LA
FRANCE.
Outside the gates surged n great
mob crying. Kill the traitor," inside. |
the representatives Of French journal
ism to whom DreyfuS appealed for n
hearing, called him "A dirty Jew. :
And yet, bravely facing the mob. and
as bravely defying the yellow" wri.-
ers, the convicted traitor cried ever.
Il am innocent. Vive la France"
On February %, the St. Nazairs
sailed from Rochefort with Alfred
Dreyfus as n of the prisoners con-
fined in the convict cells of the for
ward deck. On April IS the traitor
began his solitary s%Ojourn on Devils
Island, a barren rock off the Guianas.
which had been used formerly 20
the isolation Of lepers. Here for more
than four years, the prisoner lived in
a tiny hut Of stone, watched day and
night by six guards who took turns OF
two hours each.
IHCls "HcH nOpc dpptdIe0 W %
folly and only the thought of wife and
children could excuse II, came word
that the Supreme court had ordered
the sentence of the first court-martial
to be Quashed and directed that a new
military trial should be held at Rem
mes. A French warShip carried The
prisoner back to France. where he
met his wife and his counsel. NJ. VI.
~L4-s @-1 ~~- -~--
things about the case which were new
to him who had been for so long a
time dead 10 the affairs Of the world.
That this second and more publ"
trial should have been held long be-
fore, all are now agreed. But that il
was held at all was largely the work
Of one honest man. In July. 1885
Lieut.. Col. Picquart had become head
of the Inquiry Office, and Il few
months later another document was
brought there by one of the minor
spies employed. Again the documen:
was from the German embassy. buJ
this time ii was a telegraphic dis
patch Ia petit bleuD prepared and
signed by Col. SchwarZkopper for
transmission TO a Major Esterhszy
at No. 81 Rue de In Renaissance,
fIuuITI ucuSUL II Nouiu p VIII -
make some inquiries concerning Ma
jor Esterhazy. and these were al ono"
set on foot. II was oon learned that
he was 4 ~dissOlute officer. over head
! and heels n debt But this was no.
all. When all of his ante=adentS and
this record were laid bare the head o.
the Inquiry Bureau thought they
seemed 10 fl ONE II whom he had
heard described. He WAS puzzled until
he saw EsterhaZy's handwriting for
the first time. Then he remembered.
The dnssier OF the Dreyfus case? Ey-
cry particular OF the possible traitor
fitted Esterhazy and now the hand
writing would not permit further
doubt
He began his fight reolutely. al
though warned b. his superior nor
10 allow the fact that there was i
Jew more or iess on Devils Island
Ia bother him. There followed perse