Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1906-08-09

AT the end Of two weeks .Dreyr..s
was tried before a secret court-mar-
tlal. The witnesses against him were
the officers commanding the army.
several officers of the general staff.
Several secret documents We're
SHOWN to the judges, but not to Drey-
Fus nor his counsel These secret
documents made up what afterwards
became known throughout the world
as the famous "dossier.'' These docu-
ments, it was mysteriously explained,
not only to the judges, but to the cab
met, to the president, to parliament,
and to the press were SO terrible that
their publication would be the signal
for a war with a great continental
power. The power referred to of
course was Germany.
Dreyfus was convicted by the "dos-
sier." It may be stated here that the
documents which made up the dos
sier' were iforgeries. Only one Of
them has ever been made public. 1t
vas private letter from Lieut.. Col.
Won schwarzkoppen, the German mill
tary attache to Lieut.. Col. Panizzardi,
his colleague of the Italian embassy,
written two years before, and which
contained the sentence:
"Cette canaille de D. devient trop
exigeunte." This dog of D. is
getting too importantly
1t was afterwards conceded by the
accusers of Dreyfus that the 3D." did
not refer to Dreyfus at all, but re-
ferred to another person.
Dreyfus was convicted and SEN
fenced, first to be publicly degraded
and then to be transported and i'm
prisoned for life on Devils island, a
barren spot off Cayenne, South Amer
lea. On January 5, 1895, the first part
Of the sentence was carried out. The
troops were drawn up in a hollow
square. Dreyfus, in full dress uniform,
was conducted to the center of the
open space. A noncommissioned Off
Ger tore the epaulettes from his Shout
ders, ripped the gold braid from his
coat, tore the buttons off. and finally,
as a supreme mark of degradation,
broke his sword across his knee. and
threw the dishonored fragments to the
ground. Then the unhappy officer was
compelled to march to rogues music
along the front of his regiment. i
A Prisoner on DEVILS Island.
On February 9, 1895, Dreyfus
reached Devils island. Here had been
erected stockade, like pen In which
aegro convicts are kept. In the stock.
ade was hut. In this hut, under the
glare OF an equatorial sun, Dreyfus
was condemned to pass the remainder
Of his life. He ate and slept in the
hut and took what exercise he cared
for in the little stockade Enclosure.
I He was permitted to have no converse
with his guards. He was denied the
solace OF, books and newspapers. He
was permitted to write to- his wife
once month and to receive one let
ter month from her.
The first clew to the innocence of
Dreyfus and to the identity of the real
culprit came later in the year 1895 by
the discovery by spies of card teae-
gram (petit bleD written by Lieut..
Col. Won schwarzkoppen and ad-
dressed to Commandant Esterhazy.
calling upon him to give more detailed
information.
This card ACKNOWLEDGEMENT ia
nous in the case as the petit bleu'
ut was written on a little blue post
card)-was taken to COL Georges
Picquart, who had succeeded Col.
Sandherr as chief of the secret intelli-
gence bureau. Col. Picquart looked
into Esterhazy's record and anteced-
ents. He obtained specimens of his
writing and made the sensational dis
covery that it was Esterhazy and not
Dreyfus who had written the border
eau.
The struggle of Dreyfus' friends to
obtain a new trial for him went on
INCREASINGLY, but it was not until 1899,
after the death of President Faure and
the election of Loubet that they were
finally successful.
Dreyfus landed in France on July 1,
1899, and was placed in prison at
Rennes to await his second trial. It
began on August T. The same ma1ig.
nant "dossier" was used against him.
Again he was convicted on forged evi-
dence. He was sentenced on Septem-
Der 9 to ten years detention in a fort
ress on French soil. The years he had
passed on Devils island were deduct
ed from the sentence. President Lou
bet commuted the remaining years.
Dreyfus, dismissed from the army,
was a free man. He retired to his
estates in the country, but for the last
six years he has quietly but persist
emily worked for the vindication which
he has now gained.
Must Behave Five Years.
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