The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 11, 1899, Page 21

1899. SA 30 CALL, SUNDA JUNE 11, 5 1 « CONTEST - THAT - THREATENS - oA o FRENGH - REVOLUTION «- 5 flfl[\ 8] " %A % (2 7 PN ) — EXRACT ‘FROM ‘ “THE FAMOUS2DOCUMENT. 0, ll'mmlwnuwmm Tl(lm{tl\/" ) ¢ DREYFUS TESTIFYING. thing, as h n which' to base After Drey most imj guilt, caused & bordereau’ to be published. On the trial had sworn that Dreyfus was while two others swore that the writing in no way resembled his Dreyfus’ friends submitted it to the lead- experts of Europe and America, who ecided unanimously that it was not writ- i rt, as ation and isolated The attempts of from the ‘“‘fac ola’s experts to show hazy mber of Deputles vindicating the Premier Brisson publicly declared that 2 38 irse of the War Department in the while the Cabinet believed in the guilt of “brochure”” Wrote the bordereau were ridiculed whole case. In the course of his speecti Dreyfus he himself was determined o fac simile and the expert court and by the press. Generals Pell he read three festimony met the eye of a broker, De Boisdeffre, Gonse and Mercier all swore said to have th. Castrotawho R A Ak e NtTons Aah that the bordereau could not have been Schwartzkopp 1 = Count and posses written by erhz was as follow sion_of experts, and on the 26th, after r i his handwriting. Colonel Picquart alone of all the officers ‘I have heard that a Depmty is going t» iving their report, ordered Madame i vinced him called stood " stoutly to his fight, and interpellate on the Dreyfus affair. If on Dreyfus’ petition for on to be ordereau.’ ce of the presence and testimony my return to Berlin the Kaiser shall ques- before the Criminal Chamber of the C communicated his suspici uperiors declared that the author tion me I shall say that 1 have never had of Cassation. us, who denounced Es- of the *“bordereau” was Esterhazy and any h this Jew. If they ask M. Quesnay de Beaurepaire, pres- o the Minister of War as the not Dreyfus. you » same thing. for no one must fdent of another branch of the court, ile” that rst part of the in the pre ers, one of wh was search the evidence and gét at the truth ¥ written by Colonel — On September 17 the Cabinet voted 1 to the Itallan attache. It submit the Dreyfus pap op. yat Dreyfus nt; I swear it. V that {is_cap was taken, his sword broken 1 thrown at his feet and he was then 1 rded g freque ns of iny which ithor of the paper on which has brother Zola and Pereux were found guilty and ever know that we had anything 10 do resigned his place and impeached the in- wned i had been convicted, and demanded a re- sentenced to a year's imprisonment and With hin tegrity and imp: lity of certain mem- Ester} had_already fled into 3060 francs fine. Thoug but returned to Paris under = zola and his friends had to leave the ssurance from the War Office of court under heavy police protection, but tion 4 __ the officers of the army were accorded a nartial was selected to try him grand ovation as they left the Palais de Pellieux, chief of the general 2 1 he ordered Picquart under ar-/ bers of the criminal branch. This forced ment that the the Government to refer the whole matter gnac began to the full Court of ation, consisting ling Colonel of forty members. By thus referring it him on the to the highest and most aug: as well as until ap- the most numerous tribunal in France tha fer, when Government hopec the confi- ywed 1 nee of the pe self whatever d: stand he called port i all France 1 Officers standing near cried ! Down with th re wer to his_sta forgery, M. ( doubts, and before him question t Henry lied point I "Ile de Re, on the coast ti preparations for his The Zola case was appealed and new trial had on July 18. On being refused leave to dence reopening the Dr pending it acquitted on the ground le proof of his guilt,” and ratulated on the result by all the ers of the court vs later Emile Zola took public the fight by publishing _in_the his now famous letter beginning elf wi 1} en permitted to re- On June ir; orderi ch has ourt published its find- ision_and a new trial, d to be held at the 3 of Rennes. Nantes, and some The demand for revision of the Dreyfus distance from Paris influence. The per- el of the court will be selected imander of the depar Jew. to Switzerlanc avoid the impr ent, and friends paid his fine and case became quite general, though there osition of the most zed the Government to prose- m. The challenge was taken up, d his trial, with that of M. Perreux, neral Lucan, ¢ nt, and him: s that had been July 7 M. Cavaignac, in an endeavor virulent kir n r 4 r of = llay the ent of the publie to v Insisted on his Zola has returned to Paris, confl- from circum: edite of e A ore ho 0 b V' i i v : t D oy ozt wno; rasE iy be . ‘made a strong- speech before ths a new trial. dent of the verification of his words * part of 1896 e ef charge, began on_Febr le in behalf of the ourt of Assizes, Paris. 7 before GO404D4D+ O+ 0+ O+ 0404040404 CHO4CITHO + 0+ O+ D404 THOID+ CHIHOHOHO 40+ O+ O +OF0+O4D4@ before the Court of Assizes: ZOLA'S BURNING ACCUSATIONS OF CONSPIRACY WHICH MADE § b i ittt T hi) HIM AN EXILE. perish. By all that I @+I4THO40 40404040+ O+04T4CHOHO40+ 04040404+ 04045+9 + ¢ THE "BORDEREAU,” OR MEMORANDUM OF ARMY SECRETS, UPON WHICH DREYFUS WAS CONVICTED. to t c the 'Therefore declare strangling cord of of Colonel Her t r T have no inten ide.” gmm@otoooosoa¢ovom»omw’swvoooooooommm THE LETTER FORGED BY THE SUICIDE, COLONEL HENRY, WHICH M@ADE DREYFUS APPEAR GUILTY. literature of my count by all that 1 is found am and hope for, I swear that he is in- Picard o nocent,” will be m Picquart is still in prison, whither he committing conscionabiy T am ready to believe, and of then having defended his nefarious doings for the past three years by the “most absurd and culpable machinations. I accuse General Mercier of being the accomplice, at least, through weak intelligence, in the greatest in- iquity of the century. I accuse General Billot of having in his hands the certain proofs of the innocence of Dreyfus, and of having suppressed them, thus rendering himself guilty of treason against humanity and justice, for a political reason and in order to save the compromised staff. 1 accuse General de Boisdeffre and General Gonse of being the accomplices in the same crime, the one through religious animosity, doubtless, the other, perhaps, through the “esprit de corps” which makes the War Office that sacred and unassailable ark. g se General de Pellieux and Commandant Ravary of having made a flagitious investigation, where- I ACCUSE Lieutenant Colonel du Paty de Clam of having been the diabolical worker of a judicial error, un- no news indicating that you desire to see me, s 1z sending to you some interesting bits of informa- aulic break of the 120, and on the way in vering troops modifications will be en- (some fu If (here come a few words which no one s been able to de- I HAVE read that a Deputy is going to interpellate concerning Drey- vy formations. ipher) I should say that I never had any intercourse with that Jew. : 1 That is understood. If you are asked, say the same thing, for no one ‘|' manual for field artillery, .‘Xfllr“h 14, 1894, by I mean an inquiry of the most monstrous partiality, whereof we have, in the report of the last mentioned, must ever know what occurred with him. This scoundrel of a D is he last d it is extremely ¢ S c cure, and I can only i S st e & ¢ . oun a D— is e dast nely difficult to pro can only an imperishable monument of candid audacity. bedoming: too urgent—Eetter forged by Colone - Ho 2 Biai sal during a ve imber of cop ; few days. The Minister of War s to the several corps, and these corps h officer in possession of one to re- turn it after the maneuvers. If then you would like to take out of it whatever int s you and hold it afterward at my disposal, I will take it. TUnless, indeed, you would like me to have it copied in ex- tenso and then address to you the copy. I am just off to the maneuvers 1 accuse the three experts in handwriting, the men Belhomme, Varinard and Couard, of having drawn up false and fraudulent reports, unless a medical examination shall prove them to be victims of a disease of sight or of judgment. 1 accuse the officers of the War Ministry of having organized a press campaign In order to lead public opinion astray. Finally, T accuse the first court-martial of having condemned a man on a document kept secret, and T accuse the second court-martial of having covered this illegality by order, and of committing in its turn the judicial crime of knowingly acquitting a guilty person. 404040404 D4 D +0+OHO4THO4D404 040404 O+ C $ O 4 CHOHO4040 404040404 04+ 0+ 0 + 40404040 self after his arrest, in the Dreyfu wse and members of the court-martial secretly when the accused man’s guilt. This letter was the sessed by the Government, upon which the that Dreyfus was guilty. This letter w supposed to have been written by a highly ¢ Henry was an illiterate man, and the imi writing was very mechanical. The whole cas 40404+ Q40404 D4 4OHND 40404 DI Q LD 04 OHOI0404D 1ich was shown the were wavering as to t information” pos- pledged their honor in very bad F 1ch, although ted diplomatist. Colonel n < Captain Dreyfus’ e turned on this document, sent a limited are responsible for its return, as THT4O4O+THO I T+ 0OITHOI04TI0+0+040 ¢ 4040 404040404040+ 04040404040 [3 G+04040 40+ 04040+ 0404042 4040404 04 D404 O+ 04040404 DI040+ 40+ 04040+ Q404040 +0+ O +0 4040404 @+O+04+04040+04THT4THO 40404+ D+ O+D4+04 B404+0 +04040404 040+ O +0 +Q+O+0O4H D1O4+04040+ 04040404040 40+ O +0 +0404040