The Yukon Weekly. (Yukon, Okla.), Vol. 7, No. 33, Ed. 1 Friday, August 18, 1899 Page: 7 of 8
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Dreyfus Called the Ex-Minister of
War a Liar tad a Scoundrel
WAS A MOST STIRRING SCENE
A SmnnUoul Clo*a to Fra-
•eadlnx* lo tUs Itaanei Caart-Martial
—Crowd Cheerad the FrUoner'a Ac-
tion—-A Climax Coming
itE/v NEH, Aug. 14.—A stirring scene
closed to-day’s session of the Dreyfus
trial. General Mercier had spoken
nearly four hours in ruthless denun-
ciation of Dreyfus, who had listened
unmoved until Mercier concluded by
saying- th»t if he had not been con-
vinced of the guilt of Dreyfus und if
tiie latter’s conviction had not been
fortified since 1894 he would adroit he
had been mistaken. Then Dreyfus
jumped to his feet as though tiie
words had galvanized him into life
and shouted in a loud voice:
You inve lied, scoundrel
Tho audience burst into a wild
cheer, whereupon the ushers called
for silence. But when Mercier re-
plied that he would admit Dreyfus
was inaoceut if there was any doubt,
the prisoner shouted again: ‘‘Why
don't you then’.'"
At this there was auother outburst
of applause.
M. Casimir-Perier then rose and
dramatically demanded to be con-
fronted with General Mercier in or-
der to d“ny some of his statements.
Colonel Jouaust ordered the coiut to
be adjourned until Monday, al Waif
6 o'clock in the morning, when irrler
and Mercier are to meet. As Merrier
turned to leave the court the audi-
ence rose as one and hissed and cursed
him, those at the back of tho court
standing on chairs and benches in or-
der to be'ter hound him down. l’lie
gendarmes placed themselves betweeu
Mercier and the audience, which
showed a strong disposition to uiis-
tjaat the ex-minister of war.
■4*!eneral Mercier hurried out of tiie
court room through a side do^r amid
fierce denunciations from tho ar.uence.
On emerging into the street the c^wd
outside cheered him and cried “Vivo
l’armee."
‘Ah,” cried a spectator of the scene
in court, “if they had heard the inhu-
man monster speak they would not
cheer him now."
The red and white facade of the Ly-
cee was bathed in sunshine at 5:40
o'clock this morning when Captain
Dreyfus crossed the avenue De Da
Gare and entered the building for tho
second public session of his trial by
court-martial. The same stringent
police precautions were taken, but
barelv twenty persons had gathered
-to see the prisoner.
Colonel Jouaust, president o' the
court-martial, and tho other judges,
arrived shortly after 6 o’clock. They
were followed by General Mc-cler and
General Billot, the new minister of
war when Dreyfus was arreted, in
uniform. The latter drove up in an
open carr!age and the small crowd
whicli had gathered by this time
greeted him with cries of “vivo 1 ar-
mee" and “vive Mercier." On rlight-
ing at the door of the Bvcee,
General Mercier looked very anx-
ious, but immediatel spumed a
smile. He spoke a few words to the
officers at the gate and lau, '<ed, but
his laugh sounded falso and his fa.-e,
as he asoendad the half dozen steps
and disappeared within the Lycee,
"took on an expression of anxiety. M.
Cassimir-Perier, the president when
the first Dreyfus charge was made,
arrived on foot shortly afterward.
The crowd saluted him. Then came
Colonel Picquart, the first official to
announce doubt of Dreyfus' gf” lit,
who was greeted with shouts of vive
Picquart," which he smilingly ac-
knowledged.
* Every inch of the court was occu-
pied in expectation of a sensational
scene. There were more women
V^escpt than Mopday.. The person-
age known as “Madame Blanohe’ (the
white lady), who lias attended every
move in the Dreyfus affair, was
again present to-day, wearing a su- |
perb set of pearls But, owing to the
expressed objections of Colouel Jou-
aust, she changed her conspicuous
place upon the right behind him for a |
more modest, but still noticeable, po-
sition in the body of tiie halL
There was a large sprinkling of
uniforms among the audience and a
row of soldiers with fixed bayonets
was again arranged at the bottom of
the hall, and rendered honors in the
customary manner to the judges as |
tiie latter entered or left tiie court.
The session opened at tf:30 o’clock
with precisely the same formalities
as on Monday. The proceedings were
flagging as the morning wore on, and
matters began td get tedious as M.
Casimir-Perier and General Mercier
reiterated their belief in Dreyfus’
guilt. But this was only the calm be-
fore tiie storm, and when tho storm j
broke it carried every one in the court j
with it into a whirlpool of the wildest
excitement.
Dreyfus, on entering tiie court to- j
day, saluted the president with the |
same soldierly mica as on Monday, j
and tiie president. Colonel Jouaust., j
returned the salute and said:
“Sit down, Dreyfus.’’
The chair of the prisoner was placed
further to the right of tho platform
to-day. Instead of facing the judges,
Dreyfus sat with his back to the table
of his counsel, thus looking across the
platform, straight at the rail at which
tiie witnesses stood.
Colonel Jouaust. immediately after
the court had settled down, opened
the proceedings by asking Dreyfus
the following question:
“fa January, 1895, the director of
the penitentiary of the Isle do Be, in j
tho course of duty, searched tiie
clothes brought from the prison, lie
found this document in an inside pock-
et of your waistcoat."
The president hero handed Dreyfus
a paper and said:
“Do you -ecognize it as having be- I
longed to you?"
Dreyfus—Yes, my colonel.
Jouaust — Whose was it?
Dreyfus—Mine.
Jouaust—Will you tell me how aud
under what circumstances this docu-
ment came into your possession?
Dreyfus—It is a document 1 used
during my trial In order to discuss
tiie value of tiie bordereau I wish to
keep it.
Jouaust—The military code gives
you a right to have a copy of the doc-
uments in your. case. This document,
therefore, was legitimately in your
possession. Why do you wish to keep
it?
Dreyfus — As a souvenir of tiie text
of the bordereau.
Jouaust—That was not proper, and,
therefore, it was taken from you. 1
merely wished to elucidate this point.
That will do.
Colonel Jouaust then asked Major
Carriere, for tiie prosecution, if lie
had any observations to make in be-
half of tlic government.
The major replied by asking to have
Dr. Hanson’s report on Dreyfus read,
which tiie clerk of the court did.
The report deals with tiie measures of
surveillance over Dreyfus adopted
during the voyage of the prisoner to
Cayenne, aud said among other things
that lie was seen on hoard sitting on
a stool and weeping
M. De la Roche-Vernet, a secretary
attached to the French embassy at
Berlin, was the next witness called.
Although lie was scared, there was no
hesitation in his replies. He said he
acted as the transmitting agent of
the ministry of war and ministry of
foreign affairs whenever they were
engaged in the translation of a dis-
patch to the Schwarzkoppen, the Ger-
man attache, whicli was of a very
minute a’>d complicated nature. Sev-
eral drafts, he explained, were first
made, and finally an official transla-
tion was drawn np, which was the
same as ,ince published.
Questioned respectively regarding
, the draft and tho translations, lie
said they were purely hypothetical,
the first draft only.haying two words.
“Captain Dreyfus," of which tiie
translators were really sure, tho sense
being to tiie effect that Dreyfus had
been arrested and that he had no re-
lations with Germany.
M. I’aleologue of the French foreign
office was then called, and disagreed
to some of this witnesses' statements.
But the net result of tho two wit-
nesses’ replies to Labori and Demauge,
Dreyfus’ lawyers, was that not oven
in translating was there any question
of relations with Germany.
Ex- President Casimir-Perier was the
next witness.
Jouaust — You were president of tho
republic at the time of the arrest of
Captain Dreyfus. In this position
you were ’’ to have many partic-
ulars upon circumstances and
causes of 1. arrest. I beg you to
kindly con nicate them to tiie
court.
Casimir in a loud voice, said:
“Monsieur le President: You ask
me to speak the truth and all tho
truth. I have sworn to do it. I will
speak without reticence, without re-
serve. in its entirety. Whatever I
may have said in the past, what-
ever pec-lie may believe and say
which, ua.’ortunately, is not always
the same tiling, that I am one aware
of incidents and facts which might
throw light, and that I have not hith-
erto sail all, justice ought to know
that it is false. I will not leave this
place without saying all.
“I intend to do this, not because I
can add anythin? useful to what I
have already said, but out of respect
to my conscience and the judges and
to t ke the opinion of men of good
fait '. I will uot leave this place un-
til I have left an unalterable convic-
tion that I know nothing which might
throw light upon t.ie case and that l
have said all I know.”
The ox-president then, in a loud and
distinct voice, repeated tiie evidence
he had given before the court of cas-
sation. He leaned, while speaking,
against the witness rail and referred
to a scrap of paper which he held in
his hand. The witness read tije text
of tli* dispatch received by Count von
Munster Ledenburg, tiie German am-
bassador at Paris, from Prince llohen-
lche, the German imperial ohaucellor,
which the former communicated to
M. Casimir-Perier during a visit to the
Ely see palace. It ran:
“His Majesty, the emperor, having
every confidence in the loyalty of the
president of the republic and the gov-
ernment, begs Your Excellency to
tell M. Casimir-Perier that it is proved
the German embassy was never im-
plicated in the Dreyfus affair. His
Majesty hopes the government of the
republic will not hesitate to declare
so. Without a formal declaration tho
legend which here continues to spread
regarding the r'nnan embassy,would
compromise the position of the repre-
sentative of Germany. — Ilohenlohe. "
AMERICANS AS JEW-BAITERS.
Mexlean 1‘spK Sayx Dr./fu« Would Have
lleen I.yncti«<l lu Till* Country.
City ok Mexico, Aug. 14.—Correo
Espanole says that the ostracism of
Jewish cadets at West Point shows
that the Americans hate tiie Jews as
badly as do the French people, and re-
marks that had Dreyfus been in the
American army he would have been
lynched by a mob instead of merely
being imprisoned.
El Tiempo, Clerical organ, inti-
mates in a leading article, that the
United States is the common enemy of
all nations on tikis continent and ad-
vises the Latin American nations to
unite for common defense.
No Need lo Worry.
He (gloomily)—My salary hits boon
cut down 10 per cent.
She (brightly)—What’s the differ-
ence! I know where T can buy lots of
things marked down 30 per cent.
Would Herm Not.
Browne There is always fire where
there is much smoke.
Towne—Huh! Guess you never trfod
to build a Are in the kitchen stove at
5 o'clock iff the morning
__ _____
WAS HARD TO KILL.
BEAR SURVIVED LEAD AND A
PRECIPICE.
S*qnlr*d » C’tiuo I>s> » Canyon aa*4
Morn l.nnl — California Klohcraaa
Rudely Interrupted by a Dig ftroera
Rear with an Igljr Disposition. 3
From the San Francisco Chronicle:
While fishing last Sunday near the
head of Squaw Creek, In Sonoma coun-
ty, a party of San Francisco and CIov-
erdale sportsmen wore attacked by a
huge brown bear. Luckily they were
armed, and soon halted bruin in his
fierce charge by some well-directed
shots. After a long chase through
dense underbrush and among pitfalls
and precipices the bear was killed. The
weight of the brute was 467Vi pounds.
The members of the party were Steve
Giannetonl, Fred D. Spaulding, John
F. Quane of San Francisco and George
H. Hall and John Arnold of Cloverdale.
They had been camping and fishing for
three days near the Geysers. Last
Sunday they pushed on up toward the
headwater of Squaw Creek, and not far
from the limits of I>ake Mendocino and
Sonama counties. In search of a like-
ly spot in which to cast their lines,
the fishermen were crossing Humming
Bird canyon, when one of them caught
tight of the great brown creature ad-
vancing toward them. There was no
time for the digging of trenches.
Quickly they unslung their guns, and
each one took careful aim, first select-
ing a tree that could easily be climbed.
On lumbered the big fellow until he
was turned by a shot from Spaulding's
flfle. A second later George Hall pink-
ed the plantigrade just behind tho left
shoulder, whereupon the bear col-
lapsed, lost his footing and went
tumbling to the bottom of the canyon
far below, carrying with him great
rocks and bushes uprooted in his swift
descent. Even then the bear was not
done for. He scrambled to his feet,
growling fiercely, and made off toward
the head of the canyon, followed by
the dog of the party and all five of
the men, of whom Hall was the fast-
est runner. Fully a half mile away
Hall came upon the quarry, nearly ex-
hausted. He was finished by the nim-
ble Hall at close range. Hall's break-
neck race through the thick chaparral
and over the stones had left him al-
most devoid of clothing, and this fact,
together with his scratched-up face,
led the slower members of the party,
who soon arrived, to believe that he
had had a hand-to-hand encounter
with the bear.
Strasbnrfc’ii 41erii»an I'nttiimtaftni.
The seemingly enthusiastic reception
given to the German emperor and em-
press at Strasburg, when "the city was
profusely decorated with flags and
much animation prevailed in the
streets,” will no doubt cause mush
sorrowful reflection in France. When
the old emperor in 1879 reached the
capital of Alsace to review the troops
there he found most of the house
blinds down and the streets all but de-
serted. That was just twenty years
ago. But what a change has come
over the inhabitants of the reichsland
since then, even if we make all due
allowance for official flags and anima-
tion which may be made to order! And
an imperial palace now also adorns
Strasburg.—London Chronicle.
It Didn’t Work.
Vv eary—Madame, I haven’t had
anything to eat for three days. Mrs.
Hardup—You’re doin’ pretty well; but
I’ve just been readln’ about a man
who fasted for four weeks, and worked
every day at that.
Joy A roil ml the Hoard.
"I attended a strawberry festival last
night." "Where was It?" "At our
boarding house; at dinner tiie landlady
gave us two big dishes apiece."
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Smith, I. E. The Yukon Weekly. (Yukon, Okla.), Vol. 7, No. 33, Ed. 1 Friday, August 18, 1899, newspaper, August 18, 1899; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc912046/m1/7/: accessed May 7, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.