Show the drefus case again full vindication at lust hist for captain drefus and tile the devils island marhar is restored to ili bis 9 former rank in the french army court ault of appeals vacates order of court martial and full justice is done to officer who has been fighting for his lionor honor for welve twelve t long years I 1 twelve years of horror is is to be followed at last hy by the full vindication of captain alfred drefus the decision of the 01 court of appeals nevii III 1 1 1 jair I 1 fa r july in ill his case annulling the le con condemnation delilli of the amin win r restore i gioie hit him to his fort former iier biank ank and honor in ill T 1 the army f s alfred drefus arfus wits was born i in 1 I al suca in iii 1859 ill iad i d rain removed ave d to paris in ill 1874 I 1 ile he graduated from ardin the boole po I 1 and I 1 pi alie 0 school q cl af I 1 t 1 applied gunnery ind and served as I 1 LI s a lieutenant of artillery from 1882 to 1889 when lie was appointed aped P ollit ed captain later lie he 1 to tho general staff on october 15 1894 lie he was di rested arrested on the charge of having havin sold military secrets to a representative senta sonta tentative tive e of tile the german government c it it wits was alleged that it a letter conveying this information was found by a 1 I servant in the pocket of col Schwarz koppen gernian german military ill in paris and lid deli delivered vered to colonel 11 1 henry 1 e ii r y ot of the intelligence department part ment of tile the war MJ maj du paty do de clam clain made tile in ill I 1 ir I 1 vesti gation all eliat lt resulted ill in drefus arrest in III december Decem ibur 1894 drefus was tried secretly and i it t was afterward proved 1 1 17 7 ly by court martial 1 he I e wa was s found guilty sentenced ved to public degradation and to solitary confinement for life ac davils island off the coast of french guiana in march 1865 lie was trans ported to devils 11 island all d IS le he was for two months chained to his pallet in I 1 may A 1896 u I 1 le letter ater from froin col Schwarz koppen W was brought to the flie war ivar onice office it bore tile the signature of maj Es esterhazy to r lazy an officer of doubtful reputation on the french general staff and the lie handwriting 1 was found to be ciui similar lar t to that of the drefs letter two years of tremendous dous agitation followed the friends of drefus striving to bring I 1 1 I out the truth and the army officers to suppress it in 1898 ool col henry of tho intelligence telli gence department confessed to having forged it a secret do document cu which pointed to drefus guilt and committed suicide maj esterhazy was tried by court courtin martial artial aud and convicted but escaped and handmade made his way to england thero there lie confessed that lie he had written tile the letter lette r to col Schwarz koppen which had resulted in tile conviction of drefus a in june 1899 the court of appeals order ordered d that drefus he be given a new trial hy by court mar bial in august 1899 after more inore t is ti f t than 1 all fa four ll 11 I 1 years vears of torture on olt y devils island inland drefus D afus was vis aguill again given a military trial found foun d guilty with extenuating circum stances and all sentenced to serve P ten tell years I 1 from aroln which will liis his arv pr I 1 coll confinement fi lie inelia wils vas to bel belef 1 V ducted s on Septen september iber 0 9 i 1899 8 99 h ie was pardoned pardon 1 ed by president preside nt loubet ii irregularity s in ill the alie second we u charged by drefus and ana liis his fri ends they took the matter to the court of ap peals which hn 41 A just decided the pase case 1 dav crabl to drefus IV |