Show ANNULS mm VERDICT AND VINDICATES DREYfUS Persecution Honors of French Of After Twelve Years of Torture and flclal Are Restored to Him Paris Tho supreme court oa Thursday announced Ma decision annulling an-nulling tlio condemnation of Droyfus without a rotrlnl The effect of the decision Is 1 a complete vindication ot Dreyfus entitling him to restoration to his rank In the army as though he bad novor been accused Alfred Dreyfus a Jew was a captain cap-tain In the French army In 1893 Ha was a modest unassuming man llr Ing happily with his wife and children chil-dren Fato made him tho victim of one of tho greatest conspiracies do roloped In the history of modern Europe Eu-rope ropeHo Ho was accused of soiling to the German government tho secret of A little piece of mechanism by whloh the recoil of a cannon after Its Hi ahargo was minimized Dreyfus was convicted and son fenced first to be publicly degraded and then to be transported and Imprisoned Impris-oned for life on Devils Island a barren bar-ren spot off Cayenne South America On January G 1905 tho first part of tho son ten co wan carried out On February 9 1905 Dreyfus reached Devils Island where ho remained re-mained until ho wan brought back to Franco on July 1 1899 and was placed In prison at Romies to await his second sec-ond trial It began on August Au-gust 7th Ho was sentenced on September 9 to ton yearn detention In a fortress on French Boll Tho years he had passed on Devils Island were deducted from the sentence President Presi-dent Lmibot commuted the remaining years Dreyfus dismissed from the army wan a free man Ho retired to his estates In tho country but for the last six years ho has quietly but persistently per-sistently worked for tho vindication which he has now gained It may be stated that It Is now ton erallp admitted that the real traitor was one Commandant Ksterhaxy a blackguard n gambler and a degen orate who for some mysterious reason rea-son was shielded by every one In the conspiracy When he could no longer be used Esteihazy was driven from France Ho wont to London where he lived and died In wretched poverty after selling the secret of his treachery I treach-ery to a newspaper for a few shillings1 |