Show THE SENSATION OF THE DAY The great sensation the day is th suicide of Colonel Henry It revIves interest in-terest In the Dreyfuscase and may result re-sult in the liberation of the man whose fate bas aroused much sympt thY and divIded the world Into adh rents and opponents of hIm into those who claim he IsInnocent and tho e who charge that he is a villain of the blackest kind Every interpretation possible will be placed upon Colonel Henrys action Already the Intimation has come frthn Paris that his suicide was connived at by prominent army officials About the only thing thus far established Is that Henry waS a dastard and that a for ger was committed That 3 forgery was committed does not prove that Drerfus Is innocent but it certainly does throw suspicion upon tlie trustworthiness trust-worthiness of the evidence upon which he was convicted The forgery was part of the evidence on which the French government rested Its case and people wm naturallY say that If one forgery was committed why may not others have been Certainly this suicide puts the French government In a very embarrassing posItion and lives a favorable impression impres-sion of Dreyfus side of the case It may result in the return and in trIumph trI-umph of Zola who was the champion of the exiled officer Bt was there ever a more scandalous case all through than this Dreyfus case No novelist ever pictured such court rooms room-s enes as were witnessed during the first Zola trial This suicide of Colonel Henry when all the cIrcumstances are taken into consideration will pretty nearly Imt France on trial in the eyes of the t world |