Show nor SINCE THE FALL OF SEDAN has any event created so muth much emotion as henrys confession new now york sept 2 A dispatch to th a tribune from paris dayts colonel henrya henrys confession of forging the famous document upon thu the authenticity of which general da bois Darf fer chief of staff ot of the french army in his impassioned appeal to the jury jary in the zola trial slaked staked his own reputation and the honor bonor of the army and colonel henrys flen rya suicide in the fortress of mont valarian Val arien have caused an emotion throughout franco france which has not been witnessed since the fall of sedan colonel henry a peasants eon son promoted from the ranks and imbued with all the instincts and low cunning canning and narrow personal animosity often characteristic te of french peasants had no conception of the enormity of hie his crime until overwhelmed by its detection this brave but infatuated chief of the intelligence department of the french army embodied the whole head and front of Drey dreyfus fas conviction of zolas condemnation of E acquittal and of Pic quarta degradation and imprisonment although the document which col henry forged in 1896 cannot technically have any effect on the dreyfus trial which took place in 1896 it is nevertheless with consternation that today people are asking what sort of evidence could dreyfus have been convicted on if in the judgment of col henry it was eo 00 flimsy that he thought it could not stand investigation without being propped up by official forgery 31 Cava ignac the minister of war in his memorable speech in the chamber on july 7 based his declaration upon tb the a authenticity of th this is formal doel document ment which was printed and posted on the walla walls throughout france |