ANOTHER DREYFUS CASE.
1 .— STRANGE MISCARRIAGE OF JUSTICE. Br TeiceraDh—Press Aasooiation—CouyrlnhJ . (Rec. September 12, 11.15 p.m.) 1 Paris, September 12.' A strange miscarriage of justice has just been revealed in tho army. A soldier named Emilo Roussct in 1909 saw a lieutenant and two sergeants ill-treating a soldier who wns serving a punitivo term in an Algerian regiment. Tho soldier was exhausted by tho heat, and his tormentors crammed salt into his mouth and left him to die in the desert, Housfefc reported the incident and was .thereupon thrown into prison for two years until General Rabier was sent to Morocco to inquire, and ordered his releaso and the arrest of tho lieutenant and sergeants. Rousset was, however, re-ar-rested: two days before their trial and charged with murdering his comrade. Ho was sentenced to twenty, years' iinprieonment, while tho lieutenant and sergeants were released. The witnesses against Rousset now admit that they wero guilty of perjury and tho prosecutor etates ■ that, lie was deceived.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1544, 13 September 1912, Page 5
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164ANOTHER DREYFUS CASE. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1544, 13 September 1912, Page 5
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