A DEVOTED WIFE.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 9736, 26 May 1897, Page 5

A DEVOTED WIFE.

"The story of Madame Drcyfus's efforts ' to save her ill-fated husband is as full of romance," says a writer in the St. Jameses QaitUe, "as it is of pathos, and is almost Incredible in these prosaic days. Captain Dreyfus, as everyone know 3, was found guilty of selling information about French fortifications to the German Government, arid sentenced to lifelong imprisonment upon an island off French Guiana. His trSe, who is a woman of great intellectual ability and striking beauty, has steadfastly believed in his innoconco, and after the verdict she demanded a new trial, which was refused by tbe Government. She then endeavoured to get the oaso taken up by various political persons, and, finding her efforts hopeless, succeeded in bringing it before the German Emperor, with whom she obtained an audience. Her teara and —alterable faith in her husband impressed the Emperor, and he promised to give the affair his personal attention. She subsequently succeeded in interviewing the Emperor of Austria and the Czar, and lastly appealed to tho Pope, who, though he would not see her, undertook to read over any evidence she chose to submit. It is now believed that, as the result of Madame Dreyfus's devoted efforts, there will be a new trial—probably at some military station in Algiers. Captain Dreyfus is, however, slowly dying on the barren island to which he lias been sent, the unhealthiness of which ia so notorious that oven goats cannot live tbere. His hair has become white and beard grey, although he is a young man, and used to lie a very popular and cultivated jaember of society."