In 31 games in the Korisliiga, McCullum averaged 14.5 points per game, picked up 5.1 rebounds per game and set up an average of seven penalties per game for his teammates. Overall, she scored 49 points. After Lucie Dreyfus had informed him by telegraph of Alfred's arrest, he immediately rushed to Paris and shortly afterwards moved there with his entire family to attend exclusively to his brother's case. Mathieu Dreyfus found initial support in the struggle for his brother's rehabilitation from Major Ferdinand Forzinetti, the commandant of the military prison where Alfred was imprisoned. The Jewish socialist politician and writer Léon Blum, who later became French Prime Minister several times, describes in his memoirs of the case, published in 1935, how Lazare, with "admirable self-denial", had looked everywhere for support, unconcerned about rejection or suspicion. He disagreed also Bertillon's report, according to which Dreyfus had deliberately changed his handwriting, and disputed the probative value of the Ce Canaille de D. letter, pointing out that the German military attaché would under no circumstances have compromised a useful agent in such a careless manner.

A letter from Panizzardi to Schwartzkoppen, in which he wrote that "ce canaille de D." (that canaille D.) had given him plans for a military installation in Nice, soccer jerseys for sale so that he could forward them to Schwartzkoppen. Letter dated February 1894 from the Italian military attaché Panizzardi to his close friend Schwartzkoppen, from which it can be read that Schwartzkoppen passed on intelligence information to Panizzardi. In February and March 1894 an "honorable person" warned the intelligence service about a traitorous officer, Henry claimed on that occasion, pointing to Dreyfus and calling him that traitor. Court President Maurel stated that it was sufficient for Henry to give his word of honour Officer admitted that this "honorable person" named Dreyfus. A Madame Bernard claimed to Mathieu Dreyfus that she was a spy for the French military service and had contacted him because they wanted to force her to break off her daughter's engagement to an officer under threat of exposing her activity as a spy. When he offered Madame Bernard, for payment of 100. 000 francs to deposit the documents with a notary, she was never heard from again.

After rumors of an attempt to escape, he was not allowed to leave his hut for a long time. Forzinetti had come to the conclusion that his prisoner was indeed innocent because of his behavior and his persistent pleas of innocence. Dreyfus was sure at the beginning of his trial that he would soon be acquitted. The outcome of the process was initially quite uncertain. Initially, it was mainly family members of Dreyfus who tried to have the trial resumed, including his wife Lucie and his brother Mathieu. Mathieu Dreyfus eventually decided to hire London-based detective agency Cook to help him with his research. His guards, who had to watch him constantly, were forbidden to have any conversation with him. The Town Hall, famous for its balcony where many festivities take place. General Saussier, faced with this thin body of evidence, ordered his officers to collect any espionage-related material in their archives that could be used against Dreyfus. Instead, together with his brothers Jacques and Léon, he took over the management of the family business in Mulhouse.

He was himself under the constant observation of the French secret service. Mathieu Dreyfus was two years older than Alfred and had originally planned to become an officer in the French army as well. With the help of the detective agency and the Paris correspondent of the English newspaper Daily Chronicle, the fake news was circulated that Alfred Dreyfus had escaped from Devil's Island on September 3, 1895. In January 1895, Alfred Dreyfus had been transferred to the fortress on the Île de Ré in the Atlantic. In January 1895, Forzinetti gave Mathieu the indictment, which his brother had commented on the margins of the paper. Mathieu Dreyfus initially focused on convincing friends and as wide a circle of acquaintances as possible that his brother was innocent. From April 1895 until his return in 1899, Dreyfus spent his solitary confinement in a sixteen-square-foot stone hut with a corrugated iron roof, surrounded by a small palisade-fenced courtyard. In April 2021 Weghorst was a guest in the current gym. The latest venue was built in Brunico in 2021 for HC Pustertal.