The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-10-29

PARIS, Oct. 2S.-At to-day's session
of the Court of Cessation in the Palace
of Justice. NJ. Bard. the reporter, con-
cIuded his report Of the Dreyfus case,
the first part of which was presented
Yesterday. He said this morning thaI
the court must make every inVestlga-
tion necessary to enlighten it and to
place the whole truth in evidence 1t
was for the court to decide what re-
nained to be done The task was a del
icate one, but that was no motive 10
avoid it. He concluded: You nave
a great duty to fulfill DO What your
conscience dictates.
NJ. Monaud counsel for Madame
Dreyfus, charged that an investigation
be ordered concerning the diVergency
of the testimony of the experts VINO
examined the bordereau in 1894 and IN
1897. and also TO ascertain whether or
not secret documents were communi-
Gated to the members of the court
martial
The prosecutor, NJ. Manau, followed
NJ. Monaud. Discussing the case, he
said:
Nobody can now take the Dreyfus
affair out of your hands, nor can you
reIinquish it without dereliction OF
duty. Your decisions must constitute
for everybody the expression OF truth
and justice. Revise the trial then,
gentlemen, or at least prepare the road
for it's revision"
NJ Manau declared the court could
not annul the sentence imposed upon
Dreyfus without a retrial of the pris-
oner He added:
You must fix the responsibility. If
Dreyfus is innocent, the culprit must
not go unpunished."
The public prosecutor, continuing
proceeded to argue on the same lines
as NJ Bard, the reporter of the case,
urging a revision of the trial and
dwelling upon the fallibility of the
writing experts He also suggested
that Major Esterhazy should testify on
the subject of the bordereau, saying:
He can admit it's authorship with
impunity, since a court-martial has ac-
Quilted him of being the author of it.
But what a service he has rendered to
the country in confessing that he is its
author and what a service he will rem
der the unhappy Dreyfus."
NJ. Manau concluded with denounc-
partisans of revision, and made a
strong plea that the court be not inf1u-
enced by outside pressure, but that it
decide in favor of a revision Of the
case and the immediate provisional lib
Grafton Of Dreyfus.
At this stage of the proceedings, M
Bard read a letter from General Come
TO the president of the Court of Casa
ton, in which the general said: j
have Just heard of a memorandum in
troduced in court yesterday, in which
Picouart accused me of a dishonorable
action. 1 have never previously heard
of this memorandum, and 1 wish tc
deny most formally Picquart's allega-
tions. / think my word is Of greater
value than that of a man imprisoned
on the suspicion of forgery"
The reading of the last statement
called forth loud protests in court The
reporter added that as Colonel Pic
quarts memorandum was publicly read
it was only justice to read General
Comes denial. The president of the
court ordered that the generals letter
be added to the documents in the case
and the court adjourned.
The court was less crowded than
yesterday. but the same stringent pre-
cautions were taken. There was nc
excitement outside the Palace of JUS
tice. Only a few people assembled
about the building and the streets in
the neighborhood presented their every
day appearance.
The newspapers here are sharply di-
Fided into two camps, one Of them
highly praising NJ. Bard's report to the
Court Of Cessation as clearly setting
forth the truth and proving the inno-
cence of Dreyfus, and the other insist
Ing that the report was merely plead
ing in favor Of the prisoner.