The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-10-30
NO PUBLIC DEMONSTRATION
PARTISAN CROWD LISTENS IN
SILENCE.
Judges Decline to Grant the Applica-
ton for the Prisoners Release
Pending the Supplement
tai Inquiry.
Special Dispatch to The Call.


PARIS, Oct. 29.-The Court of Casa
ton has decided to grant revision OF
the Dreyfus case, and will institute a
supplementary inquiry. The: court,
however, has declined to order the re-
lease of Dreyfus.
At the opening of the court to-day
NJ. Mornaud resumed his argument in
behalf of the Dreyfus family, insisting
that the bordereau was not in the
handwriting of Dreyfus or an imitation
by him of the writing of Major Ester
hazy. The latter hypothesis, counsel
continued, was absolutely improba bic.
If it was an imitation, the author of it
must be third party. If it was no i'm
itation, the author of the bordereau,
he asserted could only be Major Ester
hazy himself Continuing, NJ. Mornaud
pointed out that the honor of the army
was not involved in the doings of court
martials, as, like other courts, they
could err without their honor suffering.
After Mornaud had closed his argu-
ment the court retired to deliberate.
NJ. Yvos Guyot, in. Steele to-day, as
serts that the secret documents in the
DreyfQs case were burned some days
ago.
The decision of the court is as fol-
lows: -
In view of the letter of the Minister of
Justice, dated September 20, 1898, in clos
ing arguments of the public prosecutor
denouncing to the court the condemnation
pronounced by the first court-martial
of the military government Of Paris
on December %, 1894, against Alfred Drey-
fus, then a captain of artillery attached
to the general staff, in view OF all the
documents in. the case and also of arti-
eles 44S to 446 of the Code of Criminal
Procedure, amended by the law of June
TO- 1896, relative to the admissibility of
an application in proper form for rede-
cision.
Whereas, The matter has been brought
before the court by the public prosecutor
In virtue of the express order of the Min
lister OF Justice;
Whereas, The application comes within
the category of the cases contemplated
in article 443 and has been introduced
within the period fixed by article 444:
Whereas. The judgment, a revision of
which is demanded. has the force Of a
chosen Judge;
Whereas, The documents produced do
not place the court in a position to decide
all the merits of the case and there is
ground for making supplemental in
For these reasons the court declares
the application to be in proper form and
legally admissible, and states that it will
institute a supplemental inquiry and de-
clares there is no ground at the present
moment for deciding on the public pros
ecutors application for a suspension of
the penalty
Inc Judges OF the court were occu-
pied for three hours and a half in con-
sidering the judgment
The public, whose admission to the
court was regulated with the greatest
care, awaited the decision with marked
calmness. During the suspension of
business the public crowded into the
Hobbies and there was evident anxiety
to hear the verdict. There was no dem
Onstration when the court arose
The decision created no public ex-
,citement and complete tranquility pre-
walls on the streets