The Worcester spy., 1898-10-31
OF the Dreyfus
Case.
COURT DECISION
Opens a New Complication
In the Affair.

Paris, Oct. 3O.-By Saturdays docis
ion the court of cessation obtains the
most absolute control over the Dreyfus
case. 1t can demand and examine any
documents whatever, including the dos
sier, of any case bearing upon the
Dreyfus matter, and can examine under
oath any witness, however high his
position.
In short, if the court makes a sincere
use of its powers, the truth will have a
much better chance of being discovered
than would have been the case had it
! merely ordered revision before another
court martial, whose members might
have been actuated by desire to shield
the. general staff. Having concluded it's
inquiry it can present a new dossier to
either a civil or military court for the
| final decision.
| Its proceedings will not be public and
| there can therefore be no objection to a
communication to it of the alleged sec
ret dossier, if this is still in existence,
while the numerous generals who have
expressed their belief in the guilt of
| Dreyfus will not be called upon to ex-
! plain the grounds of their conviction.
| Although the liberation of Dreyfus has
not been ordered, the court can order
him brought to France at any moment
and will probably do so at an early
| stage of the inquiry.
! The court refrained from ordering his
release on Saturday because it would
| have been a presumption of his inno-
| cence. M. Paul Deroulede of the Patri-
otic League turned the patriotic mani
| hesitation at lie Bouget today in mem
| ory of the soldiers who fell there in the
| Franco o-Prussian war in 1870 into a rev.
| olutionary demonstration against the
decision of the court of cessation He
delivered a violent anti-Dreyfus speech.
| M. Marcel Habert, member of the
chamber of deputies, followed with a
still more infiammatory harangue.
| There were, however, no disorders.
AS President Faure left the Grand
! Opera House tonight, about IL o'clock,
he was greeted with prolonged shouts
| of ''Vive Parmeel" and "a bas les
Juifsl" Comte Esterhazy, it is report
ed has written to several generals. de-
manding money, under threats of ex-
posure.
London, Oct 31.-The Paris CORE
| spondent of the Times, pointing out
| that curious dilemma has now devel-
oped in the Dreyfus affair, says:
IF the secret dossier is now COM
municated to the court of cessation
| it is conceivable that it may incrimi-
! nate Dreyfus, but it will certainly con-
vict Gen. Mercier, the minister of war
at the time of the conviction of Dreyfus.
of criminal violation of law, in COM
municating to the court martial docu-
ments that were not communicated to
| Dreyfus and his counsel
ut is said that it was in order to
shield Gen. Mercier, who acted thus,
owing to his weakness or his ignorance,
that all subsequent ministers of war
have adopted an obstinate attitude,
"If, on the other handsa there has
| never been a secret dossier, the whole
| case rests on the bordereau and must
fall to the ground How then, since the
Lieut.. Col. Henry's admission of forg-
cry, could the generals still have de-
clared Dreyfus guilty?
THE allegation that the dossier, if
there be one, contains a letter from
Emperor William to Col. Schwarzkop-
pen German military attache at Paris)
| is utterly improbable, in view of the
emperor's character and habits. He
could never have written to military
attache.'
| London, Oct 31.--The Paris cores
| pondent of the Daily News says the
decision of the court of cessation on
Saturday was given by a vote of nine
! against four