The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-08-12
MERCIER'S
WATERLOO
Anti Dreyfus General De-
nounoed By the Accused
and Hooted.
WILD SCENE IN COURT
Ex- President Casimir- Perier
Proves a skulking Cur
AS Usual.
IBx Cable to The Associated Press.l

Thy Cable to The Associated Press.
RENNEs, France, Aug. II, 1893. The
second public session of the second court
martial of Captain Alfred Dreyfus of the
Fourteenth Artillery, which began in the
Lycee here, Monday, opened at $50 this
morning The prisoner, as generally
known, is charged with communicating
to the agents of foreign power docu-
ments connected with the national de-
fence.
The sessions of the Court Tuesday,
Wednesday. Thursday and Friday were
behind closed doors, in order that the
batch of secret documents connected with
the case could be examined without pub
licity being given to matters connected
as to avoid the publication Of matters
with foreign powers.
The red and white facade of the Lycee
was bathed in sunshine at $40 A. NJ,
when Dreyfus crossed the Avenue de Ia
Care from his prison and entered the
Lycee. The stringent police precautions
as observed during the. week were again
taken; but barely twenty persons gather
ed to witness the prisoners appearance.
Colonel Jouaust, President of the court
martial and tn eother members of the
court, began arriving shortly after six
o'clock. They were followed by Generals
Billot and Mercier, former Ministers OF
War. in uniform. The latter drove~up in
an open carriage, and the small crowd
which had gathered by this time greeted
him with cries of tVive RArmeeo and
''Vive Mercier' On alighting at the en-
trance of the Lycee Mercier looked very
anxious, but Immediately afterwards as
sumed a smiling demeanor. He spoke a
laughed, but his laugh sounded false and
his face, as he ascended the half dozen
steps and disappeared within the Lycee,
again took on an expression of anxiety.
M. Casimir Perier, former President of
France arrived on foot shortly afterward
and was saluted by the crowd in waiting
Then came Colonel Picauart of the Se-
cret Intelligence Bureau of the General
Staff, who has done so much to bring
about a revision of the Dreyfus case. He
was greeted with shouts of s'yiye Pic
quartz. which he smilingly acknowledged.
The session of the Court today opened
at $50 with precisely the same formali
ties as on Monday. Dreyfus entered the
features We're pale and rigid, and he took
a seat upon the platform. The reading
Of Doctor Ransom's report, relative to
the finding of document in the lining
of Dreyfus' waistcoat, was then begun.
The opening proceedings were attended
by sensational incident On Dreyfus
being shown, by Colonel Jouaust, the
document, found in the lining of his
waistcoat by a penitentiary officer the
prisoner admitted keeping it as souvenir
copy of the bordereau. He admitted this
r. lrr1 q M n q
voice. Then he listened quietly to the
reading of Doctor Ransom's report, by
Major Carriere. the representative Of the
Government, which occupied about ten
minutes
NJ de la Roche-vernet. one of the Sec
retaries of the French Embassy at Berlin,
was then called. He is a man about IS
years of age, with heavy, brown
moustache, and was smartly dressed. He
testified regarding the translation of the
Panizzardi despatch
A stirring scene closed today's session.
General Mercier had spoken nearly four
hours In ruthless denunciation of Dreyfus,
who. had listened unmoved until MERCER
concluded by saying that If he had not
been convinced of the guilt OF preyfus
and If the latter's conviction had not been
fortified since 1894, he would admit he
his feet as though the words had gall
vanzed him into life and shouted, in a
voice which resounded through the hall
like a trumpet note
You have lied, scoundrelr'
The audience burst into a wild cheer,
whereupon the ushers called for silence.
But when MERCER replied that he would
admit Dreyfus was innocent if there was
any doubt the prisoner shouted again
why don't you then.'
At this there was another outburst of
applause
M. Cassimir-Perier then rose and dra-
matically demanded to be confronted
with General MERCER, in order to deny
some of his statements.
Colonel Jouaust ordered the Court to
be adjourned until Monday at $50 A. NJ,
for the conformation and as Mefcier
turned to leave the court the audience
rose en- fnasse and hissed and cursed him,
those at the back of the court standing on
chairs and benches in order to better
hound him down. The grendarmes placed
themselves between the general and the
audience who showed a strong dispose
tfon to maltreat the former Minister of
War.
General Herdier hurried out of the court
rom through side door. with his ears
tingling with the fierce denunications
from the audience. On emerging into the
street the crowd outside cheered him and
cried s.Vive rArmee.''
"Ah' cried spectator of the scene
in court; ssif they had heard the inhuman
monster speak they would not cheer him
now