The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-06-05
JUSTICE AT LAST.
The Court OF Cessation Orders Re.
trial for Dreyfus.
THE TEXT OF THE JUDGMENT lrI
The Large Crowd Present Receives
the Verdict With Demonstrations
Of Approvnl-Tho New Court Mar.
tial VIII sit ut Hennes-zola Over.
Joycd Over the Result.

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ton has rendered n verdict In favor Of
q revision OF the Dreyfus case, and or
dered q new courtmartial, to sit at Rem
mes. sixty miles from Nantes, for the
trial Of, the prisoner.
53 When the doors OF the court OF cas-
sation were opened an immense crowd
attempted to rush through the en-
trance, and for q time there was great
confusion and uproar.
The session opened yesterday at 3
O'Clock. when the president OF the court
Mazeau, after reminding the audience
that all demonstrations were interdIct.
ed. gave 1udgmcn. in tho following
tenor
The court after hearing the report
OF the premier president Of the civil
chamber. the public prosecutors find
ings and the application OF Maitre
Mornard counsel for Nine. Dreyfus)
underFthe new article 443, paragraph 4,
of the code OF criminal procedure, to
the effect that n revision Of Judgment
can be demanded when new facts are
produced or unknown documents show :.
Ing the Innocence OF the condemned,
and In view OF the results OF said in
Quiry Of the presentation to
the court-martinl OF a secret document
bearing the words &c canaille de de-,
and seeing that the communication Of
this document Is proved by the depo-
sltions OF NJ. Casimlr-Pericr, General
Mercler and General de Boisdefrre, and
seeing that NJ. ,Casimir-Perier has de-
clareds he heard from General Mercler
that the document bearing the words
ce canaille de de- submitted to the
court-martial. was believed to indicate
Dreyfus. and that In addition Generals
Mereter and de Boisdeffre, who were In
tvited to say whether, they knew II said
communications had occurred, refused
to reply. thus acknowledging 1t.
Seeing that revelations subsequent
to the several communications to the
court-martial OF q document capable OF
influencing their minds. and now not
regarded as applicable to Dreyfus, con-
stitute new act. calculated to estab-
lish the innocence of Dreyfus; seeing
that the crime charged against Dreyfus
consisted of furnishing to foreign
power secret documents connected with
the national defense, accompanying
which was missive styled bordereau
undated, unsigned and written on fill
graned paper which Is no longer manu-
featured, and that two authenticated
letters written on the Identical paper,
dated contemporaneously with the bort
dereau. were discovered in the house OF
Esterhazy, the writing upon which ex-
perts have declared to be the same MS
: that OF the bordereau. which facts were
unknown to the court-murtial, tend to
establish the innocence OF Dreyfus:
seeing that the alleged confessions OF
Dreyfus to Captain Lebrun- Renaud
are disproved In view OF these arEu-
ments, and without submitting others
the court quashes and annuls the YER
dict OF condemnation OF December %,
1884. against Alfred Dreyfus by the first
court-martial OF the military govern
ment Of Paris. and sends the accused
before n court-martlal Mt Rennes, to
be specially appointed to conduct the
( new trial."
This Judgment is to be printed and
transcribed on the docket Of the first
court-martial. alongside the decision
which Is annulled.
The court then adjourned.
Previous to the announcement of the
verdict crowds OF people assembled at
the palace of Justice and In its neigh
borhood, awaiting the decision. Perfect
calm prevailed. The decision. which
was pronounced at $40 .. M, says the
prisoner is to be tried on the following
question: as Dreyfus guilty OF hay-
Ing, in 1894, practiced Vaccinations or
OF having had communication with
eorelgn power or Its agents with the
view Of facilitating acts OF .hostIlIties ir.
the case of n war with France, or hnv-
ing furnished the means therefor by
furnishing the means therefor by fur
nlshing notes or documents retraccd
on the bordereau?" .5
The audience received the decision
with cries OF '.TIve 10 justice. VIve
Ia loi."
Premier Dupuy has summoned the
ministers OF the interior. justice, war,
navy and the colonies to meet to-mor-
row morning In order to confer upon
the measures to be taken to bring Drey.
fus back 20 France.