Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-09-22
DREYFUS GUILT.

New York World: The verdict of the
Rennes court martial in the Dreyfus case
is in fragrant contempt and defiance OF
the opinion of the very highest court i'll
France.
The court of cessation is the supreme
tribunal of the republic. 1t was coln-
posed of A eminent jurists-the most em-
inent in France-When it examined the
evidence in tho Dreyfus case and de-
cided not only that the accused was ~
nocent. but-to quote its own emphatic
W~ords-that:
THE sentence of 1894 has no longer any
foundation to rest upon
Upon the evidence of the bordereau
itself and of the experts who had eX-
mine it, the court of cessation decided
positively, and without SO much as a
doubt in the minds of the eminent Judges:
That Dreyfus did not write that paper,
and that klstethazy did;
That Dreyfus did not sell or give in
formation to the possible enemies of
France, and that Esterhazy did;
That Dreyfus was innocent and Ester
hazy guilty.
The highest court in France decided
further:
That the conviction of Dreyfus had
been secured by the Henry forgery and
other rimes
That a false date had been given to
the undated bordereau in order to con-
Wet Dreyfus. and that the same con-
spirators who had assigned this date to
it afterWard to give 1t a widely different
date in order to acquit Esterhazy: |
That the change of date left no room
whatever for the condemnation of Drey-
fus. but in fact established his inno-
cence.
Still further this highest cour in
France decided:
That false. fraudulent and inadmissi-
BILE testimony had been submitted against
Dreyfus;
That the reports of official inquiries
(which tended to his %acquittal had been
improperly withheld from the court that
condemned him:
And, further, that an official report con-
corning attendance at the maneuvers, the
very terms of which showed that Dreyfus
] could not have been the author of the
i bordereau, had been withheld at his trial,
although it nightly ended to establish
, his innocence of the charge against him
The court found still other evidence OF
the utmost importance that had been sup
pressed at the trial, and in at least one
case chat of the PaniZzardi telegram) i,
found that the genuine telegram had beer
withheld and a forgery substituted for Il
that the genuine established Dreyfus
innocence. while the forgery was testi-
mony of his guilt.
1t found that the alleged confession Of
Dreyfus was in fact a passionate pro
testation of innocence instead. and tha'
the parts of which were interpreted by
the court martial as an admission OF
guilt, We're so variously and confiictingly
reported as to be unworthy of belief OIL
even OF consideration.
1t declared upon documentary evidenc,
to quote its w language, thai "Dreyfu!
never confessed nor could have confessed
to being guilty"
1t found that official documents hat
been suppressed which. in the courts Owl
language, establish that Dreyfus ha,
no relations. direct or indirect. with an.
foreign power"
In brief, the highest court in France
with Al eminent judges sitting. fully ex
amined all the testimony in the case. AM
after an exhaustive consideration decide,
not only that Dreyfus was %convicte'
without sufficient proof Of his guilt. blu
that the testimony itself proved his in
nocence.
Under the technicalities Of procedur