The San Francisco call., 1899-06-04
THE DECISION That
GRANTS A REVISION

PARIS, June 3.-In the Court of Cas-
sation to-day, previous to the an
nouncement of the verdict in favor of
Dreyfus, crowds assembled at the
Palace of Justice and in its nefghbor-
hood awaiting the decision Perfect
calm prevailed. The decision, which
was pronounced at $40 p. M. says the
prisoner is to be retired on the follow
ing question:
Is Dreyfus guilty Of having, in 1894,
practiced Vaccinations, or having had
communication with foreign power
or its agents with a view of facilitating
acts of hostility in the case of a war
with France, or of having provided the
means therefor by furnishing notes or
documents retraced on the bordereau?'
The audience received the decision
with cries of Viva la Justice"
When the doors of the Court of Cas-
sation were opened an immense crowd
of people attempted to rush through the
entrance, and for a time there was
great confusion and uproar. The ses-
sion opened at 3 O'Clock, when the
president of the court, NJ Mazeau, after
reminding the audience that all demon
strations were interdicted, gave judg-
ment in the 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)
under the new article 443. of paragraph
4, of the Code of Criminal Procedure.
to the effect that a revision of iudg-
ment can be demanded when new facts
are produced, or documents Show
ing the innocence of the con-
demned, and in view of the Judgment
of October 90, 1898, rendered by the
criminal chamber, ordering an inquiry.
declared that the demand for a revision
Of the Dreyfus case unless presented
in proper form, and in view of the re-
suits of said inquiry, in view of the
presentation to the court martial of a
secret document bearing the words
"Ce Canaille de D." and seeing that
the communication of this document is
proved by the dispositions of M. Cast
mir -Perier, General Mercier and Gen
eral Boisdeffre, and seeing that M.
Casimir -Perier has declared he heard
from General Mercier that the docu-
ment bearing the words "Ce Canaille
de D." submitted TO the court mar
tial was believed to implicate -Drey-
fus, and that in addition Generals Mer-
cier and Boisdeffre, who were invited
to saw whether they knew If said COM
munication had occurred refused to re-
ply. thus acknowledging it: seeing that
bv the revelations subsequent to the
verdict the communication to the court
martial of a document capable of in
1uencing their minds and now not
regarded as applicable to Drey-
fus. constitutes a new fact cal
culated to establish the inno-
cence of Dreyfus; seeing that
the crime charged against Dreyfus
consisted of furnishing the secret docu-
ments connected with the national de-
fense. accompanying which was mis-
siye styled a bordereau, undated, un-
signed and writtenson filigraned paper
which was no longer manufactured,
and that two authenticated letters,
written on the identical paper, dated
contemporaneously with the bordereau,
were discovered in the house of Ester
hazy, the writing upon which experts
have declared to be the same as that
Of the bordereau, which fact was un-
known to the court martial, tend to es-
tablish the innocence Of preyfus; see