The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-05-31
IS GUILTY.
M. de Beaupre Is Convinced He Is
the Criminal.
REVISION IS THE DEMAND
Ten New Reasons Why DreyEus Should
Be Given Another Trial-FreSh
Facts Discovered Which
Show His Innocence.

Paris, May 30.-There were few indi-
cations of excitement in the vicinity of
the palace of justice before the court of
cessation resumed it's sittings for hear
ing of arguments in the Dreyfus case
The same impressive silence prevailed
striking sign of the calm which
has come upon public opinion and the
utter Indifference of the people gener-
ally to the revision proceedings was
shown in the fact that there was not
a sufficient attendance of the general
public in the court of cessation to con-
constitute the necessary quorum of
spectators in the case of public hear
ing, and court ushers had to go out
into the street and gather idlers in the
Place Dauphine and induce them to go
to the court room.
When the sitting opened at noon M.
Ballot de Beaupre resumed reading his
report on the Dreyfus case M de
Beaupre entered at length upon the
consideration of the arguments of the
anti-revisionists who, he said, contend
that even if the document zee cainalle
de d" should be shown not to refer
to Dreyfus, it would be no reason for
revision, because the document was not
responsible for the conviction of DTey-
fus. The Vaccinations of Col. Du Patty
du Clam and Lieutenant Colonel Henry,
it had been argued gave no ground
for revision because they had also been
disavowed by General Come, as
sistant chief of the general staff and
by his superior, General Boisdeffre.
M. de Beapre created a deep sensa-
ton by solemnly declaring that he had
become convinced that the bordereau
was written by Major Count Ferdinand
Waslin Esterhazy.
M. de Beaupre created a deep sensa-
drawn up by M. Maneau, the procura-
tor general, on Saturday last, in view
of the recent developments, enumer-
ating ten fresh facts in favor of Drey
fus, namely:
First-The Henry forgery.
Second-The changing of the date of
the bordereau to- August instead of
April.
observation-disclosures of the hand
writing experts.
Fourth-The absolute identity of the
paper upon which the bordeTeau was
written with Major Esterhazys letter
paper.
F'ifth-The sentence Am starting for
the maneuHers." which could not have
been written by Dreyfus.
Sxth-The police report withheld by
the court martial.
Seventh-Lieutenant Colonel Henry's
weeping confession in Burtulus' office.
| Eighth-The Fanizzardi dispatch.
!, g.nt1 Il ma tE o
that Dreyfus had no relations with for
eisn embassies.
Tenth--A document demonstrating
that Dreyfus never confessed guilt.
M. Maneaus report concluded with
an expression in favor of Drevfus.
M Ballot de Beaupre amplified his
indictment of Major Esterhazy saying
that one new fact, from a legal point
of view, was the discovery that the
borereau was written upon precisely
the same paper as that used by Major
Esterhazy. The judges in 1894 did not
know this, and M. de Beaupre declared
that on his soul and conscience, ac-
cording to his conviction, the bordereau
was written by Esterhazy. He deplcTed
the attacks of the revisonists upon
the army, but said that the honor of
the army was not dependent upon the
retention of an innocent man on Dew
IFS island. M. de Beaupre concluded:
II do not ask you to proclaim the
innocence of Dreyfus, but" cried he
with profound emotion. cit is with a
firm conviction and high sense of my
duty and responsibility that I say there
is reason to grant revision of the trial
of 1894 and send Dreyfus for retrial
before another court martial, whose
task will be to give a decision with
full knowledge of the facts
MY report is ended" said M. de
Beaupre, while cries of bravo" and
other marks of approval filled the court
room.
Amid great excitement, M Maneau,
the procurator general. began his adj
dress to the court. He claimed that
the change in the dates of the border
eau constituted a new fact apart from
numerous other new facts, and de-
clared that the bordereau was really
the work of Major Esterhazy. NJ. Ma
neau dwelt upon the strangeness of the
general staff's protection of Esterhazy
and the latter's ambiguity.
The court adjourned at S o'clock
without incident. NJ. Maneau will con-
tinue his speech tomorrow.
The news that M. Ballot de Beaupre
had directly ascribed the authorship of
| the bordereau to Major ESterhazy pro-
| duced a condition of stupefaction upon
| members of the League of Patriots in
| the nrecincts of the court. They made
no attempt to conceal their chagrin.
sit is the collapse of our charges"
| shouted Maurice Barres. the novelist
| The anti Semites generally bitterly de-
nounced NJ. de Beaupre, whom they ac-
| cused of having sold himself.