Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-05-29
Famous Case Up for Revision Before
Court of Cessation.
CROWDS DEMAND ADMIffANCE
Proceedings as Yet Not Marked by
Any Disorder.
FEW WOMEN ESENT

PARIS, May ea-The court OF cessation
met today to hear the debates in the apph-
cation for a revision Of the Dreyfus case.
The doors of the Palace OF Justice were
opened at IL O'clock Persons connected
with the case. newspaper men and others
began to arrive half an hour previously.
There was much animation In the Hobbies
OF the palace but the crowds In the vicinity
were not large. Extensive precautions were
taken to preserve order inside and outside
the building. The colonel comma nding the
guard at the palace has been given special
reinforcements by the military governor Of
Paris, Gen. Zurlinden, and considerable
forces Of military and mounted police have
been assembled at the barracks in the vicin-
ity of the court
Spectators Sell Tickets
Spectators about the palace were sell
ing seats at points of vantage for from 10
to 20 francs each, but the business done
was not as good as during the lola trial
when they easily obtained 10 francs for
seats.
The court room was filled with Partisan
celebrities, the greater part of the hall hav-
ing been reserved for ticket holders Many
judges belonging to other courts were
among those present and absolute tran
guilty prevailed. There were about
twenty ladies among the audience filling the
galleries
The proceedings commenced at noon, and
amid profound silence the president OF the
clvh section of the court read his report on
the case After recalling the conditions un-
der which the prosecution of Dreyfus was
instituted In 1894. he dealt with the con-
Trajectory evidence of the experts In hand
writing and mentioned the protest of limo
cence by Dreyfus who said TO Col. Henry:
This odious accusation Is the death OF
my life. l must have justice done me-"
Col. Henry replied that the matter did
not come within his competence
EUlogistic Reports on Dreyfus.
M. Ballot de Beaupre then read a number
of eulogistic reports on Dreyfus, when the
latter was a military school probationer on
the general staff. his interrogatory by
Lieut. Col. du Patty de Clam, In which Drey-
fus persisted in denying having had re-
lations with any foreign embassy and his
statement that he had not given any docu-
ments to any agent relating to the defense
of the country.
The reporter afterward described the
scene in du Patty de CLAIMS Office in the
presence of the chief of detectives, NJ.
Rochefort, and sketched the history OF the
Dreyfus family.
According to du Patty de Clam Dreyfus.
when he saw the resemblance to his hand
writing, exclaimed:
They have stolen my handwriting
1t was also pointed out that Dreyfus.
when the report OF ONnes-Chs villes was
pa esented at the court-martial protested
he had never seen the 120 short gun used
and that he did not know befors July of the
disposition of the frontier forces. The pris-
oner also said he had not had O copy Of the
firing manual, knew nothing OF the docu-
ments respecting Madagascar and said TO
the reporter of the court-Tnartial;
Declares His Innocence.
IT have now bsen more than six weeks In
confinement. I swear l am innocent. The
son of an Alsatian Protestant, abandoned
everything to serve France, and am today
worthy OF leading her soldiers on the bat
tlefield. Tina maIGyrdom I suffer Is afro
cious"
NJ. Ballot de Beaupre then dealt with the
Ormes -Chevilles report Of Dreyfus' rela-
lions with married women