The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-06-04
VERDICT N DREYFUS CASE.
Courtmartial for the Retrial oR the
Condemned Ordered u SIT at Ren.
nss-Aaaieace On Hearing the Re-
sult Cries ssvive II Justice"

~ARIS June 3-The court OF cessation
today rendered verdict In favor OF
= q revision Of the Dreyfus case and
ordering the courtmartial TO sit at
Rennes, sixty miles from Nantes, for tie
trial Of the prisoner. The decision says the
prisoner is TO Be retired on the following
question:
rs Dressfus guilty OF having. In 1894.
rracticed Vaccinations. or having COM
munication with foreign power or It's
agent. with the view Of facilitating acts OF
hostility In case OF war with France. or
having Furnished the means therefor by
furnishing notes or documents retraced on
the bordereAu?
The audience received the decision with
cries OF "viye 10 justice"
When the doora OF the court Of caxsa-
ton were opened an. immense crowd OF
people ettemptsd to rush through the en-
trance ana 10s time there was great
confusion and uproar. The session opened
at O'Clock. when tho president OF the
court, ~ Nassau. after reminding the ass-
dience that Al Demonstrations were Inter-
dfetod, gave judgment In the following
tenor: a.
.srhe court. IN view Of ths presentation
to the court martial Of . secret document
bearing tho words 'Ce canaiile de D.:
and seeing that the communication OF this
document Is proved by the depoeitions OF
n. Caximir- Perier. Gen. Msrcier and Gen.
BoisdefYre, and seeing that n. Casimtr-
Perier has declared he heard from Gen.
Mercier that the document bearing the
words ,Ce canaiile de d. submitted to
the court martial, was believed to indicate
Dreyfus and that In addition. Gems. Mer-
cler and De Boisedaffre. who were invited
TO cav whether they knew IL said cemmuni-
cation had occurred, refused TO reply. thus
acknowledging It.
Seeing that by the revelations subse-
ouent to the verdict the communication 10
the court-martial Of document capable OF
| Influencing their minds and now not re-
garded as applicable to Dreyfus conssi-
tutes a new fact calculated to establish the
innocence of Dreyfus:
Seeing that the crime charged against
Dreyfus consisted Of furnishing the secret
documents connected with the national de
| fense accompanying which was missive
| styled a bordereau, undated, unsigned and
| written on silixraned matter which was no
| LONGER manufactured and that two authen.
| ,icated letters written on the Identical pa
per dated centemporaneously with the
| hordereau. were discovered In the house OF
| E.serhazy, the writing upon which experts
| have declared TO be the same as that OF the
| bordereau. which fact was unknown to the
court martial. tend to establish the inno-
cence OF Dreyfus.
Seeing tina, the alleged confessions o;
Dreysus TO Capt. 10 Brun-Renaud are dis
proved:
I'm view OF these arguments and with
cut submitting ogherS, the cour. quashes
and annals the verdict Of condemnation OF
December r. 1924, against Alfred Drsyfas
| BY the first court-martiaI OF the military
government ef Paris and sends the accused
before n court-msrtiai at Rennes TO be spe-
cially appointed 10 conduct the new trial.
The decision In the case OF Col. Picauars
| will be rendered on Tuesday II is expect
| ell tha; the case will end in abandonment
OF the prosecution.