Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-07
COURT MARTIAL
OF DreyfuS was Commenced
This Morning.
PRISONER IS CONFIDENT
OF AcQuittal and Walks the Floor to
the Place of Trial with a Firm Step
No Demonstrations Have Been
Made by the People.

Rennes. Aug. 1.-THE proceedings of the
court martial before which Captain
Dreyfus is on trial opened ten minutes
past Z o'clock this morning. Captain
Dreyfus entered the court room with a
firm step, though his features were
pallid. He is partly bald, IL what hair
he has is gray and cl~ose-cropne6. He
answered the formal questions of the
judge as to his name, age, etc, in a clear,
determined voice. He sat facing the
judges, with his hands resting on his
knees.
The trial opened, so far as Rennes is
concerned, in an atmosphere of perfect
tranquility. The population is apparently
Indifferent. Only a small crowd at the
most SO persons. had gathered outside
the entrance to the Lycee by 6 O'Clock. A
majority of these We're journalists. The
project of police and Chief of the Secret
Police Viguer arrived just before 6
O'Clock, n began the superintendent
OF police measures. At this time only
half a dozen of gendarmes were visible.
They were stationed at the portal of the
Lycee and inside the garden in front of
the Lycee, which is separated from the
sidewalk of the Avenue de IN Care by a
high iron railing, which no one was al
lowed to pass until Dreyfus had been
transferred from the military prison to
the room within the Lycee building,
where he was to await the moment when
he should be to enter the court
room. .
Strong detachments Of gendarmes on
foot and mounted began to arrive at 6
O'Clock and took up their positions in the
side streets around the Lycee. At 6:i5
the project of police gave the order to
close the Avenue: de la Care for 300 yards
in front of the Lycee and also all by
streets leading to the avenue. The gen
darmes were Immediately drawn UP
along the avenue and the space in front
OF the Lycee was cleared of all specta-
tors. A detachment of infantry was
drawn across the avenue in two double
lines. leaving between them a passage
for Captain Dreyfus across the avenue
from the military prison to the entrance
Of the Lycee.
The crowd, which by that time had in
creased to a few hundred, was Kept by
the gendarmes at a distance OF $50 yards
on either side of this passage. Captain
Dreyfus. emerged from the military
prison under the escort of a lieutenant
and four gendarmes. He crossed the
railroad quickly and disappeared within
the Lycee. he hedge of soldiers hiding
him from view.
The principal personages in the trial
oiIiNeu between o:5O ana Z O'CLOCK. The
generals passed with hardly a cheer from
the spectators, General Mercier alone
being greeted with a few cries of give
m n "Vive MERCER" as he drove
up in a closed carriage. Lieutenant Col
one Picquart arrived an foot at $50
wearing a silk hat and black frock coat
with the red ribbon of the Legion of
Honor in the buttonhole. No emon-
s%stration was made upon his arrival, but
he appeared to be in a most cheerful
mood. smiling and chatting with friends.
and, If he may be judged by his bearing,
he is sanguine of a favorable issue of the
trial @