The age-herald., 1899-05-30
FOR REVISION OF
 THE DREYFUS CASE Court of Cessation in Session at
 Paris. SPECTATORS SOLD SEATS The Court Room Was Filled With
 Celebrities. BALLOT DE BEAUPRE'S DEFENSE Pointed Out That Dreytus Had Finest Prospects for Military Career, and Could Not Have Acted
 Through Disappointment
BALLOT DE BEAUPRE'S DEFENSE

Paris, May 29-The court of cessation met today to hear the debates in the appli- cation for 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 lobbies of the palace, but the crowds in the vicin- ity were not large.
 Extensive precautions were taken to pre- serve order inside and outside the building Te colonel commanding the guard at the llace has been given special reinforce ments by the military governor of Paris, General zurlinden, and considerable forces of mounted military police have been as- sembed at the barracks in the vicinity of the court.
 The witnesses who have testified in the Dreyfus case were admitted by door on the left of the palace, and those connected with the trial of M. Deroulde and Marshal Halert, for melting soldiers to insubordina- ton in connection with the election of President Loubet, which is also before the court today were admitted by door on the right of the building.
 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 Zola trial, when they easily obtained 40 francs for seats
 The court room was filled with Parisian celebrities, the greater part of the hall having been reserved for ticket holders Aop ind %t,o were among those present and absolute tranquility prevailed
 There were about twenty ladies among the audience filling the galleries.
 The proceedings commenced at noon. Amid profound silence, the president of the civil section of the court read his report on the case
 After recalling the contentious under which the prosecution of Dreyfus was in- stituted in 1894 he dealt with the contradic- tory evidence of the experts in handwrit- ing, and mentioned the protest of innocence by Dreyfus, who said to Lieutenant Colonel Henry: This odious accusation is the death of my life. I must have justice done me-"
 Henry replied that the matter did not come within his competence
 M. Ballot De Beaupre then read num- Der of eulogistic reports on Dreyfus when ShS iotecA "do q military SCHOOL DTODdIlOn- CT on the general staff, his interrogatory by Lieutenant Colonel Dupaty De Clam, in which Dreyfus persisted in denying having had relations with any foreign embassy, and his statement that he had not given any documents to any agent relating to the defense of the country.
 The reporter afterward described the scene in DuPaty DeClam's office in the presence of the chief of detectives, M. Rochefort, and sketched the history of the Dreyfus family.
 According to DuPaty DeClam, Dreyfus, when he saw the resemblance to his hand writing, exclaimed: "They have stolen my handwriting"
 It was also pointed out that Dreyfus, when the report of Ormes-Chevilles was presented at the courtmartial, protested that he had never seen the 120 short guns used and that he did not know before July of the disposition of the frontier forces.
 The prisoner also said he did not have a copy of the firing manual, knew nothing of the documents respecting Madagascar and said to the reporter of the courtmar- tial:
 q have now been more than six weeks in confinement. I swear I am innocent. The son of an Alasan Protestant, aban- doned everything to serve France and am today worthy of leading her soldiers on the battlefield. The martyrdom I suffer is atrocious."
 M. Ballot DeBeaupfe then ueait WltH the Ormes-C Chevilles report to Dreyfus' re- la tions with married women.
 After reading M. Monard's defense, which included by maintaining that the material evidence of the bordereau and the moral evidence cropping out during the in- uury pointed ,not to Dreyfus but to Ester hay as the culprit, M. Ballot De Beaupre dealt with the question of motive. He read the police report furnished by M. Guene, the detective, all unfavorable to Dreyfus and reports of the prefecture of police, pointing out that there had been con fusion of Dreyfus with others of the same name who had been mixed up with the gambling and disreputable female associa- tions The latter reports were not produced at the trial in 1894
 M Ballot De Beaupre then pointed out that Dreyfus could not have acted as a traitor from anger or disappointment as he had the finest prospects of an excellent military career. On the other hand. Ester