Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1899-06-09
RETRIAL FOR DREYFUS.
He Will BE Brought Home on a
French GunbOat.

EsterhaZy Has Again Confessed TO FOr-
gery---Several Prominent Officers VIII
Probably he Arrested.
The French Court of Cessation, having
been convinced of the innocence of Capt
Alfred Dreyfus and of the unfairness of his
former trial, has quashed the judgment of
the court-martial of 1894 and ordered that
he shall be given a retrial, not at Paris,
but at Rennes, in Brittany. Dreyfus re-
sumes his rank as captain, and is to have
returned to him his cross of the Legion of
Honor. He will be brought at once from
Devils Island to France on a French gun
boat. 1t is said that the judges were unan-
imous on the question of revision, and that
but five votes we're lacking for a decree de-
claring Dreyfus innocent without the for
mality of retrial. So impressed are the
French people with the Righteousness of
the.decision of the Court of Cessation that
the anti-Semtes, who few weeks age
were furiously denouncing the prisoner of
DEVILS Island, have attempted no demon.
stration whatever.
What appears to be proved is that the
bordereau, one of the original documents
in the Dreyfus case, was forged by Major
Walsn Esterhazy for the purpose of di
verting suspicious from himself Ester.
hazy has confessed the forgery, but he wa,
not alone in the plot. Col. Henry, who re
Gently committed suicide also Fabricated
documents, and Col. Du Patty de Clam
now under arrest, was a leading spirit il
the conspiracy. 1t is said that Gems Bots
deffre, Gong and lie Pellieux, as we'll al
MERCER, who was minister of war wher
the plot against Dreyfus was conceived
are likely to be taken into custody.
Credit for the demonstration of Drey
fuss innocence belongs chiefly to Col Pic
quart, at one time chief in the nteligenc,
| department, who from an inspection Of
the bordereau identified it as the work o.
Esterhazy, and to Emile lola, who, in thu
Aurore, exposed the plot and denounced
the conspirators. Picquart's charges lee
to the court-martial of Esterhazy, whit
was acquitted. For their interest in an in
nocent man, who had been made the vic
tim of a monstrous outrage, Picquert anC
lola were both arrested, and lola wa
twice condemned Although EsterhazN
has confessed to his part in the crime it i
said that having been once acquitted h,
cannot again be tried.
In their malignant efforts to convict
| Dreyfus his enemies refused him a fail
trial. In this they over-reached them
selves, as sympathy was attracted to tn,
prisoner when it became apparent that h,
had been condemned on false evidenc,
secretly furnished to the Court and no
submitted to his counsel
Emile Iolo arrived in Paris Monday, II,
has sent letter to the public prosecutor
requesting that the notice of the sentenc,
which was passed on him by the Versail
les court last July be sent to him at hi
residence.
lola left the court at Versailles befor,
sentence was pronounced in his case, hi
counsel having protested that the Versail
les court had no jurisdiction in the case
the alleged libel against the army had takel
place in Paris. He was sentenced to on,
year Imprisonment and to pay 5000 franc
by default. He left Paris at once an,
went to England, where he remained unit
Monday.