The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-06-09
CAPTAIN DREYFUS HAS WON
The Court OF Cessation Announces ltz
Verdict for u Revision

NeEoict tOr u Revision -
PARIS, June a-The court OF cassa-
ton rendered a verdict to-day i in favor
OF a revision of the Dreyfus case. It
ordered a new court-martial to sit at
H%enncs, sixty miles from Nantes, for
the trial OF the prisoner. News of a
signed confession of Esterhazy that he
wrote the famous bordereau is the
second subject Of talk of the day.
The decision says the prisoner is to
be retired on the following question:
us Dreyfus guilty of having, in
1894, practiced Vaccinations or of
having had communication with a
foreign power or its agents with a
view OF facilitating acts of hostilities
il the case of war with France?"
Tho audience received the decision
with cries of 'Vive la justice" "Vive
Ia loie" c'Long live justice" "Long
live law.w
The court-martial sitting at Reuues
will be away from the influence OF the
army and of the Paris rabble. Dur
ing the former court-martial of Drew
fus the shouts of tho mob against
Dreyfus were heard in the court room.
The beginning of the present agita-
tlon for Drcyfus was in the famous
Il accuse letter of emile lola, the
novelist, written to President Faure.
In this lola accused the officers of the
court-martial with injustice to Drey-
1us and accused Count Esterhazy Of
writing the bordereau, or memoran-
DUN, that convicted Dreyfus. Zola's
trial and conviction for libel were
followed by the acquittal of Ester
hay and the suicide of Lieutenant
Colonel ucnry, after he had confessed
to forging an anti Dreyfus paper.
This elimination of events caused the
Dir to refer the case to the hiph
court of appeals, or court of cessation.
10 make the verdict more convincing
the case was referred to the whole
court. civil and criminal divisions.
The reporter for the court, NJ. Bal
lot. l;eaupre, in summing up before it
the evidence, this week. declared that
two of the documents used as evil
dence against Dreyfus were forgcries,
and the third did not apply to the
case. He said he believed that Ester.
hay wrote the bordereau under or
ders from superiors. NJ. Ballot Beau
pre- commended that the general staff
had to find some one responsible for
the leakage of military secrets; that
they pitched on Oreyfus as the scape-
goat, and that evidence was manufac-
tured against him.
This bordereau, the chief evidence
against Dreyfus, was a paper orr in
four pieces, said to have been found
in the alley behind the residence of
the German ambassador by French
spies. 1t contained notes on new
maneuvcrs OF the French army, on
Madagascar, and one or two unimpor-
tant matters; all of these subjects, it
said, would be treated in greater de-
tail later. The handwriting was de-
clarcd by several experts to be that of
Drcyfus, although others disagreed.
Later, il was found to be very like
that of Esterhazy and this aroused
suspicion against him.
This morning, from at least two
sources, comes news hat Esterhazy
has confessed. He has confessed twice
before. The first time was last Sep
TENDER when he had a conversation
with Mrs. Beers. editor Of the London
Sunday Times; the second time was
in April, to representatives Of the
London Observer. Both interviews
he denied, although they had all ap-
pearance of authenticity. It was sup
posed he was not paid a satisfactory
price for them.
La Fronde says: m. Krantz, the
minister of war, and NJ. Ballot-Beau-
pre-, the reporter for the court Of cas-
sation in the Dreyfus affair, yesterday
received from Esterhazy a communi-
cation confessing the authorship of
the borderau and asking a safe con-
duct to enable him to come to Paris to
give explanations"
LIE People Francois is responsible
for the statement that President Lou
bet announced his intention to resign
yesterday, but that the ministers per-
suaded him to remain in Office.
In view OF the Developments in the
Dreyfus case and Of Zola's connection
with securing a revision, it is said the
cabinet decided yesterday to restore
to lola his rank in the Legion of
Honor, Of which he was deprived
when he fed from France to escape
the sentence of a years imprisonment
and a fine Of 5000 for his II accuse
letter. The Temps says lola will re-
turn from England.
1t has also been decided, it is said,
that Lieutenant Colonel Picqusrt be
released and that his appeal to the
council of state for reinstatement in
the army be admitted
MARIE WAINWRIGHT MARRIED
Tho Actress Welded to Franklyn Rob-
erts, Who Was Hor Loading Man.
New YORK, June 5.-There was a
little marriage at st. Georges church
in Stuyvesant square last night. The
bride was Marie Wainwright, the &C