The record-union., 1899-06-04
CAPTAIN DREYFUS.

of a war with France, or, having fur
nished the means therefrom, been fur
nishing notes or documents retraced
on the bordereau?"
The audience received the decision
with cries of Viva la Justice
When the door of the Court of Casa
ton was opened an immense crowd OF
people attempted to rush through the
entrance, and for time there was
great confusion and uproar. The Presi-
dent of the court reminded the audi
ence that all demonstrations were in
terdicted, and gave judgment in the
following tenor: The court, after hear
ing the report Of the Premier, Presi-
dent of the Civil Chamber, the Pub
lie Prosecutors findings and the ap-
plicatjon of Maitre Mornard Counsel
for Mime. Dreyfus), under the new Ar
ticle 443 of para graph 4 of the Code
of Criminal Procedure, to the effect
that a revision Of judgment can be
demanded when new facts are pro-
duCed, or unknown documents show
ing the innocence of the condemned,
and in view of the judgment of October
20, 1898, rendered by the Criminal
Chamber ordering an inquiry, declared
that the demand for a revision of the
er form, and in view of the results of
said inquiry, in view of the presenta-
ton to the court-martial of a secret
document bearing the words &c Can
allie de D. and seeing that the
communication of this document is
proved by the dispositions of NJ CAST
mir-Perier General MERCER and Gen
eral Boisdeffre, and seeing that M.
Casimr-Perier has declared he heard
from General MERCER that the docu-
met bearing the words 'Ce Canaille de
D. submitted to the court martial,
was believed to indicate Dreyfus, and
that in addition Generals MERCER and
Boisdeffre, who were invited to say
whether they knew if said communica
ton had occurred, refused to reply,
thus acknowledging it; seeing that by
the revelations subsequent to the YER
dict the communication to the court
martial of document capable of in
fluencing their minds and now not re-
garded as applicable to Dreyfus, con-
stitutes new fact calculated to estab-
lish the innocence of Dreyfus; seeing
that the crime charged against ORGY.
fus consisted of furnishing secret docu-
ments connected with the national de-
Tense, accompanying which was mis-
sive styled bOrdereau, undated, I'M
signed and written on filigraned mat
ter which was no longer manufactured,
and that two authenticated letters,
written on the identical paper, dated
contemporaneously with the bordereau,
We're discovered in the house of Ester
hay, the writing upon which experts
have declared to be the same as that
of the bordereau, which fact was I'M
known to the court-martial, tend to
establish the innocence of Dreyfus,
seeing that the alleged confessions of
Dreyfus to Captain Lebrun- Renaud are
disproved In view of these arguments
and without submitting others, the
court quashes and annuls the verdict
of condemnation of December %, 1881,
against Alfred Dreyfus by the first
court martial of the military govern
ment of Paris, and sends the accused
before the court-martiai at Rennes, to
be specially appointed to conduct the
new trial.
This Judgment is to be printed and
transcribed on the docket of the first
court martial, alongside the decision
which lis annuled
The court then adjourned