The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-06-06
Court Of Cessation Declares Dreyfus Entitled
to New Trial
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ParlS, June ne court OF cdSSd-
ton today rendered a verdict in favor
of a revision Of the Dreyfus case, and
ordering a new court-martial, TO sit at
Rennes, sixty miles from Nantes. for
the trial of the prisoner.
Previous 10 the announcement Of the
verdict, crowds of people assembled at
the palace Of justice and in its neigh
borhood. awaiting the decision. Per-
feet calm prevailed. The decision.
which was pronounced at $40 o'clock
p. m. says the prisoner is TO be retired
on the following question:
rs Dreyfus guilty Of having, in 1894.
practiced machination or of having
communicat ton with n foreign power or
its agents with the view of facilitating
acts of hostilities in the case of a war
with France, or having furnished the
means therefor by furnishing notes or
documents retraced on the bordereau."
The audience received the decision
with cries of "ViveNa Justice" "Vive
la Loi.' The session opened at 3
court, Mazeau. gave judgment in the
following tenor:
1.-The court, after hearing the report
of the premier president of the civil
chamber, the public prosecutors find
ings, and the application Of Maitre
Mornard (cousel for Madame Dreyfus)
declare that the demand for a revision
| of the Dreyfus case was presented in
proper form, and in view Of the results
| of said inquiry, in view of the pre-
| sentation to the court-martial of a Sc
cret document bearing the words "cette
| canalle de De- and seeing that
the communication of this document is
| proved by the dispositions of NJ. CAST
| mir-Perier, General Mercier and Gen.
eral de Boisdeffre, and seeing that NJ.
| Cassimir-Perier has heard from Gen.
! eral Merier that the document bearing
| the words :cette canaille de D."
| submitted to the court-martial, was be-
! lieved to indicate Dreyfus, and that in
! addition General Mercier and de Bois-
! deffre, who were invited to say whether
| they knew If same communication had
/ occurred refused TO reply, thus ac-
| konweldging it; seeing that by revela-
! tions subsequent TO verdict, the commun-
+, ication of the court martial of docu-
! ment capable of influencing their minds
! and now not regarded as applicable to
F.! Dreyfus, constitutes a new fact calcu-
lated to establish the innocence Of
Dreyfus: seeing that the crime charg-
:
niShing to foreign power secret doc
uments connected With the national de-
fense, accompanying which was mis-
Sive styled a bOrdereau, undated, un-
signed and written on filigraned paper,
which is no longer manufactured, and
that two authenticated letters, written
on the Identical paper, dated contem-
poraneously with the bordereau, were
| discovered in the house of Esterhazey,
| the writing upon which experts have
declared to be the same as that of the
! bordereau, which facts were unknown
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 quasnes
and annuls the verdict of condemnation
! of December %, 1894, against Alfred
| Dreyfus, by the first court-martial of
| the military government Of Paris and
| sends the accused before court-mar-
| tfal at Rennes, TO be specially appoint
| ed to conduct the new trial"
EFFECT OF THE DECISION.
Copyright by Associated Press)
Paris, June 3.-The court Of cassa-
tion revises the Dreyfus case and or
, ders a new trial before court-martial
decision; still, it caused a hush of as
tonishment. II was received in court
with jubilant cries Of "Vive la Jus
tice,'
/ The Jewish world rejoiced at the Sat
urday services in the synagogues.
Telephone messages from the law
! courts apprised the senate and cham
! Der of deputies Of the decision. In the
former there is strong Dreyfusite
majority. In the latter the Dreyfusites
are in the minority, but are extremely
energetic and aggressive. The rights
are thoroughly anti-Dreyfuste.
The announcement Of the decision
| was posted in the lobby, which happen
| ed to be crowded, and was received
| with great varieties Of feeling. The an
| ti-Semitic journals had predicted that
! a new trial would be ordered ar
Amiens, where the radical spirit pre-
| ponderates. Rennes is the capital OF
Catholic Bittany, but General Lucas.
! commanding the Tenth artillery corps
| there, is a Jew. This will assure the
judges being unbiased by clerical feel
! ings, but Will afford the anti-Dreyfu-
ties an excuse for keeping up the agi-
tation on the ground that the court
martial is packed. There is no perma-
nent courtmartial at Rennes, as there
is in Paris.
General Lucas viii choose seven of
ficers for judges. The general feeling
throughout Brittany is hostile 10 Drey-
fus. However, acquittal is certain
since there was never any case against
him save the bordereau and the "ca-
nailie de D" letter
General Mercier, former minister a
war, shows nervousness, though not
the white feather. He, too, was advis.
ed 10 go abroad. but he viii not do SO
Before du Patty de CLAIMS arrest his
description and photographs OF him
were sent 10 the frontier commissioner:
OF police