The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-05-31
THE INNOCENCE OF DREYFUS
EST4 IT BEFORE THE
 COURT OF CESSATION.

| EST4BLTSHING IT BEFORE THE
 COURT OF CESSATION.
 M. de Beaupre's Report Fixing the
 Authorship of the AlI-important Bor-
 dereau on Major Estcrhazy-A Deep
 Sensation Caused--Ten Fresh Facts in
 Favor of Dreyfus.
 Paris, May 30-M Ballot de Beaupre to-day continued the reading of his re- Dreyfus case to the court of cessation. | Several direct statements accusing Ma jor Count Esterhazy as the traitor caus- ed profound sensations in the court. M. de Beaupre said that if in '94 the off, cers of the court martial had thought it was not their duty to show Dreyfus the documents concerning him, the | judges, not being lawyers, had erred, though acting in good faith. M. de Beaupre then entered at length into a | consideration of the arguments of the | anti-revisionists, who, he said, contend | that even if the document "Ce canaille l de D." should be shown not to refer l to Dreyfus, it would be no reason for revision because the document was not ! responsible for the conviction of Drey- fus. The machinations of Colonel Du Paty de Clam and Lieutenant Colonel Henry, it had also been argued, gave no ground for revision, because they had been disavowed by General Gong, as- sistant chief of the general staff, and by his superior, General Boisdeffre. M. de Beaupre created a deep sensation by solemnly declaring that he had become convinced that the bordereau was writ ten by Major Count Ferdinand Ester hazy. M. de Beaupre read a fresh re- port drawn up by M. Manau, the pro- curator general on Saturday last, in view of the recent developments. enum- erating ten fresh facts in favor of Drey- fus, viz:
 First-The Henry forgery.
 Second-The changing of the date of the bordereau to August instead of April.
 Third-Contradictions of the hand writing experts.
 Fourth-The absolute identity of the paper upon which the bordereau was written with Major Esterhazy's letter paper
 Five-The sentence, Am starting for the manouvres,' could not have been written by Dreyfus.
 sixth-The police report withheld by the court martial.
 Seventh-Lieutenant Colonel Henry's weeping confession in the Burtulus of fee.
 Eighth-The Panizzardi despatch.
 Ninth-Oficial documents proving that Dreyfus had no relations with for eign embassies.
 Tenth-A document demonstrating that Dreyfus never confessed guilt
 M Manau's report concluded with an expression in favor of a retrial of Dreyfus. B. Ballot de Beaupre ampli- fled his indictment of Major Esterhazy. saying that one new fact from a legal point of view was the discovery that the bordereau was written upon pre- cisely the same paper as that used by Major EsterhaZy The judges in '94 did not know this. and, M. De Beaupre de- clared that on his soul and conscience, according to his conviction, the bor- dereau was written by Esterhazy. He deplored the attacks of revisionists on the army but said that the honor of the army was not dependent upon the. retention of an innocent man on Dew ils Island.
 M. DeBeaupre concluded: "I do not ask you to proclaim the innocence of Dreyfus, but" cried he, with profound emotion, "it is with firm conviction and lively sense of my duty and re- sponsibility that I say there is reason to grant revision of the trial and send Dreyfus for retrial before another court martial, whose task will be to give a decision with full knowledge of the facts. My report is ended" said M de Beaupre, while cries of Bravo and other marks of appreciation filled the court room.
 Amidst general excitement M. Manau, the procurator general, began his ad- dress to the court He claimed that the change in the date of the bordereau con- stituted new fact apart from numer- ous other new facts and declared that the bordereau was really the work of Major Esterhazy. M. Manau dwelt upon the strangeness of the general staff's protection of Esterhazy and the latter's ambiguity. The court adjourn ed at 5 o'clock without incident. M. Manau will continue his speech to-mor- row.
 The news that M. Ballot de Beaupre had directly ascribed the authorship of the bordereau to Major EsterhaZy pro- duced a condition of stupefaction among members of the League of Patriots in the precincts of the court. They made no attempt to conceal their chagrin. Tt is the collapse of our charges" shouted Maurice Barres. the novelist and deputy from Charmes- Sur Moselle. The anti Semites generally bitterly denounced M. de Beaupre whom they accused of hav- ing sold himself.
 QUEEN VICTORIES EYESIGHT.