New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-08-08
THE TRIAL IN DETAIL.
DREYFUS DENIES AND EXPLAINS MANY
QUERIES
WELL KNOWN PERSONS PREsENT-DRA-
MATIC SCENES IN THE CoURT-HARsH
ACTIONS OF THE PRBsID-
ING JUDGE

ING JUDGE
Rennes. France. Aug. THE second trial by
court martial Of Captain Alfred Dreyfus. Of the
14th Regiment Of Artillery, sentenced In 1874
10 Imprisonment for life in fortress after hav-
ing been convicted OF delivering to the agents
of a foreign Power documents connected with
the defence Of France. opened in the Lycee
here at 40 this morning.
The prisoner entered the courtroom with a
firm step His face was pallid. he was partly
hsld and his gray hair was closely cropped.
Dreyfus answered the formal questions Of the
president of the court, Colonel Jouaust, as TO
his name. age etc.. in O. clear, determined voice
He sat facing the members Of the Court with
his hands resting on his knees an apparently
impossible figure.
So far as Rennes is concerned the trial opened
IN an atmosphere Of perfect tranquility. The
population apparently Indifferent, only
small crowd of people at most about fifty per-
sons having gathered outside the entrance TO
the I.ycee by o'clock in the morning, and a
majority OF those were newspaper men. the
Prefect OF Police and the Chief Of the Secret
Police. NJ. Viguier. arrived at the Lycee shortly
before a. M. and began experimenting the
police measures. At that hour only half dozen
gendarmes were visible about the building.
They were stationed about the entrance OF the
Lycee and inside the garden in front OF IT, The
garden is separated from the sidewalk Of the
Avenue de la Care on which the Lycee Is sit
ated, by high iron railing. within which no
one was allowed to pass until Dreytus was
transferred from his quarters in the military
prison to a room within the Lycee building,
where he awaited the summons to appear before
the Court.
STREETS STRONGLY GUARDED.
Strong detachments of gendarmes mounted
and on foot. began to arrive at about o'clock,
and took up positions in the side streets about
the Lycee and in all the bystreets leading to the
Avenue de la Care.
At 6:15 a. m. the Project gave orders TO close
the Avenue de la Care for three hundred yards
in front Of the Lycee and also 10 close all the
streets leading into the avenue. Consequently.
gendarmes were Immediately drawn up across
the avenue, and the space mentioned was
cleared Of all spectators
A detachment of infantry was then stationed
across the avenue in two double lines. leaving
between them a passage for Dreyfus TO cross
the avenue from the prison to the entrance 10
the Lycte.
The crowd. which by that time had increased
TO few hundred. was kept by gendarmes at a
distance of 80 yards on either side of this pas
sage
Dreyfus afterward emerged from the
military prison. escorted by lieutenant and
four gendsrmes. The party crossed the road
way quickly and disappeared within the Lycee
the hedges Of soldiers hiding the prisoner from
view.
From $50 to a. m. the principal personages
in the court martial arrived The various gen.
erals interested passed into the building with
hardly a cheer from the spectators. General
MERCER Oyho was Minister Of War when Drey.