The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-06-04
DREYFUS GIVEN A NEW TRIAL.
COURTS JUDGMENT WAS RECEIVED
WITH ENTHUSIASM.

President Mnzenu Announced the
Reasons for the Courts Action.
"Ce CanRiIIe de D." Did Not Refer
TO Dreyfus-Esterhazy Wrote the
BOrdereau-Oher Facts in Drey-
fus' FaVOr--QucstiOn before the
New Court.
Paris, June 3.-The Court of Cessation
to-day rendered a verdict in favor of @
revision of the Dreyfus case, and ordering
a new courtmartial, to sit at Rennes, sixty
miles from Nantes for the trial Of the
prisoner
Previous TO the announcement of the
verdict crowds of people assembled ae
the Palace Of Justice. and in its neighbor-
hood. awaiting the decision Perfect calm
prevailed. The decision, which was pros
nounced at $40 o'clock p. m, says the
prisoner is to be retired on the following
question:
rs Dreyfus guilty of having, In 1895.
practiced machination or of having COM
muncauon with foreign power or its
agents, with the view of facilitating acts
of hostllities in the case of war with
France, or having furnished the means
therefor by furnishing notes or documents
retraced on the bordereau2"
The audience received the decision with
The session opened at 3 o'clock, when
the president OF the court Mazeau, gave
judgment In the following tenor;
The Case Summed Up.
''The court after hearing the report Of
the premier president of the civil cham
Der, the public prosecutors findings, and
the application of Maitre Mornard. coun-
sci for Nine Dreyfus, declared that tho
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 presentation to the cOurtmartial of n
secret document bearing the words zee
canaille de D." and seeing that the COM
munication of this document Is proved by
the depos,tons OF NJ Casimn- Perier,
Gen. Mercier and Gen. deBoisdeffre, and
seeing that NJ. Cassmir-Perier has heard
from Gen. Mercier that the document
bearing the words zee canaiAe de D.
submitted to the courtmartial, was be-
licved to Indicate Dreyfus, and that in
addition Gems. Mercier and deBoisdeffre,
who were invited to say whether they
knew II said communication had occurred.
refused 70 reply, thus acknowledging IL
seeing that by the revelations subse-
quent to the verdict the COM
munication to the courlmartial OF n doc
ument capable of influencing their minds
and now not regarded as applicable to
Dreyfus, constitutes new fact calcu-
lated to establish the innocence of Drey-
fus; seeing that the crime charged against
Dneyfus consisted of furnishing to a for
eIgn power secret documents connected
with the national defense, accompanying
which was a missiye styled q bordereau,
undated, unsigned and written on fili-
graned paper, which Is no longer manu-
featured, and that two authenticated let
ters, written on the identical paper, dated
contemporaneously with the bordereau.
We're discovered In the house OF Ester
hazy, the wiring upon which experts
have declared to be the same as that OF
the bordereau which facts were unknown
to the courtmartial, tend TO establish tho
innocence of Dreyfus; seeing the alleged
confessions OF Dreyfus to Capt. T.e3run-
Renaud are dlsproved; In view of these
arguments and without submitting others,
the cosrt quashes and annuls the verdict
of condemnation of Dec 22, 1894, against
Alfred Dreyfus by the first courtmartial
of the military government of Paris, and
sends the accused before a couTtmartlai
at Rennes, to be specially appointed 10
conduct the new trial"