The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-06-04

awaiting the decision. Perfect calm
prevailed. The decision, which was
pronounced at. $40 p. m. says the
prisoner is to be retired on the follow
| ing question:
is Dreyfus guilty of having in 1894
practiced Vaccinations or having had
communication with a foreign power
! or its agents with the view of facili-
| tating acts of hoStilitieS in the case of
| a war with France, or having furnish
ed the means therefore by furnishing
notes or documents retraced on the
bordereau?"
The audience received the decision
with cries of ''vive la Justice
When the doors of the court of cassa-
tion were opened, an immense crowd of
people attempted to rush through the
entrance and for time there was great
confusion and uproar. The session
opened at o'clock when the president
of The court NJ. Mazeau, after remind
ing the audience that all demonstra-
tions were interdicted, gave Judgment
il. the following tenor:
Decision of the Court.
"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 Counsel for Nine. Dreyfus).
of the code of the criminal procedure.
TO the effect that a revision of judg-
ment can be demanded when new facts
are produced or unknown documents
showing the innocence of the con-
demned, and in view of the judgment
of Oct 49, 1898, rendered by the criminal
chamber ordering an inquiry, declared
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 presentation of
the courtmartial of a secret document
bearing the words zee canaille de d
and seeing that the communication of
this document is proved by the de-
positions of NJ. Casimir-Perier. General
Mercier and General Boisdeffre. and
seeing that NJ Casimir-Perier has de-
clared he heard from General Mercier
that the document bearing the words
zee canaille de de" submitted to the
courtmartial was believed to indicate
DreyfuS and that in addition Generals
Mercier- and De Boisdeffre who were
invited to say whether they knew if
said communication had occurred, re-
fused to reply, thus acknowledging 1t,
seeing that by the revelations Subse-
quent to the verdict the communica-
ton to the courtmartial of a document
capable of influencing their minds and
now not regarded as applicable to
Dreyfus. constitutes a new fact cal
culated to establish the innocence of
Dreyfus; seeing that the crime charged
against Dreyful consisted of furnishing
the secret documents connected with
the national defense accompanying
which was a missive styled a bordereau
undated. unsigned and written on
filigraned matter which was no longer
manufactured and that two authenti-
Gated letters, written on the identical
paper dated contemporaneously with
the bordeaeau, were discovered in the
house of Esterhazy, the writing upon
which experts have declared to be the
same as that of the bordereau, which
fact was unknown to the courtmartial.
tend to establish the innocence of Drey-
gus, seeing that the alleged confessions
of Dreyfus to Captain LIE Brun- -Renaud
are disDroved in view of these argu-
ments and without submitting others,
the court quashes and annuls the syer-