New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-06-04
NEW TRIAL FOR DREYFUS.
,,opuaL VERDICT RENDERED BY THE
COURT OF CESSATION.
NEW couRT-MARTIAL TO SIT AT RENNEs-
GOVERNMENT PREPARING TO BRING
THE PRISONER HOME

THE PRISONER HOME
Paris June 3.-The Court OF Cessation to-day
rendered a verdict in favor OF a revision Of
the Dreyfus case. and ordered a new court
martial. 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 at the Palace OF
Justice and in its neighborhood, awaiting the
decision Perfect calm prevailed.
The decision. which was pronounced at $40
p. m, says the prisoner is to be retired the
following question:
Is Dreyfus guilty of having, in 1894. prac-
tised Vaccinations or had communication with
foreign Power or it's agents. with the view
OF facilitating acts of hostilities In the case
means therefor by furnishing notes or docu-
ments retraced on the bordereau?
When the doors OF the Court Of Cessation
were opened an immense crowd Of people at
tempted TO rush through the entrance. and for
a time there was great confusion and uproar.
JUDGMENT OF THE COURT.
The session opened at 8 o'clock. when the
President OF the Court Mazeau, after remind
ing the audience that all demonstrations were
interdcted. gave judgment in the following
TENOR:
The court. after t"arng the report of the
premier president C the Civil Chamber, the
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS nnQing and the appllCa-
ton of Maitre Mornard counsel for Nine Drey
fus), in the new Article 443 Paragraph 4. of the
Code OF Criminal Procedure, to the effect that
revision OF judgment can be demanded when
new facts are produced or unknown documents
showing the innocence of the condemned in
view of the Judgment Of October 80 1898. rem
dered by the Criminal Chamber ordering an in
Quiry and declaring the demand for a revision
of the Dreyfus case was presented in proper
fCrm and in view of the results OF said inquiry;
in view OF the presentation to the court-martial
haar fha de % "a
naille de D" and seeing that the communi-
cation OF this document is proved by the depo-
sitions of NJ. CasimirPerier. General Mercier
and General de Boisdefre and seeing that M.
Casimir- Perier has declared he heard from Cen
eral Mercer that the document bearing the
words "Ce canaille de D" submitted to the
cOurt-martial was believed TO indicate Dreyfus,
and that in addition Generals Mercier and De
Bosdeffre, who were invited to say whether
they knew If said communication had occurred.
refused 10 reply, thus acknowledging II; seeing
that by the revelations subsequent to the verdict
the communication TO the court-martial or
document was capable OF influencing their minds,
and now garded applicable to Dreyfus. con-
stitutes new fact calculated 10 establish the
innocence OF Dreyfus; seeing that the crime
charged against Dreyfus consisted Of furnishing
TO a foreign Power secret documents connected
with the national defence. accompanying which
was missive styled bordereau, undated, un-
signed and written on flgraned paper which IS
no longer manufactured. and that two authenti-
Gated letters written on the Identical paper.
dated contemporaneously with the bordereau.
were discovered in the house OF EsterhaZy. the
writing upon which experts have declared to be
the same as that of the bordereau, which facts
were Unknown the court-martiai. tend TO
establish The innocence OF Dreyfus: seeing tnat
the alleged confessions of Dreyfus TO Captain
Lebrun- Renaud are disproved: in view OF these
arguments and without submitting others. the
court quashes and annuls the verdict OF condem-
nation Of December %, 1894, against Alfred
Dreyfus by the first court martial OF the mill
tary government OF Paris. and sends the accused
before n court-martial at Rennes. to be specially
appointed 70 conduct the new trial.
This Judgment is to be printed and transcribed
on the docket Of the first court-martial, along
side the decision which Is annued.
The court then adjourned.
The audience received the decision with cries
of "Vive la Justce! "Vive la Loi"
BRINGING BACK THE PRISONER.
Premier Dupuy has summoned the Ministers
Of the Interior. Justice. War. Navy and the
Colonies TO meet tomorrow morning In order
to confer upon the measures to be taken TO
bring Dreyfus bach to France.