The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-06-04
so THE COURT DECIDES
NEW COURT MARTIAL TO SIT AT
RENNES.
PEOPLE RECEIVE TIE DECISION CALMLY
The President Of The Court in Giving Judgmen
Uses Language Which Points Unmis-
takably to fsterhazy as the
Guilty Party.

Paris, June 3.-The Court of Cassa-
ton today rendered a. verdict in favor
of a revision of the Dreyfus case and
ordering Il new court martial to sit at
Rennes, sixty miles from Nantes, for
the trial of the prisoner.
The announcement of the decision
was posted in the lobby, which happen
ed to be crowded, and was received with
great varieties of feeling. The Anti
Semitic journals had predicted that Il
new trial would be ordered at Amens,
where the radical spirit preponderates.
Rennes is the capital of Catholic Brit
tany, but General Luca, commanding
the Tenth artillery corps there is Jew.
This will assure the judges being I'M
biased by clerical feelings, but will af-
ford the antiDreyfusites an excuse for
keeping up the agitation on the ground
that the court martial is packed. There
is no permanent court martial at Rennes.
as there is i'm Paris, only permanent
parquet, or prosecuting board.
General Luca will choose seven of
ficers for judges. The general feeling
throughout Brittany is hostile to Drey-
fus. However, an acquittal is certain
since there was never any case against
him save the bordereau and the Can
allie de D" letter.
Previous to the announcement of the
verdict, crowds of people assembled at
the Palace of Justice and in its neigh
borhood, awaiting the decision. Per-
feet calm prevailed. The decision, which
was pronounced ut $40 p. m, says the
prisoner is to be retired Oh the following
question:
rs Dreyfus guilty of having, in 1894
practiced Vaccination or of having COM
munication with foreign power or its
agents with the view of facilitating acts
of hostilities in the case of a war with
France, or having furnished the means
therefor by furnishing notes or docu-
ments retraced on the hordereau.''
The audience received the decision with
cries of "Nive La Justice.' 'Vive La
Loi.
The session opened at O'clock when
the President of the Court. Maeau, gave
Judgment in the following tenor:
The court, after hearing the report
of the Premier President of the Civil
lngs. and the application of Matre Nor
nard Counsel for Madame Dreyfus). de-
| clared that the demand for revision
| OF the DppfuS case was presented in
proper form and in view of the result
of said inquiry. in view of the present
| alton to the court martial of secret
document bearing the words "Ce Ca
naille de D. and seeing that the
Icn mn n mi. r Il.
we'd by the dispositions of NJ Casimir-
| Perier, General MERCER and General De
| Boisdeffre, and seeing that NJ. Casimir-
| Perier has heard from General Mcrtic:.
| that the document bearing the words
| zee Canaile de D. submitted to the
| court martial, was believed to indicate
Dreyfus and that in addition Generals
MERCER and De Boisdeffre who were
invited to say whether they knew if
some communication had occurred, re-
fused to reply. thus acknowledging it;
seeing that by the revelations subsequent
to the verdict the communication to the
court martial of a document capable of
influencing their minds and now not
regarded as applicable to Dreyfus, CON
stitutes Il new fact calculated to estab-
fish the innocence of Dreyfus: seeing
consisted of furnishing to foreign pow
er secret documents connected with the
| national defense. accompanying which
was msSive styled a bordereau, unda-
ted, unsigned and written on filigraned
paper which is no longer manufactured,
and that two authenticated letters.
written on the identica1 paper, dated
contemporaneOusly with the bordereau,
We're discovered in the house of Ester
haZy, the writing upon which experts
have declared to be the same as that
of the bordereau. which facts were I'M
known to the court martial, tend to es-
tablish the innocence of Dreyfus; seeing
that the alleged confessions of Drey-
fus to Captain Lebrun-Renaud are dis
proved: in view of these arguments and
without submitting others. the court
quashes and annuls the verdict of con-
demnation of December 22nd, 1894.
against Alfred Dreyfus by the first
court martial of the military govern
ment of Paris and sends the accused be-
fore a court amrtial at Rennes, to be
specially appointed to conduct the new
trial
IOllA ON THE REdEARING.
London, June "a representative of
the Associated Press this evening Sc
cured brief interview with Nj. Emie
Iola who lis now living in strict retire
ment near the Crystal Palace, but who