Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1906-07-19
CAPT. DREYFUS
IS INDICATED.
decision Entities Him TO Re-
StoratiOn Of His Former
Rank In Army.
THE FAMOUS HEBREW CASE
First Arrested Nearly Twelve year:
Ago on Charge OF Betraying
French Military Secrets
to a Foreign Power.
THE FAMOUS HEBREW CASE

III q IUI GlYli IUHGl'
Paris, July 12.-The Supreme
Court to-day announced its decision
annulling the condemnation of
Dreyfus without a retrial.
The effect of the decision is a COM
plete vindication of Dreyfus emitting
him to restoration to his rank in the
army as though he had never been
accused.
The decision of the court was read
by the presiding judge, M. Thallot-
Beaupre, president of the court of
cessation, Immediately on the reas-
sembling Of the court at noon to-day.
The palace Of justice was thronged
by an eager crowd seeking admis-
sion to the court room.
The main features of the decision
are as follows;
The court holds that three new
facts have been established:
First-That the document from
General Mercier's secret papers pre-
sented at the Rennes court martial,
in which the initial cd" was SUBJ
stituted for "P" was a fabrication
establishing the strong presumption
of Dreyfus' innocence.
Second-That another document
from the secret papers in which
Dreyfus was alleged to have been
shown to have delivered to Germans
the plans for the railway mobiliza-
ton v reached the war depart
ment authorities and therefore Drey-
fus could not have secured possession
of it.
Third-That the Rennes court
martial failed to hear essential testi-
mony calculated to establish the fact
that Dreyfus was innocent.
"These facts" the decision of the
court says, "without seeking Tor any
further grounds, are of a nature tC
establish the innocence of the &C
cused and it is only necessary to ex-
anime whether the verdict of thu
Rennes court martial shall be an
nulled without a re-trial or be fol
lowed by another trial by a cour
martial"
After a lengthy review of the
document in the case known as tn
Bordereau the decision says it wa
written by Major Count Esterhaz.
and that the accusations %connectin,
Dreyfus with the Bordereau res
only on hypothesis and conjecture.
"The accusation against Dreyfus,'
continues the decision, switch i
based on handwriting or text of tn
Bordereau was completely unjusti
fed and without motive. Moreover
Dreyfus having a large fortune, on
seeks in vain for any reason for hi
committing such a great crime.
"The court therefore holds that
as all the accusations against the &C
cused fall to the ground, there is n
necessity for a new trial and conse
quently the judgment in condemns
ton is annulled as unwarranted b
the evidence"
In conclusion the court note
Dreyfus waving of pecuniary il
demnity and ordered its decision
be transcribed on the records of th
Rennes court martial and to be ir
serted in the official journal and ais
in five newspapers to be designate
by the procurator general and at tt
. cost of the government in fifty pape
of Paris and the provinces, to
designated by Dreyfus.
The circumstances Of Capital
Dreyfus returning to the army ha,
not yet been determined upon but
is expected that he will take tt
grade of lieutenant colonel of art
lery, which he would have reache
= if his service had not been int
rupted.
Q Mr., CANNON'S BOOM.