Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 80, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 June 1899 — RETRIAL FOR DREYFUS. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

RETRIAL FOR DREYFUS.

Court of Cassation Decides for a Revision of the Case. A retrial by court martial was ordered in the case of Captain Dreyfus by the court of cassation at Paris. President Mazeau, in announcing that the prisoner's condemnation had been quashed, reviewed the evidence, pointing out that the captain’s innocence was clearly proved. The decision of the court of cassation was greeted with cheers. It is believed to mean acquittal for the exile. The new court martial will sit at Rennis, sixty miles from Nantes. The court of cassation’s review

and declaration that the captain is suffering for a crime that he never committed leaves little chance for another conviction. Previous to the announcement of the verdict crowds assembled at the palace of justice and in its neighborhood, awaiting the decision. The audience received the decision with cries of “Vive la Justice,” “Vive la Loie.” The decision says the prisoner is to be retried on the following question: “Is Dreyfus guilty of having in 1894 practiced machinations or of having had communication with a foreign power or its agents with the view of facilitating acts of hostilities in the case of a war with France?” Col. Dn Paty de Clam occupies the same cell in which Dreyfus was confined daring his first trial. In this cell the present prisoner, then the commandant, tortured the captain, seeking to force a confession of guilt.

CAPTAIN DREYFUS.