Union gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1899-1900, 1899-09-15
DREYFUS is FOUND GOITY
Court-Martial Sentenced Him
for Ten Years in Prison.
GENERAL BELIEF IN A PARDON
Term Of Solitary Confinement Already
Served Will Count as Double, and
Release Will Come Soon.

Rennsa, Sept. l2.-The expected has
happened. Dleyfus has been con
demned. The court found him guilty
and sentenced him to 10 years deten
ton. As he has already suffered FIVE
years solitary imprisonment, which
counts as double ordinary detention.
he will be released at the end of fort
night. In the meantime, unless the
president of the republic pardons him.
Dreyfus will have to be degraded here
again within eight days.
Though majority of those in the
Courtroom this afternoon fully expect
| the verdict, they were completely
,upefied when it was given, and the
silence which prevailed in the room
and the way men turned pale and
caught their breath was more impress
sive than any other manifestation could
have been.
MaitIe Demange sank back in his
chair and the tears trickled down his
cheeks. and Maitre Labori turned
white as sheet. while all round the
court men looked at each other in 81
lence. The only sound to be heard was
the rustling of paper from the report
ers' bench, as each press representative
tried to be first to send the news.
AS the audience left the courtroom.
fully 10 OF / s men were crying openly.
and the majority Of those present
walked quietly down the street 70,
more than block without speaking
werd. . 1t was like funeral prOces-
sion.
Meanwhile. a tragedy was being en-.
room. where Dreyfus listened to the
reading OF the verdict. He had been
told the result by his lawyers. and had
Wept bitterly, but when in the pi essence
of the officials of the court-martial.
he listened mpassiyely to the sem
tence.
His wife, who was waiting in tor.
ture and suspense at her house, bore
the news bravery, and when visiting
her husband this afternoon showed the
onlookers who were in the streets nc
signs of her sufferings as she walked
from her carriage to the prison.
Matthew Dreyfus was not present In
court this afternoon, but visited hiP
brother after the verdict had been
rendered. He found him perfectly
calm and without any manifestation OF
surprise at the finding of the court.
The prisoner simply shrugged his
shoulders. uttering an expressive
"Bahr' adding, as he embraced his
brother as the latter was preparing to
leave. Console my wife,"
The. general belief is that Dreyfus
will be pardoned; but this will not
safety his friends. who vehemently de-
clare that they will refuse to accept
the verdict, and will continue the bat.
tie sntil the judgment is reversed.
The verdict. they say. is directed more
against the Jews than against Dreyfus,
and if allowed to stand will make their
existence in France impossible.
Maitre Labori and Maitre Demange
took the midnight train for Paris.
They drove to the station in closed
carriage, escorted by four mounted
gendarmes. The road was practically
deserted, and no demonstration oc
Cured en- route or at the station.
Maitre Demange and Maitre Labori
will tomorrow sign an application for
a revision of the case. although there
is no hope that the verdict will be re.
versed. Both are much upset. though
it can hardly be said that they are sur
prlsed.