The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-09-09
GUILTY.
Captain Dreyfus Is Convicted a
Second Time
On the Charge of Treason
Against France.
TEN YEARS IN PRISON
Sentence Is Lightened by Miti-
eating Circumstances.
Judges Stood Five to Two For
Conviction.
Verdict Received With Cheers
For the Army.
A POWERFUL APPEAL
For Justice Made by the Ac-
cused's Counsel
Was Utterly Thrown Away
A POWERFUL APPEAL
For Justice Made by the Ac-
eused's Counsel
Was Utterly Thrown Away
Upon the Court.

Rennes. Sept. 500 p m.-The
judges have returned a verdict of guilty
against Captain Dreyfus.
The crowd outside greeted the YER
dict with cheers for the army.
The prisoner was sentenced to ten
years Imprisonment.
The court found extenuating cir
cumstances.
The ringing of a bell announced the
entry of the judges. An officer ordered
Garry arms and Present arms" the
rattle of rifles followed and then Col.
Jouaust marched in, saluted and laid
his zepi on the table. The other judges
did likewise. the gen d'armes shouted
silence" and the stiffness of death fell
on the audience who were waiting
heart in mouth for the announcement
of Dreyfus' fate.
Col. Jouaust then began reading the
Judgment which opened with the ques-
tion referred to the judges by the court
of cessation, Was Dreyfus guilty of
entering into Vaccinations to send
secret documents to a foreign pOwer?'
He then gave the answer, that the
court by a majority of 8 to found
Dreyfus guilty.
The silence was Immediately broken
by a rush of the reporters to drop their
previously prepared kilograms into the
letter box opening into the street where
a gen d'armes received them and gave
them to the respective messengers for
transmission by wire.
The noise called forth a stern cry of
silence; silence and again all sound
was hushed until Col. Jouaust finished
speaking. He concluded by saying the
court would remain sitting until the
room was cleared. He asked the
audience to go out quietly and not to
raise a shout OF any sort
The gen d'armes then closed around
the audience and pressed them outside.
Not a cry or word was raised by any
one. Everything passed off with COM
plete calm.
AS people wedged the gen d'armes
kept them moving from the court. The
small crowd of people outside cheered
for the army but the gen d'armes did
not interfere and there was not the
slightest disorder.
DREYFUS GIVES NO SIGN.
The judgment was read to Dreyfus
in an adjoining little room by the clerk
of the court, N Coupois. Dreyfus lis
slightest sign of emotion. did not utter
a word. and marched back to prison
like an autOmaton.
1t is understood Dreyfus will be sent
to Fort Corte in the Island of Corsica.
A large crowd, which the police kept
moving. waited around the square in
which the telegraph Office and the prin-
cipal cafes are situated. When the
people learned the court had been out
an hour. it was argued that this meant
a disagreement in favor of Dreyfus-
The first indication to these watchers
that a result had been reached was
when a soldier on a bicycle came tear
ing along as fast as ne could from the
Lycee towards the artillery barracks
The soldiers and gen d'armes keeping
the streets sat up in their saddles and
watched the bicyclist as long as he re-
mained in sight This orderly was dis
patched before the court returned. and
another five or ten minutes elapsed be-
fore the army of reporters and messen-
gers on foot and on bicycles came in a
wave up the street and in a minute the
telegraph office was a pandemonium.
1t was literally packed with men and
women. all struggling towards the two
little windows where the dispatches. j
We're received.
In the meanwhile the news of the
condemnation of Dreyfus had filtered
out to the crowd, but it produced no
excitement.
The votes were taken separately be
ginning by the inferior grade and the
youngest in the last grade. the presi-
dent Of the court having to give his
opinion last. The decision of the court
was as follows:
The court declares on the question by
a majority of votes to .. Yes The
accused is guilty. The majority agreed
that there are extenuating circum-
stances in consequence of which and
on the request of the commissary of the
government the president put the ques-
tion and received again votes in the
above mentioned form
- result the court condemns by a