Omaha daily bee., 1899-09-10
.DREYFUS CONDEMNED
Expected Happens and Unfortunate Captain
is Again Branded Traitor
VOTE STANDS FIVE TO TWO AGAINST HIM
Punishment Melted Out by the Judges is
Ten Years Imprisonment.
PRISONER HEARS HIS DOOM UNMovED
His Devoted Wife Bears Up Very Brsvely
Under the Awful Blow,
CONVICTED MAN MAY YET BE PARDoNtD
HIS Lawyers Leave Rcnncs for Paris
and Will at Once Take Measures
Looking to Revision
of the Case.

RENNES, Sept. 9.--The expected has hap
pened. Dreyfus has been condemned. but
though majority OF those in the court
room this afternoon expected the verdict,
they were completely stupefed when 1t was
given.
The silence which prevailed in the room.
when men turned pale and caught their
breath, was more impressive than any other
manifestation could have been. Maitre
Demange sank back in his chair and tears
triclSled down his cheeks and Maitre La
bori turned white sheet, while all
around the court room looked at each other
in silence. Positively the only sound to be
heard was the rustling of papers from the
reporters benches as each press representa-
tive tried to be first to send the news
AS the audience left the court room fully
ten or fifteen men were crying openly and
the majority Of those present walked quietly
down the street for more than block
without speaking a word. 1t was like a
funeral procession
Dreyfus Hears His Sentence
Meah"niIe Tragedy was being enacted In
the little room off the court room, where
Dreyfus listened to the reading OF the YER
dict. He had been told the result by his
lawyers and had wept bitterly, but when in
the presence OF the officials OF the court
martial he listened impassively to the SEN
tence.
His wife, who was waiting in torture and
ut har ~, 49,
and when visiting her husband this after
noon showed the onlookers who were in the
streets no sigr OF her suffering as she walked
from her carriage to the prison.
Matthew Dreyfus was not present in court
this afternoon, but visited his brother after
the verdict had been rendered. He found
him perfectly calm and without any mani
festation Of surprise at the finding of the
court. The prisoner simply shrugged his
shoulders, uttering an expressive BAH"
adding as he embraced his brother as the
latter was preparing to leave: Console
my wife"
Pardon Looked For.
The general belief Is that Dreyfus will
be pardoned, but this will not satisfy his
will refuse to accept the verdict and will
continue the battle until the judgment La
reversed. The verdict, they say Is directed
more against the Jews than against Drey-
fus, and II allowed to stand will make
their existence in France impossible
Maitre Labori and Maitre Demange took
the midnight train for Paris. They drove
n tha station IL,
by four mounted gendarmes. The road was
practically deserted and no demonstration
occurred en- route or at the station.
Maltre Demange and Maitre Laborl will
tomorrow sign application for revi-
sion of the case, although there is no hope
that the verdict will be reversed. Both
are very much upset. but it cannot be said
that they were surprised
Text of the Judgment.
The text Of the judgment Is as follows;
Today, the 9th of September, 1899. the
court-martial of the Tenth Legion army
corps, celebrating behind closed DOORS the
president put the following question:
rs Alfred Dreyfus, brevet captain, Four
teenth regiment of artillery, probationer on
the general STAFF, guilty of having in 1894 en-
tered into Vaccinations or held relations
induce 1t to commit hostility or undertake
against France or procure IL the means
therefor by delivering the notes and docu-
ments mentioned in the documents called the
bordereau according to the decision of the
court OF cessation of June 3, 1892"
The votes were taken separately, begin
ming by the inferior grade and youngest In
the last grade, the president having given
his opinion last, The court declares on the
question by a majority OF Ave votes to two:
Yes the accused Is guilty"
The majority agreed that there are eI-
tenuating circumstances, in consequence OF
which and on the request OF the commits
sary OF the government the president put
the question and received again the votes
In above mentioned form,
As a result the court condemns by ma
jorty of five votes to two Alfred Dreyfus to
the punishment Of ten years detention.
RENNES, Sept. 9.-The representative OF
the Associated Press here learns on good
authority that one OF the members OF tho
cabinet told a friend that Dreyfus would
probably not have to undergo further i'm
prisonment and that II he was sent TO
prison his place OF confinement would
probably be the island OF st. Marguerite.
near Canas. where Marshal Bazaine was
ncarcerated and thence he escaped.