Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1899-09-14
CAPT. DREYFUS GUILTY.
VERDICT OF THE RENNES COURT
nARTlAL.
tie Will Have to Serve Only Two
Weeks, and rlay be Pardoned
at Once.

RENNEs, Sept o.-Following is the
decision in the Dreyfus case:
The court declares on the question,
by ma jority of votes to 2, Eyes
the accused is guilty" The majority
agreed that there are eXtenuating cir
cumstances, in consequence of Which,
and on the request of the commissary
of the government, the president put
the question and received again the
votes In the above mentioned form
AS a result, the court condemns, by a
majority of s votes to 9, Alfred Drey-
fus to the punishment of ten years
detention.
The pent-up feelings of the audienc e
were expressed in a long, deep-drawn
oh" when Colonel Jouaust reached
the word guilty" The word was
pronounced under his breath. Owing
to the threat of vigorous punishment
for uttering any cry, there was no
outburst, but the faces Of the major
ity of the spectators reflected an ex-
preston of anguished surprise. M.
Labori heard the verdict with pallid
visage, while NJ. Demange fell back
in chair as though horror-stricke en-.
Colonel Jouaust read the judgment
without a tremor of his voice, and APP
parently unmoved.
The gendar mes then closed around
the audience and pressed them out
side. Not cry or word was raised
by anyone. Everything passed off
with complete calm. AS the people
emerged the gendarmes kept them
moving away from the court. A
small crowd outside cheered for the
army, but the gendarmes did not IN
terfere and there was not the slight
est disorder
The judgment was read to Drey fus
in an adjoining room by the clerk of
the court, Coupois. Dreyfus listened
impassively and did not give the
slightest sign of emotion, and did not
utter word, and marched back to
prison like an automaton.
1t is reported that as Dreyfus has
been condemned to ten years deten-
ton and as he has already suffered
five years solitary imprisonment, which
counts as double the ordinary deten-
ton, he will be released at the end Of
a fortnight. In the meantime, unless
the president of the republic pardons
him, which many think certain as be-
ing the only solution of the present
situation, Dreyfus will have to be de-
graded here again within eight days.
There were attempts at rioting last
night, but the gendarmes promptly
suppressed the agitators.
PARIS Sept. enlightenment in Paris
was great when the Dreyfus verdict
was announced, but the police kept
the crowds moving and prevented riot
ing. In the presence of the extraor-
binary sentence it is believed the tn
bunal recognized the prisoners inno-
cence, but was afraid of the generals
and public opinion, and that as Drey-
fus has suffered five years, cellular
imprisonment, which in France counts
for double, he will be Immediately re-
leased.
M. Clemenceau, in the Aurore, says
Col. Jouausts object was to save the
general staff, and that between Drey-
fus and MERCER he chose Mercier.
The affair, declares M. Clemenceau,
was scandalously conducted. Mem
bers of the tribunal, NJ. Clemenceau
asserts, were convinced that Dreyfus
was innocent, but were anxious to
extend extenuating circumstances to
MERCER and to other generals.
M. Cornely, in the Figaro,
holds that the judgment, by re-
ducing the original term of
Imprisonment, shows that the cam
paign for revision was legitimate.
The tribunal hesitated between Drey-
Jus and MERCER, and replied neither
yes nor no. If Dreyfus is guilty he
should have received penalty for the
aggravating instead of leniency for the
extenuating circumstances.