The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-09-10
THE NEWS IN PARIS.
Extra Editions OF the Newspapers
Torn from the Vendors Hands.

Extra Editions OF the Newspapers
Torn from the Vendors Hands.
PARIS, Sept. 9.-From an early hour the
boulevards presented an unwonted scene
OF animation. The crowds eagerly seized
upon the successive editions of the various
papers giving hourly accounts Of the prog
ress Of the trial at Rennes. The police. al
though considerably reinforced, were lost
among the swaying masses parading the
streets. Large bodies Of police were kept
at various points in the vicinity of the bou-
levards and mounted and foot municipal
guards patrolled the main thoroughfares.
At O'Clock this evening every available
cafe seat on the boulevards was occupied
and minor scuffies were frequent
At about o'clock the Gaulois exhibited
To an enormous crowd placard on which
the words ''Vive FArmee," which indicated
that the verdict was anti-Dreyfus. The an
nouncement was greeted with deep mum
nounced that Dreyfus had been condemned
10 Imprisonment for life. The editions were
absolutely torn from the hands of the vend-
ions favorable 10 the prisoner. The masses
were undoubtedly hostile to Dreyfus. But
in private circles the verdict was criticised
In strong terms.
The anti-revisionists continued to issue
editions suppressing the fact that Dreyfus
was condemned to only ten years OF de-
tention-
In the presence of the extraordinary SEN
tence IL Is believed the tribunal recognized
the prisoners innocence but was afraid OF
the generals and public opinion and that as
Dreyfus had suffered five years cellular
Imprisonment, which in France counts for
double he will be Immediately released.
As this dispatch is sent the excitement
was wearing and the people were leaving
the boulevards.
The anti-Dreyfus newspapers mere re-
ceived CONTEMPORARY the statement pub
ushed yesterday in the official portion OF
the Berlin Reichzanzeiger concerning the
The Echo de Paris says: The German
government has made last effort to save
the traitor
will attach the same Importance TO the
statement as it would to declaration by
Dreyfus himself
1t is asserted here that Colonel Jouaust.
the president of the court-martial at
Rennes, in replying to dispatch from the
minister OF war, the Marquis De Gallifet,
case until Monday said that he took orders
from nobody, and that Judgment would be
given to-day
emphatically denying that General De Gal
lifet the minister of war, had rendered his
resignation, and saying that proceedings
would be taken against the paper for pub
fishing the report.
The bouIevards this evening presented an
animated scene, but on the whole the
Rsnnes verdict was calmly discussed. After
dinner crowds collected in front of the
offices of the Libre Parole, which were IL
Illuminated with che p Venetian lanterns. A
started to sing the .'MarseiIlaise," and then
formed procession, which the police soon
dispersed. and the leaders Of which were ar
rested and taken TO the station. By II
o'clock the bouievards were deserted.
The representative of the Associated Press
here learns ON good authority that one OF
the members of the Cabinet to-day told a
friend that Dreyfus would probably not
have TO undergo further Imprisonment, and
that If he was sent to prison, his place OF
confinement would probably be the Island
of ST. Marguerite, near Canas, where Mar
shall Bazaine was incarcerated. and whence
he escaped.
ment's attitude toward the court-martial
rendered the president and members of that
body indisposed TO accept the instructions
and limitation given at the outset Of the
court-martial proceedings, and that the sub
sequent request sent to Major Carriere, the
governments commissioner at the trial, to
confine himself TO the limits laid down by
the Court of Cessation, and finally the re-
quest that the verdict be delayed until Mon
day. stiffened the backbone of Colonel
Jouaust, who replied that he would not re-
ceive orders from any one, and thereupon
closed the case.
Nj. Clemenceau, In the Aurore. says Col.
stan and that between Dreyfus and MERCER
he selected Mercier. The affair, declares
M. Clemenceau, was scandalously conduct
ed Major Carriere's contention that the
prisoner had failed to prove his innocence
enabled the court to convict the prisoner
without the evidence of the petit bleu. He
also says he pities the men who by their
sentence inflicted an outrage and showed
the most culpable weakness. Members OF
the tribunal, NJ. Clemenceau asserts, were
convinced that DreyfuS was innocent, but
were anxious to extend extenuating circum-
stances TO MERCER and to other generals.
NJ. Cornelli, in the Figaro, holds that the
verdict. by reducing the original term OF
imprisonment, shows that the campaign for
revision was legitimate. NJ. Cornelli adds
that he believes that when Colonel Jouaust
refused TO hear Colonel SchwartZkoppen,
former German military attache in Paris,
and Colonel Panizzardi, the Italian military
attache. the president of the court GER
tain of Dreyfus's innocence. The tribunal
hesitated between Dreyfus and MERCER. and
replied neither yes nor no. If Dreyfus is
guilty he should have received a penalty
for the aggravating instead OF leniency fol-
the extenuating circumstances Nj. Cor
nelli concludes by declaring that it is de-
plorable to see judges make common cause
with the generals who saved Esterhazy and
the injury which this will in the end infiict
on the army.
The Socialist groups met this evening and
passed resolutions protesting against the
Rennes verdict and declaring their deter.
animation to continue the struggle for the
protection of republican liberty.
Reports received at the Ministry Of the