The Springfield herald., 1899-09-15
DREYFUS CONDEMNED
INJUSTICE OF COWARDLY
JUDGES.
Say He Is Guilty and Sentence Him to Ten
Years In Prison-Aimo.t Universal Con-
demnAtion of the Verdict.

Years In Prison-Almoat Universal Con.
! demnAtion of the Verdict.
Reuues. Sept 1O.-The expected has
happened. Dreyfus has been condemn
| ed, but a majority of those in the
I court room yesterday afternoon fully
[ expected the verdict. They We're COM
pletely stupefied when it was given,
and the silence which prevailed in the
room and the way men turned pale
and caught their breaths was more i'm
pressive than any other manifestation
could have been.
Maitre Demange sank back in his
chair and tears trickled down his
checks and Maitre Labori turned white
as a sheet, while all around the court
men looked Mt each other in silence.
| Positively the only sound to be heard
| was the rustling OF papers from the re-
porters' benches as each press repre-
sentative tried to be first to send the
news.
AS the audience left the court room
| fully ten or fifteen We're crying openly
and the majority of those present
walked quietly down the street for
more than block without speaking
word 1t was like funeral process
sion.
Meanwhile Il tragedy was being en-
acted in the little room of the court
room, where Dreyfus listened TO the
reading of the verdict. He had been
told the result by his lawyers, and had
wept bitterly, bur when in the pres
ence of the officials of the court mar
tial he listened impassively to the SEN
tence.
His wife. who was waiting i'll torture
and suspense at her house. bore the
news bravely and when visiting her
husband showed the onlookerS who
were In the streets no sign of her suf-
fering as she walked from her car
riage to the prison.
The general belief is that Dreyfus
will be pardoned; but this will not sat
isfy his friends, who vehemently de-
clare that they will refuse to accept
the verdict and will continue the bat
tie until the Judgment is 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.
Labori will sign an application for
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 We're
surprised.
lO-uaS pTeNl uS SSiiu. hLi hot uh-
easy regarding myself, as l shall soon
be free, but l think of you and my
poor children. They will be branded
as the children of a traitor"
He is convinced that the ten years
Imprisonment to which he has been
sentenced will be wiped out by the five
years of solitary seclusion he has un-
dergone on Devils Island and he ex-
poets to be released by October Is,
which Will be five years from the date
of his former condemnation. Others
do not accept this view, but believe
that Dreyfus will have to serve a ten
years sentence unless the government
interferes.
London. Sept lit would be diff
ficult to describe adequately the indig-
nation the verdict of the Dreyfus
court martial has evoked everywhere
in England. The excitement in the
Jewish quarters in London is only nat
ural Special prayers were offered
throughout London Saturday in all
the synagogues on behalf Of Dreyfus.
and as soon as the verdict was known
Jews and Jewesses We're seen on ev-
cry street corner expressing execra-
tion and many sobbing bitterly.
At the music halls and especially the
Palace theater. where the cinemato-
graph pictures of the incidents and
leading actors of the Dreyfus affair
were exhibited. the news was greeted
with groans and hisses. In the French
quarter of London there was much ex
element accompanied by street fight
ing.
In almost all the places of public
worship pulpit references were made
to the verdict. Canon Scott-Holland,
at st. Paurs Cathedral. said:
tc wi
at the Judgment bar. All civilization
Is waiting to know whether to-mor
rows news may add anything to quail
ify the naked cruelty Of bare tele-
gram, anything to relieve the stag
gered consciences."
Berlin, Sept. 1.-THE Dreyfus yer,
dict causes a feeling Of almost stupe
faction at Berlin. 1t had been hoped
that the statement of the ReichanZei-
ger. as emanating directly from EN-
peror William, would have rendered
impossible the repetition of what is
described as lone of the greatest ju-
dicial and political crimes of any
age"
1t is universally agreed that the sec
ond verdict is grave political blum
der. n violation of the laws of cviIiza.
ton and an act Of moral cowardice
which the world will find it difficult
to pardon. The German press unani-
mously describes the verdict as cow
ardly and impolitic. not to say GRIM
inal.
Paris. Sept. 10. 900 p. m-The day
has been one of absolute quiet. with
no public excitement. even in the Rue
de Chabrol. There was n rainfall this
afternoon and the streets were practi-
cally deserted.
Slight disturbances occurred yester-
day at Marseilles and Belfort after the
verdict of the Dreyfus conrt.narti