The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-10
AWFUL ORDEAL AGAIN
Condemned Dreyfus Will Once
More Be Publicly Degraded.
PARADED IN DISGRACE
STRIPES TO. BE TORN OFF AND
SWORD BROKEN.
Then He Will Be Transported, Not to
DEVILS Island, But to a Fortress
On Continental Territory of the
Rspublic-Tragic Closing Scenes
of the Trial.

| Chicago, Sept. "a special cable to
the Chicago Tribune from Rennes says:
The tragedy is ended. For a second
time Alfred Dreyfus has been pro-
nounced guilty of treason and SEN
fenced to Imprisonment. For a. second
time be must pass through the ordeal of
degradation.
Inc scene of Jan. Is, 1895, is to be re-
peated, with this difference: This
Tune DreyfuS is to be paraded in dis
grace before the Tenth army corps and
then transferred, not to barren island
IN tropical sea, but to a fortress on
continental territory of the republic.
me Verdlct OF guilty was pronounced
Two minutes after this afternoon The
court stood five for condemnation and
TWO for acquittal. The two votes for
the innocence of the accused are said
70 nave been by Major de Breon and
Captain Beauvais
Dreyfus listened to the reading, of the
verdict with an inlpassive countenance.
lie mas borne up we'll under the strain
of the last few days. and had evidently
nerved himself for the climax.
Madame Dreyfus, while Frustrated
with grief when she learned of the re-
suit, has lost none of her courage. She
VIII make a final appeal to President
Loubet. and, that failing, she will claim
her rights under French law to share
her husbands imprisonment.
Received With CaImness.
The verdict has been received here
in Rennes with unexpected caImness.
Ihe army is, of course, jubilant and the
Dreyfusards depressed, but aside from
a few scufifes there has been no vio-
lence. At IL o'clock tonight large
crowds of people friendly to the army
are on the streets shouting "Vive
Parmee!" cheering the officers and sing
ing the "Marseillaise There are many
shouts of Down with the Jews." but
SO far the exuberance of the anti-Drey-
fusards is wasted in breath and has not
led to blows.
AS a precautionary measure, squad
rons OF cavalry are drawn up in line
everywhere and the gen d'armes are
kept busy pressing the crowds and
keeping them moving. But the demon
STATIONS so far tonight are simply the
manifestations of hiiarity. What the
future has in store is yet to be revealed.
The closing scenes III the last act of
the Dreyfus drama We're marked by
nervous haste. The court assembled at
7:3O this morning. Maitre Demange
concluded his address at f1:35. and the
court took recess until 3 .. M Ten
minutes. after 3 o'clock the judges re-
tired and at 500 p. m. they publicly
announced their verdict. 1t was over
and Drayfus is again condemned
traitor in his cell, waiting for the deg
radiation.
Will Be Degraded Again.
The ceremony Of degradation will be
performed in Rennes on the Champs
Mars before the Tenth army corps. The
code provides that it must
take place before the army corps whose
pronounced the sentence.
The ceremony will be public. The troops I
gather. and with the roll of drums and
the call of the bugle. the prisoner will |
be led to the middle of the field. The !
order will be read and sergeant will |
then tear the buttons and stripes from |
his uniform and break his sword, and |
Dreyfus, disgraced and ruined, will be /
outside the army forever.
A protest against the verdict was |
signed tonight by Jaures, Basch, La |
bori, Demange and all other prominent |
friends of Dreyfus.
This is the beginning of the reaction.
The nationalist party is likely to come
INTO power. The army triumphs Mer- |
,ier was right in his prediction that t
many people will be asked to cross the
frontier. President Loubet himself
IiuSl Suuiiilt, DcCduSe NE SdlQ In his
speech at Ramboullet few days ago
hat the verdict at Rennes must be /
inal, because no society could exist I
without respect for the DEGREES of JUS
ice.
Zola's Fate Sealed.
deline's star rises brilliantly over the +
lorizon and he will probably be the
lext premier. Zola's fate is sealed.
His sentence at his next trial in No
Tember will surely be condemnation,
md he must leave the country or. serve
prison sentence. His opera will re-
main unSung.
1t is worth while to go back over the
lays events in detail, to note the in
idents which made up the closing act
f the drama in which Dreyfus is both
ZERO and victim. The stage setting was
,istinctiyely for tragedy
The scene this morning reminded one
f a siege. Troops were everywhere,
heir brilliant uniforms lending color
nd their arms bristling braveiy in the
uHlight. Anxious, haggard-faced men
nd women made their way slowly to
he lycee through streets which APP