The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1899-09-15
AGAIN FOUND GUILTY
Dreyfus Sentenced to Ten
Years In Prison.
MAY SOON BE GIVEN HIS FREEDOM.
The Prisoner FerventIy Declared His
InnOcence-Bears the DisnDpOint-
ment BraveIy - Result Meets
With Great Condemnation.


RENNES, Sept. 11.-As has already
been announced to the world, Captain
Alfred Dreyfus, charged with furnish
ing French state secrets to a foreign
power, has been condemned for a second
time by court martial. This verdict was
reached on Saturday at 3 p. M, after
two hours deliberation, and sentence,
Immediately pronounced, was 'ten years.
imprisonment"
The text of the judgment is as follows:
To-day, the 9th of September, 1899,
the court martial of the Tenth Region
Army corps, celebrating behind closed
doors, the president put the following
question:
SIS Alfred Dreyfus, brevet captain,
Fourteenth regiment of artillery, proba-
toner on the general staff, guilty of hav-
ing in 1894 entered into Vaccinations or
held relations with a foreign power or
one of its agents to induce it to commit
hostility or undertake war against
France, or procure it the means therefor
by delivering the notes and documents
mentioned in the document called the
bordereau, according to the decision of
the court of cessation of June 3, 1899?
The votes were taken separately, be-
ginning by the inferior grade and young
est in the last grade, the president hav-
ing given his opinion last. The court de-
cares on the question by a majority OF
five votes to two Yes, the accused is
guilty The majority agreed that there
are eXtenuating circumstances, in conse-
quence 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.
Gas a result the court condemns, by a
majority of 5 votes to 2, Alfred Drey-
fus to the punishment of ten years. de-
tention."
Maitre Labor heard the verdict with a
pallid visage, while Maitre Demange
fell back in a chair as though horror
stricken. Colonel Jouaust read the judg-
ment without tremor of his voice and
apparently unmoved.
Dreyfus to the last protested his inno-
cence in reply to the president of the
court:
81 affirm before my country and before
the army that | am innocent. My sole
aim has been to savesthe honor of my
name, the name borne by my children.
l have suffered five years of the most
awful torture. But today, at least, 1 feel
assured that / am about to attain my de-
sire through your loyalty and justice"
Dreyfus has borne the terrible shock
with marvellous fortitude, one might al
most say with unnatural calm. Saturday
he seemed stupefed when Maitre Labori
communicated to him the verdict, but he
has since rallied. He passed a quiet
night, and he rose when his orderly
brought him water at 5 o'clock Sunday
morning, just as he did during the trial
when it was necessary.
He is convinced that the ten years inn
.prisonneat to which he is sentenced- Mill
be wiped out by the FIVE years Of solitary
seclusion he has undergone on DEVILS
island, and he expects to be released by
Oct. Is, which will be five years from
the date of his former condemnation. He
is so sanguine that he has made an eX-
request of his wife for a
novel to read in the meantime, explain
ing that his mind is so shaken and weigh
ed down by recent events that he needs
to divert his thoughts and to try to get
all the recollections of the last three
months out of his mind. He thinks that
reading a novel will afford the desired
mental repose and keep him from brood
ing.
The town yesterday was perfectly
calm. There was no sign of a demonstra-
ton nor a cry for or against Dreyfus or
the Jews heard anywhere. A number Of
people gathered to see Nine. Dreyfus Wis
it the prison, but they were quite respect
full.
Maitre Bemange thinks the five years
will count for nothing and that Dreyfus,
according to law. oil have to suffer ten
years. detention. -dany others, however.
several lawyers, hold con-
trary opinion and declare that he will be
released in October. This as already
,abled, is the belief of Dreyfus himself.
Colonel Jouaust also declared that
Oreyfus must serve ten years; but,
speaking with friends yesterday, he ex-
pressed a conviction that there would
lot be fresh degradation.