The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1899-09-14
One Of the Most Famous Trials of
the Century Comes to
a Close.
The VERDICT WAS NOT UNEXPECTED.
The Courts Conclusion Was Not Unani.
nous, Standing Five to Two
Against the Prisoner.
He Expects to He Released by October 8,
Five Years From the Date of Former
Condemnation-That Also 10 the
Opinion of Several Attorneys

1Ounu Rullty.
The courts verdict sentences Drey.
fus to ten years imprisonment in fort
ress. The court found extenuating
circumstances
Five judges voted for conviction and
two against. During the reading of
Athe verdict absolute silence prevailed
in the courtroom.
The socialists are particularly bitter.
and the excitement engendered by the
presence of their leaders is growing
hourly.
RENNEs. Sept 11.-Dreyfus has borne
the terrible shock with marvellous
fortitude, one might almost say with
unnatural calm. Saturday he seemed
stupefied when Maitre Labori COM
municated to him the verdict. but he
has since rallied. He passed quiet
night and arose when his orderly
brought him water at 5 o'clock Sunday
morning, just as he did during the
trial when it was necessary.
Madame Dreyfus and Matthew Drey-
fus, his brother, visited him during the
course of the afternoon. his brother
subsequently leaving for Paris The
application to the court of revision was
taken to him At noon by Maitre Lab
ori's ASSISTANT and he signed it. Sum
day he spoke but little, though he has
seemed in better spirits than might
have been anticipated. The meeting
rith his vile was naturally very af-
fecting, but both held up as well as
possible. He said to her: 81 am not
uneasy regarding myself as I shall
soon be free, but think of you and
my poor children. They will be brand
ed As the children Of a traitor"
He is convinced that the ten years
imprisonment to which he is sentenced
will be wiped out by the five years of
solitary seclusion he has undergone on
DEVILS island, and he expects to be re-
leased by October Is, which will be
i've years from the date of his former
condemnation. He is SO sanguine that
he has made an extraordinary request
of his wife for novel to read in the
meantime, explaining that his mind is
$50 shaken and weighed down by re-
cent 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 read
ing a novel will afford the desired
mental repose and keep him from
brooding.
The town Sunday was perfectly
calm. There was not sign of a dem
onstration nor a cry for or against
Dreyfus or the Jews heard anywhere.
A number of people gathered to see
Mime. Dreyfus visit the prison, but they
were quite respectful.
The troops and masses of gendarmes
who Saturday gave the center of
Rennes the appearance of military
Acamp have completely vanished. There
are hardly any gendarmes in sight ex-
cept near the Dreyfus residence where
few are posted.
So far as can be ascertained military
men are perfectly satisfied with the
verdict which they interpret as safe
guarding the honor of the army and
at the same time doing an act of mercy
for Dreyfus who, they say, has suffi-
! GENTLY expiated his crime in the awful
existence he passed on DEVILS Island.
They point out that even if he is sent
to Fort Corte it will be to receive
henceforth the humane treatment he
has experience since his return to
France. One strange fact is
the extraordinary difference of opinion
respecting the exact effect of the judg-
ment-whether he can be degraded
again, and whether the five years soli-
tary confinement he has undergone
will be regarded as equivalent to the
ten years detention to which he is now
sentenced and he will be released
next month. This matter is quite
aside from the general impression that
he will be pardoned in a few days by
President Loubet, who will find some
ground to exercise clemcncy.
Maitre Demange thinks the five years
will count for nothing and that Drey-
>&as, according to law, will have to
affer ten years detention. Many 9TH
ers, however, including several law
yers hold a contrary opinion and de-
clare that he will be released in Octo-
gber.
A correspondent Sunday afternoon
Iinterrogated M. Coupois, the clerk of
the court-martial, on this point. He
was most emphatic in declaring that
lDreyfus must serve 10 years from the
date of a fresh degradation, the court
martial having considered the case as
beginning when Dreyfus appeared be-
fore them, disregarding altogether his
previous sentence.
Cernegies y Can didate for Parliamsnt.
LONDON, Sept. s.-Andrew Carnegie,
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