The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-09-20
Dreyfus May Have Already
Left the Prison.
HE MAY GO TO ENGLAND
The Pardon of Dreyfus Does not End This Dra-
ma. The Dreyfusards viii Continue
the Campaign Until his Per
secutors are Punish
ed. The Death
Of schuerer-
kesfner.

Paris, Sept 19-The council of Min
listers decided today to pardon Dreyfus
i'm principle The pardon Will take effect
in few days.
Dreyfus has relinquished his appeal for
a reversal of the Judgment of the court
martial.
The announcement that Dreyfus was
to be pardoned had already been dis
counted by predictions and there was
absolutely no excitement displayed any
where along the boulevards when the
newsboys ram along at 3:15 p. m. with
the first editions containing the state
ment that the Cabinet had decided to
pardon Dreyfus.
The Droits Del'Homane the Social
lsts' organ, said:
Our task remains the same as be-
fore the liberation of Dreyfus, to con-
timue the campaign against ali those
who are responsible for the lamentablh
affair and lnmask the forgers and trait
ors. even though they may be covered
with glittering decorations"
In principle" as an idiom sometimes
used in semi-official announcements of
forthcoming action. 1t seems to have
but slight bearing ON the matter cxccpr,
perhaps, that it implies the fnlhllment
of various formalities before the pardon
is actually issued, thereby qualifying the
announcement of the pardon with slight
teqrtativeness. 1T is not known yet
whether the pardon includes amnesty.
l1le official announcement was made in
- A
in order to avoid demonstrations of any
kind at Rennes and Paris. But, the par
don of Dreyfus lis not merely imminent,
it was actually signed this morning.
Measures have been taken in Rennes in
connection with it.
The newspapers now publish the first
semi official announcement of the Cabi-
nets decision without comment.
The journal des Debats, howes -,
says:
1--WE are assured that the family will
receive an order for Dreyfus to .eave
Rennes, unperceiyed, shortly, during he
night time. The Government does not
know, or in any case does not say where
Dreyfus is going.
The Journal des Debats, however,
follows the foregoing with the report that
adame Drey'fls has taken a villa at
Folkestone, near Dover, England. This
report has been denied, but many he
Ieve Dreyfus will go to England on his
release, which may take place tonight
The result of telephone Enquiry at
Rennes this afternoon shows Dreyfus
has not yet left his prison.
1t is said that Dreyfus win be sent
abroad, before the PRONUNCIATION of MS
pardon, in order to avoid demonstra-
tIons.
There is much remark here on the
strange coincidence of the death OF NJ.
Schelprea.- X esther the first champiol of
Dreyfus and to whom Dreyfus will yir-
fually owe his freedom, ON the very
day the Cabinet decided to pardon the
prisoner.
NJ. Scheurer- Kestner's death was sud
den. He had been III during the last few
days, but it was mot Thought that has Ill
ness would prove fatal.
Pardoning Dreyfus does not drop the
curtain on the drama. The Drcyfus-
ards are determined to pursue the cam
paign against the generals and other
officers of the general staff who have
aied and committed gross illegalities, to
keep the door closed ON the victim.
The Aurore, the leading organ of the
Dreyfasard body, will tomorrow Wed
nesday) publish an article in this sense
by Francis De Pressonz, the distinguish
ed journalist, who from the first was a
leader in the revision movement.
The writer says:
If the President, by pardoning prey-
fus, wished to- spare France the iIlef-
faceable shame of judicial crime, this
exercise of his prerogatiye called mercy.
so far from impairing the necessary
work of justice, will only prepare and
facilitate it. If it was imagined that
immunity for criminals could be pur-
chased by pardoning an innocent man;
if it was thought that the friends of Law
would barter amnesty to the scoundrels
who perpetrated those crimes for the
bruised body of the man from whom they
have torn out the soul, then we throw
from us this degrading and deceitfu of
fer. Dreyfus would be the first to re-
ject as an infamy such traffic with his
honor No. The pardoning of Dreyfus