The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-09-11
BROWNING
CRIME OF THE
CENTURY.
The convistion oil Dreyf1s BY The
Most Partial Court Of the
Worlds History.
S0HR VERY AFFFCTINGSCENES
Ia Court When the Verdict WAS
MISUNDERSTANDING Men Shed
Many Tears Over It.

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LONDON, sept. io.2A special dis
match from Berlin lays:
ut Is now permitted to Do known
that the war once holds documents
Soncluslyely proving that Esterhazy
and Henry betrayed their trusts, and
only the permission Of Emporor will-
ian.ia awaited for the publication Of
d6euments showing the sentence OF
Dreyfus to be abrutal act Of lntus-
tiee."
RENNES Sept. 1.-THE expected has
happeaed. Dreyfus has been con-
.danned, and sentenced to ten years
imprisonment. Though a majority OF
those in the court room on yestsrday
fully expected the verdict, they were
completely stupsfed when 1t was given,
ana the silence which prevailed in the
room and the way men turned pale and
caught their breathS was more impress
Gve than any other manifestation
could have been.
Maire Demanee sank back in his
chair. and tears tricAled down his
cheeks, and Aiaitre Labor turned white
as a sheet while all around the court
room men looked at each other in sic
ience. Positively the only sound to'be
heard was the rustling of papers from
the reporters bench. as each press
representative tried to be FIRST to send
the news.
As the audience leH the court room
fully ten or fifteen men were crying
openly, and the majority Of them
present walked quietly down the street
FOL, more than block without speak
ing word. 1t was like a funeral
procession. Meanwhile tragedy was
being enacted in the little room on from
the court room, where Dreyfus listened
to the reading Of the verdict. He had
been told the result by his lawyers, and
wept bitterly, but when Ia the pres
ence OF the officials Of the court mar
tial, he listened impasstveiy to the
sentence.
His wife. who was waiting in tor
ture and suspense at her house. bore
the news bravely, and when visiting her
husband In the afternoon showed the on
lockers who were in the streets no sign
OF her suffering as she walked from
her carriage to the prison.
Matthew Dreyfus was not present in
court in the afternoon. but visited his
brother after the verdict had been rem
dered. He found him perfectly calm,
and without any manifestation OF sur
prise at the finding of the court. The
prisoner simply shrugged his shoulders,
utterfng an expressive BAH, adding,
as he embraced his brother as the lat
ter was preparing to leave, Console
my wife"
The general belief Is that DreyfuS
will be pnrdoDed; but this will not sat
isfy his friends, who vehemently de-
clare that they viii refuse to accept
the verdict, and will continue the bait
tie until the Judgment Is reversed. The
verdict, they say, is directed more
against the Jews than against Dreyfus,
and, II allowed to stand. will make
their existence in France impossible.
AIaitre Labor and Maitre Demange
took the midnight train to Paris. They
drove to the station In closed carr
riage, escorted by four mounted gen
darmes. The road was practically de!
serted, and no demonstration occurred
en- route or at the station. Maitre
Demange and Naitre Laborl will to.
morrow sign an application for a re-
vision OF the case, although there Is no
hope that the verdict will be reversed.
Both are much upset, though It can
hardly be said that they are SUR
prised.
PARIS, Sept. 1O.-The boulevard last
evening presented an animated scene,
but on the whole the Rcnnes verdict
was calmly discussed, After dinner
crowds collected in front Of the ofIices
Of the Libre Parole, which we're Hum
mated with cheap Venetian lanterns.
A number of felloTA In neIghbortng
cafe started to sing the MarseIllaise.
and then formed a procession. which
the police soon dispersed, and the lead
ers Of which were arrested and taken
to the station. BY Il o'clock the boule-
wards were deserted.
The representative il the Associated
Press here learns on good authority
that one of the members Of the cabinet
to-day told a friend that Dreytus prob
ably would not have to undergo fur
Their imprisonment, and that II that he
was sent to prison his place Of conhne-
ment would probably be the Island Of
81. Marguerite, near cannas, where
Marshal Bazalne was tncarcerated, and
thence he escaped.
II. clomeneeau, in the Aurore, says
Colonel Jouaust'B object was to save
the general stnfl. and that between