Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1899-08-24
HIS FATE NAY Be FIXED
The Verdict in the Dreyfus Court
Martial at Rennes Said to
Be Predetermined.
IT WILL PROBABLY BE ONE OF GUILTY..
The Form 1t Will Assume,s However,.
Will Mean Freedom for the Prfs-
oner-Gen. MERCER Makes State
ment Expressing Confidence in a.
ConyictiOu.

Chicago, Aug. 21.-The Tribune's spe--
cial from Rennes says: According to
statements communicated from such,
an exceptional source as to carry I'M
usual presumption Of truth, the SEN,
tence of Dreyfus is already decided
upon. He will be found guilty of dis
culinary indiscretions, for which he
will be sentenced to five years imprls-;
onment. As he has served this term OF
sentence the practical result will be
that he will be set free and take his Po--
sition in the army as captain en- re-
forme, without pay or emoluments, and
any career in the active army will be
closed to him.
MERCER Is Confident.
Rennes, Aug. 21.-Gen. MERCER, who
was minister of war when Capt. Drey-
fus was condemned, and who in the,
present trial is the virtual prosecutor,
was called upon Sunday afternoon by a
correspondent of the Associated Press.
who invited him to make a statement of
the position of the anti-Dreyfusards.
Although unable to receive the CORE
spondent in person, Gen. MERCER sent
his, oldest son to convey the following
expression of his views:
5''Gen. MERCER considers 1t useless to at
tempt to convert foreign opinion regarding
the Dreyfus question. in which. moreover,
foreigners have no right to intervene. For
eign peoples have been misled by their
press, which is violently Dreyfusard, for
the very good reason that majority of the
foreign newspapers have been bribed by the
Jewish syndicate. Gen. MERCER considers:
anything he might say explaining his po-
sition, which is that of a ma jority of the
French people, would be useless. The best
reply to Dreyfusard statements abroad will
be condemnation of Dreyfus. This con-
demnation is only matter of ten days Or
a fortnight, for condemned Dreyfus GER
tainly will be. Foreigners will then see that
their journals have deceived them, for they
will recognize that the mass of the French
nation, who will receive the news of the
conviction of Dreyfus as joyful tidingS, is.
not composed of officials and that the ma
jority of the French applaud the condemna-
ton, it will be because it is just and mer--
tied"
To Prosecute MERCER.
Paris, Aug. 21.-It is stated that Col.
Schneider, Austrian military attache>
at Paris, will come here from Ems
next Wednesday to prosecute Gen..
MERCER. The latter produced docu--
Inent in the Rennes court purporting
to be a report from Schneider to his
government on Dreyfus. Schneider will
prosecute MERCER for forgery before
the Paris court of assizes. This will be
the severest blow the army has yet re-
ceived. 1t will also smash the verac-
ity of the anti-Dreyfus newspapers,
which have been boasting that Schnei-
der lied in the interest of the triple ALI
ance.
.s Labori Not Present.
Rennes,. Aug. p. - The Dreyfus.
court-martial reconvened this Mon
day. morning at the usual hour. Maitre,
Labor was not present. His doctors
considered that it would be inadvisable
for him to attempt to take part in to-
days proceedings, in view of the dan
ra,. pf