The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1899-09-14

Route The French Military Tragedy
Concluded.
TEN YEARS IN PRISON
France Is In an Uproar and a Revolution May
Result From the Inhuman Verdict
Stain on the Republic.

The prejudiced, and inhuman court
martial in the case of Capt. Alfred
Dreyfus, on trial at Rennes, charged
with treason to France, Saturday af-
lernoon returned verdict of guilty, |
and had the brazen effrontery to SEN
tence that prosecuted man, whom all
fair minded people everywhere be
lieve to be innocent, to ten years i'm
prlsonment in French hell, to fur
lher be victim of the elf-assumed |
republics cruelty and barbarism.
The text of the judgment given TO
the public by the gilded and despotic
dispensers of justice is as follows.
Today, the 9Th day of Semtember,
1899, the court-martial OF the Tenth
Legion army corps, deliberating be-
hind closed doors, the president put
the following question.
{" Is Alfred Dreyfus, brevet Cap
tain, Fourteenth regiment of artillery,
probalioner on the general staff,
guilty of having in 1894 entered into
Vaccinations or held relations with a
foreign power or one of its agents to
induce it to commit hostility or un-
iertrke war against France, or pro
cure it the means there for by deliver
ing the notes and documents mention
ed in the documents called the Dor
dereau, according to the decision of
the Court Of Cessation of June B,
1899?
s'The votes were taken separately,
beginning by the inferior grade and
youngest in the last grade, the presi-
dent having given his opinion last.
The court declares on the question by
u majority Of five votes to two:
Eyes, the accused is guilty.
"rhe majority agrees that there are
extenualing circumstances in conse
quence of which and on the request
of the commissary of the government,
the president put the question and re-
ceived again the votes in the above
mentioned form.
Gas result the court condemns
by a majority of five votes to two,
Alfred Dreyfus to the punishment o
ten wears detention
There WAS no serious outbreak oi
any thing unusual when the verde
was given out, but there were visible
signs of tremendous reaction.
The condemned man has already
suffered five years solitary imprson
I ment in a den wrapped in French in
humanity and shame, and it is hope'
! and believed that the president vii
, exercise clemency and pardon Drey
fus in a very short time Even if h
shall he pardoned, his friends wi
+ not he content with that They rs
p sert thatthey will refuse to accel
the verdict and will continue the bat
8 tie till it is reversed. They will figh
r. it bitterly.
While this verdict was general
4 expected, under the circumstances
:. those in the court room at the time
!. was rendered were stupefied when
:. was given out AS the large crow
"a filed out of the room it had the al
"a pearance of funeral procession
Capt Dreyfus on hearing the verdic
:. wept bitterly, having been told II
= result by his lawyer, but when in IL
!, presence of the officials Of the cour
:, martial, he listen impassively to IL
is sentence. His wife, who had bee
+. waiting in awful suspense, heard Il
10 news brayely, and while she WI
70 deeply affected, she bore up remarl
~ ably under the strain.
re Dreyfus, whom the world believ
70 is not the guilty man the military
80 France has sought 10 make him, pr
- claimed his innocence to the last, al
NO it is no doubt consoling to him
know that his friends are legion.
is understood that lie will be sent
at Fort Corte in the island OF Corsic
The accusation which resulted
. the conviction of Dreyfus was th
r. he communicated French militia
e secrets TO a foreign power, German
~ but fair minded people the world o
er believe the guilty parties are /
terhazy and Weyl who were in t
. Intelligence Department at that tim
France will some day wake up
fact that she has disgraced hers
'"' before the eyes of the world, a
NV many years will have passed befc
'a' she lives down the stigma, il she
er does, that the bord OF revilers a
prosecutors in the military ran
who have for the past five yei
"" made that poor, defenseless hum
being target for their internal II
lie. siles have stained her banner with