The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1899-09-13
REVISION DEMANDED.
Dreyfus' Counsel Take to Paris
an Apple alton for An.
other Revision.
FIGHT FOR AOQUITTAL CONTINUES
Friends OF the Captain Will Keep Up
the Agitation.

Will Not Accept a Pardon Nothing but
Complete vindication VIII satisfy Them
Text of the Verdict That Condemns
the Accused Man IA second Time-Anti-
Semitic koughs Raise Riot at Rennes-
Gen dArmes Are Prompt at Putting
Them Down.
Rennes, Sept. 1.-THE expected has
happened. Dreyfus has been con
demned, but though a majority of those
in the court room Saturday afternoon
fully expected the verdict they were
completely stupehed when IL was
given, and the silence which prevailed
ia the room and the way men turned
pale and caught their breaths was
more impressive than any other mani
festation could have been. Maitre De-
mango sank back in his chair and tears
trickled down his cheeks, and Maitre
Labori turned white as "a sheet. AS
the audience left the court room fully
ten or fifteen men were crying openly
and the majority of those present
walked quietly down the street for
more than a block without speaking a
word 1t was like "a funeral process
sion.
Dreyfus Hears His second Sentence.
Meanwhile tragedy was being en-
acted in the little room off the court
room, where Dreyfus listened to the
reading of the verdict. He had been
told the result by his lawyers, and had
wept bitterly, but when in the presence
of the officials of the court martial he
listened impassively to the sentence
Matthew Dreyfus was not present in
court, but visited his brother after the
verdict had been rendered. He found
him perfectly calm and without any
manifestation of surprise at the find
ing of the court. The prisoner simply
shrugged his shoulders. uttering an eX-
pressive Bah" adding as he embraced
his brother as the latter was preparing
to leave, Console my wife"
Question the Court Was Asked.
Following is the text of the verdict:
To-day, the 9th of September, 1899,
the court martial of the Tenth legion
army corps, celebrating behind closed
doors, the president put the following
question: is Alfred Dreyfus. brevet
captain Fourteenth regiment of artil-
lery, prObatiOner 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 ii TO commit hostility or under
take war against France, or procure it
the means therefor, by delivering the
notes and documents mentioned i'm the
document called the bOrdereau. accord
ing to the decision of the court of cas-
sation of June 3. 1892
Vote stood Five TO Two.
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
majority of , to > Yes, the ac-
cused is guilty
''The majority agreed that there are
eXtenuating circumstances. i'm 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 i'm the above
mentioned form. As a result the court
condemns. by majority Of ) votes to
=. Alfred Dreyfus to the punishment of
ten years detention"