The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1899-09-14
DREYFUS IS FOUND GUILTY
court-Martial Sentenced Him
for Ten Years in Prison.
GENERAL BELIEF IN A PARDON
Term Of Solitary Confinement Already
Served viii Count as Double. and
Release Will Come Soon.

Rennes, Sept. l2.-The expected has
happened. Dieyfus has been con.
demned. The court found him guilty
and sentenced him to 10 years deten.
ton. As he has already suffered five
years solitary Imprisonment, which
counts as double ordinary detention.
he will be released at the end OF a fort.
night. In the meantinme, unless the
president OF the republic pardons him,
Dteyfus will have to be degraded here
again within eight days.
Though a majority of those in the
urtroom this afternoon fully expect
the verdict, they were completely
,tupefied when it was given, and the
silence which prevailed in the room
and the way men turned pale and
caught their breath was more impress
sive than any other manifestation could
have been.
Matte Demange sank back in his
chair AMI the tears trickled down his
cheeks. and Maitre Labori turned
white as "a sheet. while all round the
court men looked at each other in 81.
lence. The only sound to be heard was
the Iustling of paper from the report
ers' bench, as each press representative
tiled to be first to send the news.
As the audience left the courtroom.
fully 10 OF 10 men were crying opeuly,
and the majority of those present
walked quietly down the street for
more than block without speaking a
xrarI H.
sion.
Meanwhile. tragedy was being en-
acted in the little room off the coutt.
room, where Dreyfus listened to the
reading of the verdict. He had been
told the result by his lawyers, and Lad
wept bitterly, but when in the presence
of the officials of the court-martial,
lie listened impassively to the sen.
tence.
His wife, who was waiting in tor
ture and suspense at her house, bore
the news bravery, and when visiting
her husband this afternoon showed the
onlookers who were in the streets no
signs of her sufferings as she walked
from her carriage to the prison.
Matthew DTeyfus was not present in
court this afternoon, but visited HE
BROTHER after the verdict had been
rendered. He found him perfectly
calm and without any manifestation of
surprise at the finding of the court.
The prisoner simply shrugged his
shoulders. uttering an expressive
"Bahi" adding, as he embraced his
brother. as the latter was preparing to
leave. Console my wife"
The general belief is that DreYfus
will be pardoned; but this will not
satisfy his friends, who vehemently de-
clare that they will refuse to accept
the verdict, and will continue the bat
tie until the judgment is reversed.
The verdict. they say. is directed more
against the Jews than against Dreyfus,
and if allowed to stand will make their
existence in France impossible.
Matte Labor and Maitre Demange
took the midnight train for Paris.
They drove to the station in closed
gendarmes. The road was practically
deserted, and no demonstration oc.
Cured en- route or at the station.
Maitre Demange and Matte Labor
will tomorrow sign an application for
a revision of the case. although there
is no hope that the verdict will be re-.
versed. Both are much upset. though
it can hardly be said that they are sur
prised.