The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-10
HE MAY NOT HAVE TO
SERVE THE SENTENCE
If He Does, 1t Will Not &c at Devils
Island.

| Paris, Sept. 9-The boulevards have
presented an animated scene, but, on
the whole, the Rennes verdict was
calmly discussed. After dinner crowds
collected in front of the offices of the
! Libre Parole, which were Illuminated
with cheap Venetian lanterns
| A number of fellows in a neighboring
| cafe started to sing the 'Marsellaise"
| and then formed procession, which
| the police soon dispersed and the lead
ers of which were arrested and taken
to the station. BY II O'clock the boule-
wards were deserted.
The representative of the Associated
Press here learns on good authority
that one of the members of the cabinet
tonight told. friend that Dreyfus
would probably not have to undergo
further imprisonment and that if he
was sent to prison his place of confine
ment would probably be the island of
ST Marguerite, near Calais, where Mar
shall Bazaine was incarcerated and
whence he escaped.
1t is generally believed that the gov
ernment's attitude toward, the court
martial rendered the president and
members of that body indisposed to
accept the instructions and limitation
given at the outset of the courtmartial
proceedings, and that the subsequent
request sent to Major Carriere, the
governments Commissioners the trial,
to confine himself to the limits laid
down by the court of cessation, and
finally the request that the verdict be
DELAYED until Monday, Stiffened the
backbone of Colonel Jouaust, who re-
piled that he would not receive orders
from any one and thereupon closed the
case.
IT., Couo tho Gonara1 Staff
M. Clemenceau, in the Aurore, says
Colonel Jouaust's object was to save
the general staff, and that between
Dreyfus and MERCER, he selected Mer-
cier. The affair, declares M. Clemen-
ceau, was scandalously conducted. Ma
ior Carrieres contention that the pris-
oner had failed to prove his innocence
enabled the court to convict the prfs-
oner without the evidence of the petit
bleu. He also says he pities the men
who, by their sentence. inflicted an out
rage and showed the most culpable
weakness. Members of the tribunal, M.
Clemenceau asserts, were convinced
that Dreyfus was innocent, but were
anxious to extend extenuating circum-
stances to MERCER and the other gem
erals.
M. Cornely, in the Figaro, holds that
the verdict. by reducing the original
term of imprisonment, shows that the
campaign for revision was legitimate
M. Cornely adds that he oelleves tnat
when Colonel Jouaust refused to near
Colonel Schwartzkoppen former Ger
man military attache in Paris, and Col
onel Panizzardi, the italian military at
tache, the president of the court was
certain of Dreyfus' innocence. The tri-
bunal fesitated between Dreyfus, and |!
Mercier, and replied neither yes nor no.
If Dreyfus Is guilty, he should have
received penalty for the aggravating
offerse, instead of leniency of extenu- !
ating circumstances. NJ Cornely con- I
cludes by declaring that. it is deplor- |
able to see judges make common cause /
with the generals who saved Ester
hazy. and the injury which this will, /
in the end, infiict on the army.
Reports received at the ministry of /
the interior Indicate that no disturb
ances have occurred anywhere in the |
provinces