Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-09-11
Thinks He Will Get
Out Next Month.
ARE LEAVING
And the Town of Renres is Now Very
Quiet--The Prisoner Bears Up
Under the Awful Ordeal--Verdict
Was an Infamy.

RenneS Sept. lD.-DfeytuS mas DOrTe
the terrible shock with marvellous forti-
| tude and unnatural calm. Yesterday he
seemed stupitied when NJ. Labor COM
| municated to him the verdict. but has
since rallied. He passed a quiet night
but rose when his orderly brought him
water at ) o'clock in the morning just
as he did during the trial, when it was
| necessary. Madame Drey7fus and Matthew
Dreyfus. his brother, visited him during
the course of the afternoon. His brother
subsequently left for Paris. The appli-
cation to the court of revision was taken
to him at noon by NJ. Labori's assistant
and he signed it.
Today Dreyfus has spoken but little,
though he seemed in better spirits than
might have been anticipated. The meet
ing with his wife was naturally very af-
fecting, but both held up as we'll as pos
sible. He said to her: Il am not uneasy
regarding myself as I shall soon be free,
but l think of you II my poor children;
they will be branded as the children of a
traitor"
He is convinced that the 10 years i'm
~prisonment to which he is sentenced will
be wiped out by the five years of solitary
seclusion he has undergone on Devils
island and he expects to be released by
Oct. Is, which will be five years from the
date of his former condemnation. He is
so sanguine that he has made ar extra
ordinary request of his wife for a novel,
to be read in the meantime, explaining
that his mind is 50 shaken and weighed
down by recent events hat he needs to
divert his thoughts and to try to get all
the recollections of the last three months
out of his mind. He thinks that reading
a novel will afford the desired mental re-
pose and keep him from brooding.
A correspondent of the Associated
Press called upon Mrs. Dyyfus this after
noon after her visit with her husband
and saw her father. NJ. Madamard, who
said his daughter was bearing UP Won
derfully well, considering the circum-
stances, but desired to remain undis-
turbed today in view Of the emotional
strain of the interview. NJ. Madamard
said that Nine. Dreyfus and the family
We're hopeful and looked forward to fav-
orable developments.
THE verdict he added, lis an infamy.
Captain Dreyfus is in poor health, as
every one knows. He has been extremely
ill from the moment of his arrival in
France and has been put on a special re-
gime. His health has not improved and
the nervous effect of yesterdays terrible
DlON lS DOunu 10 react on MS general
condition. His suppression of all out
ward emotion is due to his almost incred-
ible force of will, but it does not imply
that he is insensible to the mental and
physical torture he has undergone. Or
the contrary, the family just now see in
his weak state of health an abnormal i'm
passivity, an ugly sign, and fear for him
more than they care to express"
The town today has been perfectly
calm. There has not been a sign nor a
demonstration nor a cry for or against
Dreyfus or against the Jews heard any
where. A number of people gathered te
see Nine. Dreyfus visit the prison, bu,
they We're quite respectful.
The troops and masses of gendarmes
who yesterday gave the center of Rennes
the appearance of a military camp, have
completely vanished. There are hardly
any gendarmes in sight except near thu
Dreyfus residence, where a few are post,
ed. Cavalry officers We're seen frequent,
leaving on the train, indicating that tht
authorities no longer fear trouble her.
and are allowing the officers to leav'
! their barracks.