Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 September 1899 — TEN TEARS IN PRISON. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

TEN TEARS IN PRISON.

| 'TH!B IS THE SENTENCE IMPOSED UPON DREYFUS. .. I Captain Ja Confident of Release Despite the Judgment-New Deirrada--7 tlon of Condemned Man la Not PosIfr aible—World to Boycott Paris Fair. ;■ All Franco is perplexed over the effect | Of the verdict in the Dreyfus court marI tial, which sentences the unfortunate |f. officer to ten years’ imprisonment in it P-fortress. Even the men most familiar |i with the nation’s law differ in opinion as to whether or not the condemned man will have to suffer the ten years' deten- | tlon imposed by the judges. Dreyfus him- | self holds that the five years’ solitary irai. prisonment will offset the new sentence and many prominent lawyers hold the same view. Attorney Demange of counsel for the defense. Col. Jouaust, president of the court martial, and Clerk Coupois of the military tribunal declare that the imprisonment on Devil's Island will count for nothing and that the new term must be served by the captain. The theory that the sentence was fixed at ten years by the judges, that the punishment would exactly equal that already undergone, seems I the court martial —f> to 2 —made such verdict obligatory and the question of the accused man’s early release was not considered by the tribunal. A second degradation will not be possi- | ble, as Dreyfus’ sword was not returned to him and he has uo epaulets on the undress uniform which he now wears. Formal application for revision will bp made as soon as the necessary papers can be prepared. * Dreyfus bore the terrible shock with marvelous fortitude, one might almost aay with unnatural calm. He seemed atupefied when Attorney I.abori communicated to him the verdict, but he afterward rallied. Mme. Dreyfus and Mathieu Dreyfus, his brother, visited the prisoner during the course of the afternoon, tiis brother subsequently leaving for Paris. The application to the court of revision was taken tahim by M. Labori’s assistant and he signed it: Sunday he spoke but little, although he seemed in better spirits than

might have been anticipated. The meeting with his wife was naturally very affecting, but both held up as weil as possible. He said to her: “I am not uneasy regarding myself, as I shall soon be free, but I think of you and my poor children. They will be branded as the children of a traitor.” Dreyfus is convinced that the ten yenrs’ imprisonment to which he is sentenced will be wiped out by the five years of solitary seclusiou he underwent on Devil’s Island, and he expects to be released by Oct. 15, which will be five years from the date of his former condemnation.

MME. DREYFUS.