Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Trial of Emile Zola: A Detailed Report of the Fifteen Days' Proceedings in the Assize Court at Paris
On January 10, 1898, some three years after the secret trial and con viction, by a council of war, of Captain Alfred Dreyfus, then a staff officer of the French army, of having sold French military secrets to a foreign power, in consequence of which he was stripped of his uniform in a degrading public ceremony and sent for life to Devil's Island, a French penal settlement situated off the coast of French Guiana, where he is now confined under guard, a second council of war convened in Paris for the trial of Major Marie Charles Ferdinand walsin-esterhazy, a French infantry officer temporarily relieved from active service on account of poor health, the charge against him - preferred by Mathieu Dreyfus, brother of Captain Alfred Dreyfus - being that he was the real author of the border-can, or itemized memorandum, supposed to have been written by Captain Dreyfus, and on the strength of which the latter was convicted.
The trial was conducted publicly until the most important witness, lieutenant-colonel Georges Picquart, of the Fourth Algerian Sharp shooters, was reached, when the council went into secret session, remain ing behind closed doors until the evening of January 11, when the doors were thrown open and General de Luxer, the president of the council, announced a unanimous vote in acquittal of the defendant.
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