Saturday was one of the most exciting days of the trial, and, for the sake of those of your readers to. whom the mail papers may not be available, it will not, perhaps, be out place to briefly describe what took place. For the first time a definite account was given of the scandalous manner in which the leaders of the French army, in defiance of the most elementary principles of fair play, secured & conviction means of secret and false testimony. Capt. Freystaetter, of the marine infantry, a member of the 1894 court-martial, and a soldier with a brilliant record of active service, declared that four documents were brought to the knowledge of his brother judges and himself when they retired to consider their verdict, Those documents were: (1) A memorandum (drawn up by It. Col. clu' Paty de Clam) charging Dreyfus with treason during his stay the Artillery School at Bourges, the Military College in Paris and at the War Ministry; (2) The letter containing the wob canaille de D. (now known to refer toa spy named Dubois); (8) Another letter in the same handwriting (a foreign military attache); and (4) A telegram by 'a foreign military attuché containing the words " Dreyfus arrested; emissary warned," (the erroneous War Office translation of the Panizzardi telegram). Tt is true that Capt. Freystaetter formed his belief chiefly, on the testimony of the handwriting experts, the forger Heary and Da Paty de Clam, but none the less the communication of these documents unknown to the defence was a scandalous illegality. Capt. Froystactter added that he was quite ignorant of law, and he did not know that what was done was illegal.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.