Ferdinand Walsin Esterhazy is tried before a military court, 10 January 1898. Charles Marie Ferdinand Walsin Esterhazy (1847-1923) was an officer in the French Army from 1870 to 1898. He gained notoriety as a spy for the German Empire and as the actual perpetrator of the act of treason of which Captain Alfred Dreyfus was wrongfully accused and convicted in 1894. The court unanimously acquitted Esterhazy. From "La Ilustración Española y Americana", 1898.
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