The Telegram They Tore Apart: How the Army Buried the Truth
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The Telegram They Tore Apart: How the Army Buried the Truth
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The army reconstructed a torn pneumatic telegram from more than fifty paper fragments that named Major Ferdinand Walsin Esterhazy - not Alfred Dreyfus - a fact the Intelligence Section discovered in spring 1896 and then suppressed. How did a photograph of a telegram recovered from a German diplomat’s trash and a matching handwriting comparison lead to exile for the officer who followed it?
In this episode, we tell how Lieutenant Colonel Georges Picquart received a photograph of the reassembled petit bleu, compared handwriting and documents, and uncovered evidence that contradicted the army’s conviction - but what happened when he presented the proof?
Person: Georges Picquart
Person: Alfred Dreyfus
Person: Ferdinand Walsin Esterhazy
Date: Spring 1896
Location: Paris
- The reconstructed telegram was made from more than fifty torn paper fragments recovered from Colonel Max von Schwartzkoppen’s trash.
- Georges Picquart took command of the Intelligence Section on July 1, 1895, at age forty-one.
- The telegram named Major Ferdinand Walsin Esterhazy and listed the address 27 Rue de la Bienfaisance, Paris.
- Captain Lauth photographed the reassembled pneumatic telegram and Picquart locked the photograph in his strong-box.
- Alfred Dreyfus had been convicted in December 1894 and sent to Devil’s Island at age thirty-five.
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