Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-05-16
PARIS IS
 AROUSED
Another Sensational
 Case in Sight
Promises to be More Excit- ing Than the Dreyfuss Affair It Concerns Sell- ing of Document Relating to Naval Affairs.

Paris, May 16.-The Mathis London correspondent having obtained nearly
 hundred authentic plans of the forti-. factions at Toulon, besides numerous
 other compromising documents. that
 paper this morning begins the publica- ton of the history of treason affair which seems likely to exceed in i'm
 portance the offenses with which Gap
 tain Dreyfus was charged.
 On April q the correspondent re- ceived letter written in a queer semi French, semi Italian jargon, and signed
 'FTagola Pietro,' telling him that the
 writer, who was employed at a hotel, had been acting as a guide to two per- ! sons who had come to London to sell a large parcel of documents of the high 1 est importance concerning French naval defenses. The letter stated that the men had gone to Brussels, leaving 1 the writer penniless. He therefore wanted to negotiate for the transfer of certain documents, but was unwilling to treat direct with the French gov ernment preferring to deal with the Matin or some other newspaper The correspondent thought the letter l was probably a begging trick, but re l piled, addressing his answer to the
 postofice, to be called for, and making
 an appointment, which Fragola duly Kept. The mans desperate state of I hunger evidenced his sincerity. Fra. l gola told the following story:
 He was formerly, he said, employed at the war ministry in Rome, but be-
 came compromised in case of espion- lage and was sentenced to six months l imprisonment. Subsequently he came
 to London, living from hand to mouth Recently he had acted as guide and 1 secretary to two men of Italian origin. Ewith one of whom, a nattlraliZed l French citizen. he had formerly been acquainted at the war ministry in Rome. Both Of these men Fragola said, worked for foreign governments
 and had several times sold important l secrets to Germany at high prices. The l Italians name was Cesare Golio and l that of the naturalized Frenchman
 Jeremie AIesqui. The latter had long 1 lheen q contractor on public works at | ToulOn. They had gone to Brussels 1 five days ago. leaving him entirely without means of living He found after their departure that Golio had 1 left documents behind him, and these 1 lie wanted to sell
 | IidSOld lHeFeupOH pEOuuCeQ 8clSHly- - l five plans of the Toulon forts, some of them the French originals and others accurate copies. made at the Italian war ministry. He also had ill his pos session a list of plans of Cherbourg. Brest and TouIon. with typewrittsn in- structions. alleged by Fragolasto have emanated from the German staff. con cerning the marking of batteries of ar { tillery There was also a letter ap- ! pointing a rendezvous at the Thuringer Hof Berlin, for November 13 signed TX T To this was attached card in scribed sFelix Friedrich Scholtz'' The Mathis correspondent gave Fra ] gola q few shillings and persuaded him l to leave the documents in his hands i'll
 order that an examination of them
 might be made. The next morning he l took them to the French embassy.
 where the naval attache declared them l to be absolutely genuine.
 The Matin will continue it's revela. ] tiOnS tomorrow