sentences:  On 3 November 1894, General Saussier, the Military governor of Paris, reluctantly gave the order for an enquiry.He had the power to stop the process but did not, perhaps because of an exaggerated confidence in military justice.Major Besson d'Ormescheville, the recorder for the Military Court, wrote an indictment in which "moral elements" of the charge (which gossiped about the habits of Dreyfus and his alleged attendance at "gambling circles", his knowledge of German, and his "remarkable memory") were developed more extensively than the "material elements", which are rarely seen in the charge