New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-08-17
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HEAVY HANDICAPs FOR DREYFUs N
HIS FIGHT FOR LIBERTY.

The Rretons are first cousins OF the Irish.
though without Irish wit and gayety. But they
have a greater taste for personal adornment
and picturesque costumes They are very Ike
the Irish in their sympathy with outlaws espe-
cially II the outlawry be due 20 serving cause
by unlawful means dear 10 the common people
We see this in the vain attempts Of the police
70 seize the man who shot NJ Laoor IN ths
back. The whole country has been vainly
secured for him but all the country folk re-
fuse to give information or only speak 70 mis-
lead. the police will probably go on searching
fruitlessy.
The Catholic feeling of the whole district mas
baen aroused against Dreyfus. and runs higher
than eyer since the Archbishop issued a pastoral
announcing that no open air procession in honor
~ the Virgin must take place on the Festival OK
the ASSUMPTION He has ordered the clergy In
the interest of peace, 20 confine the procession
70 the cathedral and other churches. The gen.
eral conclusion deduced from the episcopal pas
toral has been that the Dreyfusards' VINO are
either Jews freethinkers or basphemers' m
tended to insult religion and breed disturbances.
A a consequence sullen feeling Is shown As
a matter II fact nobody more deeply regrets the
interdiction Of the Assumption procession IN the
former capital Of Brittany than the friends or
Drevfus particularly his friends In the press
The latter had hoped TO find the procession ricn
in local color and an interesting subject for dis
patches
MAITRE LABORTs REMOVAL
Maftre I.abori had been living IN house un-
sheltered from the sun and in rather busy
quarter IL was thought desirable 20 transfer
him 70 a more quiet suburb, and he is now at
Professor Basch's house, quite IN the country.
though close to Rennes. II is an old fashloneo
homestead. built OF granite and snusly slated
/ with a farmyard on one side and on the other d
large. old fashioned. shady garden. The place u
surrounded by high walls that might stand a
siege.
The removal took place on hand ambulance
cart which one man drew and two men pushe1'
NJ Labori suffered fearfully on the way, the
bullet still being irnbedded in the dorsal muscle.
There Is however. no fever. though he chafes
dreadfuuy at losing the opportunity 70 tackle
the military witnesses. II has been remarked
thar the Dreyfus case brings him fame and pad
luck Since he first concerned himself with u
ne has been attacked with peursy and typhold
fever. and now he IS shot in the back
The seriousness Of his state was hidden IN
the hope that the trial might be ADJOURNED
pending his recovery. II was rather unrea-
s0rabIe expectation, however desirable from the
point Of view OF the defence. Maitre Demanges
application FOR an adjournment to-day was
roughly dismissed Nine. Labori 70 show ,nat
her husband was recovering rapidly Ltendei
the session She was sorely disappointed az the
news she had 70 convey. and she said ne would
be even more so.
THE DAYS WITNESSES.
To-day's witnesses were Senator Guerin' who
was Colonial Minister at the time Dreyfus was
sent to Cayenne Nine. Henry. widow OF the
suicide and NJ Lebon. who was Colonial Mn
lister for more than two years. and who ordered
the palsade, or high fence. 70 be placed around
! the hut on the Isle Of the Devil Guerin is
provincial attorney in Carpentras, where they
know nothing Of the Dreyfus case except what
they have learned from the papers. happen
n know that ne was acquainted with the pris-
ouer's late father. who was naturalized
Frenchman in 1873 at Carpentras. whore two
OF mis- three daughters have since married This
possibly accounts for the tone Of kind feeling
in NJ Guerin's deposition.
Nine Henry dressed in deep mourning cane
from the convent where she Is staying. She
says her age is twenty-sx. She is common
place and vulgar. and shows in her figure aui
complexion that she shared the good cheer -
which the late Lieutenant Colonel Henry was
so fond There was very little in her evidence.
noticed two lies. one was that she Henry
bordereau on a sheet OF gummed paper. and
that IL was torn in small fragments. Now the
photograph | was shown ~ 1.-THE photograph
which was made fo~ the Intelligence Depart
ment-shows II was simply torn half way across
and was not in fragments. The other DE- was
that Esterhazy Lot known 70 Henry be-
fore the Picquart duel; but she afterward ad-
mitted that Henry knew Esterhazy many years
previously. in Tunis. She scarcely audible.
but II hardly mattered. as she delivered her
SELF OF a lot OF fustian about Henrys patriotism
and devotion 10 the army
ROGET AS A PROSECUTOR
General Roget ike all the other generals who
preceded him. came as a witness, but he acted as
| a nubIic prosecutor He and they reminded me-
| OF n Devils Advocate, but Devils Advocate IN
eoos earnest Roget was dead set against the
| unfortunate Dreyfus who must have been tort
| ur.d while the General went on with state
| r,en+s deductions innuendoes and suggestions
| ,bo- we're all lam 70 all the officers present
u Roget was not speaking in good faith MS
| .a,ar,an. WAS UNANIMOUSLY wicked. But ne
| .aae noint Major Hartmann, who testified
| - the Court OF Cessation about the gun
| -,,orad in the bordereau. said II had been
...,aa IN 1880 and that every one knew all
| ahou, :, IN 1894 This Roget denied. and the
president OF the court martial. who Is an artii-
larry officer seemed 10 indorse him.
According to Roget. the gun had been tested
| in 1894 only. and only spoken OF IN one journal
the Yacht" the editor Of which, Captain Wey-
ws. then an intimate friend Of Esterhaxy Who
was this weyl" said Roget. BE was the uncle