The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-08-15
The Life Of Dreyfus' Senior Counsel is Not
Out Of Danger.
A Man Named Gallon, a Marine
Engineer, Whose Appearance Is
Said to Correspond With the
Wou1d-Be Murderer, Placed
Under Arrest at Lemans, One
Hundred and Thirty Miles
Southwest of Paris.

RENNES, Aug. 14-At 2 o'clock this
morning M Labor was suffering great
agony, and the doctors who had left
the house were hurriedly summoned to
attend the patient. Colonel Jouaust
called after the close of the session of
the court martial, and was allowed to
see M. Labor. He expressed deepest
regret at the occurrence.
General MERCER followed, but the
doctors declared that M. Labori could
not bear such an interview in his pres
ent state, and General MERCER was
obliged to go away without seeing M.
Labor.
Maitre Labor was shot from behind
the ball penetrating the posterior re-
gion of the thorax, on the right side,
at the hight of the fifth or sixth dor
sal vertebrae. The heavy flow of blood
prevents for the moment exploration
of the depth of the wound. The doc
tors hope that the ball is lodged in
the muscles, enveloping the vertebral
column. They must, however, main
tain to-day full reserve respecting the
integrity of the lung and spinal cord.
M. Labor on falling retained pres
ence of mind enough to arrange his
dark morocco wallet, in which he car
ried his papers under his head for a
pillow until his wife arrived, when he
half raised himself and dropped his
head in her lap.
A number of laborers who were I'M
loading a barge of stones besides the
river heard the shouts of Murder"
stop him. raised by the pursuers, and
one of them placed himself in the way
of the murderer, who, covering him
with revolver. shouted Let me pass.
I have shot Dreyfus.' The man was
so taken aback that he drew aside and
allowed the assassin to proceed.
The murderer ran across the fields
until he reached the railroad He
crossed the embankment and follow
ed the track until he arrived at the
level crossing. A train was just ar
irving at full speed, and the murderer
dashed across the line in front of the
train and toward the woods in the di-
rection of the village of Chantepieu,
where he was lost to view.
Colonel Picquart and his brother-in-
law, M. Cast, who accompanied NJ
Labor on his way to the Lycee, pur-
sued the murderer for some distance,
but as they were both heavy men they
were unable to continue the pursuit,
and so returned to the side of the
wounded man. leaving the chase of the
murderer to number of laborers and
peasants, who declare they heard the
murderer say when crossing the
marshy fields before reaching the rail-
road: eff I can't get away I will go
for them"
Madame Labori wife of the murder
ed lawyer, was promptly notified of the
crime and rushed to her husband s
side. She found him with his head on
the sidewalk and his body in the road
way. She threw herself by his side
and took his head in her lap, and fan
ned him with a colored paper which
she had evidently snatched up as she
left the house.
NJ. Labori was perfectly STILL Not a
groan came from his lips as his head
rested in the lap of his wife, who, by
the way, is an American. AS she
famed him with her right hand she
caressed him with her left, gazing low
ingly on his upturned face. He tried
to smile back at the tears which glis-
tended in her eyes, and she, master
ing her feelings, did everything posi-
BILE to ease her husbands agony.
1t is reported that the famous law
yer said. as he lay wounded on the
ground: ct may die for this but Drey-
fus is saved"
Further details regarding the shoot
ing of NJ. Labor show that the sky
was overcast when M. Labor left his
house, accompanied by Colonel Pic
quart, and the latter's brother-in-law,
NJ Cast.
NJ Labor was laughing and chat
ting with his companions when he was
shot. The party was passing the Quai
Richmond, and was about to cross the
Chataubriand bridge, when man, hid
den behind a wooden fence at a corner
of the quai, stepped out and fired at.
M. Labor.
The wounded men fell to the ground.
He tried to rise and put his hand to
the wound in his back, and brought the
hand back covered with blood AS
he lay there, with his clothes covered
with the dust in which he had fallen,
he said in a faint voice, II beg you to
give me stick and my papers. Go
and tell them" he added with final
effort, ''to suspend the proceedings
The shot had been heard 200 yards
away in the Rue de la Care, where a
crowd had gathered as usual to wit
ness the arrival of the principal per-
connected with the court-mar-
tial. The spectators ran in the direc-
ton whence the shooting had occurred,
by gendarmes on horseback.
The shooting was also heard at the st.
George Barracks, across the river.
where it was soon known that M. La
bori had been attacked.
The wounded man asked to have a
carriage called to convey him to his
residence, and to have DR.. Reclus sum-
moned. When the doctor arrived he
knelt beside M. Labori putting a bot
tie of smelling salts to his nostr,ls.
Around these central figures were
the spectators, all deeply af-
fected, some indeed crying like chill
dren At a little distance was gath
cred another group, the central figure
of which was the Commissary of Po-
lice, note book in hand, taking down
the testimony of the eye witnesses of
the affair."