The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-08-15
PERSONALITY OF THEADVOGATE
Who Is Suffering for champiOning
the Cause OF Dreyfus-.No
Clue to the Assailant.
SOME VERY PATHETIC SCENES
On the Roadway Where Labori
Fcll..Latest Reports Indi.
cate his Improvement.

Copyright. 1879. by The Associated Press.)
RENNEs. France. August 1L-The
drama at Rennes grows tragical. That
long becalmed town is being stirred in-
10 a more violent passion than Paris.
The Pariaians are lRborious. The Bre-
tons are silent and possessed by their
belief or idea, whatever 1t may be.
This morning, at o'clock, well
nigh successful attempt was made to
kill NJ. Labor, who defended zola last
year, and who came here to defend
Dreyfus with N. Demange. The would
be assassin was evidently a crank and
looked like a workman. His weapon
was a revolver, the theatre Of the
crime the quay Richemont. 1t was
while Labori was going to the court
with Colonel Picquart and his cousin,
n. Cast.
When MaGame Labori came up she
was sent to fetch doctor. but not
knowing the town she lost good deal
OF time. AT last she thought of go
ing to the court and asking there for
a military surgeon. Doctors Vidal and
Reclus were at hand, and at once ac-
companled her. They had the presence
OF mind to send gendarmes to the bar
racks for an ambulance, with stretch
er and bearers.
Fanaticism has Answered the Call.
wth deep thankfulneBs they found
that NJ. Laborl could move his limbs at
will. The spine, therefore, was not in
jured. The ball had entered at the
sixth vertebrae. behind the thorax. 1t
might be imbedded in the muscle of the
back or have penetrated deeper, intur-
ing the lungs. However, the thing was
to bear the wounded advocate to the
pretty and gay looking villa he had
hired for use during the trial, villa
adorned with green slabs Of faience.
bright with flowers and in the airy part
of Rennes. But why go further into
details? The lesson Of the event was
foreshadowed in my cable last evening
The two opposite forces are in line Of
battle. FanatlcIsm has been appealed
to, and has answered the call.
Colonel Plcquart describes the would
be murderer us swarthy and thIck-set,
resolute and intelllgen: looking. He
thinks the man might be a southron.
II SO, he must have known this coun"
try around Rennes. 1t is country Of
small, patchy fields, separated by
hedges, which he was evidently famil-
lar with. Apparently he knew places
in the thlcket into which he could dive,
and in doing SO remained concealed for
some time from a pursuer. Tha gem
darmes that Colonel Plcquart met join
cd In the pursuit, but fleet running and
knowledge of the locality enabled the
would-be murderer to escape.
Labori's Personality.
M. Labori is young, fair, handsome
md full of lusty life and high spirits.
His talents as a speaker are not of the
highest order, but no other member OF
the Paris bar knows better how to use
law to defeat its object. He can drive
a motor car through the code. Until
he pleaded for Zola his luck was un-
interrupted. He then had an attack Of
typhoid fever, which greatly weakened
him. and forced him to neglect business.
The Zola affair was a great advertise
ment, but 1t brought him no direct
profit, and created for him endless en-
emIes. He refused the handsome fee
the novelist offered, nor does he accept
pecunlnry reward from Dreyfus.
LaborI is proud Of his wlfe's beauty.
She is equally proud of his good looks
and talents, and loses no opportunity to
hear him plead. She is an Australian
and received, as a pianist, her musical
education In London. became u player
at concerts, made the acquaintance Of
the deformed but highly gifted Russian
pianist, Pachman, married him, had
two children, and then fell In love with
Labori. The passion was mutual
She and Pachman were divorced and
then she married LaborI. The children
live with her. and find devoted step
father in him.
Madame Labori had attended all the
public slttIngs Of the Rennes court
martial. Her beauty ls beyond dis
pute. She is a striking blonde, and
though her path has not been always
strewn with roses. she expressed the
10y of life in splendid health and sat
ished heart.
A Bolt From the Blue Sky.
What a bolt from the blue sky the
mornlng's event was to her! She seem
ed the happIest woman alive when she
set out this morning. In less than
ten minutes her life was bllghted.
Labori, not long convalcscent from
typhoid fever. Is in n bad state to receive
u ball entering the thorax through the
back. He is now In n high fever, and
there may be dangerous complications
later.
heard OF the attempted nssasslnn'
tion shortly after six this morning. MS
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