The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-08-15

man might he a southerner. If so, he
must have known the country round
Rennes. 1t is a country of small,
patchy fields, separated by hedges.
which he was evidently familiar with.
Apparently he knew places in the thick
ct into which he could dive and in doing
I so remain concealed for some time from
a pursuer. The gen d'rmes that Colonel
Piquart met Joined the pursuit, but
fleet running and a knowledge of the To-
cality enabled the would-be murderer
to escape.
NJ. Labor is young, fair, handsome
and full of lusty life and high spirits.
His talents as a speaker are not Of the
| highest, 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
I pleaded for Zola, his luck was uninter-
rupted. He then had an attack of ty-
phoid fever which greatly weakened
him and forced him to neglect bust
ness The lola affair was great ad-
vertisement. but it brought him no di-
rect profit and created for him endless
enemies. He refused the handsome fee
the novelist offered, nor does he ac-
cept pecuniary reward from Dreyfus.
Labori's Wife Beautiful.
Labor is proud of his wife's beauty
| She is equally proud of his good looks
and talents and loses no opportunity
to hear him plead. She is an Austral-
ian, received, as a pianist. her musical
education IN London, became a PLAYER
at concerts, made acquaintance of the
deformed but highly gifted Russian
pianist, Pachmann, married him. had
two children, and then fell in love with
Labor. The passion was mutual She
and Pachmann were divorced and then
she married Labori The children live
with her and find a devoted step-father
~ him.
Madame Labori had attended all the
public sittings of the Rennes court
martial. Her beauty is beyond dispute.
She is a striking blonde. and. though
her path has not been always strewn
with roses. she expresses the joy of life
in splendid health and a satisfied heart.
What a bolt from the blue sky the
mornings event has been to her. She
seemed the happiest woman alive when
she set out this morning In less than
ten minutes her life had been blighted.
Labori, not long convalscent from ty-
phoid. is in a bad state to receive a
ball entering the thoraX through the
back. He is now in a high fever and
there may be dangerous complications
later.
After the Assault.
l heard of the attempted assassina-
ton shortly after this morning as 1
was entering a corridor leading to the
hall of justice in the Lycee. There L
saw Madame Labori running from the
opposite direction pale as DEATH with
a surgeon in military uniform beside
her and a following of other persons.
All had an air of intentness. Their
thoughts certainly did not run on the
Dreyfus case. Then officers and po-
lice rushed out of the guard room and
ran in the same direction.
What is the matter?" l asked.
Labor has been wounded by a pis-
tol shot and is now probably dead
Who wounded him?'
Probably a mailman. A country
woman heard him gleefully shout as he
away, I have killed Dreyfus.'
Terrible as the news was 1 felt I
must not follow Madame Labori but
must gain my place in the court room,
which | found crowded. as the sitting
was about to commence.
The president of the Association of
Legal Journals. NJ. Taunay, well known
as the organizer of the International
Press congress, jumped upon a table
and exclaimed:
Announced In the Court Room.
m. Labori has been fired at and
wounded
The announcement caused a deep
hush. Solemn silence reigned for per-
haps three or four minutes Possibly
it was the silence of stupor. for all
seemed stunned. At length the Ma
tionalists and Dreyfusites declared their
horror of the crime and their sympathy
with the victim. o.
We on the Dreyfus side remember
how lavish he was of his vitality. how
he never spared himself; now he was
S-ways in the breach when a violent
assault was impending; how, in the
stress of hurry of attending to Zola's
affairs last year. he caught pleurisy,
was between life and death. and tended
and brought back, res I.
cued from the very grave by the de-
voted and intelligent care of his lovely |
wife
We remember that we have all |
found pleasure seeing Madame La /
bOri al Rennes. With her blonde hair. |
regular features. fine figure, motherly /
blue eyes and graceful walk. with all /
that she looked q Ceres who had not 4
yet lost Proserpina We had called /
her the bona dea," or good goddess"
We all felt that. as the news arrived, |
not confirmed, that La |
boris state wss hopeless, as if we had |
lost a brother of whom we were all !
justly proud
Labor An Unassuming Man.
We Dreyfusites also remembered how
pleasant was Labori's blue eyes when
ever. catching that of friend in court,
t lightened up. He must have liter
ally had a powerful heart that drove
he blood everywhere with regular
strong beats. The fresh complexion de-
dared fine arterial circulation.
He had always been unconventional, !
argely because he is the son Of simple,
Useful folk. The father is an Alsatian
and station master at ChalOns. He
s in the secret Of the steps to be taken
n regard to every transport of troops,
we're France attacked from Germany.
&c and his wife were staying at La
'orfs Paris home when the crime was