The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-08-17
Copyright, 1899. by the Associated

Press)
Rennes, Aug. 16.-The Bretons are
first cousins of the Irish, though with
out Irish wit and gaiety But they have
a greater taste for personal adornment
and picturesque costumes. They are
very like the Irish in their sympathy
with outlaws, especially if the outlaw
ry be due to serving a cause by unlaw-
full means dear to the common people.
We see this in the vain attempts of
the police to seize the man who shot
M. Labor In the back. The whole
country has been vainly secured for
him; but, as all the countryfolk refuse
to give information or only speak to
mislead, the police will probably go on
searching fruitlessly.
The Catholic feeling of the whole dis
trict has been aroused against Drey-
fus, and runs higher than ever since
the archbishop issued a pastoral an
nouneing that no open air procession
in honor of the virgin must take place
on the festival of the Assumption. He
has ordered the clergy, in the interest
of peace, to confine the procession to
the cathedral and other churches. The
general conclusion deduoed from the
episcopal pastoral has been that the
Dreyfusards, who are either jews, free
thinkers or blasphemers, intended to in
suit religion and breed disturbances.
As a consequence, a sullen feeling is
shown. AS matter of fact, nobody more
deeply regrets the Introduction of the
assumption procession in the former
capital of Brittany than the friends of
Dreyfus, particularly his friends in the
press. The latter had hoped to find the
procession rich in LOCAL color and an
interesting subject for. dispatches.
Maitre Labor had been living in a
house unsheltered from the sun and
in rather busy quarter. It was
thought desirable to transfer him to a
more quiet suburb. and he is now at
Prof. Basch's house, quite in the coun-
try, though close to .Rennes. 1t is an
old-fashioned homestead, built of gran
tie and snugly Slated, with farmyard
on one side and on the other a large.
old fashioned shady garden. The
place is surrounded by high walls that
might stand a siege.
The removal took place on a hand
ambulance cart which one man drew
and two pushed Labori suffered fear
fully on the way, the bullet still being
imbedded in the dorsal muscle. There
dreadfully at losing the opportunity to
tackle the military witnesses. 1t has
been remarked that the Dreyfus case
brings him fame and bad luck. Since
he first concerned himself with 1t. he
has been attacked with pleurisy and
typhoid fever, and now he is shot IN
the back.
The seriousness Of his state was hid
den In the hope that the trial mlght
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was a rather unreasonable expectation,
however desirable from the view point
of the defense. Maitre Demange's APP
plication for an adjournment today was
roughly dismissed. Madam LaboE, to
show that her husband was recovering
rapidly, attended the session. She was
sorely disappointed at the news she had
to convey, and she said he would be
even more so.
Todays witnesses were Senator Guer-
in, who was colonial minister at the
time Dreyfus was sent to Cayenne,
Madame Henry. widow of the suicide,
and NJ Lebon, who was colonial min
lister for more than two years, and who
ordered the palisade or high fence to
be placed around the hut on the Isle de
Diable. He is a provincial attorney in
Carpentras, where they know nothing
of the Dreyfus case. except what they
have learned from the papers. / hap
pen to know that he was acquainted
with the prisoners late father. who
was naturalized a FFenchman in 1873
at Carpentras, where two OF his three
daughters have since married. This,
possibly, accounts for the tone of kind
feeling in M. Guerin's deposition.
Madame Henry, dressed in deep
mourning, came from the convAar
where she is staying. She says her age
is rs years. She Is commonplace and
vulgar and shows in her figure and
complexion, that she shared the good
cheer Of which the late Lieut.. Col.
Henry was so fond. There was very
little in her evidence.
/ noticed two lies. One was that she
saw Henry one night at the dining
room table pasting the bordereau on
sheet of gummed paper and that It
was torn in small fragments. Now the
photograph I was shown of 1.-THE pho
tograph which was done for the intel
ligence department-shows it was
simply torn half way across, and was
not in fragments
The other lie was that Esterhazy was
not known to Henry before the Picquart
duel; but she afterward admitted that
Henry knew Esterhazy many years
previously in Tunis. She was scarcely
audible, but It hardly mattered, as she
delivered herselfn of a lot Of fustian
to the army.
Gen. Roget, like all the other gen
erals who preceded him, came as a
witness. but he acted as public prose-
cutor. He and they reminded me of a
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