The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-08-14

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The shot was also hoard - tbe q
Georges barrae,xs aeross tba r;var yvhere
ii was soon known that M T.abor; had!
been attacked.
The wounded man had in the mean
time asked to have carriage called to
convey him to his residence and to have
DR.. Reclus sumoned
When the eotor arrived he knelt beside
M. Labori, putting bottle of smelling
salts to his nostrils. Around these CEN
tral figures were grouped the spectators.
all deeply affected, some, indeed, crying
like children At little distance was
gathered another group, the central figure
OF which was the Commissary Of Police,
notebook in hand, taking down the tes-
timony Of the eye witnesses of the affair.
The scene OF this pathetic picture was
dusty high rode, the dark, green slow
waters of the River Vilaine on one side
and on the other side scattered houses,
with gap just opposite the spot. through
which could be seen green meadow
With a stream flowing through it and be-
yond that the backs of a row of houses.
The road that M. Labori had followed
tapered away back from the scene Of the
tragedy, with a row of trees along the
border Of the vilaine, under whose ieafy
shelter N. Labori had walked to perhaps
his DEATH
A Gordon of mounted genarmes was.
dawn up as quickly as possible about fif-
teen yards apart and in the space within
which were the two groups already de-
scribed
An ambulance which had been sum
moned, arrived with four attendants of
the Military Hospital, bearing an ordinary
stretcher, on which was placed a blue and
white striped mattress. On this M. La
bori was tenderly laid and the stretcher
was borne by friends of NJ Labori and
some newspa papermen, with Nine. Labori
walking beside it,
The only cry that NJ Labori gave after
his first groan was when he was lifted
to the stretcher. when the pain caused by
the movement drew from him moan.
The party proceeded slowly back, in the
middle of tn BROADWAY to NJ. Labordi's
temporary residence where he had rented
a furnished house for use during the con-
tinuance of the court martial 1t is
situated in somewhat deserted neigh
borhood. the place on which it is located
leading into the main road running to
Rennes.
Accounts of the shooting related by eye
witnesses differ considerably. especially
respecting the appearance of the would-be
murdered, of whom following is the Off
cial descristion:-
.Twenty-fve to thirty years. Flat,
peaked hat. Dressed like a workingman,
A force of gendarmes. headed by NJ
Hennion. Sub-Chief of the Secret Police,
Il securing the country in search of NJ.
r.abari,s assaf1ant and q comnany of MI
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sui more increofpie y 1ne iaee sils.t
an lnulViouai VINO Went 70 tne sac oi n
Labor as he lay wounded on the ground,
is said to have searched the pockets of
ha suffering man an tla nretexf of ascer-.
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tents.
The assailanf fled after the shooting.
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,ioioa''s ~ ieNoisei - iiis ia1,iio W.,
his finger on the trigger, and threatened
several men who showed a disposition
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Inc correspondent OF the Associated
Press. at l0:45 O'Clock this morning. saw
ono II tba 5oators u n I.abor;,s pouso
Whic MS now guarded by TOUR Gendarmes.
The doctor said that NJ. Labori was bear
ing the agony he was suffering with
marvellous lortituae.
Continuing, the, doctor said:-
sHe has been put to bed and is being
~. tc,,a,, by b;s u;fe Ha has snolran mt
"aeeiieu ps his WIZ ~ 'tas spoAeA ous
not OF himseif, always ABOUT the triai.
We have strong hopes that he will pull
tbrougb and have sent an optimistic tele-
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certainty OF his cOHuillUH. w Z llst Fcf ~