The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-08-15
BLOW AIMED AT DREYFUS
A POSSIBILITY THAT NJ. LABoRl
MAY LIVE.
ATTACK ls1ENslFIEs FACTloNAL HATE
Gendarmes Securing the Country in Search o
The Assassin, Described as a Man OF
rs or 80 Dressed Like
a Workman.
downright 1899 by Associated Press.)

Copyright 1899 by Associated Press
Rennes, Aug. 1.-THE drama at
Rennes grows tragical. That long pe-
calmed town is being stirred into more
violent passion than Paris The Parls
ans are laborious. The Bretons are 81.
lent and possessed by their belief or idea,
whatever it may be. -
This morning at six O'Clock wen
nigh successful attempt was made 70
kill MI. I4abori, who defended Aoia las'
vear and who came here TO defend Drey
fus. with Nj. Demange. Inc WonIa-pe
assassin was evidently crank anu iooh
ed q workman. His weapon was re
yolyer. the theatre of the crime the quay
Richenlont. 1t was while Labor was
going to the court with Colonel Picquaf'
and his conSin. Nj. Cast.
When Madame Labor came up snc
was sent to fetch a doctor, but MOI
knowing the town she lost good deal
of time. At last she thought OF gons
to the court and asking there Tor a nlll-
tary surgeon. Doctors Vidal and hecius
were at hand and at once accompanied
her. They had the presence OF mllild y
send gendarmes to the barracks Tor an
ambulance with a stretcher and bearers
With deep thankfulness they 1ouha
that NJ. Iabori could move ms limbs al
will. The spine, therefore, was not IN
jtred. The ball had entered at the sixth
yertebra. behind the thorax. 1t might
be embedded in the muscle OF the Dach
or have penetrated deeper, lnJurlhg the
lungs. +,
However the thing was to bear the
II II. 40. 4la6s1
hooking villa he had hired for use during
the trial. villa adorned with green
slabs of faienee, 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 caE.e
last evening. The two opposite forces
are ia line of battle. Fanaticism has
been appealed to and has answered the
call
Colonel picquart describes the would
be murderer as ssyarthy and thickset,
resolute and intelligent looking. lie
thinks the man might be a Southron. 1f
so. he must have known the coiln-
try around Rennes. 1t is country of
small, patchy fields, separated by hedges,
which he was evidently familiar WITH.
Apparently he knew places in the
thickest into which he could dive. aud
in doing so remained concealed for some
time from a pursuer. The gendarmes
that Colonel Picauart met joined in the
pursuit, but feet running and knowledge
of the locality enabled the would-be MUIR
derer to escape.
M. Labori is young, fair, handsome
and 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 uninter-
rupted. 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
nlent, but ii brought him no direct profit
and created for him endless enemies
He refused the handsome fee the move
list offered, nor does he accept pecuniary
reward from Dreyfus.
Labori 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 Australian,
received as a pianist her musical educa-
tion in London, became a player at
concerts, made the acquaintance of the
ueiOFHJtu DuL HlSHly Silttu 1AuSsldh
pianist Pachmann, married him. had two
children, and then fell in love with La
bori. The passion was mutual. She
and Pachmann were divorced and then
she married Labori. The children live
with her and find devoted stepfather
in him.
Madame Labori has attended all the
public sittings of the Rennes court mar
tial. 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 d satisfied heart.
What a bolt from the blue sky the
mornings event has been to her She
seemed the happicst woman alive when
sho set out this morning. In less than
ten minutes her life was blighted
Labor, not long cOnvalescent from ty-
pboid, Is i'll a bad state to receive a
ball entering the thorax through the
back. He is now in high fever, and
there may be dangerous complications
later.
The court room, when the news or
the shooting came, was crowded, as the
sitting was about to commence
The President Of the Association OF
Legal Journals, M. Taunay, well known
as the organizer Of the international
Press Congress, jumped upon table