Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1899-08-17


Depth of the Misunderstanding Occurred
While the Lawyer Was Going to Court
Escape of Assailant and HIS Companion.
Rennes, France, Aug, IA. Only two
or three laborers, going to work, wit
messed the shooting, early this morn
ing, Of Maitre Labori, counsel for Drey-
fus. The spot was we'll chosen, as the
murderers could not be seen by M.
Labori until they rushed out upon
their victim, the entrance to the lane
being hidden by bushes. Moreover,
! they were afforded an easy means OF
| escape. by passing back through the
I lane, which led TO the country.
One of the laborers, named Patoux
who witnessed the shooting, said: As
/ was passing along the road, l saw
tall man walking quickly in the direc-
tion of Rennes. He was on the towing
path OF tho Valaine. He was attired
In dark lounge suit, and wore
bowler hat. 1t was Just as he reached
the bridge crossing stream falling
into tho Valaine, that two men, about
medium height and wearing dark suits
and round soft felt hats, emerged from
rural path entering the main road.
One of them carried a neavy stick.
They approached M. Labori from be-
hind. Suddenly, one drew revolver,
and fred pointblank at M. Labori lie
was SO near that it was quite impossi-
hle for him to miss. A sharp report
was heard, and M. Labori threw up
his arms aud cried Holala' (which
is ccommon French exclamationl,
and fell fiat upon his face. and one
or two others who saw the deed ran
up. but the murderers had vanished
down the lane. Help was immediately
sent for, and the gendarmes quickly
arriyed, and soon afterward Madame
Labori.''
NJ. Labori, on falling, retained pres
ence of mind enough to arrangeshis
dark morocco wallet, in which he car
|ried his paper, under his head for
Ipillow, until his wife arrived, when he
half raised himself, and dropped his
head in her lap. number of laborers,
who we're unloading barge Of stones
beside the river, heard. the shouts OF
murder, stop him. raised by the
rursuers, and one Of them placed him
Belf in the way of the murderer, who.
eovering him with a revolver, shouted
let me pass, have shot Dreyfus. !"
The man was SO taken aback that ne
brew aside, and allowed the assassin
HE fields, until he reached the rail-
load. He crossed the embankment, and
|pliowed the track until he arrived at
he level crossing. a train was Just
srriving at full speed, and the muir
erer dashed across the line in front of
Die train and toward the woods in the
Erection of the village of Chantepie,
here he was lost to view.
CobPicauart and his brother in-law,
d. CAST, who accompanied M. Labor
Do his way to the Lycee, pursued the
purderer for some distance, but, as
hey are both heavy men, they were
Inable to continue the pursuit, and SC
bturned to the side of the wounded
nan, leaving the chase Of the murderer
q number of laborers and peasants,
Fho declare they heard the murderer
lhy. when crossing the marshy fields be.
4bre he reached the railroad: II
Aan't got away, will go for them. +"
Madame Labori, wife of the wounded
|Awyer, was promptly notified OF tht
orime, and rushed to her husbands
side. She found him with his head OF
the sidewalk. and his body in the road
way. She threw herself by his side
land took his head in her lap, ane
MANNED him with oolored paper fan
(which she had evidently snatched VI
xs she left the house. M. Labori wa
phrfectly still. Not groan came from
his lips as his head rested in the lap o
Iijs wife, who. by the way, is an Amer
III. AS she famed him with her righ
and, she caressed him with her left
szing lovingly on his upturned face
- tried to smile back the tears whicl
2]istened in his wife's eyes, and she
mastering her feelings heroically, di'
Sferything possible to ease her hus
fAnd's agony.
lt is reported that the famous lawyer
I6id, ms he lay wounded on the ground
'l may die from this, but Dreyfus
we'd. T"
zAt 7.30 O'Clock, it was announce
||at the bullet had entered the stomach
|||ht there was no outward bleeding
ia that the physicians believed tha
Labori would die from the wounc
The following bulletin has bee
zued: I'M. Labori was shot from ht
Ind, the ball penetrating the posteric
{6gion of the thorax, on the right sid'
2&the height of the fifth or sixth dorsi
rtebrae. The heavy flow Of bloc
events, for the moment, exploratio
6X the depth of the wound. III
4dersigned doctors hope that the ba
lodged in the muscles enveloping I'll
II ftebral column. They must, howeve
iDtain today full reserve respectir
"a integrity of the lung and spin
I'd" The bulletin is signed by TO,
ttors, Renaud, Reichis, Brissau
b Vidal, and timed at $40 o'cloe
s morning.
ennes, France, Aug. Ia. -Furth
I1tails regarding the shooting of n
! bori show that the sky was oyerca
: len he left his house, accompanit
Col Picquart and the latter
! ther in. law, M. Cast. M. Labo
! - laughing and chatting with h
<ppanions when he was shot. III
t fty was passing the Quai Richmon
+ ~ was about to cross the Chata
bud bridge, when man hidd'
ind wooden fence,at the corner
quai, stepped out and fired ut \
|pori. The wounded man fell to q
5 4und. He tried to rise, and put h
4, pd to the wound in his back, al
nght the hand back covered wi
. pd. As he lay there, with his cloth
9 pred with the dust in which he b,
y en, he said in faint voice:
you to. give me my stick. and n
q ers. GO and tell them to suspel
proceedings"
g be shot had been heard 200 var
N from the avenue De La Gar
s be q crowd had gathered as usp
d itness the arrival Of the princiT
= onages connected with the couI