Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-08-15
Doctors Now Think Wounded French
Lawyer Will Recover.
NO CLUE TO The ASSASSIN
Evidence That There Were Several
in Murder Plot.
LABORI'S POCKET RELIED

| RENNES, August 15.-AIaitre Labori,
counsel for Capt. Alfred Dreyfus, who was
| shot from ambush here yesterday while on
| his way from his residence to attend the
court-1nartial. after a night of terrible
agony is now doing well that the doc
| tors consider him out of danger. He lies
| on his back, unable to move, but life is
| turning to the leg which yesterday
! thought to be paralyzed. He has no fever,
and continues to discuss the trial. His
wife has remained at his bedside practi-
! cally ever since he was wounded. Natural
| ly she is much relieved at the favorable
| reports of the doctors. who hope to see the
| distinguished lawyer on his feet before the
| trial is ended.
Wounded Mans Pockets Rified.
/ The correspondent of the Associated
Press here obtained complete confederation
| today of the statement that the pockets Of
Laborfs coat were rified yesterday while
he was lying on the ground wounded. Not
only were the pockets of his coat emptied.
but an attempt was made to steal the wall
let in which were important papers
ferring to the court-martial including his
notes for the cross-examination of Gen.
| Mercier. NJ. Labori has himself related the
incident. He had just fallen, and saw one
of two men run to his side. One of these
said:
His coat must be taken off. He will be
too hot
The speaker then took the wounded ad-
vocates coat off, and another man seized
the wallet. NJ. Labori. however. retained
his presence of mind and refused to allow
the wallet to be taken out of his hands.
putting it under his head for pillow and
holding 1t with one hand. The coat was
chn aft -orlr on ~, On rriy
ing at his residence NJ. Labori asked mis-
wife to look in his pockets and if their
contents were safe. Nine. Labori found
the pockets completely emptied.
Got Nothing of Importance.
Luckily. papers of Importance were
in the pockets, which only contained per-
sonal letters. including menacing letters
received on lie previous day. The rltling
of the lawyers pockets of the papers and
the attempt to steal his wallet, while no
effort was made to appropriate his watch
or money, are regarded clear evidence
of plot in which several men were impii-
Gated.
The man who actually fired the shot it
appears. was only one part of the ma
chinery of the conspirators. In spite of the
extensive search made for the would-be as
sassin, he is still at large, and the impress
SION Is gaming ground tnat ne IS Deing
aided by the anti-Dreyfus country people
The doctors in attendance upon NJ. Labori
have sent to Paris for X-ray apparatus
in order to locate the bullet
New Forgery Discovered.
PARIS, August 15.-The Matin today
makes the announcement that Maitre La
bori, after he was shot yesterday, declared
that, the outcome of his injury appeared
oyb frl no tn l,a
fact that NJ. Chamcin, who has charge of
the secret documents in the Dreyfus case,
has discovered a new forgery in the dos
sier.
The anarchist organ, LIE Journal Gu Peu-
pie says that, in retaliation for the outrage
General Mercfer and NM Drumont, Roche
fort and Judet hostages and personally
responsible for anything done against the
anarchists
At the annual banquet of Bonapartists
today, M. Mignol presiding, a telegram
saying he relied ON the various committees
to act energetically under the present
grave circumstances. The reading of the
telegram was greeted with shouts OF ''Vive
Fempereur!' "Vive Guerini'
The young royalists also assembled at
banquet at St. Maur, today, in honor of
the name-day of the Duchess of Orleans
Violent attacks We're made on the recent
measures of the government.