Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-08-17


message to suspend the sitting Of the
celgt.
Tlis%xcitement caused at the Lycee was
intense, as might be imagined under the
intense strain of factional hatred, and it
was necessary at one time for the gendar-
mes to interpose between the excited
spectators, who precpitated fight in the
court room.
NO PRECAUTIONS TAKEN.
The attack on Dreyfus through the per-
son of his most effective counsellor was
wholly unexpected, as was shown by the
lack of precautions against it. How SER
iously it may affect the>prisoner's chance
before the court is yet doubtful, but it is
sure to renew the high tension between
the opposing factions, both at Rennes and
Paris.
NJ Labor and his wife left his house for
the court at six o'clock this morning His
residence is situated in the suburbs of the
town, about quarter of an hours walk
from the Lycee, the route being along
solitary road beside the river Viaine.
Just before the outrage his wife turned
back, having forgotten her card of adj
mission to the court. While she was
gone, NJ. Lobori met Colonel Picquart and
n. Cast. Immediately afterward, while
passing q narrow lane, two men spranG
from behind the hedge, and one placing
pistol close to his victims back, fired turn
ed and fled down the lane and across the
fields. The murderer, or murderers, for
accounts differ as to whether there was
one or two, was pressed by NJ, Cast and
Colonel Picqusrt. They were both too
old and heavy to overtake him and soon
returned, leaving the chase to the crowd
that had been attracted.
His wife arrived while NJ. Labor was
lying on the ground, and Colonel Picquart
and NJ. Cast were pursuing the murderefs.
M. Labor said to his wife:
"Go to the court and ask to suspend
the sitting
Madame Labori ran into the court, gave
the news that her husband had been shot
and ran back to him. She sat down on
the ground beside her husband and took
his head in her lap.
CROWD HEARD THE SHOT.
The shot had been heard two hundred
wards away from the avenue De La Care,
where a crowd had gathered as usual to
witness the arrival of the principal person
ages connected with the court martial
The spectators ran in the direction of the
SPOT where the shooting had occurred, fol-
lowe by gendarmes on horseback.
When DIR. Reclus arrived, he knelt be-
side III. Labor, putting bottle of smell
ING salts to his nostrils. Around the 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 testi-
money of the witnesses Of the affair.
The scene of the pathetic picture was
q dusty high road, the dark, green slow
waters of the river Vilaine on one side,
and ON the other side scattered houses,
with a gap just opposite the spot,
through which could be seen green mea-
dow with a stream flowing through it, and
beyond that the backs of row of houses.
The road that NJ Labori bad followed
tapered away back from the scene Of the
tragedy with row Of trees along the
border of the Vilaine, under whose leafy
shelter M. Labori walked to perhaps his
death.
An ambulance, which had been sum-
moned, arrived with four attendants OF
the military hospital bearing an ordinary
stretcher and mattress. On this, NJ. La
bori was tenderly laid, and the stretcher
borne by friends of NJ Labor and some
newspaper men, with Madame Labor
walking beside it.
Accounts of the shooting related by
eve witnesses differ considerably, espe
cially respecting the appearance Of the
would.be murderer, Of whom the follow
lowing is the official description;
twenty-five or thirty; fiat, peaked
hat. dressed like woiking-man, in
blue blouse"
SEARCH EoR TIE ASSASSIN.
A force of gsndarme', headed by M.
Hennion ,b-chief of the secret police, is
ACQUIRING the country in search of NJ.