The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-08-17
LIES ON THE WITNESS STAND.


copyright 1890 by Associated Press.
Rennes, France, August, 16.-The
Bretons are first cousins of the Irish,
though without Irish wit and gaiety.
But they have taste for personal adorn-
ment and picturesque costumes. They
are very like the Irish in their sympa,
thy with outlaws, especially if the out
lawry be due to serving cause by un-
lawful means dear to the common people.
We see this in the vain attempts of the
police to seize the man who shot NJ,
Labor in the back. The whole country
has been vainly secured for him, but as
all the country folk refuse to give infor-
ma tion or only speak to mislead, the pO,-
ice will probably go ON searching fruit
lessly.
The Catholic feeling of the whole dis
trct has been aroused against Dreyfus,
and runs higher than ever since the
Archbishop issued pastoral announcing
THAT no open air procession IN honor of
the Virgin must take place at the Festi-
val of the Assumption. He has ordered
the clergy, in the interest of peace, to
coffine the procession to the Cathedral
and other churches. The general CON
clusion dedrced from the Episcopal pas,
toral has been that the Dreyfusards, who
are either Jews, free-thinkers or bias
phemers, intended to insult religion and
breed disturbances. As a consequence
a slrllen feeling is shown, As matter
of fact nobody more deeply regrets the
introduction of the assumption procession
in the former capital of Brittany than the
friends of Dreyfus, particularly his
friends in the press.
The latter had hoped to find the pro-
cession rich in local color and an in.
teresting subject for dispatches.
Maitre Labor had been liy,
ing in house unsheltered from
the sun and in rather busy
quarter. 1t was thought desirable
to transfer him to a more quiet suburb,
and he is now at Professor Basch's
house, quite in the country, though closer
to Rennes. 1t is an old fashioned home
stead built of granite and snugly slated.
with farm-yard on one side and on the
other large, old-fashioned, shady gar
den. The place is surrounded by high
walls that might stand siege.
The removal took place on hand am
bulance cart, which one man drew and
two pushed Labor suffered fearfully on
the way, the bullet still being imbeddcd
i'm the dorsal muscle. There is, how
ever, no fever, though he chafes dread
fully at losing the opportunity to tackle
the military witnesses. 1t has been re-
marked that THE Deryfus case brings him
fame and bad luck. Since he first con
cerned himself with it, he has been at
tackled with pleurisy and typhoid fever
and now he is shot in the back.
me seriousness of his state was hid
den in the hope that the trial might be
adjourned pending his recovery. 1t was
a rather unreasonable expectation, how
ever, desirable from the view point of
the defense Maitre Demange's apDli-
cation for an adjournment today was
roughly dismissed. Madame Labor, to
show that her husband was recovering
rapidly, attended the session. She was
sorely disappointed at the news she had
to convey, and she said he would be
even more so.
ioday's witnesses were Senator Cue
rim, VINO was Colonial Minister at the
time Dreyfus was sent to Cayenne;
Madame Henry, widow of the suicide,
and NJ. Lebon, who was Colonial Min
lister for more than two years and who
ordered the palisade, or high fence, to
be placed around the hut on the Isle OF
Devils. Gnerin is a provincial attorney
in Carpentras, where they know nothing
of the Dreyfus case, except what they
have learned from the papers.
/ happen to know that he was ac.
quainted with the prisoners late father
who was naturalized a Frenchman in