The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-08-15


tors Vidal and Reclus were at hand and
at once accompanied her They had the
presence of mind to send gendarmes To
the barracks for an ambulance with a
stretcher and bearers.
With deep thankfulness they found NJ
Labori could move his limbs at will. The
| spine therefore was not Injured. The bail
! had entered at the sixth vertebrae behind
the thorax. 1t might be imbedded in the
muscles of the back or have penetrated in
the lungs.
| However, the thing was to bear the
wounded advocate to the pretty and gay
| looking villa he had hired for use during
the trial. villa adorned with green slabs
of Faience, 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 cable last night. TWO
opposite forces are in line of battle. Fan
atheism has been appealed to and has an-
swered the call.
| Colonel Picquart describes the would
| be murderer as swarthy and thickset,
resolute and Intelligent looking. He thinks
the man might be a southerner If so, he
must have known the country around Rem
| mes. 1t is country or small patchy
fields, separated by hedges, which he was
evidently familiar with. Apparently he
| knew places in the thicket into which ne
! could dive and in doing SO remain con-
cealed for some time from pursuer Ine
gendarnes that Colonel Picquart met
Joined in the pursuit, but running ana
the locality aided the murderer In his es-
cape.
NJ. 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 man knows better how
to use law to secure its object. Until he
pleaded for Zna his luck was uninter-
rms nj ted 7 Ta n tynlOid
fever. which greatly weakened him and
forced him to neglect business. The lola
affair was a great advertisement, but 1t
brought him no direct profit and created
for him endless enemies He refused the
hands me fee the novelist offered nor does
he accept pecuniary reward from Dreyfus
Laoon is proud of his wife's beauty. sne
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 education in Lon
don, became player at concerts made
The acquaintance of the Russian pianist,
Bachmann, married him. had two children
and then fell in love with Labori. The
passion was mutual. She and Bachmann
We're divorced and then she married La
bori. The children live with her and find
a devoted step-father in him.
Nine. Labori had attended all the public
sittlngs OF the Rennes court martial. Her
beauty is beyond dispute She is a strik-
ing blond and, although her path has
not always been strewn with roses she
expresses the joy of life in splendid
health and a satisfied heart.
What bolt from the blue sky the
mornings event has been to her. She
seemed the happiest woman alive when
she set out this morning. In less than
ten minutes her life was blighted
Labor, not long convalescent from
typhus is in a bad state to receive a
shock He is now in a high fever and
there may be danger of complications
later.
heard of the attempted assassination
shortly after o'clock, as / was entering
corridor leading TO the hall OF Justice 81
the Lycee. There I saw Nine. Labori rush
ing from the opposite direction, pale as
death. with surgeon in military uniform
beside her. All had an air of intentness
Their thoughts certainly did not run on |
the Dreyfus case. Then officers and police /
rushed out of the guard room and ran in |
the same direction.
What is the NATTER" | asked.
'Labori has been wounded with pistol |
shot and is probably now dead"
Who wounded him?'
Probably mad man. A country woman
heard him shout as he ran away I have
killed Dreyfus.'
Terrible as the news was l felt | must
not follow Nine. I4abori. but must gain my
place in the court. which l found crowded
as the sitting was about to commence
The president of the Association OF
Journalists. NJ Taunay, well-known orr
ganizer of the International Press con-
gress. jumped upon a table .nd exclaimed:
m. Labor has been fred at and wound
ed"
The announcement caused deep hush. /
Solemn silence reigned for .hree or four
minutes Possibly 1t was the silence of
stupor for all seemed stunned. At length
the nationalists and Dreyfusites declared
their horror OF the nrtme and their SYM
pathy for the victim.
We. on the Dreyfus side. remembered
how lavish he was of his vitality, how he
never spared himself. how ne was always h
in the breach when violent ;ssault was
impending, how in the stress and hurry
of attending to Zolas affairs last year he
caught a pleurisy, was between life and
death, and, attended continually, brought
back from the grave by his wife. We re-
member that We all found pleasure in
seeing Nine, Labori at Rennes. WIN her
blonde hair. fine figure motherly blue !
eyes. and graceful walk. with all that I
she looked Ceres, who had not yet lost
Prosperina. We called her the ''Bonna.
dea" or God Goodness" We all feit az
the news arrived, fortunately not COM
Armed that M Labori's state wis bone I
less, as II we had lost brother CT whom f,
we were all justly proud. We Drey.nsites
also remembered how pleasant was La. c
BORIS blue. eye whenever. catching that ,
of a friend in court, 1t lighted IN. He
must have literally had a cowerfnl tear, I
that drove the blood everywhere WIN
strong beats The fresh complexion de- q
clared fine arterial circulation. =
He always has been unconyentiona,
largely because he is the son Of simnpa' c
useful folk. The father is an Asatian and S
a station master at Chalons He Is In tha >
secret OF the steps TO be taken IN rscard n
to railroad transport OF troops when .