Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-08-15

ground: 81 may die from this but
Dreyfus is saved"
At 2 o'clock this afternoon M. La
bori was suffering great agony and the
doctors, who had left the house, were
hurriedly summoned to attend the pa
tient.
COL Jouaust called after the close OF
the session of the court martial ana
was allowed to see NJ. Labor. He ex-
pressed his deep regret at the occur
renee.
Gen. MERCER followed but the doc
tors declared that M. Labor could
not bear such an interview in his
present state ai< Gen. MERCER was
obliged to go away without seeing the
wounded man.
Further details regarding the shoot
ing of NJ. Labori show that the SKY
was overcast when NJ Labori left his
house accompanied by Col. Picquart
and the latter's brother-in-law, NJ
Cast. M. Labor was laughing and
chatting with his companions when he
was shot. The party was passing the
Quai Richmond and was about 10
cross the Chataubriand bridge, when
a man hidden behind a wooden fence,
at corner of the quai, stepped out and
fired at NJ. Labor.
The wounded man fell to the ground.
He tried to rise and put his hand to
the wound in his back and brought the
hand back covered with blood. AS he
lay there, with his clothes covered with
the dust in which he had fallen, he said
in a faint voice: Il beg you to give me
my stick and my papers.
go and tell them" he added, with
a final effort, "to suspend the proceed
ings"
The shot had been heard 200 yards
away from the Avenue de la Care,
where a crowd had gathered as usual
to witness the arrival OF the principal
personages connected with the court
martial. These spectators ran in the
direction of the spot where the shoot
ing had occurred, followed by gen.
darnes on horseback.
The shot was also heard at the St.
Georges barracks, across the river,
where it was soon known that NJ Labor
had been attacked.
The wounded man asked to have a
carriage called to convey him to resi-
dence and to have DR.. Reclus summon
ed.
When the doctor arrived he knelt be-
side NJ Labor, putting bottle of smell
ing salts to his nostrils. Around these
central figures were grouped the spec
tators, all deeply affected, some indeed
crying like children. At little dis
lance was gathered a group. the central
figure of which was the commissary of
in hand 10 dnUn
the testimony of the eye-witnesses of
the affair.
The scene of this pathetic picture
was a 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 a
green meadow with a stream flowing
through it and beyond that the backs
of row of houses.
The road that NJ. Labori had 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 had walked to
perhaps his death.
A Gordon of mounted gendarmes was
drawn up as quickly as possible about
10 yards apart, and in the space within
which were the two groups already de-
scribed.
An ambulance, which had been sum-
moned, arrived with four attendants of
the military hospital, bearing an ordi-
nary stretcher, on which was placed a
blue and white striped mattress. On
this M. Labori was tenderly laid and
the stretcher was borne by friends of
NJ. Labor and some newspapermen,
with Nine Labori walking behind it.
The only cry that Labori gave after
he was injured was when he was lifted
to the stretcher, which the pain caused
by the movement drew from him.
The party proceeded slowly back in
the middle of the roadway to NJ. La
boris temporary residence, where he
had rented furnished house for use
during the continuance of the court
martial. 1t is situated in a somewhat
deserted neighborhood, the place on
which it is located leading into the
main road running to Rennes.
Accounts of the shooting repeated by
eye-witnesses differ considerably. es-
pecially respecting the appearance Of
the would-be murderer. of whom the
following is the official description:
twenty-five to thirty years. Flat,
peaked hat. Dressed like a working
man, in a blue blouse"
4 force of gendarmes. headed by NJ.
Hennion, sub-chief of the secret police,
is securing the country in search of
NJ. Labori's asSailant, and a company
of infantry has been dispatched to sur
round and beat the woods wherein the
man is supposed TO be hiding.
An incredible side of the outrage is
the fact it is asserted, that several pas
sers-hy saw NJ. Labori shot and passed
on indiferently neither offering to help
the victim nor joining in the pursuit
Of the assassin.
Still more incredible is the fact that
an individual who went to the side of
N. Labor as he lay wounded, is said
TO have searched the pockets of the
suffering man on the pretext of ascer-
tanning his identity and stolen their
contents.
The assailant fed after the shooting,
holding his revolver in his hand, with
his finger on the trigger. and threat
ened several men who showed a dispo-
sition to block his way.
The correspondent of the Associated
Press at 10:45 this morning saw one
of the doctors at NJ. Labori's house,
which was guarded by four gendarmes.
The doctor said that NJ Labori was
bearing the agony he was suffering with