The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-08-14
ASSASSINS
WayIay and Shoot Nj. LabOri,
Drey fus' Counsel,
In the Back While En- Route to
the Trial.
AT 6 THIS MORNING.
Bullet Entered His Body Near
the Spine.
Murderers Are Promptly Pur-
sued But Escape.
ssDREYFUS is SAVED"
Were the First Words Uttered
by the Wounded Man.
Pockets of the Wounded Man
Are Rified.
''DREYFUs is SAVED"
Were the First Words Uttered
by the Wounded Man.
Pockets of the Wounded Man
Are RifIed.


ambushed 0Iaitre Labori counsel for
Dreyfus. this morning. One shot was
fred, hitting Labori in the back M
Labor fell in the roadway. He is still
alive
NIaitre Labor left his house alone for
the court at O'Clock this morning. His
residence is in the suburbs about
quarter of an hours walk from the
Lycee, the route being along a soli-
tary road beside the river ViIaine-
He had reached a point half way on
his journey when two men who had
evidently been lying in wait for him,
rushed out of a narrow lane One Of
them fred a single shot from arevolver.
MURDERERS ESCAPE
The murderers were only a couple Of
yards behind their victim and the
bullet struck Maitre Labor in the
back.
The wounded man uttered an agoniz-
sng cry and fell fat on his face. The
rnurderers fed through the lane from
" hich they had emerged and escaped.
NJ. Labor on falling retained pres
ence of mind enough to arrange his
dark morocco wallet in which he car
ried his papers, under his head for
pillow until his wife arrived when he
half raised himself and dropped his
head in her lap.
A number of la.borers who were IN
loading a barge Of stones beside the
river, heard the shouts of Murder"
stop him. raised by the pursuers and
one of them placed himself in the way
of the murderer who covering him with
a revolver, shouted:
Let me pass; have shot Dreyfus."
The man was so taken aback that he
drew aside and allowed the assassin to
proceed.
LOST TO VIEW.
The murderer ran across the fields
until he reached the railway. He
crossed the embankment and followed
the track until he arrived at the level
crossing. A train was just arriving at
full speed and the murderer dashed
across the lane in front of the train
and toward the woods in the direction
of the village of Chantepie where he
was lost to view.
Col Picquart and his brother-in-law,
NJ. Cast, who accompanied NJ. Labori
on his way to the Lycee, pursued the
murderer for some distance, but as they
were both heavy men they were un-
able to continue the pursuit and so re-
turned to the side of the wounded man
leaving the chase of the murderer to
number of laborers and peasants who
declare they heard the murderer say
when crossing the marshy fields before
he reached the railroad: IF can't
get away will go for them
A SPOT WELL CHOSEN.
Only two or three Iaborers going to
Lahori. The spot was well chosen as
the murderers could not be seen by M
Labor until they rushed out on their
victim, the entrance to the lane being
hid by bushes. Moreover they were
afforded an easy means of escape by
passing back through the lane, which
led to the country One of the labOrers
named Patoux who witnessed the
shooting said; las I was passing
along the road I saw a tail man walk
ang quickly in the direction of Rennes.
He was on the towing path of the Va
laine- He was attired in a dark lounge
suit and wore a bowler hat. 1t was
just as he reached the bridge crossing
a stream falling into the Vilaine two
men about medium height and wearing,
dark suits and round soft felt hats
emerged from a rural path entering the
main road One Of them carried a heavy
stick They approached NJ Labor from
behind Suddenly one drew revolver
and fired point blank at Labori. He
was so near that it was quite impossi-
ble for him to miss
THREW UP HIS HANDS.
"A sharp report was heard and NJ.
Labor threw up his arms and cried.
'Ho la la (which is a common French
exclamation) and fell fat upon his face.
l ana one or two others who saw the
deed ran up but the murderers had
vanished down the lane. Help was i'm
mediately sent for and the gendarmes
quickly arrived and soon afterward
Madame Labor.
Madame Labor, wife of the wounded
lawyer was promptly notified of the
crime and rushed to her husbands side.
She found him with his head on the
sidewalk and his body in the roadway.
She threw herself by his side and took
his head in her lap and famed him with