The record-union., 1899-08-15
The Long Beca|med Town Now in a
Violent Passion.
Stirred Up BY the Sensational Shooting Of
Counsel Labor.
Emily Crawford's Picture Of the
Scenes at the French Town, the
Lawyer Who Was Dangerously
Wounded and the Wife Of the
Victim.

Copyrighted, 1899, by Associated Press)
RENNES, Aug. 1.-THE drama at
Rennes grows tragical. That long be-
Gained town is being stirred into q
more violent passion than Paris. Inc
Parisians are laboriOus. The Bretons
are silent and possessed by their be-
lief or idea, whatever it may be.
This morning at s o'clock Well-nlgn
successful attempt was made to Kill
Al. Labor, who defended lola last year
and who came here to defend Dreyfus
with M. Demange. The would-be as
sassin was evidently a crank, and
looked like workingman. His wea-
pom was a revolver and the theatre OF
the crime the quai Richemont. 1t was
while Labor was going to the court
with Colonel PicQuart and his cousin,
NJ. Cast.
When Nine. Labor came up she was
sent to fetch a doctor, and, not know
ing the town, she lost a good deal OF
time. At last she thought of gong
to the court, and asking there for
military surgeon. Doctors Vidal ana
Eeclus were at hand. and at once &C
companied/ her. They had the pres
ence of mind to send gendarmes to the
barracks for an ambulance. with
stretcher and bearers.
With deep thankfulness they found
that NJ. Labor could move his limbs at
WILL The spine,, therefore, was not
injured The ball had entered at the
sixth vertebra behind the thorax. 1t
might be embedded in the muscle OF
the back, or have penetrated deeper,
injuring 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 from the event was foreshad-
owed in my cable last evening. The
two opposite forces are in line OF bat
tie. Fanaticism has been appealed to,
and heard the call.
Colonel Picquart describes the would
be murderer as swarthy and thick set,
resolute and intelligent looking. he
thinks the man might be southern.
If so, he must have known the country
around Rennes. 1t is a country or
small patchy fields, separated by
hedges, which he was evidently tamil
lar with. Apparently he knew places
in the thicket into which he could dive
and in doing so remained concealed for
some time from a pursuer. The gen.
darmes that Picquart met, Joined the
pursuit, but fleet running and knowl-
edge of the locality enabled the would
be murderer to escape.
NJ Labor is young, fair, handsome
and full of lusty life and high spirits.
His talents as a speaker are not OF the
highest, but no other member of the
Paris bar knows better, how to use law
to defeat it's object. He can drive a
motor car through the code. Until he
pleaded for lola his luck was uninter-
rupted He then had an attack Of
typhoid fever, which greatly weakened
him and forced him to neglect business.
The Zola affair was a great advertise
ment, but it brought him no direct
profit, and created for him endless enc
mics He refused the handsome fee
the novelist offered, nor does he ac-
cept pecuniary reward from Dreyfus.
Labor is proud of his wife's beauty
She is equally proud of his good looks
and talents and loses no opportunity
to hear him plead. She is an Aus
tralian; received, as pianist, her mu-
steal education in London; became a
,player at concerts; made the acquaint-
ance of the deformed but highly gifted
Russian pianist Pachmann; married
him, had two children, and then fell In
love with Labor. The passion was
mutual. She and Pachmann were d.
vorced, and then she married Labori.
The children live with her and find
devoted stepfather in him.
Nine. Labor had attended all the
public sittings of the Rennes court
martial. Her beauty is beyond dis
pute. She is a striking blonde, and.
though her path has not been always
strewn with roses, she expresses the
JOY of life in splendid health and
satisfied heart.
Labor, not long convalescent from
typhoid fever. is in a bad state to re-
ceive ball entering the thorax through
the back He is now in a high fever,
and there may be dangerous complica-
tons later
In the courtroom the President of the
Association of Legal Journals, NJ. Tau
nay, we'll known as the organizer of the
International Press Congress, jumped
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