Connecticut western news., 1899-08-17
MAITRE LABORI SHOT.
Dreyfus' Counsel Victim of a
 Would Be Assassin.
EVIDENCE or A CONSPIRACY.

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 lice Unearth an orleani.t Plot.
 Paris. Aug. 16.-AIaitre Lsbori, coun- sel of Captain Dreyfus before the militia " court martial at Rennes, was shot in the back by a man in ambush while on his way to the courtroom Monday morn ing. The assassin escaped. It was at first believed that the wound was fatal. but the physicians are now hopeful of NJ. Labori's recovery.
 The attempt made upon the life of Maitre Labori was evidently the result of a plot. A letter was sent to the com missary of police Monday warning him that it was intended to make an attempt upon the life of General Mercier. Con- sequently the police and detectives sur rounded the general and left the other principals in the drama unprotected.
 M Labori had made great preparations for the cross examination of General Mercier on Monday, and it is asserted by the Dreyfusites that the attempt to put Labori out of the way was due 10 Mercier's fear that Labori would succeed in duplicating the ex-minister in the for geries of the secret dossiers.
 The Figaro this morning says Maitre Labori is getting on very we'll
 Maitre Demange has asked for a sus- pension of the sittings of the court mar tial until Monday. in the hope that La bori will then be able to wppear.
 Maitre Demange last night took let ter, written by Dreyfus, to the president of the court martial. asking that the next meeting of the court be adjourned until Maitre Labori is able to appear. Msitre Demange will propose holding sittings every two days when NJ. Labori Is able to attend.
 The Matin asserts that NJ. Fabre, the magistrate. now has proofs of a con spiracy against the republican govern ment and that the Orleanist party has expended considerable sums in nationalist propaganda.
 The police on Saturday arrested Paul Deroulede and other prominent agitstors, who, it is declared. were in a plot to over throw the government in the interest of the Duke of Orleans. -...a
 The warrant for the arrest of NJ. Cue rin. president of the Anti-Semite league, who. with sympsthixers. has been barri- caded since Saturday in the offices of the league. has been placed in the hands of Magistrate Fabre. Guerin is now re garded as an outlaw in a state of rebel lion since his notification of the issue of the warrant. He cannot claim the right of a citizen of exemption from arrest from sunset to sunrise, and the persons garrisoning the headquarters of the league, numbering about 40, are in the same box.
 Royaltsts and Imperialists Active.
 BanQuets were given last night to cele- brate the emperor's fete day. The most important was at Clichy. where the ban quet was presided over by Colonel Mig not, who was delegated to represent Prince Victor Napoleon. Baron Legoux president of the plebiscitary committee, made a speech in which he thanked the prince for delegating an officer to repre- sent him when France was in crisis and the army was daily attacked with increasing violence.
 Several other speeches were made. and there was much enthusiasm. Cheers were given for the emperor. the army, Paul Deroulede and Major Marchand.
 A telegram from Prince Victor was greeted with cries of ''Yive rempereur" and "Vive Guerin, vive le Fort Cha brol"' A colored engraving was dis played representing Prince Victor on horseback in the uniform of a French general.
 Another banquet organized by the Jeu- nesse Royaliste was given at Saint Mande.
 An address to the Duke of Orleans was voted, in which was the following: "In the presence of the provocations of the government and the arbitrary arrest of its president this union, its friends and all patriots without distinction af- firms anew its absolute confidence in the speedy denouement of the painful crisis through which France is passing and halls the Duke of Orleans alike the chief designated by national tradition and the savior of the country"