The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-08-18
HOSTILITY 70 DREYFUS
Manifested by People of
Brittany.
SEARCH FOR ASSAILANr
Of Labori by the Police Htndered by
Th-n-The catholic Feeling OF the
Bt,trict Aroused by Prohibition, In
she Cause OF Peace, OF Public Proces.
sions on the Assumption La boris
observation-disclosures penry's False
Testimony.


Observation-Disclosures Penry's Fa'se
Testimony.
Copyright by Associated PressD
Rennes, August 16.--The Bretons are
first cousins OF the Irish. though with
out Irish wit and gaiety; but they have
a greater taste for personal adornment
and picturesque costumes. They are
very like the Irish in their sympathy
with outlaws, especially II the outlaw
ry be due TO serving a cause by un-
lawful means dear TO the common peo-
pie.
We See this in the vain attempts OF
the police TO seize the man who shot
Nj. Labori in the back. The whole
country has been vainly secured for
him, but, as all the country folk refuse
to give information or only speak TO
mislead, the police will probably go on
searching fruitlessly.
The Catholic feeling Of the whole
district has been aroused against Drey-
fuG and runs higher than ever since
the archbishop issued a pastoral an
nouncing that no open air procession
in honor OF the Virgin must take place
on the festival OF the assumption. He
has ordered the clergy. in the interest
OF peace, to confine the procession to
the cathedral and other churches The
general conclusion deduced from the
Episcopal pastoral has been that the
Dreyfusards, who are either Jews. free
thinkers or blasphemers, intended 10
insult religion and breed disturbances.
AS a consequence, a sullen feeling In
shown. AS a matter OF fact. nobody
more deeply regrets the interdiction OF
the procession in the former capital
Of Brittany than the friends Of Drey-
fus, particularly his friends in the
press. The latter had hoped to find
the procession rich in local color and
an interesting subject for dispatches
Maitre Labori had been living in n
house unsheltered from the sun and in
rather busy quarter. II was thought
desirable to transfer him to n more
quiet suburb, and he is now at Pro-
fessor Basch's house, quite in the
country, though close TO Rennes. II ia
an old fashioned homestead. built OF
granite and snugly slated, with a farm
yard on one side and on the other a
I. large, oldfashioned shady garden The
place is surrounded by high walls that
might stand a siege.
The removal took place on n hand
ambulance cart. which one man dre,y
, and two pushed. Labori suffered fear
, fully on the way, the bullet stu being
. imbedded in the dorsal muscle There
, Is, however. no fever. though he chafes
: dreadfuly at losing the opportunity
to tackle the military witnesses II has
been remarked that the Dreyfus case
brings him fame and bad luck Since
he first concerned himself with IT, he
been attacked
| typhoid fever, and now he is shot ini
the back.
The seriousness OF his state was
hidden in the hope that the trial might
| be adjourned pending his recovery. II
was a rather unreasonable expectation.
| however desirable from the view point
| or the defense. Maitre Demange's an
! plication for an adjournment today
| was roughly dismissed. Madame La
! bori, to show that her husband was
, recovering rapidly, attended the ses-
| slons. She was sorely disappointed at
| the news she had to convey and she
| said he would be even more SO.
! YESTERDAYS COURT PROCEED
! INGS.
Today's witnesses were Senator Guer-
IN, who was colonial minister at the
| time Dreyfus was sent to CAYENNE.
| Madame Henry, widow OF the suicide
anu MT LeDOn, VINO was colonial min
| lister for more than two years and who
oroered the nigh fence to be placed
around the hut on the Isle OF Devils
! Guerin Is provincial attorney in
Carpentras, where they know nothing
oI the Dreyfus case. except what they
nave learned from the papers I ban-
pen 10 know that he was ACQUAINTED
: Wth the prisoners late father. who was
/ naturallzed a Frenchman in 1873 at
. Carpentras, where two OF his three
: daughters have since married. This
+ possibly, accounts for the tone of the
klnd feeling in VI. Guerin's deposition
Madame Henry, dressed in deem
/ mourning, came from the convent
where she Is staying. She says her age
Is 20 years. She Is COMMONPLACE ana
vulgar and shows, In her figure ana
| complexion, that she shared the good
cheer OF which the late Lieutenant Col
onel Henry was so fond
There Is very little in her evidence 7
notlce TWO lies. One was that she saw
1snry one night, at the dining room
table, pastlng the bordereau on a sbaet
or gummed paper and that II was torn
III small fragments. Now the nhoto
graph ! was shown of IL (Tha nhoto-
grapn was done for the intelligence de-
partment.) shows Il was simply torn,
haI way across, and was not in frag-
mentS. The other lie was that Ester
nazey was not known 10 Henry before
tne Plcquart duel, but she afterward
ADMITTED that Henry knew Esterhazey
many years previously in Tunis. She
was scarcely audible. but IL hardly
mattered. as she delivered herself or
lot of fustian about Henry's patriot
ism and devotion 20 the army.