The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-15
THE DRAMA AT RENNES.
Dreyfus Fanaticism Appealed To and the
Trial Grows TragicaI,

| Irial Grows 1ragicaI.
Copyrighted 1899 by Associated Press
Rennes, Aug. 1.-THE drama at
Rennes grows tragical. That long be-
Gained town is being stirred into a
more violent passion than Paris. The
Parisians are laborious. The Bretons
are silent and possessed by their belief
or idea, whatever it may be.
This morning at 6 o'clock yell
nigh successful attempt was male to
kill M. Labor, who defended lola last
year and who came here to defend
Dreyfus. with NJ. Demange The
| Would-be assassin was evidently a
crank and looked like a workman.
Ills weapon was a revolver AMI The
theater of the crime the Quai I:iche-
mont. 1t was while Labori 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 knowing
the town, she lost good deal Of time
At last she thought of going 10 the
| court and asking there for a military
| surgeon. Doctors Vidal and l;ec'us
were at hand and at once accompanied
her. They had the presence of mind
to send gendarmes to the barra clts for
an ambulance with a stretcher and
| bearers.
With deep thankfulness they found
! that NJ. Labori could move his limbs al
will. The spine, therefore. was not in
! Jured. The ball had entered at the
| sixth vertebrae. behind the thorax 1t
| might have embedded in the muscle Of
| the back or have penetrated deeper, in
juring 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, a 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 foreshadowed in my cable last
evening. The two opposite forces are
in line of battle. Fanaticism has been
appealed to and has answered the call
! Colonel Picquart described the MUIR
| derer as swarthy and thick set, reso-
Lutte and intelligent looking. He thinks
the man might be Southerner. If 50,
he must have known the country
| around Rennes. Apparently he knew
| places in the thicket into which he
could dive, and in doing So remain con-
| cealed for some time from a pursuer.
The gendarmes that Colonel Picquart
| met joined the pursuit, but fleet run
ming and knowledge of the locality en-
abled the would-be murderer to es-
| cape.
M. Labor is young, fair, handsome
| and full of lusty life and high spirits.
| His talents as speaker are not Of the
| highest but no other member of the
| DdT hHoWS better now 10 use law
| to defeat its object. He can drive a
motor car through the code. Until he
| pleaded for lola his luck was uninter-
| rupted. He then had an attach of
| typhoid fever which greatly weakened
| him and forced him to neglect business
The lola affair was great advertise
| ment, but 1t brought him no direct
profit and created for him endless
enemies. He refused the handsome
! fee the novelist offered, nor does he &C
cept pecuniary reward from Dreyfus.
Labori 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 Austral-
| IAN received, as pianist, her musical
education in London, became a player
at concerts. made acquaintance 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 divorced, and then
she married Labor. The children live
with her, and find a devoted stepfather
in him.
Nine. Labor had attended all the
public sittings Of the Rennes court
martial Her beauty is beyond dispute.
She is striking blonde, and although
her path has not been always strewn
with roses she expresses the joy of life
in splendid health and satisfied heart.
w nat d Doll the Dlue SKY lHlS
| morning the event has been to her.
She seemed the happiest woman alive
when she set out this morning. In less
than ten minutes her life had been
blighted. Labor, not long convalescent
from typhoid, Is in bad state to re-
ceive a ball entering the ,thorax
through the back. He is now in a high
fever and there may be dangerous COM
plicationS later.
l heard of the attempted assassination
shortly after this morning, as l was
entering a corridor leading to the hall
of justice in the Lycee. There l saw
Nine Labori running from the oppo-
site direction, pale as death, with a
surgeon in military uniform beside her
and a following of other persons All
had an air of intentness. Their
thoughts certainly did not run on the
Dreyfus case. Then officers and police
rushed out Of the guard room and ran
in the same direction.
What is the matter?" / asked.
"Labori has beer wounded by pistol
shot and is now probably dead"
Who wounded him."
Probably a mailman. A country
woman heard him gleefully shout as he
ran away, 1 have killed Dreyfus. -
Terrible as the news was, I felt that
| must not follow Nine. Labor, but
must gain my place in the court room,
which l found crowded, as the sitting
was about to commence.
The president of the Association of
Legal Journals NJ. Taunay. we'll known
as the organizer of the international
press congress, jumped upon a table
and exclaimed:
M. Labor has been fired at and
wounded"
The announcement caused a deep
hush Solemn silence reigned for per-
haps three or four minutes. Possibly
it was the silence of stupor, for all
seemed stunned At length the ma
tionalsts and Dreyfusites declared
their horror of the crime and their
sympathy with the victim.
We, on the Dreyfus side, remember
how lavish he was of his vital