The times., 1899-08-15
NOISY CROWDS IN PARIS.
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| AAN- S-.S9o- AlrIiIG ltSGldHS6 Is HCN CaI6-
fully guarded
The effect of tcday's tragic event On pub
| lie sentiment is strange TO Anglo Saxen
| perceptions. The news of the shooting
| was received with absolute sangfroid A
prominent officer who is not involved in
the Dreyfus case, asked ncnchalantly
| where Labor had been shot When in
formed he replied with a shrug of the
shoulders, 'oh, that's nothing" and such
seems to represent the attitude of the
| Rennes public. One now wonders what
will be the next move of Dreyfus' enemies
story of the Assault.
Now that the smoke of the assailant' s
| pistol has cleared away it is compara-
| lively an easy task to gain just under
| standing of the assault The circum-
stances of the shooting as explained by NJ
| i-abori himself, Colonel Picquart, the lat
| ters brother-in-law, NJ CAST, and other
| witnesses, would make it appear that
M Labori, accompanied by Nine. Labori,
| colonel Picauart, and NJ. Cast left the
Labori temporary residence at 8 o'clock
and strolied leisurely along the road
/
which the momentous trial is progressing
The Labori residence is in the suburbs CT
Rennes and the walk to the scene of the
trial requires usually about fifteen min
utes The roadway connecting the two
points is rather lonely one and winds
along the bank of the river Vilaine About
midway between the residence and the
Lycee that river flows under bridge
known locally as st. Georges Bridge. As
the party approached this place, Nine.
Labori exclaimed that she had forgotten
her ticket Of admission to the court room
| She hastened back to get it, while the
| three men mentioned loitered till she
/ should return. They strolled at times
very slowly in the direction of the bridge
| The Shot Fired.
| At the point of attack the road is bound
on the one side by the river and on the
! other by an open field. Between the road
| way and the field there grows a hedge. A
man lay concealed behind this growth OF
summer green. Nine Labori was seen re-
turning with her ticket, and the men again
paused till she might come up. NJ. Labori
turned his back to the hedge. There was
q puff of smoke, a jet of scarlet fame,
and a sharp report. With a groan, NJ.
Labori sank to the dusty road Colonel
| Picquart knelt at once by his side. The
stricken man implored the colonel to fol-
low his asssilant, who at that moment was
making his flight across the field.
Colonel Piequart and NJ Cast climbed the
hedge and made vain pursuit of the
fugitive They are heavy men and unused
TO great physical activity. Several peas
ants had by that time joined in the chase,
and Colonel Picquart and NJ. Cast returned
to where the wounded man lay. 1t is re-
ported that as Colonel Picquart went over
the hedge he shouted "Oh. for my sword
All the members OF the Labor party were
unarmed.
Several laborers, who at the time of the
shooting were discharging a barge at
dry dock close by, made after the criminal.
All this happened before Nine. Labori could
reach the spot She did not know that her
husband had been shot till she entered the
group that surrounded him. Before
she reached him, however, NJ. Labori said
to the onlookers, 41f / die before nay wife
comes, tell her that my last thought was
OF her"
When Nine. Laberi knelt by his side he,
in a CHEEKY voice, asked her to uncross his
legs, which were doubled beneath him. She
did so and he was then able TO move his
limbs as his spine had not been touched.
When his legs were Strengthened out he
+ba, bf al Al Iay vii
his mead in his wife's lap until stretcher
arrived.
When Maitre Demange arrived from the
court room little later, NJ. Labori greeted
him cheerfully. saying; Good morning,
my dear colleauge. This is the best play
that could possibly have been made for
Dreyfus.'
A Pathetic Scene.
II was pathetic scene between husband
and wife there in the dusty road by the
river Vilaine before the arrival of stretch
er Nine Labori, who was an English
woman before her marriage, famed her
husband with one hand and lovingly ca
ressed him with the other. at has been re-
ported here that while the lawyer lay
stricken ne said to his wife:
81 may die from this, but Dreyfus is
saved"
Go and tell them" said NJ. Labori to
man, Ito suspend the proceedings.
By this time people were arriving from
all directions. There had been crowd
gathered in the Avenue de la Care, and all
these people made directly for the scene
of the shooting The shot had been heard
across the river at st. Georges barracks,
and men hastened from that point. Mount
ed gendarmes galloped up, and soon came
the commissary of police. Then there came
the ambulance which had been called.
Four attendants brought forth stretcher
covered with a mattress. NJ. Labori was
lifted upon this and borne slowly back
to his temporary residence. 1t is charged
that half an hour elapsed between the
sending in of the ambulance call and the
arrival of that vehicle. Surgical aid was
rendered by DR.. Reclus.
The Laborer,s Account.
A laboIer by name Patoux, was an eye
witness to the shooting, and to NJ. Henion,
sub-chief of the secret police, he gave this
description of the assailant:
Twenty-Five or thirty years old; fiat,
peaked hat; dressed like workingman;
blue blouse"
Just as the clock struck the hour for be-
ginning the proceedings of the Dreyfus
court martial, NJ Taunay, a Paris press re-
porter, rushed into the hall. crying: "a
doctor, doctor; NJ. Labori has been
wounded" Physicians who were present