The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-08-15


Labor left his house accompanied by
Colonel Picquart and the latter's bro
ther-in-law, NJ. Cast. NJ. Labor was
laughing and chatting with his COM
panions when he was shot. The party
was passing the quai Richmond and
was about to cross the Chateaubrland
bridge when a man. hidden behind a
wooden fence. at a corner of the quai,
stepped out and fired at NJ. Labor.
The wounded man fell To the ground.
He tried to rise and put mis- hand to
the wound in his back and brought the
hand back covered with blood. As he
lag there. with his clothes covered with
the dust in which he had fallen, he
said in a faint voice.
II beg you 10 give me my stick and
my papers. Go and tell them" he ad-
ded with final effort, Ito suspend the
proceedings"
NJ. Labor retained presence of mind
enough to arrange his dark morocco
wallet in which he carried his papers
under his head for a pillow until his
wife arrived. when he half raised him.
;, self and dropped his head in her lap.
Threatened His Pursuers.
number of labcrers who were I'M
loading a barge of stones beside the
river heard the shouts of murder.
stop him" raised by the pursuers, and
one of them placed himself in the way
of the murderer. who. covering him
with a revolver shouted:
Let me pass. / have shot Dreyfus."
The man was so taken aback that he
drew aside and allowed the assassin to
proceed.
The murderer ran across the fields
until he reached the railroad. He
crossed the embankment and followed
the track until he arrived al the Lowell
crossing A train was just arriving at
fun speed and the murderer dashed
across the line in front of the train and
toward the woods in the direction Of
tine village Of Chantepieu, where he was
lost to view.
Colonel Picquart and his brOther-in-
law. NJ. Cast. who accompanied M. La
bori on his way to the Lycee, pursued
the murderer for some distance, but as
they were both heavy men they We're
unable TO continue the pursuit and so
returned TO the side Of the wounded
man, leaving the chase of the murderer
to a number of laborers and peasants.
who declare they neard he murderer
say when crossing the marshy fields
before reaching the railroad:
IT I can't get away l will go for
them
His Wife By His Side.
Madame Labor. wife of the murdered
.lawyer. was promptly notified of the
= crime and rushed to her husbands side.
She found him with his head on the
sidewalk and his body in the roadway. /
She threw herself by his side and took
his head in her lap. and famed him
with a colored paper which she had evil
IDENTIFY snatched up as she left the
house.
NJ Labor was perfectly still. Not a
groan came from his lips as his head :
rested in the lap Of his wife. who, by I
the waV. is an American. As she I
famed him with her right hand, she 1
/ !, l,ft 10y
insly on his upturned face. He tried !
10 smile back at the tears which Glis |
tened in her eyes and she, mastering /
her feelings. did everything possible TO |
ease her husbands agony. 1t IS re- /
ported that the famous lawyer said, as /
he lay wounded on the ground:
u may die from this, but Dreyfus is |
saved"
The shot had been heard 200 Yards .
away in the Rue de. La care, where a |
crowd had gathered, as usual. TO wit
ness the arrival of the principal per-
sonages connected with the courtmar-
tial. The spectators ran in the direc-
ton whence the shooting had occurred,
followed by gen d'armes on horseback.
The shooting was also heard at the St.
Georges barracks, across the river.
where it was soon known that VI. La
bori had been attacked.
Spectators Deeply Affected
The wounded man asked to have a
carriage called TO convey him to his
residence, and have DR.. Reclus sum
moned. When the doctor arrived. he
knelt beside NJ. Labor, putting bottle
Of smelling salts to mis- nostrils. Around
these central figures were grouped theI
spectators. ell deeply affected. some,
indeed, cryiIg Ike children. At a little
distance was gathered another group.
the central figure of which was the
cOmmissary of police. note book in
hand, taking down the testimony of the
: eyewitnesses Of the affair.
The road that NJ. Labor mad followed
tapered away back from the scene OF
the tragedy. with row of trees along
the border of the Nilaine, under whose
ieafy shelter M Labor mad walked 10
perhaps his death.
4 Gordon of mounted gen d'armes
was drawn up as quickly as possible
about fifteen yards apart. and in the
space within which were the two groups ,
already described. An ambulance
which had been summoned arrived. |
with four attendants of the military ,
hospital. bearing an ordinary stretcher,
on which was placed 4 blue and white
striped mattress On this NJ LabOri ,
WAS teaderly laid. and the stretcher was
borne by friends and some newspaper
men, with Nine. Labor walking beside
-.
Suffered Terrible Pain. ]
The only cry that II. Labor gave af-
ter his first groan was when he was
lifted 10 the Stretcher. when the pain
caused by the movement drew from him y
a moan. The party proceeded slowly t
back in the middle Of tho roadway to I
NJ. Labori's temporary residence. where +.
he had rented furnished house fOr use {
during the continuance of the court :
martial. II is situated in somewhat 5
deserted neighborhood. the place on
which il is located leading into the main +
road running % Rennes.
Accounts o. the shooting related by +
eye-witncsseS differ considerably. es- I
pecialiy respecting the appearance of 5
the ToUld-be murderer, of whom the $
following IS The official description: .
twenty-five to thirty years, fiat, r
peaked hat dressed like working a
mar in q blue blouse. Il I
"A force of gen darmes, headed by NJ. +