Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-08-15
TIE RENNEs DRAMA.
Emily Crawford Reviews the Events
Surrounding Shooting of Labori.

Rennes, Aug 15.-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 1t may be.
| Monday morning at o'clock a well
| nigh successful attempt was made to
Kill NJ. Labori, who defended Zola last
year and who came here to defend
Dreyfus. with NJ. Demange. The
would be assassin was evidently a
crank and looked a workman. The
weapon was a revolver. the theater of
the crime the Quay Richemont. 1t was
while Labori was going to the court
with Col. Picquart and his cousin. NJ
Cast.
When Nine. Labori came up she was
sent for doctor. but not knowing the
town she lost good deal of time. At
last she thought Of going to the court
and asking there for military surgeon.
Drs. Vidal and Reclus We're at hand and
at once accompanied her. They had the
presence of mind to send gendarmes TO
the barracks for an ambulance with a
stretcher and bearers.
With deep thankfulness they found
that NJ. Labori could move his limbs
at will. The spine. therefore, was not
injured. The ball had entered at the
sixth vertebra. behind the thorax. 1t
might be imbedded in the muscles 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 of the event was foreshadowed in
my cable last evening. The two oppo-
site forces are in line of battle. Fanat-
isicm has been appealed 10 and has
answered the call.
| Colonel Plcquart describes the would
be murderer as swarthy and thick-set,
resolute, and MISUNDERSTANDING. He
thinks the man might be a Southron Ii
SO. he must have known the country
around Renaes. 1t is country of small.
patchy fields. separated by hedges,
which he was evidently familiar with.
Apparently he knew places in the thick
ct into which he could dive and in do
ing SO remain concealed for some time
from a pursuer. The gendarmes that
Col. Picquart met joined in the pursuit,
but fleet running and knowledge of the
locality enabled the would be murderer
to escape.
Nj. Labori is young. fair. handsome,
and full of lusty life and high spirits.
His talents as a speaker are not of the
highest order. but no other member of
the Paris bar knows better how to use
law to defeat its object. He can drive
a motor ear through the code. Until
! he pleaded for Zola his luck was unin-
terrupted. He had an attack of typhoid
fever, which greatly weakened him and
forced him to neglect business. The
Zola affair was great advertisement,
but it brought him no direct profit and
created for him endless enemies. He
refused the handsome fee the novelist
offered, nor does he accept 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 Australian.
received, as a pianist, her musical edu-
cation in London. became a player at
concerts made the acquaintance of the
deformed but highly gifted Russian
lpianist Pachmann, married him. had
two children. and then fell in love with
Labori The passion was mutual. She
and Pachmann We're divorced and then
she married Labori. The children live
with her and find devoted stepfather
in him.
| Nine. Labori had attended all the
public sittings Of the Rennes court mar
itial. Her beauty is heyond dispute She
is striking blonde. and. though her
path has not been always strewn with