Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-08-15

IN-LAW-HED JUST ENTERED
ALANE, WHEN THE MURDERER
FIRED FROM BEHIND A WOOD
EN- FENCE-THE VICTIM SUI
FERING GREAT AGONY AND
MAY DIE.
RENNES. August 14.-Only two or
three laborers going to work, witnessed
the shooting of Maitre Labor. Inc
spot was we'll chosen, as the murderers
could not be seen by NJ. Labor TIL they
rushed upon their victim, the entrance
to the lane being hidden by bushes.
Moreover, they were afforded an easy
means to escape by passing through the
lane which led to the country. one OF
the laborers. Patoux, who witnessed the
shooting, said:
GAS I was passing along the road L
saw tall man walking quickly IN the
direction of Rennes. He was on the
towing path of the Valaine. He was
attired in a dark lounge suit and wore
a bowler hat It was just as he reach
ed the bridge crossing a stream falling
into the Valaine, two men about med
ium height and wearing dark suits and
round soft hats, emerged from rural
path entering the main road. One OF
them carried a heavy stick. They ap-
preached NJ Labor from behind. Sud
denly one drew a revolver and tired
point blank at Labor. He was so near
him that it was quite impossible for
him to miss.
"a sharp report was heard and Mr..
Labor threw up his arms and cried
'Ho la la (Which is a common French
exclamation and fell fiat upon his face.
/ and one or two others who saw the
deed ran up, but the murderers had
vanished down the lane. Help was i'm
mediately sent for and the gendarmes
quickly arrived and soon afterward
Madam Labor"
The following bulletin was issued:
"Maitre Labori was shot from behind
the ball penetrating the posterior re-
gion of the thorax, on the right side
at the height of the fifth or sixth dorset
vertebrate. The heavy flow of blood
prevents for the moment exploration of
the depth of the wound. The under
signed doctors hope that the ball is
lodged in the muscles enveloping the
vertebral column. They must, howev-
er, maintain to-day full reserve respect
ing the integrity of the lung and spinal
cord"
The bulletin is signed by four doctors,
Kenaud, Reichis. Brissaud and Vidal,
and is timed at 500 this morning.
Labor, on falling, retained presence
of mind enough to arrange his dark,
morocco wallet, in which he carried his
papers, under his head for pillow I'M
til his wife arrived, when he half raised
himself and dropped his head in her
lap.
A number of laborers 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 coering 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 heldS
until he reached the railroad. He cross
ed the embankment and followed the
track until he arrived at the level
crossing. A train was just arriving at
full speed, and the murderer dashed
across the line in front of the train
and toward the woods in the direction
was lost to view.
Col. Picquart and his brother-in
law, NJ. Cast, who accompanied NJ.
Labori on his way to the Lycee. pur-
sued the murderer for some distance,
but as they were both heavy and they
were uns BILE 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 heard the
murderer say when crossing the marshy
fields before he reached the railroad:
eff l cannot get away l will go for
them.
Madame Labori, wife of the wounded
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 colored paper fan,
which she had evidently snatched up as
she left the house.
NJ. Labori was perfectly STILL Not
groan came from his lips as his head
rested in the lap of his wife, who by
The way, is an American. As she fan
ned him with her right hand she ca
ressed him with her left, gazing low
ingly on his upturned face. He tried