The age-herald., 1899-08-15
LABORI WHILE ON WAY TO
 TRIAL SHOT FROM AMBUSH
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IContinued From First Page.1 laborers going to work witnessed the shoot ing of Labori. The spot was well chosen, as the murderers could not be seen by M. Labori until they rushed out upon their victim, the entrance to the lane being hid den by bushes. Moreover, they were af forded an easy means of escape by passing back through the lane which led to the country.
 One of the laborers named Patoux, who witnessed the shooting, said:
 "As I was passing along the road I saw Labori walking quickly in the direction of Rennes. He was on the towing path of the Vilaine. He attired in dark lounge suit and wore liower hat. It was just as he reached the bridge crossing the stream falling into the Vilaine, two men, about medium height and wearing dark suits and round soft felt hats. emerged from rural path entering the main road. One of them carried heavy stick. They approached M. Labori from behind. Sud denly one drew revolver and fired point blank at Labori He was so near that 1t was quite impossible for hirn to miss,
 "A sharp report was heard and M. La- bori threw up his arms and cried 'Ho La La (which Is a common French express sion) and fell flat upon his face. l and one or two others who saw the deed ran up but the murderers had vanished down
 
 and the gendarmes quickly arrived and soon afterward Madame Labori"
 Laughing When shot
 When M. Labori left his home, accom- panied by Colonel Picquart and the latter's brother-in-law, M Cast, the sky was over cast.
 M. Labori was laughing and chatting with his companions when he was shot, The party was passing the Qua Richmond, and was about the cross the Chautaubrand bridge, when one of the two men, hidden behind wooden fence at the corner of the Quai stepped out and fired at M. Labori The wounded man fell to the ground. He tried to rise and put his hand to the wound in his back and brought it back covered with blood. As he lay there, with his head covered with the dust in which he had fallen, he said in a faint voice:
 "I beg you to give me my stick and my papers. Go and tell them,' he added/with a final effort, 'to suspend the proceed iIgss."
 The shot had been heard 200 yards away from the Avenue De La Care, where a crowd had gathered as usual to witness the arrival of the principal personages con- nected with the eourtmartial. These spec- tators ran in the direction of the spot where the shooting had occurred, followed F by gendarmes on horseback.
 The shot was also heard at the St. Georges barracks across the river, where it was soon known that M. Laibor had been attacked.
 Many spectators Cry The wounded man asked to have d car riage called to convey him to his residence and to have pr. Reclus summoned. When the doctor arrived he knelt beside M. La- bori, putting a bottle of smelling salts to his nostrils. Around these central figures were grouped the spectators, all deeply af- fected, some indeed crying like children. At little distance was gathered another | group. the central figure of which was the | commissary of police, note book in hand, l taking down the testimony of the eye-wit- uesses of the affair.
 | The scene of this pathetic picture was a | dusty highroad, ahe dark green. slow waters of the river Vilaine on one side and on the other side scattered houses, with a gap just opposite the spot, through which could be seen green meadow with a stream flow ing through 1t, and beyond thot the backs | of row of houses. l The road tht NJ. Labori had followed tapered away hack from the scene of the tragedy. with q row of trees along the bor- der of the Vilaine, under whose leafy shel- ter M Labogi had walked to perhaps his death.
 4 cordon of mounted gendarmes was