The Washington herald., 1918-02-15
AeeompIIees Sentenced.

AeeOmpliees Sentenced.
Darius Porchere, an accountant,
who acted as intermediary between
Bolo and the former Khedive of
Egypt, Germany's hand man" was
sentenced to three years imprtson-
ment.
Signor Filippo Cavallini, a member
OF the Italian Parliament, now under
arrest in Italy, was likewise sentenced
to death, though he is technically
within Italian. not Franch jurisdic-
ton. Both Porchere and Cavallini
were co-defendants with Polo.
The sentence on Bolo Pasha will be
carried out at an early date.
The verdict and sentence were NJ
surprise to the French press and
public. The case against Bolo ap-
pears from the outset so complete
that the extreme penalty seemed a
fOregone conclusion.
Only twice was there a slight stir
Of sympathy in the Overwhelmingly
hostile crowd that daily packed the
court room since the trial began ten
days ago
This was when the doomed mans
first wife, whom he had betrayed
and besmirched, sprang to his defense
when all the world was against him;
and again when his clergyman broth
er pleaded elocuently that Bolo was
insane, but no traitor.
Facts Conyincing-
But the facts and detailed data
in the hands OF the government were
too complete, too convincing, to per-
nit refuge behind sympathy or SEN
Thav PoIo from
insane, to be one of the most cold
blooded. daring and calculating
schemers for wealth and influence
at the expense of his bleeding faith
erland ever recorded in the annals
Of treason.
The case against him was finally
~ clinched by evidence gathered by the
New York State authorities in be-
half of the United States govern
ment, Cabled by the State Depart
ment to Paris and resulting in his
immediate arrest, September q last.
All France heaved a sigh OF relief
tonight. The tiger" premier, Glenn
enceau, who was lifted back to power
because Of the laxity of the Pain
leve government in dealing with the
vast defeatist plot, of which the Bolo
case is merely the nucleus, has scored
the first stroke in his announced cam
paign to stamp out treason without
fear or favor.
But with the nationwide rejoicing
over the sealed doom of Bolo Is
mingled feverish expectancy as to the
next step in the prosecution Of the
cases whose threads are interviewer
with his
Ex-Premier Caillaux, now in Sante
prison, and Senator Charles Humberf,
both of whom were important wit
nesses in the Bolo case, are shortly
to be tried for their alleged partici-
patton IN the complex defeatist plot.
In their testimony, both were more
concerned to clear their own names
than that of the accused.
For weeks the whispered report has
gone the rounds that Bolo has writ
ten in his prison cell a long-winded
document revealing names and activ-
tiles Of all his accomplices.
Confession Expected.
This confession" it is said, will be
given to the world either Just before
or just after he pays the death pen
atty.
Egyptian pashas.' Spanish and
French prima donnas, French and
Italian deputies, two French. ex-min-
isters. one high justice, influential
Journalists. bankers, business men
and army officers are entangled in the
net of suspicion that has been woven
around the activities OF this man
who. born humble and poor. adven-
tured his way into the condolences
and fortunes Of friends and foes.
Much OF what he did In the nefari-
Gus plot to sell his country il still
unearthed: much also Is held "for fu-
ture reference" in the archives of Rue
Jerusalem (the French Scotland Yard
sHd viii not be revealed until needed
to convict his accomplices, perhaps
long after the firing squad has made
an end Of him.
Intelligence with the enemy was
the specific charge against Bolo. a
charge equivalent to treason.
His boldest plan, that OF obtaining a
strangiehold-which was to be VIII
herstrasse's stranglehold-upon the
editorial pages Of the leading French
newspapers. proved his u1doIng in
the end, after be had. by his clever
ness In feigning an almost pathetic
love for his country, deceived some
OF the shrewdest business men and
leaders Of thought In America.
TO his intimate friends Bolo con-
nded repeatedly his philosophy of
Efe." the world VII be fooled. 10 let's
fool it''
immediately upon his arrival in New
York on February ., 1916. he cot into
touch with Count Won Bernstorff. then
German Ambassador in Washington,
the intermediary being Adolph Paven-
stedt. American representative Of the
Oeutsche Bank