The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-02-15
Member of Italian Parliament,
Held in Italy. Gets Same
Sentence
THIRD ASSOCIATE
In LEVA TINE BAND
Will. GO TO PRISON
Military Tribunal Only Takes
Fifteen Minutes to Determine
Fate of Man Convicted on
Evidence From America

Paris. Feb. 14.--Bolo Pasha, was
sentenced late today by the court
martial to be shot dead as traitor.
He was found guilty of treason after
ten days trial, his own impassioned
plea, the dramatic defense in his be-
half by his brother. Mgr. BoIo. and
by the accuseds first wife proving uu-
availing. The court-martial deiib~
Grated only fifteen minutes before rem
dering the verdict guilty and pro-
nouncing the sentence of death.
Darius Porchere. an accountant. who
acted as intermediary between Bolo
and the former khediye of Egypt.
GermAnys handy man." was sem
fenced to three years Imprisonment.
Signor Filippo Cavaliini, a member
of the Italian parliament, now under
arrest in Italy, was likewise sentenced
to death, though he is technically
within Italian. not French, jurisdie-
ton. Both Porchere and Cavallini
were co-defendants with Bolo.
The sentence of Bolo Pasha will
be carried out at an early date.
The verdict and sentence were no
surprise to French press and public
The case against Bolo appeared from
the outset so complete that the ex-
IRENE penalty seemed foregone con-
clusion. Only twice was there a slight
stir of sympathy in the overwhelm-
ingly hostile crowd that daily packed
the courtroom since the trial began
ten days ago. This was when the
doomed mans arst wife, whom he
had betrayed and besmirched, sprang
to his defense when all the world
was against him: and again when his
clergyman brother pleaded eloquent
ly that Bolo was insane, but no
traitor.
Boio Not Insane.
But the facts and detailed data i'm
the hands of the government We're
too complete, too convincing, to per-
NIT refuge behind sympathy or SEN
timent. They showed Bolo, far from
insane. to be one of the most cold
blooded, daring and calculating schem-
srs for wealth and influence at the
expense of his bleeding fatheriand
ever recorded in the annals of treason.
The case against him was finally
clfnched by evidence gathered by the
New York state authorities In behalf
of the United States government, ca
bled by the state department to Paris
and resulting in his immediate arrest.
September 80 last
All France heaved a sigh of relies
tonight The tiger" pr mier, Cen
enceau, who was lifted back to powe-
because of the laxity of the Painleya
government in dealing with the vas
defeaust plot of which the BoIo case
is merely the nucleus, has scored the
first stroke in his announced campaign
to stamp out treason without fear or
favor.
4 But with the nation wide rejoicing
over the sealed doom of BoIo is min-
gled fevertsh expectancy as to the next
step In the prosecution of cases whose
threads are interviewer with his. Ex-
Premier Caiilieux, now In Sante pris.
on. and Senator Charles Humbert.
both of whom were important wit
TO be tried for their alleged particle
pation In the complex defeatist plot.
In their testimony. both were more
concerned to clear their own names
than that of the accused.
Talk OF Confession.
For weeks the whispered report has
gone the rounds that Bo1o has writ
ten in his prison cell iong-wtnded
document revealing names and ac-
tivities OF all his accompllces. This
confession" II is said. will be given
10 the world either Just before or
Just after he pays the death penalty.
Egyptian pashas, Spanish ana
French rrima donnas, French and
Italian deputies. two French ex-min-
listers, 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, adventured
his way into the condolences and for
tunes of friends and foes.
Much OF what he did In the nefa-
rious plot TO sell his country is still
unearthed; much, also, Is held ''for
future reference" In the archives Of
Rue Jerusalem (the French Scotland
Yardl and will not be revealed until
needed to convict his accomplices,
perhaps long after the firing squad
has made an end of him
Charge Against Bofo.
Intelligence with the enemy" wsG
the specific charge against Boio. =
charge equivalent TO treason.
His boldest plan. that OF obtaining
a strangiehold--which was to be Will
heimstrasse's strangishold--upon the
editorial pages of the leading French
newspapers. proved his undoing In the
end. after he had. by his cleverness In
feigning an almost pathetic love for
his country. deceived soms OF the
shrewdest business men and leaders
of thought In America.
To his intimate friends Bofo oon-
fided repeatedly his physiology OF life.
The world would be fooled. so let's
fool it."
immediately upon his arrival In New
York on February ~. 1918, he got into
touch with Count Won Berustorff. than
German ambassador In Washin gton.
the intermediary being Adolph Paven-
.tedt, American representative OF tb~
Deutsche bank. 1t was tbs testtnou3
of Pavenstedt, now In = aeorg5a g
tsutfon camp HI nm alien &n6I1ys - II
fore New oYrk stats attorusysG1neJ4