The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-02-15
Paris Court Martial Con-
dennis Him After DELHI
Grating Is Minutes
HEARS SENTENCE
WITHOUT EMOTION
The Crowd Made No Demonstration,
But Filed Noisily from the Court
Room, Discussing the Verdict-Caval-
LIME Also to Die.

PARIS, Feb. l5.-Bolo Pasha was SEN
fenced to death yesterday. The court
martial which condemned him to death
deliberated for only Is minutes
Darius Porchere, an accountant who
was co-defendant, was sentenced to
three years Imprisonment
Filippo Cavallinie, another defendant
who is under arrest in Italy was SEN
fenced to death, although he is not with
in the courts jurisdiction
The speedy return of the court martial
came almost as a greater surprise to the
crowds in the courtroom awaiting the
verdict than the actual sentence of death
itself, which had been predicted from
the outset.
apparent calm, but Porchere, who had
sat throughout the trial stolid and
stupid in appearance was visibly moved,
though whether at his own escape from
his patrons fate or at the sentence i'm
posed upon Bolo was not easy to de
termine.
The crowd made no demonstration but
filed noislly from the courtroom discuss
ing the verdict
Paul Bolo Psahas court martial was
one of the first so-called cases of ''in
telhgence with the enemy and came UP
for trial before the third courtmartia
of Paris on Feb. T. Bole Pasha was
charged with having capitalized the com
pany that bought the Paris newspaper IL
Journal with money obtained from the
Germans.
Bolo Pasha was an instrument of Ger
man propaganda, one OF the first to fine
exposure in the French investigation o.
1917, and his name has come to be useC
as typltylng the entire system OF "Bolo
ISM by which Germany strove K
break down the French morale and III
stlll a desire for peace by spreading the
idea that Germany could not be beater
| and that it would be well to make tn,
best terms possible with her as soon al
| they could be arranged
| 1t had been charged that Germany il
attempting to bride French Statesmen
and leaders and to influence French
| opinion by substituting newspapers il
1 idiCC VI lOunuiliS AtN DupIlCdIlOhS II
disseminate the spirit of pacitism or de
feat, devoted sum of money in tn
neighborhood Of 100000 marks Boil,
himself was said to have had the use o
a fund of more than 81, 100000 to be use,
IN attempting TO corrupt the Frencl
press.
| Darius Porchere, a co-defendant witt
Bolo Pasha. who was sentenced to thre
years Imprisonment, is a business agen
who was charged with receiving CORES
pondence relating to the affair as an in
termediary of Bolo Pasha
Filippo Cavallinie, who was judged b.
default and sentenced to death is a foI
mer member of the Italian chamber o
deputies. He was charged with havin
introduced Bolo Pasha to Abbas Kiln
the former Khedive of Egypt, and wit
having facilitated the negotiations.
Bolo Pashas activities were of pc
cuiar interest to Americans because
was charged that of the funds at his dis
posal 81 $685. 900 was transferred from tn
Deutsche bank in Berlin to France b
way Of New York 1t was as a result c
the discovery of his manipulation of TIN
fund through five New York bankin
houses that the New York state attorne
general was able to obtain informatio
which was forwarded to NJ. JusseranC
: the French ambassador at Washington
and which brought about Bolo's alres
in Paris.