New Britain herald., 1918-02-15
B0LO PASHA MUST
FACE firing SQUAD
jury Returns Treason Verdict 10
Minutes After Retiring

S. u.
for only IS minutes last night the
court-martial, before which Bolo
pasha was on trial for treason, con-
demned him to death.
Darius Porchere, the accountant
who was co-defendant, was SEN
fenced to three years imprisonment
Filippo Cavallinie, another code
PENDANT, who is under arrest in Italy,
was sentenced to death, although he
is not within the courts jurisdiction.
The speedy return of the court
martial came almost as a greater sur
prise to the crowds in the courtroom
awaiting the verdict than the actual
sentence of death itself, which had
been predicted from the outset.
Bolo took the announcement with
apparent calm, but Porchere, VINO
had sat throughout the trial stolid
and stupid in appearance, was visibiy
moved though whether at his own
escape from his patrons fate Or at
the sentence imposed upon Bolo was
not easy to determine.
The crowd made no demonstration
but filed noisily from the courtroom,
discussing the verdict
When the trial was resumed yes
terday, Albert Sales, the attorney
for the Levantine financier, took the
floor to make a final plea for his
clients life. The spectators listened
with spellbound attention and with
obviously greater sympathy than had
been shown on the earlier days of
the trial, to the lawyers impressive
speech.
Following brief exposition Of the
adherence generally felt at the
charge of treason, Attorney Sales de-
clared the trial of Bolo Pasha had
raised distinct doubts as to his guilt,
and that it was his (Salles') task to
change them to certainty of his eli
ent's innocence.
Charges Press Conspiracy
The attorney then charged an
"abominable press campaign against
Bolo" with being largely responsible
for the almost general belief in
France prior to the trial that his
client was guilty, and added that
hardly ten men convinced of his in
nocence could be found in the coun-
try. This press cam paign, M. SALES
asserted, had been deliberately jnsti-
tuted by Senator Charles Humble
former owner of LIE Journal, after the
senator had failed to induce Bolo to
sell back the stock in LIE Journal at
half the price Bolo had paid for it.
M. Sales went lengthily into Bolo's
personality, and severely criticized
the authorities, including General Du-
bail, military governor of Paris, for
what he termed the prejudgln ent OF
the case before it ever came to trial.
He declared that the veTiest principles
Of elementary law which pre-suppose
3 man innocent until proven guilty,
had been disregarded.
The attorney scored the prosecutor,
Captain Mornet, and Captain Bouch-
ardon of the Paris Military Court for
raking up Bolo's past, and insisted
hat the prisoner was not on trial for
bigamy or theft. but for treason.
$50 far as this courtmartial is con-
cerned' he said, "Bolo Pasha was
! born in 1914
! Then followed a scathing arraisn-
;nent of all those prominent men and
women, once glad to be Bolo's guests,
Tho had now deserted him.
M. SALES, in closing, was 1mpresslns
- he pleaded: DO not condemn
s3OiO HaSnl TO SATISFY puDllC Opihlo''
{ DO not condemn him to satisfy pub-
| lie passion Do not be guilty of a mis-
/ carriage of justice that will be bitter
| ~ regretted in after years
Bo1o appeared to be depressed dur
ing the latter part of M Sales I'D
dress He did not even brighten up sLS
his attorney attacked Adolph Paven-
| stedt, former head of the Ams1ncE
| banking house Of New York, for his
deposition or when he char acterlzec
! the German embassy at Washington
| as "a mandatory of perjuries' OF
| which Count Won Bernstorff, the for
ner ambassador, was general man
| ager, and Pavenstedt his assistant
He thanked the American govern
ment for the help it had give
| France, but asserted that the goot
| faith of Americans had been imposee
upon by German spies who were try
ing to save their own lives.