Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-02-15
VERDICT OF DEATH
GIVEN bOLO PASHA
BY C0URT-MART|AL
Found Guilty Of Treason to
France After Ten
Days Trial.
EXECUTION OF TRAITOR
WILL TAKE PLACE SOON
Convicted Mans First Wife
Vainly Pleads for
His Life.
FRENCH NATION REJOICEs
Prosecutions Of Ex-Premier Call
laux and Senator Humbert
Furnish Next Sensation.
FRENCH NATION REJOICES
Prosecutions Of Ex-Premier Call
laux and Senator Humbert
Furnish Next Sensation.

PARIS. February 14-Bolo Pasha
was sentenced late to-day by the court
martial to be shot dead as a traitor.
He was found guilty OF treason. af-
ter ten days trial. his own impas-
stoned plea. the dramatic defense in his
behalf by his brother. Monsignor Bolo
and by the accuscd's first wife proving
unavailinE. The court-martial delib-
Grated only fifteen minutes before rem
derinE the verdict Guilty" and pro-
nouncins the sentence of death.
Darius Porchcrc. an accountant. who
acted as intermediary between Bolo
and tho former Khcdive of Egypt, Ger
many's hand man." was sentenced to
three years imprisonment.
MEMBER OF ITALIAN
PARLIAMENT GUILTY, TOO
SiEnor Filippo Cavallini. 4 member OF
the Italian Parliament. now under ar
rest In Italy. was likewise sentenced
TO death, though he vs. technically
within Italian. not French. jurisdiction.
Both Porcherc and Cavallini were CO.
defendants with Bolo.
The sentence on Bolo Pasha will be
carried out al An carly date.
VERDICT AND SENTENCE
no SURPRISE IN FRANCE
Tho verdict and sentence were no
surprise 10 the French press ana pub
lie. The case against Bolo appeared
from the outset SO complete that the
extreme penalty seemed a forcgonc
conclusion. Only twiue was there a
slight stir of sympathy In The over
1rb Irpin ha daiI II,
packed tho courtroom since the trial
began. ten days ago. This was when
tho doomed mans first wife, whom he
had betrayed and bcsmirchcd. spranS
TO his defense when all the world was
against him; and again when his
Clergyman brother pleaded eloquentiy
that Bolo Was insane. but no traitor.
But the facts and detailed data in
tho hands of the government were too
complete. too convincing. to permit
refuge behind sympathy or :cntimcnt
They showed Bolo, far from insane. to
be one of the most cold blooded. daring
end calculating schemcrs for wealth
and influence at the expense Of his
bleeding fathc-lend ever recorded in
tho annals of treason.
AMERICAN EVIDENCE
CIINCHES CASE AGAINST HIM
The against him wa finally
clinchcd by evidence gathered by the
New York State authorities in behalf
of the United States government. cablcd
by the state Department to Paris and
resulting in his immediate arrest. Sep
tember IS last.
All France hcaved sigh OF relief
tonight. The tiger" Premier Gle
monceau. who was lifted back 10 power
because Of the laxity of the Painleve
government in dealing with tho vast
dcfcatist plot OF which tho Bolo case
is merely the nucleus. has scored the
FIRST stroke in Ills announced campaign
10 stamp out treason without fear or
favor.
But with the nation wide rejoicing
over the scaled doom of Bolo is min
sled feverish expectancy as TO the next
step in the prosecution OF the cases
whose threads are interviewer with his.
Ex-Prcmier Caillaux. now in Santc
Prison, and Senator Charles IIumbcrt.
both of whom were important wit
nesses in the Bolo case, arc shortly TO
be tried for their alleged parttcip.-
tionNin the complex dcfcatist plot. In
their testimony, both were moro con-
cerncd to clear their own names than
that OF the accused.
RUMoR SAYS BoLO
HAS WRITTEN CONFESSION
For weeks the whispered report has
gone the rounds that Bolo has written
in his prison cell a long -windcd docu-
ment. revealing names and activities OF
all his accompiices. This confession -
II is said. will be given to the world
ether just before or just after he pays;
the death penalty.
Bolo's trial failed to bring out the
precise nature of his connection with
Abbas IIilmi. who was deposed as
Khedive Of Egypt shortly after the
outbreak of the war
1t is known. however. that the
Ehedivc intrustcd Bolo with various
secret missions" and that he was and
is. intensely pro-German. After be-
inG deposed he went to Switzerland
and summoned Cavallini from Italy TO
try, for goodly consideration, TO get
the British government to appoint his.
Abbas Hiimi's son. Iihedvc. Downinr.
, Street refused fatly. Then he in
trusted Boio Pasha with "A similar
mission TO the French government. IT.
too. failed.
But Bolo demanded his pound of
flesh" Abbas sent .Cavallini to RoIo
with check for s300,000 Taere thc
thread is. SO far. still lost. 1t was
Abbas who created the doomed man a
pasha, in September, 1914
tGREED BOLO's MAIN MOTIVE,
ACCORDING TO STATE,
Rolo's main motive. the prosecution
showed in summing up It's case. was