Evening star., 1918-02-15
.bOLO HEARS DEATH
SENTENCE CALMLY
Merely Shakes Head and
Shrugs Shoulders as if Odds
Were Too Great.
APPEAL TO BE ENTERED
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
PARIS February E5.-Without the
slightest tremor, Bolo Pasha, convicted
of high treason, heard Col. Noyer,
president of the court-martial, pro-
nounce sentence of death upon him
yesterday amid an impressive silence
in the courtroom. Merely shaking his
head and Struggling his shoulders, as
II to say it was hopeless to fight
against the odds. Bolo returned to his
cell
Awed by the soldiers with fixed bay
onets, those who had assembled in the
courtroom refrained from all demonA
etration, but the great crowds outside
the courthouse uttered a terrific roar
and cheers of approval as word of the
sentence reached them, plainly show
fnr the favor which the sentence OF
death found among the French people
Swiftly the news of the coming exc
eution of Bolo Pasha spread through.
out the city Col. Noyer had not yet
completed reading the sentence. when
the cheers of the multitude from out
side drowned his voice.
Court-Martial Unanimous.
The court-martial was unanimous in
eondemning Bolo. 1t stood for time
four to three against the conviction OF
Porchere. but finally compromised, SIX
to one on conviction on the charge OF
commerce with the enemy. carrying
q lighter sentence. The Judges de-
liberated only few minutes, ana as
they filed into the courtroom 1T was
easily discernible that Bolo Pashas
fate was sealed.
An appeal will be entered on tech
nicality, but the general trend of com,
ION
political circles is: With Bolo's death
Boloism will die
Darius Porchere. an accountant, who
was a codefendant, was sentenced to
three years imprisonment.
Filippo Cavallinie, another codefend-
ant. who is under arrest in Italy. was
sentenced to death. although he is not
within the courts jurisdiction.
Appeared to Be Depressed.
Bolo appeared to be depressed during
the latter part of NJ. SALES address. He
did not even brighten up as his attor-
ney attacked Adolph Pavenstedt, for
mer head of the Amsinck banking
house of New York for his deposition,
or when he characterized the German
embassy at Washington as "a manufac-
tory of perjuries, of which Count Won
Bernstorff. the former ambassador. was
general manager and Pavenstedt his
assistant. He thanked the American
government for the help it had given
France. but asserted that the good faith
OF Americans had been imposed upon by
German spies who were trying to save
their own lives.
The Porchere case went to the court
after a brief summing up, Porchere be-
ing pictured by his counsel as an inno-
cent intermediary, who. if he had done
anything against the nation, had done
it unknowingly.
Neither defendant ayailed himself of
the opportunity TO make a final appeal
Paul Bolo rasha's court-martiaI was
one of the first of the so-called cases
of Intelligence with the enemy" and
came up for trial before the third court
Pasha was charged with having cap
Taiized the company that bought the
Paris newspaper lie Journal with
money obtained from the Germans.
instrument of Germans.
Bolo Pasha was an instrument of
German propaganda, one of the first to
md exposure in the French ipvestiga-
tions of 1917. and his name has come
to be used as typifying the entire sys-
tenn OF BoloisIn by which Germany
strove 10 break down the French me-
rale and instill a desire for peace by
spreading the idea that Germany could
not be beaten and that it would be well
to make the best terms possible with
her as soon as they could be arranged.
Bolo Fasha. who was sentenced to three
years Imprisonment, is business
agent, who was charged with receiving
correspondence relating to the affair
as an intermediary of Bolo Pasha
FiIippo CavaEinie, who was judged
by default and sentenced to DEATH is a
former member of the Italian chamber
OF deputies. He was charged with hav-
Ing introduced Bolo Pasha to Abbas
Hilni, the former Khediye of Egypt
ana with having facilitated the nego-
tiations.
Bolo Pasha's activities were of pecul-
far interest to Americans because it
vas charged that the funds at his
disposal. 1853. 900. were transferred
from the Deutsche Bank in Berlin to
France by way of New York It was
as result of the discovery of his
manipulation of this fund through five
New York banking houses that the
New York state attorney general was
aoIe to obtain information. which was
forwarded to NJ. Jusserand the French
am Da ssador at Washington and which