Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-02-15
bOLO SENTENCED
TO DIE AS TRAITOR
Paris Court Martial Condemns
Him After Deliberating Fif-
teen Minutes.
PARIS, FEB. Is.

After dclibcrating for only fifteen min
u,es last evening the court-martial, be-
fore which Bolo Pasha WAS on trial for
,,eason. condemned him TO death.
Darius Porchere, the accountant who
WAS n co-defcndant, was sentenced TO
three years imprisonment.
Filippo Cavalhnie. another co-defend-
ant. who is under arrest in Italy, was
sentenced 20 death, although he is not
within the courts jurisdiction.
The speedy return Of the court-mar-
nal came almost as greater surprise
tn the crowds in the courtroom await
ing the verdict than the actual sentence
of death itself, which had been predict
cd from the outset.
Bolo took the announcement with APP
parent calm. but Porcherc, 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 imposed
upon Bolo was not easy to determine.
The crowd made no demonstration, but
flied noisilv from the courtroom, dis
cllssing the verdict.
When the trial was resumed Yesterday,
Albert SALES. the attorney for the Le-
vantine hnancier, took the floor to make
final plea for his clients life. The
spectators listened with spellbound at
tentioD, and with obviously greater SYM
patty than had been shown on the ear
iier DAYS of the trial. TO the lawyers
impressive speech.
Following a brief exposition of the
adherence generally felt at the charge
OF treason, Attorney Sales declared the
trial Of Bolo Pasha had raised distinct
doubts rs TO his guilt, and that 1T was
his Sales task to change them TO n
certainty of his clients innocence.
The attorney then charged an 'abon-
Unable press campaign against Boi9
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 con-
vinced Of his innocence could be found
IN the country. This press campaign,
NJ. Sales asserted, had been deliberate
Is instituted by Senator Charles Hum
bert. 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 H.
VI. Salles cnt lenrthily into Bolo's
personality, and severely criticized the
authorities. including Gen. Duball,
military governor Of Paris, for what he
termed the preiudemcnt OF the case be-
fore il ever came 10 trial. He declared
that the vcrieSt principles Of elementary
law, which prc-suppoSe man innocent
until proven guilty, had been disrc-
garded.
The attorney scored the prosecutor,
Capt Nornet, and Capt. Bouchardon
of the Paris Military Court, for raking
up Bolo's past. and insisted that the
prisoner was not on trial for bigamy or
theft. but for treason.
80 far rs this courtmartial is con-
cerned," he said, "Bolo Pasha was born
III 1914"
Then followed scathing arrangement
of all those prominent men and women,
once glad 10 be Bolos guests, who had
now deserted him.
NJ SALES in closing WAS imprcsslng as
he nleaded: DO not condemn Bolo
Pasha to satisfy public opinion. Do not
cond smn him 10 satisfy pubic passion
DO not be guilty Of miscarriage OF
Justice that will be bitterly regretted IN
after years
Bolo appeared TO be depressed during
tho latter part Of NJ Sales address
lie did not even brighten UP as his at
tornev attacked idolph Pavenstedt,
former head Of the AmsInck banking
house of New York. for his deposition
ar when ht characterized the German
embassy at Washington as "a manu-
factory Of perjurles' Of which Count
Won Bern~torfT. the former ambassador.
va general mausgcr and Pavcnste edt
In assistant He thanked the American
government for the help 1t had gwen
France. but asserted that the good faith
81 American, had been imposed upon by
German spies who we're trying to save
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