The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1922-08-09
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Death SENTENCE
For REVOLUTION
Three OF Thirty-Four
evolutionists Get
Freedom

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Freedom
mo sCOw, Aug Soy me ne
;sssAssociated Press .)-Fourteen u
sstlie thirty-four social revo lut, ,llu
tss accused OF high. treason aga ,Lnp'.
SSsstIiess soviet government have oeeh
rs Sentenced to death by the re'oiu--
ionary6tribunal Among the COS.
ade.m1ned are several of those ~ho
inf orm ers. Three o. tle
sSssoest her8 defendants we're acquitted,
and sthe remainder given prison
Gsntences Of from two TO ten years.
The death sentence against
twelveSo OF the first group Of defend
ants later weer upheld by the cen
Nal executive committee but an
Ind efinite stay of execution was
ordered upon the condition that
the social revolutionary party
cease its count er-revol ut1onary az
followed upon sensa-
g ton in the drama OF the RUSSIA re-,
s;yolution which has been untoloeo
s% The, theatrical setting OF the
4 ttria lSof "a N en- ers Of the Socialist
KsEolutlona airy party accused OF
shsffgh trea son against the Commun-
list regime.
The proceeding OF the court
were 50 different from the Ameri-
can and Western European concep'
tons IofSjurisprudence that, 70 1he
nTeutral|obs eryer, it seemed more
y Of a. thrilling melodrama than
Serious trial in which human lives
ssWere at stake
brother was arrayed against
lShis sister, former political compan-
ions were bitterly pitted against
each other and the sharp divisions
made by the Russian civil war. De-
Tween former friends were display
Sed day by day ina colorful tableau
sset in a frame of bayoneets.
Openly an ouncing that the proie-
tartan system ofsF1ust1cs vas az
#ferent from that of any other, the
,presi ding judges of the revolution
saaSy tribunal permitted far widel
&sIAitude to both prosecution and
I'd efensesthan could be imagined by
an american jurist.
ssss prisoners were permitted 70
sneak at will, to interrupt witness
saasa and to make long political ad-
dresses from the benches Where
ssthey sat- day by day, guarded by
#kha XII clad soldiers with bayonetted
srifl es. At one time some OF the
nrisoners. arose and hreateneo 10
from the trial AGAIN
" thew argued with the presiding
SSndEe mat the hours of setting
LIVER eStoo long.
aSS ATTITUDE Explained
SSs.s 1.-THE yfeel that they are doomed;
4 for several years they have been
and now, while they
maze the chance, they are going to
sss taliSs.p olitics,'' one Of the counsel
forZ.fhe defense said in explaining
prisoners attitude. From the
VERY beginning of the trial on June
II 1eprincipal defen darts TOOK
the stand that they we're respon-
Il sible, not to the court, but 70 MS
"a ~ and to their own consciences
and thereupon they began to carry
sss an anS4 unru1v program that might
sssEssI,uaII have shocked an American
I siMdge into having them put back
:ss#a In fheir5 cells and ordering the trial
Il 20 on wi hout them.
FTost&of the courts rulings were
painst the defendants. Because OF
ais Emil Vandervekle, Belgian,
once q minister in the Belgian cab,
shetland representative at the
trial sof the Second, or Amsterdam
syInterna tlona1e Withdrew IN disgust
and went back home. He had been
snern11 Steds to enter Russia as coun-
N: N IA .7I6rS the defense. With him
ven Is Herr Ii ebknecht, brother Of
sr.arIs Ltbknecht. the martyr Com
sSssSIinnnfst Of Germany" Herr R0sen-
SsaafeId ) aud Herr Waters, the other
counsel scntti ia by the So.
cfalfst internatioaIless to defend
: ssS5t heir political cob sievers.
sss3334 Observation-Disclosures OF the Third OF
C,Gmmun!st IEternationale reached
an aErcom sut with the Amsterdam
81 and Vienna. or the mild 1nterna'
II ftonAFess prior to the trial byswnich
sfcrefsn coun sci were to be aomitteu
into Russia and the defendants
SaMaranteed against ia death sen
sHfence. In return the other Inter
vi vi a ona1es promised to call a con:
81 rreEs for a t.tunited 'front.' OF all
VI me Il ternationa1es against capt.
fa1ism. This conference, the Com
contend, was to have been
81 cnnyoked during the Genoa confer.
Il ence. This was not done. and the
}, H russian Representatives declared
tIe agreement had been broken,
placing the responsibility on the
other Internationales. Therefore
4 the Russians announced an they were
Art bound to refrain from sentenc.
II mn the social revolutionists to
BAD Faith Charged
The open propaganda made
again St. the Socialist information.
aieg inxMoscow. and the repeated
decisions OF the court against the
defense, aroused their ire more
Ahan@has any event Of the last so
|. iaaTs and embittered the feeling
HhetweenB the once united reds"
and e pinks'' Each side accused