Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1922-08-11
RED TRIAL ENDS;
FOURTEEN TO DIE
Informers Against "a Social Reb-
els at Moscow to Be
Pardoned.
ACQUIT THREE DEFENDANTS
Included in Those Under Sentence Of
Death Are Three womsn, Eugene
M. Rather, Helen Hanova and
Lydia koncplova.


Moscow, Aug. Fourteen of the
thirty-four social revoIutionists. ae-
cused Of high treason against the
soviet government have been SEN
fenced to death by the Bolshevist
tribunal appointed to hear the Ease
Among the condemned are several who
turned informers.
Three defendants were acquitted and
the remainder received prison SEN
fences Of two to ten years.
The death sentences against twelve
were upheld by the central executive
committee, but an indefinite stay Of ex-
ecution was ordered on the condition
that the social revolutionary party
cease its eounter-revolutionary activ-
ity. Otherwise the sentenced leaders
are liable to the courts judgment.
Meanwhile all those sentenced to
death or to various terms of imprison-
ment are to be held in strict confine-
ment
Regarding the informers. the com
mittee agreed to request the tribunal
to grant pardons.
Accused Defy Court
Defiance of the court was shown by
% of the accused during pronounce
ment of sentences. These defendants
refused to stand up with the others
They were ushered from the hall by
armed soldiers and sentence was then
pronounced.
Included in those under sentence of
death are three Eugene NJ.
Rather, whose defiance of the prose-
eution in the later stages of the trial
was most pronounced; Helen Hanova
and Lydia Konoplova, who in turning
informer declared she was chosen by
the party to kill Premier Lenin.
From the very beginning of the trial
on June s the principal defendants
took the stand that they were respon-
sible, not to the court, but to history
and to their own conscience.
Foreign Counsel Quit.
Most Of the courts rulings were
against the defendants. Because Of
this Emil Vandervelde. once minister
in the Belgian cabinet and a represen-
tatiye at the trial Of the second (Am-
sterdam) internationale, withdrew in
disgust and went back home. He had
been permitted to enter Russia as
counsel for the defense. With him
went Herr Liebknecht. brother of Karl
Liebknecht, the martyr communist of
Germany; Herr Rosenfeld and Herr
Waters the other foreign counsel sent
by the socialist internationales to de-
fend their political followers.
Representative of the third (com-
munist) internationale reached an
agreement with the Amsterdam and
Vienna internationales prior to the
trial By which foreign counsel were to
be admitted into Russia and the de-
PENDANTS guaranteed against death
sentence. IN return the other interna-
tionales promised to call congress
for d united front Of all the interna-
tionales against capitalism This was
not done and the Russian representa-
tives declared the agreement had been
broken, placing the responsibility on
the other internationales.
An event unprecedented in the his
tory of courts the world over occurred
June 90, the anniversary of the assas-
sination of Commissioner Voladarsky,
one of the men whom the social revo-
lationists We're accused of causing to
be murdered. On that day in Moscow
thousands of workmen were ordered
to parade the streets and demonstrate,
demanding the death of the defend
ants. Representatives of the demon
strators were permitted TO harangue
the court and the judges thanked the
mass of workmen for the inspiration"
they had given them.