Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1922-08-12
RED TRIAL ENDS;
FOURTEEN To DIE
lntormerS Against 81 Social Reb-
els at Moscow to Be
Pardoned.
ACQUIT THREE DEFENDANTS
Included in Those Under Sentence of
Death Are Three Women, Eugene
NJ. Rather, Helen Hanova and
Lydia konopIova.

MOSCOW, Aug. 10.-FOurteen Of the
thlrty-four social revolution!StS. &C
cused of high treason against the
soviet government. have been sen
fenced to death by the BolshevfSt
tribunal appointed 10 hear the case.
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 cOunter-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 wOmen-Eugenie NJ
Rather, whose defiance of the prose
cutiOn in the later stages of the trial
was most pronounced Helen Hanova
and Lydia KOnOplOva, who in turning
nfOrmer declared she was chosen by
he party to kill Premier Lenin.
From the very beginning of the trial
On June s the principal defendants
look the stand that they were respOn-
sible, not to the court, but to history
and to their OSn conscience.
Foreign Counsel Quit.
Most of the courts rulings were
against the defendants. Because of
his Emil Vandervelde once minister
the Belgian cabinet and a represen.
,ative at the trial of the second Gam
;terdam) internatiOnale, withdrew in
disgust and went back home. He had
been permitted to enter Russia as
counsel for the defense. With him
vent Herr Liebknecht brother of Kari
LiebI1necht, the martyr communist of
Germany; Herr Rosenfeld and Herr
Waters the other foreign counsel sent
~ the socialist internatiOnaleS 10 de
lend their political followers.
Representative of the third (cOm.
nuniSD International reached ar
agreement with the Amsterdam anC
Vienna internatiOnales prior TO the
rial by which foreign counsel were tC
Re admitted into Russia and the de
endants guaranteed against a death
sentence. In return the other interna.
ionaies promised to call a congress
iOr united front" Of all the interna
fOnaIes against capitalism. This was
lot done and the Russian representa-
ives declared the agreement had beer
broken, placing the responsibility or
he other internationaleS.
An event unprecedented in the his
DRY of courts the world over occurred
tune 20, the anniversary of the assas
HnatlO0 OF commissioner NOlaUdrSkY
me of the men whom the social revO
utiOnists were accused of causing Il
De murdered. On that day in Moscow
thousands of wOrkmen were Orderet
parade the streets and demonstrate
demanding the death of the defend
nts Representatives of the demon
,tratOrs were permitted to harangu'
he court and the judges thanked thu
mass of workmen for the inspiration
hey had given them.