New-York tribune., 1922-08-10
heath Sentence
OF Ia sPlotters'
Stayed by Reds
r~..utions Are Indefinitely
nelayed ON Promise to
r.ase Activities: II Given
Sbort Terms i'm Prison
Three Others Acquitted
r.,r Women in Group, One
q 'confessing She Was Sc
llc,ed to Kill Lenine

,oscov Aug. s.--Although four
= the thirty-four Social Revolu-
W accused of high treason
a'a ON. the Soviet government have
ss w., .ensenced to death by the Revo-
a. ...rsry Tribunal and the death SEN
sa'-s ..a,nst twelve upheld by the
'sasv sa..,.l Executive Committee an in
.. .srj,s stay of execution has been
asau 1.a upon the condition that the
s'. a.,.,, revolutionary party ceases its
.,,v,.,.s. Three of the other defend
~. ~. we're acquitted and the remainder
sa "a nr,son sentences of from two
.ns ~ those condemned were several
xho turned informers'
' p.ya,ding the informers, semenoff
~ lydia Konoplova and others of
,si, group, the committee agreed 70
:. .ha tribunal to grant pardons
ali.
Ipehanee Of the court was SHOWN oy
; Ptvensy-two Of the Seciai hesolutiohlses
= during pronouncement OF . sentehce.
vhieb came last night, these delehuahIs
refusing to stand up witn sne oensaS; 1;
- t"' arasd soldiers and sentence was
then pronounced
Three Women Condemned
included in those under sentence OF
,...s sre three women-Miss Eugene
pattuer. who was the party treas
Sr.r ~ and whose defiance of the prose-
sution during the later stages of the
sy;al was most pronounced; Helen
Tanoya. and Lydia Konoplova, who In
turnInp informer declared she was
chosen by the party to Kill premier
Those upon whom death sentences
v.re pronounced, in the first group,
are:
4 Cotz. chairman of the Social Revo-
Iutionists' Contra, Committee; Dimltrl
Tonskoi. agent of the committee; Leo
! Gurstein, NJ A. Leikatch, N. N.
lyanoff, Michael ]. Hendleman, Eugene
N Kirnofeff. - Altovsky, - Aga
poff, Miss Eugene NJ. Rather and
Helen Hanova.
Those condemned to death in the
second group are NJ. Semenotf, M. lgna-
tief and Lydia Konoplova.
Among those sentenced to ten years
imprisonment were five members of
she first group, including Dimitri Pa
kof, Florien F. Feodorovitch and
Michael A. Vedianipin.
The fourth woman in the case, Mile.
Ssavskaya, was given sentence Of two
years imprisonment.
Two Workmen Sentenced
The two workmen in the second
sroup, Kozeloff and Zoubkoff, accused
Of Terroristic activity and attempts on
the lives of Lenine and Trotzky, were
sentenced to five years at hard labor.
All the sentences of the defendants
IN the second group were recommended
BY the courts to the Central Executive
Committee for clemency, because of
their having expressed repentance.
Gregory NJ. Rather and NJ. Moral
shievsky were acquitted
The proceedings of the court were so
different from the American and west
ern European conceptions of jurispru
dence that, to the neutral observer, it
seemed more of a thrilling melodrama
than a serious trial in which human
lives were at stake.
brother was arrayed against his
sister, former political companions
were bitterly pitted against each other,
and the sharp divisions made by the
Russian civil war between former
friends were displayed day by day in
socrful tableau set in a frame of bay
enets
Prisoners Spoke at Will
Prisoners were permitted to SPEAK
at will, to interrupt witnesses and to
make long political addresses from the
benches where they sat, guarded by
khaki-clad soldiers with bayonetted
rifles. At one time some of the pris-
cners arose and threatened to with
oraw from the trial. Again they
argued with the presiding judge that
sne hours of sitting were 100 long.
They feel that they are doomed;
1or several years they have been i'm
ptisoned, and now, while they have the
Il eaance, they arc going to talk politics."
she OF the counsel for the defense said
explaining the prisoners attitude.
from the very beginning of the trial
p tn :" suhe the principal defendants
s;bi yUt 'he stand that they were respon-
snd e not 70 the court but to history
tbaro 'heir own consciences, and
'ns,', 'mere,upon they began to cary on an
sboohSs program that might we'll have
i,9 nv'.ea ..e an American Judge into hav-
ordsr;na rhem put back in their cells and
them 'he trial to go on without
Mos. Most Of ., the courts rulings were
ri, '"Ss -. Ihe defendants. Because of
a min;s.au , sandervekde, Belgian, once
no.er ,sm.s In the Belgian Cabinet and
Seconpi piesen'ative ct the trial of the
w,Sdo, .Sdo, or Amsterdam, Internationale
homa heW " IN disgust and went back
Ruls;. ne mac been permitted to enter
Wpb' ,is as counsel for the defense.
brotbs, "an IN went Herr Liebknecht.
tyr ca VI carr Liebknecht, the "mar-
Ho..usa,1 communist of Germany" Herr
iieia iorsina and Herr Waters. the other
ist ;n. counsel sent in by the Social
poAticsi ti1isnatlonales to defend their
hry os went e unprecedented i, she his
June oo 'tIr's tl the world over occurred
srat;o, t .He anniversary of the assas-
q M WI VI Commissar Voladarsky, one
ists VIZ meh whom the social revolution
hnfdered aceused Of causing to be
.AousanSI. on that day in Moscow
oarado % OF workmen were ordered
ase asnand;r lne streets and demonstrate.
a.nra.g a.ana,ng the death of the defendants
seasatives sssni.se aS of the demonstrators
hsyssre. the objections of the Russian
ead ~. VINO remained in court to de-
l,ra,,nnme ,ne prisoners, were permitted to
hsnsslu.. hsSe 'he court, and the Judges
aeses aen sas thanked the mass Of WORK
given tba.t Ir the inspiration" they had