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Show WOMAN APPEARS IN BOLO PASHA CASE PARTS, Feb. 7. The first woman witness wit-ness to be called by the government to , testify aa-ainst Bolo Pasha, now bein ; tried for treason, took the witness stand ; late yesterday. She was Madame Marie 1 Lafirgue, et one time an intimate friend of Abbas Hihr.l, the former khedlve of ; Egypt. Her appearance created a mild 1 stir in the crowded courtroom. Madame Lafargue's testimony was principally to the effect ti'.at Bolo, notwithstanding not-withstanding his claim that he never kept business books and cared no thin? for money. had once lent her C'"0 j francs, but only cn condition that she : 1 eive him a mortgage on her property, as well as a note signer by her mother, 1 her two brothers and herself. The ac-I ac-I cuscd. she said, played the part of a I shrewd and exacting business man throughout the transaction. |