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Show il l PASHA IS SENTENCED TO TITOEM Filippo Cavallinie, Under Arrest in Italy and Not in Court's Jurisdiction, Also Given Death. DARIUS PORCHERE GETS THREE YEARS Court-Martial Deliberates Only Fifteen Minutes; Outcome of Trial of Great Interest. TAK1S. Feb. 11. Holo Pasha has been Hrntenced to death. The court martial which condemned 1-iido Pasha to death deliberated for only fifteen minutes. Parius V'orchere, an accountant, who was a t odr ferula nt, w as st-ntonced to s. re lhr"j years' lmpi Isuiintent. I'iUppo Ca allinie, u not her eudri'en Jan t. who tls under a rrvst in Italy, w as sentenced sen-tenced to dath, although he riot within with-in H e co.irt'h Jums iletlun. Without the jht:htest trunr. Ito'o I 'ash a, convicted of hiirh tr:i sun, heard (. 'u lo nt 1 Viivit, prrsuU-nt of the t ourt martial, pronounce Fet:tcnce of dtnth upon him today amid an imp revive silent si-lent e in the courtroom. Merely .-.haltl hr his head and phruinp his shoulder?, as If to say f'. was hopeless to fiht against the odds, Holo returned to his coll. People Approve Sentence. Awed by the soldiers with fixed bayo-! bayo-! nets, those who had afscmbh-d in the courtroom ref mined from all tie montst ration, ra-tion, but the crowds outside the courthouse court-house uttered a terrific roa r and cheers of approval as word of the pent e nee reached them, plainly showing the favor hlch the sentence of death found among the French people. Swiftly the news of the coming execution exe-cution of Bolo Pasha spread throughout th city. Colonel Voyer had not yet completed com-pleted reading the sentence when tile cheers of the multitude from outside drowned hio voic. The court martial was unanimous in condemning bolo. It stood for a time four to three against the conviction of Porcht-re. but finally compromised, six to one, on conviction on th charge of "commerce with the enemy." carrying a lighter sentence- The judges deliberated only a few minutes, and as they riled out of the courtroom it was easily discernible that Bolo Pasha" a fate w.ls sealed. : An appeal will be entered on a tech-' tech-' nicalily, but the general trend of comment com-ment heard in legal, journalistic and political po-litical circles is: "With Bolo's death , Boloism will die." Depressed During Argument. Bolo had appeared to be depressed during dur-ing the arguments of the attorneys. He did not even brighten up as his attorney attacked Adolph Pavenstedt. former head of the Amsinck banking house of New-York, New-York, for his disposition or when he characterized char-acterized the German embassy at Washington Wash-ington as a "manufactory of perjuries," of which Count von Herns: or f f, the former for-mer ambassador, was general manager, and Paveustedt his assistant. His lawyer law-yer thanked the American government for the help It had given France, but asserted as-serted that the good faith of Americans had been imposed upon by German spies who were trying to save their own lives. The Porchere case went to the court after a brief summing up. Porchere being be-ing pictured ty his counsel as aiv innocent intermediary, who, if he had done anything any-thing against the nation, had done it unknowingly. un-knowingly. NVither defendant nvailed himself of the opportunity to make a final plea. Pa ul Bolo Pasha's court martial was ! one of i he first of the so-called eases of I "intelligence 'with the enemy" and came I up for trial before the third court martial of Paris on February -I. Bolo Pasha was charged with having capitalized the company com-pany that bought the Paris newspaper, Ia Journale, with money obtained from the Germans. Bolo Pasha was an instrument of German Ger-man propaganda, one of the first to find exposure In the. French Investigations ot li'17, and his name has come to be used i as typifying the entire system of "boloism" "bolo-ism" by which Germany strove to break j down i he .French morale and Instill a ! desire for peace by spreading t lie idea , that Germany could not be beaten and that it would be well to make the best terms possible with her as soon as they : could be arranged. Purpose of Germany. It had been charged that Germany, in attempting to bribe French statesmen ana leaders a lid to influence French opinion by subsidizing newspapers in France or founding new publications to disseminate tho spirit of defeatism, .voted a sum of money in the neighborhood of lo.uui'.OOU marks. Polo himself was sa id to have had the nee of a fund of more than x.UO.000 to be used in attempting lo corrupt cor-rupt t he French press. J.arius Porchere., a codefendant with Bolo Pasha, who was sentenced to thro--years' imprisonment, is a business aueut who was charged with receiving correspondence corre-spondence relating to the affair ad an intermediary in-termediary of Bolo Pasha. Judged by Default. Filippo Cavallinie. who was judged bv default and sentenced to de:tth, is u former for-mer member of the Italian chamber of deputies. He was charged with having introduced Bolo Pasha to Abbas Hilmi, the former khedive of Kgypt, and with, having facilitated the negotiations. j Captain Mornet acted as prosecuting- at- I toniev for the military authorities. "Bolo 1 Pasha was defended by .Matt re Albert ' Salles, a member of the council of the Order of Advocates, while Marcel Heraud appeared for Porchere. The files in the case contained no less thn n 4 it' m ena ra i e documents, some of which, iii'-ludhii: the American report and the report of M. Voyou, an expert ac- 1 (Continued on Page Tnree.) vBGlO pasha to meet laid FOR TREASON (Continued from Page One.) counlant, were of several hundred pages each. fJoIo Pasha's activities were of peculiar interest to Americans, because it was charged that of the funds at his disposal dis-posal $1.53.000 was transferred from the 1 eu;.schebank in Berlin to France by way of New York. It was as a result of the discovery of his manipulation of this fund tiirouEh five New York banking houses that the New York state attorney general was able to obtain Information which was forwarded to M. Juserand, the French a mbass.ador at Washington, and which brought about Bolo's arrest in Paris. |