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Show ilEIT FREED IT PflRISJURDRS French Senator Acquitted After Long Drawn Out Trial in Court. PARIS, May 8. (By The Associated Press.) Senator Humbert, who has b2en on trial by courts, martial on a charge of having had dealings with the enemy, was acquitted today. Captain GooryeH " Jules Ludoux, former chief of the intelligence bureau of the ministry of war, a- co-defendant with Humbert, was acquitted. Pierre Lenoir, still another of the co-defendants, was sentenced to death, while William Ue-'souches Ue-'souches was convicted and sentenced to five years in prison. Charles Humbert, senator and former editor of l.e Journal, was arrested in February of last year, during tho trial of Bolo Pasha, who was put to death for treason, and the directors of the Ger-manophile Ger-manophile newspaper Bonnet Rmige. Bolo, it was brought out, had bought an interest in Le Journal, with money that came from the German foreign office through banking houses in New York. Proceedings were begun last March against Captain Ladoux in connection with the Bolo Pasha and Bonnet Koure ca3ts. Lenoir was accused with trading with the enemy. When arrested his case was placed in importance to the government higher than that against Bolo Pasha. He was a Parisian capitalist and, with Desouches, bought Le Journal in 1915 for 10,u00,00i) francs and later sold it to Humbert. The money was declared to have come from a German source. Desouches. although nearlv 60 years old, fought with the French before Verdun. Ver-dun. The prosecutor in presenting the case against him said Desouches knew that the money with which Lenoir bought Lo Journal was German, but that tho defendant's record at the front as a volunteer liaison officer might permit the court to. lighten his sentence on con-victioh. |