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Show BOLO FACES THE FIRING SQUAD Condemned Traitor Crumples Up With Several Bullets in His Head. PARIS. A pril 17. Standing before a i firing -quad in the forest of Vincennes ; early today, Paul Bolo Pasha, con-1 ; demned traitor, lost entirely the altitude alti-tude of indifference he had maintained I subsequent to and during his trial When the order of fire was given the rifles spoke and Bolo crumpled up with several bullets in his head. Escorted by several guards, Bolo left the Sante prison l" minutes before his execution After leaving the auto-i auto-i mobile at Vlncennes he listened to the exhortation of a prison chaplain Then his eves were bandasred and he went ' without a struggle to his place before the firing scpiad. "So much better; I am delighted " Bolo exclaimed when awakened this ! morning by Commandant Julien of the 'third court martial, who told him that the hour of expiation had arrived These were the only words spoken by j Bolo except for instructions to the chaplain to take from his body a silk lace handkerchief which he placed on his cheat and give it to his brother, Monsignor Bolo. The condemned man went to his execution ex-ecution in a new suit of clothes i brought to the prison by his brother, and wearing while gloves. Before Betting forth from the prison. Bolo asked to be permitted to partake Of communion. After tho execution the form of an internment at Yincennes was gone j through and then the body was turned ! over to Bolo's family. |