Bolo Shot

Levin Daily Chronicle, 8 June 1918, Page 4

8010 Shot

TRAITOR'S LAST MINUTES. RELIC FOR HIS WIFE. Tho cicvcntli-liour revelations of 8010, who conspired with German money to "weaken Franco in tlie Avar, have availed him nothing. ,llc was shot at Vinccnnes at 6 o'clock in the morn- ! with her. | Captain Bouchardon, whose patient : investigation had led to the pasha's condemnation., went himself to the priyon and for five hours conduetcd a final , .iquiry, culminating in Bolo's confrontation with liis friend and patron, M. •OaiHanx, daring which the ex-Premier violently apostrophised the wreteheel Velori. Then yesterday justice left huu ■ e: uly to his reflections. But iioio fauly believed that he hac. : yaved his life. Some new fact, lie ,told : the warders, would come to light to i save him. Ho is stated to have believed that tho Kaiser would intervene , to cause a neutral banker to affirm that he had a quarter of a million sterling in a German bank before the, war and so explain the sums ho received through New York as.the price of his treachery. | When Major Jullien, commissioner of | tho Paris court-martial, entered his coll ; at five o'clock on the Wednesday morri- ' ing ho was sound asleep. "Be bra\e, ' Bolo; the hour lias come!" announced the officer as'the •warders awakened him. Tho wretched man was crushed for a moment, but rose, shaved., and slowly dressed; donning tlic blue jaeket suit he wore in court, knotting his white tie carefully, and putting on. a I pair of white kid gloves. A dented I bowler hat pulled down over his ears j completed the co'stumo and added a]| sinister, note to the of tlio ; pasha's elegance. . He confessed to the prison priest and took Holy Communion. Then he smoked his last cigar. He placed :t mauve silk handkerchief in his breast poclcct, .which he asked the priest to give to his Wife when all was over, as being the last thing he- had touched. He showed a flash of 'lus old arrogance when a warder ' addressed him bluntly as "Bolo;" "Monsieur 8010, if you please," he corrected. "It is I who command here.'' According to one account, when awakened and told that the end was at hand,, he replied, "So much the better; I'm delighted l " . Boon the prison gates were thiown open and a long line.of closed motorcars emerged and started at breakneck spoed for Vinccnnes. In. one werc the condemned man and his guardians, .while high military and policc officials filled the others. Half way, cavalry lining the road closed in on tlic.cortegc and barred the, way to journalists' cars which .had taken up the chase. i Arrived at Vinccnnes, 8010, removing: a glove, signed his name for the last time with a large flourish and was taken to the execution post. Asked if he would have his eyes bandaged, the pasliiu trembling and deathly white, nodded, and as a blue handkerchief was adjusted he murmured, "Not so tight." Three sergeants, three * corporals, and six privates formed' the firing party. The lieutenant commanding them lowered his sword, and every shot went homo. ■ But in accordancc with military law, tho officer advanced and fired & linal bullct into the head of tho traitor.