THE TRIAL OF BOLO
PROSECUTOR'S DAMNING
PERORATION
THE ONLY POSSIBLE PUNISH-
MENT.
PARIS, 17th February. At the closing scene of the trial of Bob, the Public Prosecutor made a terrible peroration. " I would like," he said, " to see others in the dock beside 8010, but he was the go-between in all this abominable machination. The only possible punishment is a firing squad at "Versailles. France and her Allies .are awaiting your verdict. It must not be. said that a, Frenchman who took twelve million francs to betray France was not shot without a shadow cf anxiety or a shadow of emotion. With all my love of country I" call upon you 'to sentence 8010 to death, "■
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Evening Post, Volume XCV, Issue 43, 19 February 1918, Page 7
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116THE TRIAL OF BOLO Evening Post, Volume XCV, Issue 43, 19 February 1918, Page 7
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