i Paris, Aug. 20.
The military, tribunal to-day uguashed the sentence of dealt passed 12 years ago upon the 80- years-old, American citizen Hartmann, whose recent adventures. in France caused a sensation through-but Europe.
Hartmann was born in the Al-Watian town of Nordheim from where he emigrated to America after the Franco-Prussian war and Alsace's incorporation in the Reich. However Hartmann retained his French citizenship and later on became a naturalized—American, settled down in California and grew extremely wealthy. In June last the nonagenarian set out for his old country to have a last look at his native town where so far from tieing welcomed he was promptly arrested. Then Hartmann learned that during the war he acted as a spy against France and was sentenced to death in his absence.
Hartmann insisted that he was absolutely innocent and never left United States since the seventies of the last century. He appealed to the \American Amba: odor who started an. investigation Joading to Hartman's complete vindication, Tt appears that an unknown person somehow secured Hartmann's papers even before the war during which he wormed himself mite the confidence of—the French authorities while carrying on espionage and anarchist prop: agenda.
He finally escaped into Switzer~ Jand where he presumably assumed his old identity. On the strength of this evidence Hartmann has now een released and on invalidating the sentence, the court expressed regret that the aged American had been made to suffer for the wiles of an unknown spy.—Trans-Ocean-Kuo Min,
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