The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-05-06
RUSSIAN BRUTALITY.
More Infamous Treatment of Hebrews by
the People of Russia.

More Infamous Treatment of Hebrews by
the People of Russia.
NY. Herald's St. Petersburg Correspondence.
The Zaria newspaper gives an account OF
shocking tragedy which occurred in the neigh
borhood of the town of Loubna. On the
night of March "a three soldiers OF lancer
regiment quartered in the town entered the
establishment Of Jew retailer of spirits OF
the family, consisting of nine persons, had re-
tired to rest, with the exception of the eldest
daughter, a girl of eighteen. The soldiers
asked for fourpenny worth of ''vodky," with
which they were duly served by the girl.
When the liquor had been consumed, she
asked them to retire as the hour was so late.
Her guests did not hurry themselves, but pres
emily two of them went out. The third re-
NAMED, and approaching the bed where the
owner of the establishment was lying asleep,
he woke him up and demanded his money.
The terrified Jew sprang up, but before he
could take a single step the soldier fired two
shots with his revolver and the wretched man
fell, bleeding corpse, before his daughter S
eyes. Tn screams of the girl awoke the
whole family. Her mother, who was in the
back room, and whom recent events had
taught to expect violence and outrage, seized
her two youngest children and hid one of them
in an empty box, which she shut and locked,
and the other under a couch. She then tried
herself to escape through the window, but the
soldiers were on the lookout, and rushing after
her they caught her and beat her until she fell
senseless, and, as they supposed, dead. Then
the murderers returned to the house. There
they found two boys, aged fourteenand fifteen,
standing awe-sruck and affrighted over their
slaughtered father.
The barbarians were unmoved by the pitiful
sight, and the boys speedily shared the fate of
their parent, and fell dying on his corpse.
Now the murderers began to search the house
and soon discovered the child whom the
mother had concealed in the empty trunk.
This unfortunate infant they kicked to death
with their spurs. Having thus disposed Of
the whole family, except the eldest daughter,
the ruffians next turned their attention to her,
and, under threats of the most fearful conse-
quences should she refuse, they bid her in
form them where her fathers money was to be
found. The trembling girl disclosed the hid
ing-place of the little store which had been
saved as the result of the industry and thrift
of the family, and forty rubies and seven sill
yer spoons became the booty of the assassns.
1t might have been supposed that evil pas
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crimes already committed, but the unfortunate
girl soon found that such was not the case
The ruflians indeed spared her life, but they
brutally outraged her before leaving the house.
Having thus wreaked their will on all the men,
bers of the family, they at last departed.
The worst feature in the affair has, however,
yet to be related, and will show how little mer-
cy the Jews can expect, even from those whose
dnties should specially teach them compass
sion. On leaving the scene of their actrocI-
ties the soldiers discovered that the mother of
the family, whom they had left for dead, had
recovered consciousness, and was trying
to get away to seek assistance in the
neighborhood. They fired at her with their
revolvers, and succeeded in wounding her,
but she nevertheless struggled on and got out
of their reach. The wretched woman, bleed
ing and covered with wounds and clothed only
in the night dress in which she was sleep
ing when the attacked commenced, sought the
protection of a monk who lived close by.
The monk got up on hearing her cries, but
when he opened his door and discovered that
it was "only Jewess" that sought his pro-
lection he refused assistance or refuge, and
the people of the neighboring village found
the wretched woman lying all but naked,
senseless and dying in the roadway.