New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-08-04

been self confessed was started by Roman Catholic
priest who had been active in trying to win converts
from Judaism The rumor grew by going. 1t was SAID
that she had been seen to enter Jewish butchers
shop that she had been killed In the synagogue whence
shreks had been heard and that rich Jews had hired
the authorities to let the matter be hushed up In this
form the case was reported the Hungarian Parlia-
ment ard the Premier ordered strict investigation
THE TESTIMONY AGAINST THE JEWS.
Joseph scharf Jewish butcher and custodian or the
synagogue; Leopold Braun, another butchers Abraham
Burbaum, a school-teacher; aud Herman Vollmer,
lsborcr arrested principals, and six other Jews
as accessories in the murder and they we're indicted
and thrown into prison. to be tried year later The
testmony-and the sole testimony against them was
given by two Of Joseph scbarf. The yodnger,
Joseph, only five years old. He swore that ne had
his father and brother and others kill Esther I'm the
synagogue just after the services OF the day. The elder
oritz fourteen years old, testified far more explicitly
On that fatal April morning his father had called
Esther into his house she was passing to perform
some rlhng service and then with Others induced her
to enter tho synagogue. There, said the boy, they
slaughtered her like sheep. He. hearing screams
peeped through the keyhoe. and them take of her
clothes and then before the altar cut her throat with
butchers knife, and catch the flowing blood In large
earthen bowl After she was dead, and the blood had
ceased flowing they dressed the body tied 1t up In
bundle, and concealed It, And when he told MS IN otner
what he had sho bade him say nothing about It.
younger boy declared that 1t was he who peepeo
through the keyhole and that Moritz was inside the
subsequently appeared that both lads had been for
time under priestly tutesge ana the eder who,o 70
forsake the faith Of his fathers and become Csthoiic
and had even been G taught at m e he 0ry in MS po
Tt further observed-and especially on the trti
that MS y % SGy aSGhe4 ss a
rote TO be recited parrotke. But these snspclol IS
circumstances had no import TO the eyes tbat were
blinded by fanacism, and the clamor against the jews
grew daily more vehement. , 4,
month passed. and on June IS there was lounn In in
the River fsza a body which evidently had been there
for two months more. IL was that OF girl CORE
and general appearance Sober judges at once were
firmly onvnced that hers all the more because
other such peTsos had been reported missing ~ o @
whole Tsza country The body, II was seen, bore no
OF foul play. Accidental drowning had ienDtirss
been the cause OF death; thus fuy ek0hersSns Ino
Jews But the excited people. and especially the rei
OF Esther aud the priests refused TO ADMIT tnst u
was her corpse. Then raftsmen put IN an appear
declared that the body had been gwen TO them
to put In the river by dark-isatnrra wonaI & XII
emily Jewess some then thought 10 raise iue csin
tbati was indeed Esher's body. which tie jews had
thus disposed Of Bg, as the throat was mot e tS
theory would MT harmonic with Morus stoiyi 30
they gave it up.
STRANGE SCENES AT THE TRIAL.
The trial OF the prisoners indicted the boy Mortzs
testimony was begun Nyr Egyhaza or Nyreghhsza'
in June. The bitterest feeling was exhibited on
both sides Soon such revelations were made as con-
ynced the Public Prosecutor that the case against the
Jews had no foundations hut he was compelled to keep
at his post The Government organ at Pesth announced
that II believed the 10 be merely piece or persecu
ton The magistrate who repaired the case Tor tue
prosecution shown TO have bcena convicted mur-
derrr A police commissioner testified that the boy
Norz had confessed 10 that he had been forced To
testify "a did by blows and threats The ra't@meh
declared that they had compelled TO say nat tney
did about the drowned bodies by the most horriole
tortures and other persons testified tat the
OF Eszar had used means only worthy
OF the InqusiiiOn wiring from them charges agains'
the Jews singular feature OF the trial was the de-
meanor OF the bOy Moritl who gloricd In trying TO
swear bis fathers life away and rallied against us
father aud tho other Jews most yiciously.