The sun., 1883-12-23
JEW TORTURE In RUSSIA.
THE CARNIVAL OF FIRE AND BLOOD
PICTURED BIZ a WITNESS.
Riots, Homes burned By the Hun dred, Men
and BABES Killed, and Women Outraged.

urday. Dec. 8, appeared q telegram from Lon
don reciting tho particulars Of O horrible Nj |
hllst letter in tho London Times I am con-
strained to say that tho allegations In that lot
ter cannot be otherwise than true. have
mover seen the Troubetskoi Bastion. from
which that letter came. but have seen other
jails and other horrors In Russia. and believe
that st. Petersburg can furnish horrors II Cru
COW can. Oh. heartrendinG is the pain that
Russian law gives its victimsl Oh. terrible the
lot OF tho wretched ones who have offended
know nothing OF the treatment OF the
Nhilists. but OF tho fato Of tho Jews In Russia
my heart is over full. am a Jewess. was
born In the Sadovaya, or Gardens street. Of
Moscow. and my fathers house and shop was
for nine years in the Dyevichie field upon the
Moskva River. Left an orphan at 16. / next
found my home In KiefY. the beautiful city Of
the Dnieper. where married. We had pleas
ant homo on the Vladimlrskaya. and my hus-
band was q clerk In the Town Council. We
lived there from 1873 to 1877; then we wore in
Odessa two years; and In 1879 we went back to
our old homo. We were happy. Simon Neu-
mann was a good and grand husband and we
had three sweet little daughters. SO loved was
Kiefrl Twenty thousand Of the lac. GOO popula-
tlon OF the city were Jews and in all Russia our
race had no more privileged homo. In 1878 we
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In Kiefr 1t was ours to tremble for two long
years. It was jealousy that dsoriored the
Russian feeling. and no moro bitter could
jealousy be. The Jews have talent for nc-
Quiring wealth. an intellectual talent md
physical talent They have eminent gifts. and
have been OF vast service In Russia. but the
Christians there have fallen into race hatred.
and In the Anti-Semitic League are members
ofthe Greek, Protestant and Catholic Churches.
mt NNif iOaI la n nd liato
The hatred OF the ignorant popuace has grown
into cruelty and insolence, has grown out OF
other cnuss that persecution has come
People outside Of kussia I & hays not the faint
Tho nows which is permitted to cross tie bor-
ders i most m%eagre % and always wears % the best
truth which hits no nerve. AT different times
since 1s7S-nnd those times recurring with sad
Ns%S England nna Ns% sna
stretching from the Bnck to the Baltic Sea.
ns sap ' sss%s new o ceD.sres And ea
the dim echoes have come out Of the land OF
those deeds have seen IT, ieit T. know Ill
death infants have have 5een thrown into the frs. re-
more than one town this has been done: in
tors have been henrtessy burned. and Jewish
property wnntonly pllaged More than this.
IN many towns all the jewish CltlYSnS nave DScD
expelled; poor. homeless. insulted. and wound
ed creatures thrust out.
The mob did it." says despatch; And who
are the mob but the ignorant 2rejudiced peas
antry2 But education makes tho prejudice
that Ignorance holds. In these scenes of car
but still did nothing to prevent the outrages
Why do you these deodsY asked the op-
ones in aer ngSny Hn1y after long
inink 4 Wasa Not N.hillsm; ah; no, for
pipala,e the press! p Unfair Is Is your You asSry ana
suits You have the guilt OF avarice, ostenta,
ton, greed and ,obbery,! rE Your bearing and
for Mra nsnt and The pe
is. Not snity!' There are. OF course, bad
Jews. as there are bad Christians. nni 1t is for
| the errors of few that all are made TO suffer.
1t is the same as If tho American people were
to rob and KIN all lawyers becAnso NUS i. GaI.ean. 9
Warsaw have their carriage and are hnughty,
and their assHssination is followed by tho mur-
81 SsHF %s x1G humble and
MY husband came home, on an April's dark
night. and ,sorrowfully told mo that he feared
were full Of electricity. and the heads Of thu
Jewish community, who form a third Of the
o e1 s 1Gsra%' IN the
land. my sisters husband was a raskolink. Oh.
IL Sn II Ssms oo sps %
Of OF the riot % ate at Eizabetherad The mob drunk
as is done in war. When some feeble attempt
was made by my, countrymen to save their
and the dwellings we're burned and the syna.
gogues wrecked. For two days the riot ragged
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girls were outraged. and many were wounded
One, house that was entered was that OF an
ns sweet a maiden as Russian air ever kissed
The military had been called out. and were
Tho old man threw them his little store Of gold
and implored the soldiers to spare, his child
tried to % psatset his Olga they Threw him from IN
ruined in body and mind and the father has
The sequel Of the Eiizabethgrad horrors wa.
the increased infammation of the passion
every r p place in Little Russia, On May 7 tier,
was bloody riot at smieh. Sixteen hundred
arlght thirteen men we're murdered Tha
was SATURDAY and next morning the riots wer'
ths ns
heard it The tears were the incentive:
There fscrit ,haH prnnY
snshter hss they yes f1 sSH
Like a summers tempest the riot burst OF
cali cali out the sol diors before the storm ragged hot
test, but he refused. III will not trouble m
S %n an wa the
tary that took the most prominent part In tin
riot, and they inspired their passions by storm
ing tho dram shops and drinEIng the wines
Dreadful. that Sunday: so dreadful that can
| were killed and five Of the many women VIII
were Violated died. My husband. my sister an
fed from our house. and took refuge wit
our friend, Prof. Kron, who Is u Russian, an
whose residence was safe. From his window
. wo saw much Of that which was done-saw ou
home burn. saw our furniture and clothing cal
ried by in the hands OF rapacious women. saw
. and heard, and knew the bitterness Of an awfu
day. will give you but one picture. and tina
. one no more heartrending than many others:
Across the way from the Kr2phans lived
} was wealthy. and had gold and Jewels secretee
broke In and others lined the walk. Most
/. the rioters were ,Cossacks but nt their. hea
: money r We heard them yell; Nine. Wienars;I
, she shrieked. Atdifreront times and in too gres
! frequency we heard horrible oatlis Presnnl u
. as We looked window WAS thrown open and
Cossack appeared with WiGnarski's three yeal
: found. and the next instant the little boy wa
= dashed TO the sidewalk mangled and dead
: At night n telegram came from the Govern
. ment. and the streets were cleared and som