Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-07-16
A mARv8L0UaIY 8TRA8Gg CASE.

Our readers have of course read with
interest the strange dispatches of the past
few days regarding remarkable trial in
Hungary, where band of Jews were put
at tie bar for their lives, charged with the
murder of young girl to secure
her blood in order TO make Passover cakes.
The records of the dark ages contain moth
ing mere grossly superstitious. Such
proceeding as has been reported seems like
an importation OF old-time intolerance,
hate aud bigotry into the blaze of this
century TO serve IS an illustration of how
cruel and unjust man can De TO man. The
story is = most pitiful one, and shows US
very psiatully how mach behind the age
the country is where such things are pos
sibie. At the same time it serves, by way
OF contrast, &c teach us how blest we are
in land where such q trial would be an
impossibility.
IL the town of Nyiregyhaza, Hungary, the
trial has been proceeding. In a village not
far distant, in April, 1882, Esther, servant
girl, Christian, was sent on an errand by
her mistress to a village little way dis.
tant. She never returned home, but her
sister reported that abe INST her coming
back. 4 month later the story went out
that the Jews had killed her. The preju.
dice against the Jews in that section is ran
oorous and beyond our comprehension here
Finally Jewish boy, Moritz Scharf, con.
fesaed that he saw his people kill the girl.
he was put in close confinement, and soon
told this story That the day the girl dis.
appeared his father, seeing her pass, or.
dered the boy TO call her in, and he did
SO; that the Jews, from there, induced
her TO SO 20 the synagogue. In little
while Moritz heard cries il tthe Temple,
and, going TO it, looked through the key.
hole Of the locked door, and cav the men
cutting EstheI's throat and catching her
blood IN basin. Her saw her die, and
saw the men olothe the body. He ran home
aud told his parents, but they silenced him.
a younger brother Of this witness, aged 5.
related that he saw the sacrifice also, and
his story was that their father, himself
and the boy Moritz all took part in it, and
that the two boys held basins to catch the
blood. This was the testimony at the
preliminary examination. In June, 1882,
a girls body clothed in Esthsr's raiment
was found in the river near by, but the
body showed no signs of violence what
ever. The mother of the girl did not rec.
ognize it as that of Esther, but Others
deposed that it was her body. A commits.
sion Of doctors said it WAS the body of one
aged 49, out commission Of University
Professors found it to lie the body OF girl
of Il. Now Esther, it was agreed, was
aged IA. Soon sitter some rsftsmen on the
river confessed that people. apparently
Jews, gave them body, dressed as was
this, and bfibed them to attach it to their
raft on the llth of June. They were to
keep it 50 attached several days, and then
pretend they had found It, Atl this they
did. About two weeks sgo the trial OF
the accused Jews began. Their protesta-
tons OF innocence were remarkably vehe.
ment and pisiful. Tee mother of the girl
was permitted TO testify that the jews
had killed the child, for "God had SO
enlightened her" The trial proceeded,
notwithstanding the prosecution had no
proof positive that the girl was dead, save |
the story Of the two boys against their
own parents. The older boy, aged II, re- |
peated his story as if ne had learned it |
under severe tutor. His eyes were
downcass, his voice low. Against the
anathemas of his father and mother in the |
dock be replied only. 81 hate Judaism |
want to be Christian" He said that if |
he did not tell the truth he would |
be imprisoned for life, snd If he
told the truth the Ministry of the
Interior would care for him. He refused
to speak in German, his native tongue, but
spoke Hungarian, at which the crowd man.
Tested its pleasure. On cross-examination
be was silent on points on which he should
have been ready. He declared il wa.
iogma CT she Jewish religion that they
must sacrifice Christian cailirsn, for " the
priests had told him 50" lneaning Christian
2riests). He described the squirting Of the
,lood from Bsther's Hourd. but medi-