New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-05-17
TELLS OF RUTCHERY.
LETTER FROM KISHINEFF
Efforts Of Humane Official to Stop
Massacre Here Baked.

letter made public by The Jewish Morning
Jou-na'' last night. written by a resident or
Kishinea April Is, TO a friend in this cir,
tells Of atrocities so horrible as 10 almost he
beyond belief attending the massacre of the
Jews kishineff.
The bloody butcherers the letter saws looked
as II they were organized by the police and
were followed in their CORY path by the police
who made no effort to stop outrages of the most
ferocious and revolving nature. Even an officer
Of the garrison at Kishineff says the letter who
desired to stop the massacre. was prevented
from sending word TO the authorities that would
give him the necessary authority
The letter is a follows:
Dear Cousin: in my last letter / have already
stated TO you about the terrible outraFes com
mated by q group OF small boys throwing stones
aged by the police z band of rufians
dressed in red shirts, arrived on the scene They
listed TheT comGne9ce5 tbi ~eone be olIs n9
;s it'e siS in the streets and '0fuFns them to
When they reached a house where a woman
giving birth 10 a child. they opened her body,
mutilated the child before the eyes Of the mother
and af1erward :hey killed the mother and filled
the body with feathers. The hands and feet OF
legs were cut off. the tongues torn out etc.
have ai-eady related TO You n my last letter
nef. 4 Christian, but humane man. went 10 the
1erfere re protested and went to telegraph to St
Petersburg. but his messages not accepted by
der. ncighboring town. and telegrephed from
there St Petersburg. After twenty-four hours
a reply came to the governor suppress the riots
utcS 10 restore order Now the general governor.
Investigations Of the origin OF the massacre.
While closing this letter found that the butchers
who went 10 the slaughter house for the first time
cf;tr the massacre returned with eight Jewish
corsses- which were found hanging in the slauEh-
Eir Kohn. Of the relief fund committee, said
that the following circular petition had been
distributed 10 thousands OF Hebrews in this and
other cities TO be signed and sent the Presi-
dent:
To His f,xcellency Theodore Roosevelt, Presi-
dent of the United States of America.
Honorable Sir: The recent massacres of Jews
the Russian Government, and the expulsion Of
the entire Jewish population Of Kieff, number
ing % 600. and decreed by the same Russian
Government cannot be treated any longer as an
internal affair OF Russia, concerning no other
country but Russia
II the government of the United States real
tied its right 10 ntercede in behalf of the perse-
cuted Jews in Rumania, ii can remain true 10
itself only by asserting this right in behalf or
the outraged Jews in Russia.
Whatever interests OF America were threat
ened 10y the anti Semitic policy OF the Ru-
rnanian Government, they more grave
IL threatened by the anti-Semitic outbreaks in
Russia Official anti-Semitism in Russia is
more dangerous 10 this country than official
anti-Semtism in Rurnania, In consequence or
the greater number OF its victims, and OF the
manifestation.
The undersigned. therefore. respectfully pc
tition your excellency 10 employ the good Of
fees of our government with the Imperial Gov
eminent OF Russia with the aim in view of
securing more safety to Jews IN Russia. and
making their existence there less wretched-