The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-06-08
TRUTH is TOLD.
Michael Davitt Cables to the
New York Journal
The True Story of the Massacre
of Jews at Kishineff.
SAYS IT WAS PLANNED.
Made a Personal Investigation
on the Spot
But Had to Go to Berlin to Send
His 8 Stuff"
SAYS IT WAS PLANNED.
IFrom the N. Y. Americana

was taken IN securing a. proper com
missioner. Prominent Hebrews re-
quested that a Gentle be selected
Michael Davitt. man of cool judg-
ment, lover of liberty and lover Of
his kind, and trained in the accurate
school of journalism was asked to go
to Russia. get the facts of the nassa-
ere and report them to this paper.
Through the American this morning
MI Davitt gives to the world a story
of pillage, rapine and death, whose IN
speakable horror is without parallel
in all the bloody annals of religious or
racial prosecutions. Just as Davitt
has written his story, the American
prints il. Davitt is not emotional. Read
his story and you will see that no prev
ious reports of the horrors of the
slaughter of the Jews of Kishineff have
been exaggerated
The American promised to reveal
the whole truth of the Kishineff massa-
ere Here it is from Michael Davitt.
Berlin, June 3.-Finding it impossible
on account of Russian censorship. to
send the truth from Kishineff, l do 50
from this point.
have completed an investigation as
to the origin, authors and extent of
the recent nassau and looting OF
Kisbincff
I have traversed almost the whole
territory within the Jewish pale of set
Element from Odessa to Warsaw. in
curing into the present state of the
anti Semitic feeling arising from the
Easter outbreak.
l found that the origin of the riots at
Kishineff was not as was reported by
the Russian accounts, which alleged
that a Christian woman was struck by
the Jew proprietor of a merry go-rOunG.
He is a German named Reinhold Mer-
CERT. and is a Christian. He assured me
that no woman was insulted or hurt Oh
that occasion.
The real cause of the disturbance is
this;
EDITOR KROusHVAN THE EVIL
GENIUS.
The only daily paper in Kishinen is
the Bessarabyetz. 1t is violently anti
Semitic, and the chief editor, Kroush-
van by name, is OF Nloldavian origin,
and he has systema tically infamed the
popular feeling against the Jews, as
the foes of Russia, as the propagan-
dists of socialism and as the enemies
of the Christian religion. krOushVan' 5
attacks have been continuous for the
last six years Merchants and employ
ers giving work to Jews were held up
to public odium, and the expulsion or
exterrnina ton of the race was
openly urged The BessaEabyetz has
circulation of 10000, chiefly among
the police iuuA4lNlRcA CAAEACNS2 eIA1A
workmen generally
Two events occurring shortly before
Easter were seized upon by krouShVan
to incite the mob to murderous violence
One was the murder of boy belonging
! to the village of Doubbos2ry. situated
between Kishineff and Odessa. by his
relatives for gain. The other was the
suicide Of a girl at the Jewish hospital
of E[ishineff The BessaTa byetz de
clarcd them to be both ritual murders
cd he
sian Christians to punish the authors or
the alleged crimes
WARNINGS WERE ALL UN-
NEEDED
The chief rabbi of kishineff. rearing
the results of these appeals, fastened
ia the Greek bishop and implored him
to calm the popular mind by giving an
episcopal assurance that no such ritual
was practised. The bishops reply was
that he feared there was some Semitic
sect which really did indulge in the use
of Christian blood in the Paschsl ceIe-
monies and he refused to intervene
About the same time a body of repre-
sentative Jews visited the governor anu
warnde him that krousnVai ~ -
rions would lead to murder unless re-
strained. General Won Raaben assutso
the deputation that precautions Wodio
he taken. but no attemp was mace 70
sion the appeals of the BessaraDyeeA -
the popular anti-Semllc haeisu'
chief of Police Ichanzko was aiso r.
ouested to act in the interest OF pee.
and curb the diatribes OF the tsFsa
"a lox-et He replied that 1t would serve
the Jews right if they We're ullN15i
from the city for encouraging th0 PAoP
uganda of Socialism - 49,
The sl1perStitiOus pOpulace, Seelhs ehS
Jewish warnings unheeded, planneq. IN
/ attack for the Easter holidays. kisn-
ineff Jews declare that Editor krousn-
van received a message from 81
Petersburg on the eve of the outoI \
to plar the riots A meeting was held
and a plan of attack decided on A rev
DAYS previously band of strangers
arrived at Kischineff, comprising 90
/ Albanians and some Macedonlans Iney
are believed to be brigands brought eS'-
Decially for an attack on the Jews.
NOES
The chief instigators of the riots We're
Kroushvan and his deputy editor.
Thee. Scher bani. DR.. SinadinO, who IS
of Greek origin: DR.. Gozylo; the Molda-
Wan engineer Bannski. who IS secf7-
tary of the sanitary bureau; Notenl
/ Pisarzevsky. Adam Boinsky two sons
of prominent merchant named
! Sverov. two students. Malae and
/ Oubranovitz; two Odessa. students
named Kroupansky; Captains NecleVitz
ana Birsnan.
The actual leaders of the riots We're
students and seminarists from the royal
school and the city religious colleges
All the statements made to me agree
4 that the seminarists directed the move
ments Of the mob on both days. dis
/ guised as laborers and strangers The
rioters comprised thirty bands. averag-
j ing fifty each. with a semlnarlst on a
bicycle directing the attack Some d
the bands were composed of the lower
I employees of the various depar tments OF
the municipalty-the telegraph. post
Office and other municipal offices. bur
artisans, laborers and Moldavians from
the suburbs formed the greater body Of
4 the rioters with the Albanian strangers
4 above mentioned
These bands. with sticks and stones,
but no firearms. attacked the Jewish
quarters at thirty different points SIM
! ultaneOusly thus proving a deliberate
/ plan of operation
All the evidence that I have gathered
during eight days Of searching inquiry
in Kishinen convinces me that the out