The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-06-09
KISHINEFF PLOT LAID
BARE BY MICHAEL DAVlll
Russian Chief of Police Rides Through the Plllaged
Town While the Slaughter is On, Ooohy
Smoking a Cigar.
New York Americana

the absolute tIuIH Do " hhN
the Jews in Kishineff, great care was
taken in securing a proper COMMISSIONER
Prominent Hebrews requested that d
Gentle be selected. Michael DaVltt, a
man of cool judgment, a lover OF liberty
and = lover Of his kind, and trained III the
accurate school of journalism, was asked
to go to Russia, get the facts OF the
massacre and report them to tins paper.
Through the American this morning Mr..
Dayitt gives to the world a story OF phi
lage, rapine and death, whose unspeak
able horror is without a parallel III al
the bloody annals of religious or racial
prosecutions. Just as DaVitt has written
his story. the American prints 1t. DaVltt
is not emotional. Read ms story and
YOU will see that no previous 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 klshlneff massacre
Here it is from Michael Davltt:
Berlin, June 3.-Finding it impossible
on account of Russian censorship, TO
send the truth from Kishlneff, | do 50
from this point.
have completed an investigation as
to the origin, authors and extent OF the
recent massacre and looting OF Klshlneff.
have traversed almost the whole ter
ritorv within the Jewish pale OF settle
ment from Odessa to Warsaw, lnqulrlng
into the present state of the ~antl-Semltlc
feeling arising from the Easter outbreak.
I 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-round, which
provoked the crowds of peasants to the
ensuing riots. There Is no truth III THIS
story. l found the owner OF the merry
go-round. He is a German named Rem
hold Mergert, and is a Christian. He as
sured me that no woman was msultcd or
hurt on that occasion.
The real cause of the disturbance is
this:
EDITOR KROUSHVAN THE EVIL
GENIUS.
The only daily paper in Kishineff is the
Bessarabyetz. 1t is violently anti-Semitic,
and the chief editor, Kroushvan by name,
is of MoldaXian origin, and he has sys-
tematically inflamed the popular feeling
against the Jews, as the foes of Russia.
as the propagandists of socialism and as
the enemies of the Christian religion
Kroushvan's attacks nave been continuous
for the last six years. Merchants anc
employers giving work to Jews were held
up to public odium, and the expulsion Oh
determination of the race was openly urg
ed. The Bessarabyetz has a circulation
Of 1000, chiefly among the police, mum
cipal employees and workmen generally.
Two events occurring shortly before
H. --~ -
to invite the mob to murderous violence
One was the murder of a boy belonging
to the village of Doubbosary, situated be
tween Kishineff and Odessa. by his rela
tives for gain. The other was the suicide
of a girl at the Jewish Hospital o
Kishineff. The Bessarabyetz declares
them to be both ritual murders by tn
Jews and summoned the Russian Chris
JAMS to punish the authors of the allege,
crimes.
WARNINGS WERE ALL UNHEEDEI
The chief rabbi of Kishineff, fearin
the results of these appeals, fastened t
the Greek bishop and implored him t
calm the popular mind by giving a
episcopal assurance that no such ritua
was practiced. The bishops reply wa
that he feared there was some Semiti
sect which really did indulge in the us
of Christian blood in the Paschal cers
monies and he refused to intervene.
About the same time a body of represel
tative Jews visited the Governor and warn
ed him that kroushvan's incitation
would lead to murder unless restrained
Gen. Won Raaben assured the dcputa
ton that precautions would be taken, bu
no attempt was made to stop the appea
of the Bessarabyetz to the popular ant
Semitic hatred.
Chief of Police Ichanzko was also re
Quested to act In the interest OF peac
and curb the diatribes OF the Bessars
byetz. He replied that it would "serl
the Jews right if they were driven fro
the city for encouraging the propagand
of Socialism"
The superstitiOus populace, seeing Il
Jewish warnings UNDECIDED, planned an a
tack for the Easter holidays. Kishine
Jews declare that Editor Kroushvan II
ceived a message from ST. Petersburg {
the eve of the outbreak to plan the riot
A meeting was held and d plan of attac
decided on A few days previous a bar
of strangers arrived at Kishineff, comprI
ing thirty Albanians and some Mac
domains. They are believed to be bl
gands brought especially for an attack
the Jews.
STUDENTS ON WHEELS LED TIL
MOBS.
The chief instigators of the riots We
Kroushvan and his deputy editor, TIL
Scherbani; DR.. SInanulna, who Is
Greek Original; DR.. Gozylo; the Moldavl
engineer Balinski, who is secretary of t
Sanitary Bureau: Notoni PisarzevSk
Adam Bolnsky, two sons Of a prOmlne
merchant, named Sverov: two studen
Malae and O~ubranovitz: two Odessa ST
dents named Kroupansky; Captal
Neclevitz and Birman.
The actual leaders of the riots were 81
dents and seminarists from the Roy
School and the city religious colleges.
All the statements made to me agl
that the seminarists directed the mo-
ments of the mob on both days, DISCUS
as laborers and strangers. The riot,
comprised thirty bands, averaging fl
each. with a seminarist on a bicycle
~recting the attack. Some of the bar
&c tho lowor o,pp1ovo,