The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-06-07

These bands with sticks and stones but
no firearms. attacked the Jewish quarters
at thirty different points simultaneously,
/ thus proving a deliberate plan of opera
ton.
All the evidence that | have gathered
during the eight days of searching in
curry in Kishineff convinces me that the
outbreak was not a casual or accidental
uprising of a mob against the Jews, but
was a carefully planned attack by the
1 local anti-Semitic leaders, with the pas
sive connivance of Chief of Police
/ Ichanzko and the active encouragement
of some of his officers. Won Raabens de-
plorable weakness in not employing his
military force to quell the riots during the
| first day is responsible for the horrors Of
| that night and the massacres and the VIC
! ations of women and girls on the second
day.
DOCUMENTS TO PROVE ALL THE
CHARGES.
The majority of the rioters were of
Moldavian origin. These Moldavians are
rs numerous as the Jews in Kishineff and
constitute the most ignorant and brutal
element of the populace.
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Jewish shops and the demolition of
houses. The mob, finding the military not
employed against them and the police wit
Messing the attacks sympathetically-
many of the police taking part and par
| ticipating in the looting- passed from MUIR
der and massacre to the violation OF
| Jewish women and girls.
/ 1t is impossible in the space of this
! telegram-which is the first possible to
send after my thorough investigation,
owing to Russian censorship-to give all
the facts and details in my possession. /
have two detailed statements, carefully
prepared by eyewitnesses of the scenes.
One is a copy of the Indictment of the
authors of the massacres, which has been
lodged with the Procureur; the other is a
special prepared statement by two Chris
ian ladies, one Russian and one Russo
| French, who investigated a certain class
Of outrages for my information. These
statements viii be published in full later
I Here are a few instances that were in
vestigated by myself of the worst crimes:
THE TRAGEDY OF THE FIELD
STEMS.
The Feldstein family was one of the
most respectable in Kishineff The mob
attacked their saloon on the corner Of
Armenia street at noon on the first day,
Sunday, April g. The police barracks are
500 yards away. The soldiers and police
patrolled the street during five hours of
| the day. While that section Of the mob
demolished the premises, the leader of the
mob found in the kitchen the meat for
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stick, mounted to the roof of the saloon,
which is of one story, and, addressing the
mob, the police and the military in the
street, declared, Here are the remains Of
Christian child found in the house of
the wealthy Jew, Feldstein."
The family was saved by a Russion en-
ploye of Feldstein and a humane gem
larme from the fury Of the mob. but the
saloon was utterly demolished and a safe
containing $4,000 roubles was robbed On
completing the destruction of the place
the leader drank to the health Of Editor
| Kroushvan.
At No. 10 Asia street in the Bender
ROgatka quarter some of the worst out
RACES weer perpetrated Twelve families,
lall Jewish worlSingmen and a few AL
banians attacked the occupants of the
yard. The majority of the Jewish men
escaped, while the women and girls, num-
bering sixteen, concealed themselves in a
loft under the roof of one-story house
Four Jewish men tried to defend the
place from the murderers Of their wives
and daughters, and these facts are related
TO me:
EVEN DEATH DID NOT END BRU-
TALITIES.
One Motel Freenspon a glazier, was
stunned by a blow from bludgeon, and
the Albanians mutilated him while still
alive. They then choked child, two
years Old and cut out its tongue while
alive I am sending photographs of these
two bodies mutilated as described
The other three men were killed and
then had feathers put on their faces and
fired AS an act of desecration of the
dead, two drunken women and one Mol
davian and one Bulgarian trampled on the
body of Freenspon as it lay mutilated in
the yard The mob then found its way to
the loft where the Jewish women were
concealed, and continued their work OF
slaughter, and worse. All this time the
police and soldiers were patrolling the
j open space in front of the house where
these fiendish crimes were committed !
saw blood spattered on the walls of the
rooms and yard, and picked up a child IS
school book on which some murdered had
wiped his hands
At No. SO Gostinna street, four men and
one woman were killed Sixteen families
: lived in this yard, all those of artisans.
The mob came the first day and demolish-
cd the windows and doors. 1t returned
the next day for massacre. Sixteen wo-
| men and eight children were concealed in
the loft. The first killed was boy of
! sixteen, who begged piteously for life,
saying he had done no wrong, was a schol-
ar of the State school and wanted to live.
His father at the other end of the yard
heard the boys cries, but could not save
, his life. His boy was stunned and left
for dead As at the house>in Asia street,
the women and girls who had concealed
themselves in the loft were discovered and
violated by the mob. One married wo-
man escaped through the roof, leaped to
the ground, ran to the nearest police sta
ton and implored help from the officer.