The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-05-29
Parents Live at Kishineff, Where the
Recent Massacre of Jews
Took Place.
RUSSIAN JEWS INTERESTED
MANY HAVE RELATIVES IN OR NEAR
KISHINEFF.
Joseph Barrish Has Letters Showing
Outrage Was Planned-Mrs. j. L.
Fishman's Letter.

Crazed from worry over the massacre Of
Jews at Kishinef, Bessarabia, III Russia,
Max Fellman, twenty-eight years old, is
being restrained at his home, $50 Eddy
street. Two weeks ago Feldman received a
letter from his mother, who, with his father
and one brother, lives two miles from the
scene of the massacre that has awakened
the whole world. He has also heard of the
letters received by others of the Jewish set
Element in the vicinity of Eddy and Illi-
nois streets and has learned from the
Hebrew papers details of the massacre. All
these things have preyed on his mind until
ii has failed and he is now a victim of the
hallucination that fanatics of the Greek
Church are after his life.
Feldman came to this country a boy and
served in the regular army during the Span
ish-American war. At the end of his en-
listment he came to this city, where he
married. He has two children. He has
been junk dealer and has been sober and
Industrious.
The letter which Feldman received from
his mother had an immediate effect. He
became i'll and has been under the care of
DR.. Jacobs for nearly two weeks. The as
surances of his friends cannot remove the
horror he has that he will soon receive word
that his parents and brother have been
made victims of another outbreak.
WRITTEN IN HEBREW.
The letter was written in Hebrew, and an
almost literal translation gives 1t as fol-
lows:
ITO My Dear Son. NJ. Feldman Dear
Son-I am glad to inform you that we are,
thank God. ali well. and I hone in the near
future to be with you. / come to write
you about the Kishineff riot. AS the people
mere mere gong IrEm na caurfn brst cry s Was raised
der to use his blood for a ritual purpose.
The mob quickly formed and attacked the
Jewish settlement; and as soon as the at
tack was made blood was flowing quicker
than after a big rainstorm. The police
and soldiery did not interfere. Tell me,
dearest son, does things like this happen
in your new adopted country? My regards
to my daughter-in-law. Leo, and also to
your father-in-law. Your mother,
''CHANAH FELDMAN.
Your brother Kalman sends his re-
In order to understand the letter Mr.
| Rabinowitz, who translated ii, explains
| that the Greek Church fanatics often assert
an ancient superstition that the Jews have
| killed a gentle I'm order to have its blood
| In alleged rinlals at Easter time. In this
tns tn f5e IS to the
| ineff which is city of more than 100, ,OOC
| population and the capital of Bessarabia,
killed his nephew to secure his wealth. and
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| yard and started the cry that the child
| had been killed for ritualistic purposes
| This infiamed the ignorant fanatics, and
the massacre followed
CONFIRMED BY LETTERS.
Other letters received here by those who
| have relatives in Kishineff or in the vicin-
| ity confirm much that has been stated in
| the press dispatches. Joseph Barrish, a
| shoemaker at No. 457 West Washington
| street, has a letter from his brother which
| indicates that the massacre was planned
| The day before the Easter service 1T Kish.
| ineff many Jews were met by the gentiles
who shook hands and told them to leave
| as they had been commanded to kill them
| not interfere with the rioters
| The wife of DR.. j. l.. Fishman No 526ll
/ South Illinois street has received letters
| from her parents at Kishineff saying thai
| on the third day of the riots soldiers ap
| peared from a post several hundred miles
| away and that they stopped the disorder
| The letter further said that Mrs Fish.
| mans parents were not involved as the,
| lived in the gentle district and had moi
| been attacked. They, however. had dis
| posed of all their property and had gone tt
| Palestine. as hundreds of others were do
| ing. The letter also said that the Jewish
| districts had been plundered and much o.
| the plunder found in the home of the
| Kishineff chief of police.
The Jewish colony here Is much exercised
/ over .he developments and Is showing much
| interest in the Feldman case. Isadore Wolf
| son, who is one of the most prominent II
the settlement. says Feldman having beer
| raised In Kishineff. where the embers o.
| fanatical fury easily rekindled, ant
where the hatred has existed for centuries