The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-06-09

4. Thrse hands. with sticks and stones, but
no firearms. attacked the Jewish quarters
al thirty different points simultaneously,
thus proving a deliberate plan OF opera
ton.
All the evidence that l have gathered
during the eight days Of searching IN
curry in Kishineff convlnccs me that the
outbreak was not 4 casual or accidental
uprising OF a mob against the Jews, but
was Il carefully planned attack by the
local anti-Semitic leaders, with the pas
sive connivance of Chief OF Police
chanzko and the active ncOuTa cement
OF some Of his officers. Won Raaben's de
plorable in not employing his
military force to quell the riots during the
first day is responsible for the horrors OF
that night and the massacrcs and the Vlo-
lations of women and girls on the second
day.
DOCUMENTS TO PROVE ALL THE
CHARGES.
The ma iOritv of the rioters were OF
Moldavian origin. These Moldavians are
as numerous as the Jews In kishlneff and
constitute the most ignorant and brutal
element of the populace.
The rioting began with the looting of the
Jewish shops and the demolition OF
houses. The mob, finding the military not
employed against them and the police wit
Messing the attacks sympathetlcally-
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 censorshlp-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
tan ladies, one Russian and one Russo
French, who Investigated a certain class
of outrages for my information. These
statements Will be published in full later.
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 moi
attacked their saloon on the corner OF
Armenia street at noon on the first day
Sunday, April 9. The police barracks are
500 wards away. The soldiers and police
patrolled the street during five hours O
the day. While that section of the moi
demolished the premises, the leader OF The
mob found in the kitchen the meat fol-
the family's dinner. He put it on {
stick, mounted to the roof of the saloon
which is of one story, and, addressing tn
mob, the police and the military in tn,
street, declared, Here are the remains o
IA Christian child found in the house o
the wealthy Jew, Feldstein."
The family was saved by a Russion en-
ploye of Fcldstein and a humane gen
darme from the fury of the mob. but tn
/, saloon was utterly demolished and a SAT
containing $4,000 roubles was robbed. O.
! completing the destruction of the plac
the leader drank to the health Of Edito
KrOuShvan.
At No. IS Asia street in the Bende
; Rogatka quarter some of the worst GU
D RACES weer perpetrated. Twelve families
. all Jewish w%orkingmcn and a few A
! banians attacked the occupants of tn
! yard. The majority of the Jewish me
S escaped, while the women and girls, nun
{ bering sixteen, concealed themselves in
c loft under the roof of a one-story hous,
-Four Jewish men tried to defend tn
place from the murderers of their wive
and daughters, and these facts are relate
: to me:
EVEN DEATH DID NOT END BRJ
TALITIES.
t One Motel Freenspon, a glazicr, WI
: stunned by a blow from a bludgeon, an
; the Albanians mutilated him while sti
alive. They then choked a child, tW
years old, and cut out it's tongue viii
!, alive. 1 am sending photographs of thes
two bodies mutilated as described.
G The other three men were killed ar
n then had feathers put on their faces al
a fired. AS an act of desecration of TT
dead, two drunken women and one Mo
davian and one Bulgarian tramplcd on IL
body Of Freenspon as it lay mutilated
the yard. The mob then found its way
the loft, where the Jewish women we
concealed, and continued their work
slaughter, and worse. All this time Il
police and soldiers were patrolling I'll
Il open space in front of the house whe
: these fiendish crimes were committed.
:, saw blood spattered on the walls of Il
II I'LL hlu az diId pIChCu up Il Ill
school book on which some murdered hi
wiped his hands.
At No. SO Gostinna street, four men al
+ one woman were killed. Sixteen famili
lived in this yard, all those of artisan
re The mob came the first day and demolis
O. cd the windows and doors. 1t return
of the next day for massacre. Sixteen W
men and eight children We're concealed
he the loft. The first killed was a boy
y, sixteen, who begged piteously for III
ut saying he had done no wrong, was a sch
is, ar of the State school and wanted to liz
u His father at the other end of the va
heard the boys cries, but could not sa
his life. His boy was stunned and Il
for dead. As at the house in Asia sire,
u the women and girls who had conceal
themselves in the loft were discovered a
90 violated by the mob. One married "
- man escaped through the roof lea ped
"A the ground, ran to the nearest police 5
-. ton and implored help from the offc
- but the girls in the loft were driven O
=; by the officer, who said the Jews we
\. only receiving what they deserved. O
of married woman was bludgeoned to dea