The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-06-07
KSHINEFF PLOT LAID
BARE BY MICHAEL DAVITT
Russian Chief of Police Rides Through the Pillaged
Town While the Slaughter is On, Coolly
Smoking Cigar
Smoking a Cigar.
New York Americana

the Jews in Kishineff, great care was
taken in securing proper commissioner.
Prominent Hebrews requested that a
Gentle be selected. Michael Davitt, a
man of cool Judgment, a 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
massacre and report them to this paper.
Through the American this morning Mr..
DaVitt gives TO the world a story OF pill
lage, rapine and death, whose unspeak-
able horror is without a parallel IN all
the bloody annals of religious or racial
prosecutions Just as Davitt has written
his story, the American prints it. Davitt
is not emotional. Read his 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 Kishineff massacre.
Here it is from Michael Dayitt:
Berlin, June 3.-Finding it impossible
on account of Russian censorship, to
send the truth from Kishineff, / do so
from this point.
| have completed an investigation as
to the origin, authors and extent OF the
recent massacre and footing OF KIshineff.
| have traversed almost the whole ter
ritory within the Jewish pale OF settle
ment from Odessa to Warsaw, lnqulrlng
into the present state of the anti Semitic
feeling arising from the Easter outbreak.
/ found that the origin of the riots at
Kishineff was not as was reported by the
Russian accounts, winch alleged that a
Christian woman was struck by the Jew
proprietor of merry go-round, which
provoked the crowds of peasants to the
ensuing riots. There is no truth III this
story. | found the owner of the merry
go-round He is a German named Rein
hold Mergert, and is Christian. He as
sured me that no woman was insulted 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 infhmed the popular feeling
against the Jews, as the foes of Russia,
az the propagandists of socialism and as
the enemies of the Christian religion.
Kroushyans attacks have been continuous
for the last six years Merchants and
employers giving work to Jews we're held
up to public odium, and the expulsion OF
determination of the race was openly urg
ed. The Bessarabyetz has a circulation
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cipal employees and workmen generally.
Two events occurring shortly before
Easter were seized upon by Kroushvan
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 OF
Kishineff The Bessarabyetz declared
them to be both ritual murders by the
Jews and summoned the Russian Chris
tans to punish the authors of the alleged
crimes.
WARNINGS WE'RE ALL UNHEEDED
The chief rabbi of Kishineff, fearing
the results of these appeals, hastened to
the Greek bishop and implored him Ia
calm the popular mind by giving an
episcopal assurance that no such ritua
was practiced The bishops reply was
that he feared there was some Semitic
sect which really did indulge in the use
of Christian blood in the Paschal cere
monies and he refused to intervene.
About the same time body of represen
tative Jews visited the Governor and warn
ed him that Kroushvan's incitations
would lead to murder unless restrained.
Gen. Won Raaben assured the deputa-
ton that precautions would be taken, but
no attempt was made to stop the appeal,
of the Bessarabyetz to the popular anti
Semitic hatred.
Chief of Police Ichanzko was also re.
quested to act in the interest OF peace
and curb the diatribes of the Bessara-
byetz. He replied that it would "serv'
the Jews right if they were driven iron
the city for encouraging the propaganda
of Socialism
The superstitious populace, seeing the
Jewish warnings UNDECIDED, planned an at
tack for the Easter holidays. Kishinef
Jews declare that Editor Kroushvan re-
ceived a message from st. Petersburg or
the eve of the outbreak to plan the riots
meeting was held and a plan of attach
decided on. A few days previous a banC
of strangers arrived at Kishineff, compris
ing thirty Albanians and some Mace
domains. They are believed to be bri
gands brought especially for an attack OF
the Jews.
STUDENTS ON WHEELS LED THE
MODS.
The chief instigators of the riots wer
Kroushvan and his deputy editor, Theo
Scherbani; DR.. Sinandna, who is o
Greek origina; DR.. Gozylo; the Moldavial
engineer Balinski, who is secretary of thu
Sanitary Bureau: Notoni Pisarzevsky
Adam Boinsky, two sons of a prominen
merchant, named Sveroy: two students
Malae and Oubranovitz: two Odessa stu
dents named Kroupansky; Captain
Neclevitz and Birman.
The actual leaders of the riots were stu
dents and seminarists from the Roya
School and the city religious colleges.
All the statements made to me agre
that the seminarists directed the move
ments of the mob on both days disguised