The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-06-07
MASSACRE
AT KISHlNEFF
Michael DaVitt Tells Of HorTi-
Bile Things Told Him.
WOMEN ARE WRoNG &c:
Stories Too Terrible TO Be Printed.
Inability to Connect ST. Petersburg
Government With the Massacre
Except Indirectly.
ARE WRONGED
7 BY MICHAEL DAvlTT.

Especial Cable to the Times Dispatch.
Copyright 1903.
LONDON. June ell attended several
meetings of the General Relief Commit
tee while in Ilishineft The last one was
on the evening Of my departure last Fri
day. Tho committee meets daily to ak
anime applications and distribute assist
ance in money. food and clothing. Kishi-
non Is divided for relief purposes into
twenty-five districts. Each has Its local
Committee which reports to the Central
Executive Committee Of fifteen, whose
chairman. DR.. J. 8. Mutcznlk, is lead
ing physician and one OF Iklshineff's
wealthy citizens. Assisting him are sew.
eral equally representative Jews.
A ladies' committee gives valuable Coz
operation, attending to. and reporting
upon the women. girls and orphans re-
DURING aid. The ladies showed mo over
the food and clothing In tho departments
OF the Central Committee headquarters.
found everything we'll attended to and
efficiently executed. The rabbi and lead
ing members OF the Ladies' Committee
have founded an asylum for tho orphans
OF massacred parents.
Sf1A1SSlL tolt Hl11AIlSJINS1AASi1A1
When visiting the orphans and while
learning from tho girls and women. whom
the rabbi assembled at his house to meet
mo, tho stories of their terrible torture
and their fears of dark future, In
dulgcd In tho wish that had the wealth
OF soma of the Jewish millionaires. OF
New York, London. or Paris, In order to
buy myself happiness by the humane
task OF aiding these orphans and terribly
wronged girls and women.
My hotel in KishIneft was besieeed by
suppIcants, Hundreds OF poor crea-
lures OF each sex begged me to help
them to emigrate They were willing
to go anywhere. to any country where
Christians did not kill Jews. have tho
names OF ten women and girls ] met at
the Rabbits house. who told me their
awful experience at the hands OF the
mob. Their experiences are too dread
full to print Six other young. girls were
ashamed to come to the Rabbits house
to meet me and tell their shameful ex-
subjected to the most awful wrongs will
never he known.
During the continuance Of tho reign
of terror, breaking and robberies
were suspended, apparently by consent.
during the night. while the tends sought
the hiding places OF the women, The
women who can DO so naturally hide
their wrongs, preferring to suffer In ST.
lence. The actual number of these vlo-
tins of the mobs crimes. therefore. can
never be known.
COULD HAVE BEEN AYERTED.
thousand determined men, despite
the action of the Chief of Police, could
have saved many lives and prevented
the outrages against the women and
children. Leon Kouiberry, plucky jew
fireman. faced sixty Moldavains. and
with a few assistants drove them out OF
his district. Many Russians OF both
sexes nobly eXerted themselves to pro-
tect the women In the mob I must re-
peat that no fact deducted during my
investigation as to the origin Of the
riots duplicates the st. Petersburg gov
ernment While the Minister Of the
Interior is necessarily to blame officially
for the occurrences. from the weakness
and semi -imbecilitl OF Governor Won
Raaben. and for the far more criminal
connivance of Chief OF Police Tohen-
zarko, could find no proofs to bring a
guilty sanction OF cooperation home to
tths government ut ST. Petersburg