Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-11-28

Cxars Grant of a COnstftut1On-Cru-
 city of the Hooligans and Police
 Was Unspeakable.
 Solomon Brodsky, a Jewish watch maker of Odessa, who recently arrived in London from that town, gave Lon don Telegraph representative a graphic description of the terrible scenes of bloodshed which occurred there few days ago. Mir. Brodsky is a prominent member of the revolutionary party in Odessa, and it was because he took prominent part in the defense of his coreligionists and thereby became a marked man that he fled from the town in fear of his, life, being provided with funds by the revolutionary party to enable him to go to London to assist in raising funds for the revolutionary movement
 Mir. Brodsky attributed the com mencement of the attack upon the Jews to the issue of a proclamation in spired by the police asserting that Jew ish revolutionaries were plotting to take the life of the czar At the time the proclamation was issued great mobs of loyalist hooligans were parad- ing the streets, rejoicing over the czar's manifesto promising a constitution. The hooligans at once raised the cry of Down with the Jewsv' attacks on the Jewish quarters began, and for three days the whole city was given up to scenes of indescribable horror.
 Early on Wednesday morning (Oct. 26l,", continued M. Brodsky, T was awakened by terrible uproar in the street. Arming myself with revolver, I went out and found great mob of hooligans and disguised policemen, armed with swords and revolvers, at tacking a house where several families of Jews resided, their object being murder and robbery. The Jews tried to defend themselves, but they were soon overpowered, and nearly every person in the house was killed or wounded and the place pillaged.
 ''Then body of the Social Democrat ic league came upon the scene and called upon the people to bring out as many arms as possible to fight the po- lice and hooligans. Returning to my house, I brought out two large dag gers, one of which I gave to another person, keeping the other myself. A desperate fight then took place, and I was in the thick of it. reyolvers, dag gers and sticks being freely used. Hear ing cry for help, turned round and saw young girl of about fourteen or fifteen being struck on the head by hooligan with huge stick. This got my blood up, and, aiming my revolver at the man, I shot him dead. My act was witnessed by the police. Several of them made a rush for me, and one of them tried to fell me with aorifie.i I ran away, with the police. in hot pur- suit, but after they had chased me through two or three streets I man. aged to enter a house unnoticed by them and hid there for two hours. As soon as I ventured out, however, was arrested, but number of revolution aries attacked the police and set me free.
 Scenes similar to that in which I took part were enacted in every part of the city. It was as though thousands of wild beasts had been let loose. The authorities made no attempt to main- tain order. It was absolutely anarchy, and the Jews were in state of fear ful terror, fully expecting to be com pletely annihilated. The scenes on Thursday were, if possible, even worse, the greatest bloodshed occurring In two streets, Moldavanka and PreobraZhen- skaya. To describe the horrible slaugh- ter which took place here is quite i'm possible Bodies of the dead and dying lay on the ground literally in hundreds, and the gutters ran ankle deep in blood, the sounds of the firing, the fierce shouts of the fighters and the groans of the wounded making 1t perfect pan demonium. Fathers saw their sons and daughters killed before their eyes, and sons saw their mothers ruthlessly slaughtered by the hoollgan mob. What wonder that everybody lost his hu- manity and fought like wild beast!
 +The cruelty of the hooligans and the police was unspeakable. I myself saw a policeman stamp savagely on the face of an old woman who was lying on the ground badly wounded and saw others who were wounded finished off by the police with the butt end of rifles. The bodies of horses and dogs lay mix ed up indiscrimlnately with the bodies of men and women. So numerous were the victims-it was impossible to count them. for there were thousands-that the police could not cart them away quick enough, and during the night dogs and cats and rats actually fed upon the corpses. The bodies were taken away in thirties and forties in dust carts, and there was no attempt at proper burial They were all thrown together into huge holes, irrespective of nationality. and covered over with lime.
 'T became as one insane with the hor- rible scenes which I witnessed on every hand. and during Thursday evening, when was attacked by several dis guIsed policemen who were assisting a band of hooligans who were in treating a number of students. I again lost my