Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-06-19
KILLED AT BlALYSTOK.
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was utterly unnerved by the sights he
witnessed there.
Merely saying that the corpseS were
mutiie ted" the correspondent writes.
fails to describe the awful facts. The
faces of the dead have lost all human
semblance. and the corpses simply are
crushed masses of flesh and bone soak
ing in blood. 1t is impossible to con-
ceivc of such bestiality. The corpse of
Teachon Apstein lay on the grass with
the hands tied. In the face and eyes
he had been hammered with 3-inch
nails. Rioters entered his home and af
ter bestial outrages, killed him thus
and then murdered the rest of his fam
lily of seven. When the corpse arrived
at the hospital it was also marked
with bayonet thrusts.
BESIDE the body of Apstein lay the
corpse of child of 10 years. whose
leg had been chopped off with an axe.
Here also were the dead from the
Schlachter home, where, according to
witnesses, soldiers came and plundered
the house and killed the wife and son
and a neighbours daughter and seri-
orsly wounded Schlachter and his two
daughters.
Il am told that soldiers entered the
apartments of the Lapidus brothers.
which were crowded with people who had
fled from the streets for safety, ordered
tine Christians to separate themselves
from the Jews. A Christian student nam
ed Dikar protested and was killed on the
spot. Then all of the Jews were shot
Some of the ccrpses were markell
with fire. These had been brought from
a burned tannery and showed bullet and
bayonet marks.
IN one corner of the yard was de-
mented Jewess trying to cover the body
of her husband, but her efforts were IL!
vain as the pupy flesh simply ooZed from!
beneath its inadequate covering. From
the wounded in the hospital the CORE
spondent heard many pitiable stories.
Here is the account Of badly wounded
merchant named Nevyazhiky:
81 live in the suburbs. Learning OF
the program 1 trieG to reach the town
through the fields but was intercepted
| by roughs. My brother was killed Ny
arm and leg were broker. my skull was
| fractured and / was stabbed twice III
the side l tainted from loss of blood
and revived to find a soldier standing;
| over VINO 0SkeO q. w Nat arr YOU sun!
alive? Shall 1 bayonet YOU: | begged
him to spare my life. The roughs again
came but spared me, saying: He will
| die: let him suffer longer.
The correspondent. who adopts the hit
terest tone toward the government. says
| that the program was undoubtedly pro-
voketi by Police Lieut.. Shermatieff. and
| saws the distinctive characteristic of thu
outbreak. in which it differs from TIL
excuses at Odessa. kshincff and Eitt:,
Iaside from bestiality, is the comparative
| " small amount of actual robbery COM
mitted. The participants seemingly wtr
not inspired by motives of loot but oi
murder and destruction pure and %lmpl =
| He also holds that the participation o.
the troops has been completely proven
| and quoted Deputy Stchcpkin as sayin2
| that this is clearly shown by the demon
alization of the soldiery CONSEQUENT on
the removal of all restraint.
| The correspondent declares That h"'
only the soldiers but their officers ais
Iparticipated and that he himself was g
| witness as late as Saturday to the sho"t
ling down Of Jewish girl from 'hc WIN
dow of a hotel by Lieut.. Miller OF the
vladimir regiment. The governor OF th'
nrovipce of Grodno. who was passing N
the moment, ordered an investigation.