The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1906-06-29
Massacre OF Jews by the Gift.
Gals at Bialystok Should
SHOCK THE WORLD.
Worst CraeItY Russia HISS Ever Been
Guilty OF. Jewish Father, Moth.
err, Daughter and Son Lashed
Together by T~orturers and
Beaten to Death.

Beaten to Death.
The massacre Of the Jews at Bialy.
STICK the first Of last week must have
been something awful. The CORES
pondent Of the Now York American
visited all parts Of the town, taking
evidence from both Jewish and Chris.
tian residents. Here Ia what he says:
The massacre was essentially ofi-
cial. The police, military holl'sans
and the Black Hundred played subor-
dinate roles In ever case. At q perioi
wnen a mass Of %butoheries occurred
the p 'lice and soldiers either actively
assisted or encouraged the butchers.
There are many authenticated cases
of soldiers themse,ve perpetrating
slaughter. In the B)yare district,
where the worst maasacres occurred,
the soldiers of the Uglitsky, Sixty.
third Regiment, accompanied by two
Cfi Drs, massacred seven Je ws at Gep
nor's saw mill. Full details Of this
tragedy were given me by the surviv
Ing manager. Wuen the soldiers were
occup ed with looting, their vlctima
sought refuge In q small wooden hou: o
on which at 6 O'Clock on Friday even
ing the soldiers fred suddenly
Many Jews Of this district, especial
ly girls, b ecame insane.
The Ulcers ordered the inmates to
como Out one by one. Five Of them
were shot dead as they emerged from
The house and six we're hacked to pieces
by sabres. One rem aimed In the
mousse, an old woman named X tutsoh,
seventy years Of age, and the soldiers
burned the house and she persisted In
the flames.
In other cases the soldiers were
merely onloOkers. In Souvorof sire cts
a prosperous Jew named P%odlatcheff
kept a leather workshop. The pro-
prletor, his relatices, named First.
marD, and six others were slaughter.
Cd L Inspected the dabbled with pools
Of blood and fragments Of flesh and
hair arc sticking to the walls. First
mann was tho first killed. He was
8 iot by a gendarme named Schultze.
Ihen the H%ooligans stripped ,hs
corpst; carved pieces out of tie breast
and drove nails into the nose.
-Four frightened employees took shell
ter In an clubhouse the uooligans broke
1t open and beat them to death. The
soldiers locked on, and the Hooligans
were unmolested. The young son Of
the proprietor was saved by the sol.
diers who cried, Enough; don't kill
the boy
HOUSE OF HORROR.
Outside this house l saw q younth
wearing the blood-atained Clothes Of a
s 'aughtered mother. In many cases
whole families were exterminated.
l visited g. house In old Boyare
street occupied by Ainstein, a resp CT.
cd teacher, who with his mother,
daughter and two sons, were done to
death by Hooligans underline command
Of q disguised police tf1lcer while SOL
oilers were present. At first the sol
diers fired into the house and a police.
man ordered the family to save them.
selves In the fields. There after tying
father, son, mother and daughter to-
gether, they we're beaten to death,
the police meantime firing at ran
dom.
Two witnesses assure me that nails
were hammered into the sons face be
fore his death. In the i,li are pools
Il blood. Everywhere inntctnt
children stand arguing beside these
CHASTITY pools, talking about whom
each belongs to. Next door lives q
woman named win, with eight Chill
dren, whose husband was carved to
pieces in her sight.
Throughout town for two days the
massacres continued. Fiendish tortur.
cs and nutilation of the c)rp4s invari
ably followed the maSacres with active
or passive cooperation Of authorities.
In many cases the police taclbly auth
trized the buthery by ordering the
Hooligaps to spare particular indlvid-
uals. l interviewed two person who
escaped by bribing the soldiers. Oae
girl, living On Alexander street, afCer
her father had e bayonnetted, paid
o soldier 20 rOubles that she might be
spared herse elf.
Both Jews and Christians agree
hat many fisguised policemen were
among the Hooligans MIST OF the
Aoo'A'' 4 viz noibiOlo UtlCu w u0lUuQ
themselves, but while the Hooligans
Oroke down the doors of their homes,
the soldiers looked on, aud II a Jew
defended himself or ever appeared at
a window they fred a volley, killing
The defenders or driving them into
the hands Of the Hooligans. Con.
corning the Vladimirsky ana UElitsky,
reg m nts, j eW witnesses afi m that
Cpl mel Buk vsky dir oily encouraged
he soldiers, crying: : Uoeite z,iidt mr.
. at 10, kill the Jews.
T)rture before death repeatedly
occurred, and mut!lation after ward.
Ia Nikolai street u woman had a
cGowpar thrust down her throat and
theh twistsd. She finally was hacked
10 death with a Ratchet and left to
bleed to death. Tno hands OF Boyar,
q tailor, were nailed to a table while
he was clubbed to death.
DRAGGED TO Ills DOOM,
A little girl whose body / saw In
the Jewish Hospital had hor leg
sawed of while she was yet alive.
Others were carved to death slowly.
ln the yard Of the Jewish Hospital,
where eighty. six corpses were laid
side by side, | saw thirty cases OF
nutllatlUu. In aOme noanl wcra on. |