The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1906-06-21
SEEK CAUSE
OF MASSACRE
Two investigations Of Murder
Of Jews at BiaIystok
OFFICIAL HELD TO BLAME
Parliamentary Committee Finds That
Local Authorities Famed the
Flame ot Disorder No Aid Of
ST. Petersburg.

BiaIystok. June 2o.--The night passed
without incident, and All y quiet here
M present
III. Friseh, s0n cf The president of
| tile council of the empire sapper house
| pf parliament arrived here today, hav-
| ing been sent to Bialystok Ply Interior
| Minister StoIypin To determine the RE-
/ sp0nsiIiIity for tHe recent massacre Of
Jews and enable the minister VI report
Ito parliament an tile subject, indepen-
I IDENTIFY af thef onal authorities.
Grodno, Western Russia. June 70. 4
Giving ID the refusal 81 the censor at
I Biaivstok ID permit the free telegraph
/ mo of fIle result 0f the investigation
oT the massacre Of Jews there, the cor
| respondent Of the Associated Press came
here The anti.IeWisIl riotiiig al Biaiy-
stnk N now ended. The troops are In
! fsll control, and III siew oI the cutlery
raised II Ii certain that tho authorities
! win not permit renewal 81 the horrors
recently Witnessed 1T Bialystok.
Peyoiting Evidences OF Riot.
When The correspondent arrived At
| Biaiystok sunday morning The worst
! WAS already over, but On all sides there
! was revolving evidence of savage bestiair
EnY Oh the part d the blood drunken
mobS, which sacked and burned the jew
/ isl houses, shops and stores For sex.
lenty-two hours with slight abatement
during the daytime, the mad orgie of
blood and piIIage went on unchecked.
While ii Is impossible to give the ex-
aet figures. the sisits of the correspon
dent To the hospitals and cemeteries
Aenable him TO approximate the killed
iat one hundred jews and twenty Chris
tians, and the wounded AFT one hundred
land iifty jews and seven Christians.
The question Of The origin OF the
imasascre was carefully investigated. Al
/ though many Of the Jews denied that
] i bomb Was thrown at the Orthodox
I procession Thursday In honor Of Corpus
4 Christi day, the fact that bomb was
/ thrown II established beyond 4 doubt.
/ The question Of who threw the bomb
remains unsettled.
Minor Officials Cause Massacre.
Although il II freely charged that
! the higher authorities Of Bialystok delib-
erately organized the massacre, or, ii
l this WAS not the ease, that il was car
! ried ont under orders from 50. Peters
burg, there il not evidence TO support
either charge. according to the inyesti-
cations Of the parliamentary commits
sion. whose members were especially
anxious ID eIncislate this point. Nj.
/ Sehepkin OF Odessa, member Of The
commission. said:
sNe wished especially to bring home
the responsibility to the government If
The massacre WAS organized IN 81. PEI
tetsblifg. But our conclusions are that
4it wits not planned III st. Petersburg.
Neither do We find proof that Chief Of
/ Police SherometieH Of Rialystok was a
party OF the plot. However. the respon-
\ sihilitv III his sub0ldinafes, together
with that Of the rank and file 0f the
/ police and some Of the military officers.
who fondly imagine that the odious sys-
tenn Of Won PIehye and Trepof has not
ended, is clearly proven.
we have failed to clear mp whether
ia policeman or an anarchist threw the
bomb. Our investigations only demon
strate that the real cause Of this and
similar tragedies il the position OF the
jews. which makes The ignorant Russians
consider them to be- pariahs. outside
the protection OF the law"
Jews Are Organizing.
/ The jews everywhere arc now organ
/ ling societies for self-defense. and SO
soon rs they show the slightest resist
anec 10 persecution they viii be treated
by The troops and ignorant populace as
reyomtionists, for whom simple death
Is too good.
Parliament must insist upon the pun
ishment Of the guilty"
/ As proof of the charge that the mas.
saere was prepared in advance, tho Jews
claim that the keepers OF the govern.
mcnt wine shops received notice the day
before the outbreak to remove their cash
from the shops to 4 safe place.