The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1913-10-03
ASSERT MURDERER
PROBABLY INSANE
Find No Evidence to Incriminate the
Jew Will Seek to Introduce
Report at the Trial Open
ing October s
Telegram by rniteo Press.

Telegram By rnlted Press.
isieff, Oct S-The chief counsel for
Mendel Bells, whose trial is to open
IN the criminal section of the Kieff
district court on October 8. today re-
ceived from London a certified copy
of the full report of the British experts
VINO alter an exhaustive analysis 81 the
records OF the two postmorten exam
nations OF the boy Andrei Yuschinsky.
completely demolished the ritual mur-
der" theory.
Determined efforts will be made by
NJ. Karavchevsky and Gruesenberg,
leading members Of the st. Petersburg
bar. who were retained on behalf of
Bells by number of wealthy Russian
Jews, to introduce this report as eyi-
dence If they are unable to do SO
directly, they will incorporate it's sub
stance in the form cs hypothecal ques-
tions to be submitted 50 the experts
who have been subpoenaed by the
crown. In like manner they will offer
the reports OF the German, Austrian
and French medicoIegal authorities
who reached a similar verdict.
AT the head OF the London committee
was DR.. w. H. Wilcox. senior expert of
the British home office, whose remark
able analysis concIusively proved that
DIR. Crippen murdered Belle Elmore.
His associates were A. J. Pepper, SEN
ior expert in the public prosecutions
department and Dr. Charles A. Mer-
cier, consulting physician for mental
diseases at Charing Cross hospital.
The main contention of the crown in
endeayoring to establish the ritual
murder" theory was that the AZ stab
wounds We're inflicted by the murder
er for the purpose of draining the
boys body Of blood. while he was still
alive to he used in the making of
passover bread On this point the
British experts assert:
1T appears to us quite impossible
to suppose that the boy was killed for
the purpose of collecting his blood. If
the murderer had wanted the boys
blood, he would have used knife or
cutting instrument. and probably
would have cut the throat or arm of
his victim. He would not have inflict-
ed punctured wounds with an awl, or
chisel-like instrument, for these
wounds cause internal bleeding and
not such copious external bleeding as
a cutting instrument.
In our opinion this case was one of
murder. prompted neither by greed,
lust. nor revenge. but committed with
excessive unnatural. and frantic VIC
lence. II was a coarse, brutal mur-
der committed by person of unsound
mind and by means Of such an instru-
ment as happened to be at his service.
We find no evidence whatever to sug-
gest the nationality or occupation OF
the murderer. Such murders as this
are frequent enough and are charac-
teristic. They indicate, from the lack
Of motive and from excessive violence
that the murderer is insane. 1t is we'll
known to every alienist and medical
jurist of experience that murders of
this kind are quite common in the
case Of lunatics affected by epilepsie
larvee, md that they also o-cus not
infrequently in other forms of mental
disease
Dealing specifically With tue esi
dence Of Prof sirosky of st. Vladimir
university at kieff. whose declarations
were made the basis OF the ritual mur-
der" indictment, the E glish experts
emphatically disagree NTH his con-
clusions. 1t is well known that the
Jews slaughter animals by cutting
their throats right across with spe-
cial knife with long. broad. sharp
blade. This fact is OF Importance. they
point out, for it clearly demonstrates
that the murder was not committed by
Jew who was accustomed TO che
slaughtering Of beasts. as sirosky con
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