The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-10-15
RUSSIA IS SETTLING
. OVER BLOOD RITUAL
Movement for Acquittal of
Mendel Beiliss, the Ac-
cused, Is Growing.
By Intcrna tional News Service.

by lntcrna t1onal News Service.
ST. PETERSBURG, Oct. 14.-The
whole of Russia is seething with ex-
citement over the "blood ritual' dra-
the trial Of Mendel Beiliss for the muir
der Of the boy, Yushinsky, is taking
place.
A movement in favor of the acquittal
of the accused man is growing stead
lily, and reports of demonstrations
against the trial are being received
from all parts of the empire. On the
other hand, there have been sporadic
anti'J ewish outbreaks, probably jnsti-
gated by the Black Hundred. A Sc
rious outbreak came at Nicolaieff, in
south Russia, where mob attacked
the ghetto, pillaging the Jewish shops
The riot, which was soon suppressed
by the police, was obviously fomented
by reacJionaries who are endeavoring
to infame the masses against the "ac-
cursed jewish parasites who are de-
stroying the body polite of holy Rus
sia. y
The Semitic inhabitants of south
Russia fear that if Beiliss is condemned
there Will be the gravest consequences.
The. popular feeling against the race
is the more bittee3now than at any
time for the past thirty years.
KIEV, Russia, Oct. l4.-Witnesses
today at the trial of Mendel BeiIiss for
the alleged ''ritual murder Of Jew
ish boy included Archimadrite Autono-
mins, a high dignitary of the Russian
church, and picturesque old beggar
woman named Volkivna.
Beiliss made his first remark since
the beginning of the trial when he
interJected at one point in the archi-
madrite g testimony, Hthat is not
true. The old woInan's story, like
most hitherto given, has proven worth.
less. She had been reported by an
other woman to have seen or heard of
some one who had seen Beiiss drag.
ging the boy away.
VolSiwna, when confronted by this
witness today, declared she knew moth
ing Of the affair.
over our vodka she admitted.
Juliana Shakovsky, the witness who
had brought the beggar woman s name
into the case, had previously testified
that her evidence had been prompted
by the police, adding; "I've known
nothing against Beiliss himself"
but was baptized when 10 years old
gave almost incredible evidence of the
anti Jewish bigotry existing in the
Russian church. He said:
From my childhood my teachers
warned me TO avoid all Jews because
they tortured Christian children. Once
a boy came to me and received the
baptism. Some time afterward Jews
bribed monk to help them remove the
boy, and two years later he was found
killed. "
When questioned the witness didn Y
know whether the wounds found on the
body were similar to this case or not
He also related the case Of another
Jewish boy whom he adopted and bap
tized, declaring a party of eight Jews
| including the boys uncle, who knew
he had been converted to Christianity
waylaid the lad on the road and nal
treated him. They took him to To
herkassy, the archimadrlte said, an6
kept him locked up the entire winter
returned to the monastery.
Asked what was the general attitude
of the Jews toward orthodox Christians
the witness said: eff the bowels OF
the earth opened one would discover
the bones of many persons who had
been tortured to death by Jews"
The miserable showing Of the case
for the prosecution so far deepens the
conviction that the trial will soon col
lapse, The evidence is admittedly only
patchwork, based On the gossip OF
thieves and drunkards and supported
by the bigotry of anti-Semitic fanat.
les.