The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1913-09-30
By ID |. KEEM.


(London Cor. oi United Pressl
London, Sept 30. When the case Of
Mendel Beiis, Jew. IS called in tie
district court at Kieff on October s,
the Russian government will in effect
place itself on trial before the world
1t viii be compelled to prove its blood
accusation, Or stand convicted OF the
most heinous conspiracy attempted BY
nation against tls Jewish race sinct
tie days Of Phar hs
The charge is that neilis, either with
the connivance or with the actual CO.
operation Of band ef Jews, slew a
Christian boy and drained his blood
for use in making passover bread For
two years and half the government
has been working on this so-called
ritual murder case, which, as soon
as the crime was discovered, was seiz
cd upon by the Black Hundred and
ether reactlonary Russian organiza
lions as the basis for fierce cam
gaign of persecution Of the jews
throughout Russia
Find the Jew was the cry thai
/ went up among the strongly anti
Semitic population OF Kieff on th'
morning Of April J. l9li when thI
body OF twelyeyear-old Andrai Yus
chinsky, bearing A stab wounds ar
parently made by ain awl or chiscl
was discovered in an abandoned bricl
kiln in a yard ON the outskirts Of tn
city. Bells was the foreman Of th
hrIckyard. Bells was also q Jew. III
was arrested. Despite the reports 9
various detectives thai they could fin
no substantial evidence that it was
ritual murder, Oh Bells The murde
er. ne was indicted. NJ Krassoysk
chief Of the detective department
Kieff. was peremptorily dismissed fi
his fsilure 10 find the jew Mis-
chouk. who succeeded him and two
his assistants were not only dismias'
from office hut were tried and co
\ yietod of manufacturing false e'
dence' favorable 10 the Jews az
against band OF thieves to who
i they believed they had traced &
crime. The three detectives We're Sc
fenced to a years hard labor each.
Bells was. and is really q min
factor in the case. The authoriti
a nave from the first devoted their
81 ergies principally TO the attempt
prove that the ritual murder is
Il recognized institution Of the Jewi
faith. When the Kieff detectives ws
Fl on trial evidence was given showi
that Prosecutor Brandorf refused
listen to any other story than that
ritual murder and repeatedly ordei
the officers to drop all other clues.
order to establish the theory that
Jews siay Christian children ana dr'
their blood distributing il from s
agogue to synagogue, Tor the purp
Of mixing it with passover bread,
that this "rite" is prescribed by
Talmud the Jewish Bible NJ. Fen
ko. the examining magistrate, inter
E gated the Archimandrite Ambros
f vicar OF the Greek monastery at ki
who claimed that the rite has b
described to him BY two monks
F we're formerly ot the Jewish ia
eThe wounds must be Of a certain
Cd number, about a5, declared
brosius. and they must be intll'
upon certain parts Of the body a
IS not bound TO observe any rites
lorms il ho has to procure the b
/. under difficult conditions but il q
4 Ils no danger the blood is shed IN
iormity with the prescribed "a
which includes the reading Of cei
prayers hy a rabbi, the prayer 4
-. coacluded while the victim Is