The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-10-09
ROOM WAS CROWDED
Murder Of Boy is Laid at Doors OF the
Jews Who Are Accused Of
Using His Blood In
Bread.

MEL Wab pTdCtlcdily uuQer mdrLldl
law. This precautfon was taken be-
cause OF the tremendous influx OF /
anti-Jewish men from the country
without the pale. The ritual MUIR
der" trial Is race trialt and the
authorities are doing all possible to
protect the Jews from violence should
the hearing cause any excitement.
Before the court met formally the
four magistrates received from a for
mer chief rabbi of Budapest, formal
protest signed by 700 rabbis, thorough
out every part Of the world, denying
that any Jewish authorities ever sane
toned the practice of human blood
rites, or that any Jewish sect, at any
period OF the Jewish history ever
practiceG such.
Today's session was taken up main.
ly with the reading Of the Indictment
against Bells and opening statement
by Chief Prosecutor Wiper.
Ever since the morning of April !.
1911, when the mutilated body OF An
drei Yuschtnsky, a 12-year-old chris
tian boy, was found in an abandoned
jhrickyards just outside Kieff the pros
ecution has been endeavoring to estab-
lish the theory that he was slain. in
accordance with an alleged Jewish
rite prescribed by the Ta1mud, SO that
his blood might be used in making
passover bread For centuries the ig-
norant and superstitious Jew-baiters
of Russia have clung to the belief
/, that this rite is regularly practiced
by the Jewish race, and the govern
ment has apparently done all 1t could
/ to foster this idea. M. Krassovsky,
chief OF the Kief detective depart
nent, was actually instructed to pro-
coed on the theory that the crime wars
the work of Jews, although the only
possible pretext for the ritual"
/ charge was that the boys body bore
] forty-seven stab wounds. According
/ to current superstition the ritual
murder" is accomplished by forty Ave
wounds. He could obtain absolutely
no evidence along the required lines.
| but on the contrary believed he had
! traced the murder " gang Of
1 thieves to which neighbors OF the
boys family belonged and who were
known to be fearful that Yuschinsky
would betray them to the authorities.
/ He secured evidence that one Of the
thieves was seen with chisel short
/ ly before the murder and that this
same implement, covered with blood,
was found by two boys near the
brick-kiln afterwards The boys, up.
on ORDERS Of the thief, threw 1t into
a sewer
The direct evidence against Beilis,
so far as 1t has been disclosed, is OF
rather a f1imsy character First there
4 was a statement by a lamplighter
named Shakhhowsky who declared
that Eugene told him few days lat
er that he and Yuschinsky had been
driven from the brickyards by man
with a black beard Shakhowsky's
| wife deposed than an acquaintance,
Anna Zakharovaya. told her that she
saw Bells seize Yuschinsky and DRAG
him toward the brickyard kiln. Ann
4 Zakharovaya, however. natly denies
this. Nassily Cheberiak, Eugenes
! father, stated that week before the
murder, his son told him that two
Jews. wearing unusual aarb. had TAX
en- up their residence with Bells, and
that he had seen them Praying. Un
fortunately, Eugene. who had been
sickly, died before his evidence could
be taken by the examining MAGISTRATE
or the mystery might have been clear
ed up. Cheberiaks home was the no
torious rendezvous Of q band o.
thieves, and 1t was they whom Krass
ovsky and other detectives believed
to have been the real murderers.
Later, Ivan Kosatchenke, convic
: informer. who was placed in the same
! cell with Bells for two months de
clared that Bells arranged with hin
to poison all the witnesses aga1as
him, and promised that If he did 81
the Jews would keep him in comfor
for life.
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