The daily Alaskan., 1913-10-16

had attacted worldwide attention.
 Many prominent men in England in-
 cluding the Arcbbishops of Cauter-
 bury and York, Lord Rosebery, Aus-
 ten Chamberlain, A. J. Balfour, and scores of university professors, scien-
 lists, and ministers of the gospel
 signed and sent out to Russia a strongly worded protest against the
 blood accusation. In England, France, Austria and Germany, full
 reports of the inquest on the mur-
 dered boy was submitted to unpre--
 judiced boards of medicolegal eX-- perts who united in declaring that he was not tortured nor was blood removed from his body, as alleged.
 The British committee, of which Dr, w. H. Wilcox, chief expert of the Home Office, was the leading mem Der, asserted that the evidence showed that the boy was killed al- most instantaneously by two blows on the head, that the numerous stabbings were merely incidental to a peculiarly fiendish crime, and that there was no blood draining. At the last International Congress of Medicine in London the case was considered by the sections on Foren- sic Medicine and PsyChiatry, and the opinion was unanimously eX- pressed that it was mot ritual murder, but the act of some homi- cidal luuatic, which had been seized upon by persons animated by racial antipathy to the Jews to distort and f tmisrepresent facts for their own ne fariOus purposes" Bells himself was little better than an ordinary laborer, a man of practically nc edu cation beyond that of his trade, and there is no evidence that he ever had any strong religious convictions. Yuchinsky disappeared on March 25, when he left home presumably to go to school. After his body was found, it developed that instead of going to school he had visited boy friend named Eugene Chiberiak, whose parents lived near the brick yard where the lads frequently play ed.
 The direct evidence against Beilis so far as it has been disclosed, IS of rather flimsy character. First there was a statement by a lamp lighter named Shakhhowsky, who de clared that Eugene told him few days later that he and Yuchinsky ha been driven from the brickworks by man with a black beard. Shak- howsky's wife deposed that an ac- Quaintance, Anna ZakharOvaya, told her that she saw Beilis seize Yus- chinsky and drag him toward the fbrickyard kiln. Anna Zakharovoya, however, flatly denies this. Vas silly Chebberiak, Eugene's father, stated that a week before the mur- der, his son told him that two Jews, wearing unusual garb, had taken up their residence with Beilis, and that he had seen them praying. Unfor-. tunately, Eugene, who had been sick | ly. died before his evidence could be taken by the examining magis- trate, or the mystery might have been cleared up. Cheberiak's home was the notorious rendezvous of a band of thieves, and it was they whom Krassavksy and other detect ives believed to have been the real murderers.
 Later, Ivan Kosatchenke, a con- vict informer, who was placed in the same cell with Beilis for two months declared that Bells arranged with him to poison ell the witnesses against him, and promised that if he did so, the Jews would keep him in comfort for life.
 Throughout the various prelimin- ary processes of the case the de- fense has been seriously handicappe by the manifest prejudices of the court officials against the prisoner. All possible obstacles were thrown in the way of defense counsel. His first attorney, GrigoroVitch, was se- verely reprimanded and temporarily suspended from the case for having signed a petition protesting against the blood accusation. His next lawyer, Margoulin, was forced out by reason of a palpably false charge made by Vera Cheberiak, mother Of the boy, Eugene, that he had at tempted to bribe her. Beilis was represented in an array of counsel employed by wealthy Jews, chief of whom were two of the leading barristers of the capital, karavchevsky and Grusenberg.
 DALTON GETS CONTRACT.