Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-10-13
TESTIMONY IS HEARD
FAVORABLE TO bE|u|SS
Court Investigating Boys
Murder Visits Cave Where
Body Was Found.

KIEV. Russia October 13.-The entire
court engaged in the trial of Mendel
Beiliss. charged with the murder of the
boy, Andrew Yuskinsky. in 1870 was
transferred temporarily today to the cave
In which the boys body was found.
Judges. jury and counsel were driven in
carriages to the brick works where
Bellies had ben employed. and i'll the
vicinity of which the body was discov-
cred. The first witness was Dobiancsky,
a publican. who testified that he had
heard Yushius,y's aunt Natalie. who has
since died FROM tuberculosis. say: His
own people killed him" This remark, ac-
cording to the witness. was made before
the arrival of the authorities at the cave
and before the character of the wounds
on the boys body had been ascertained.
Dobjancsky added that Yushinsky' s
uncle, Theodore Nejinsky, had visited
cafe april !. ten days after the crime,
when he seemed excited. His overcoat
was splashed with clay. boy gave
evidence that he had brushed and cleaned
Nejinsky's coat on that day.
Unidentified Man Near Cave.
Another witness, Yastohenko, stove
maker, told the court an extraordinary
story of how March D. 1910, he. saw near
the ditch in the vicinity of the cave where
the boys body was found an unidentified
person wearing black trousers and an
overcoat and a white scarf, with black
hair and mustache, walking toward the
woods The witness said that when he
subsequently learned of the murder he
told his brother and some friends about
the stranger and some days later Nejin-
ok w in ha
police, came to see him and said he was
being persecuted When Yastchenko de-
scribed the stranger to Nejinsky the lat
ter said: Yes, that's he
Twice afterward the witness was con-
fronted by Yushinsky's stepfather, Luke
ments as the stranger had been and made
up at the police station to reproduce as
nearly as possible Yushinsky's description
of the stranger. The witness, however,
was unable to identify Pridhiko
SURPRISING Disturbing Literature.
The local authorities have received strict
orders from the minister of the interior
to prohibit any meeting or demonstra-
ton in connection with the trial. Pam
phlets and fiy-sheets dealing with the
subject will be seized by the police. The
confiscation of newspapers continues, the
latest to be seized being an issue Of the
kievsky Mysl, because Of an article head
ed THE Judgment of God.
The articles ridiculed the idea of jury
of peasants being called upon Ito pro-
nounce judgment upon theological enig-
mas which have provoked acrimonious
discussions among experts for centuries
past
mine abstruse questions of religion and
science is to transform trial by jury into
trial by ordeal
An interesting witness was cobbler
named Nakonetchny. 1t had been alleged
that BeiliSS had made an attempt to have
Nakonetchny and another man, Shakhov-
sky, poisoned. The prosecution, however,
failed to produce Kosachenko, who in
formed the police that Beiliss had bribed
him to administer poison to those two
men,.
Testimony Favors Accused Man.
Nakonetchny without hesitation gave
he said he had known for ten years and
had no reason to dislike. He declared
that the children in the neighborhood of
the brickyard where Beiiss was en-
ployed, including Yashinsky and the
Tcheboriah children, had ceased playing
in the brickyard after the autumn of 1910.
owing to the erection Of a palisade around
it,. Moreover. he asserted, the whole dis
trict would know if Beiliss had been seen
dragging Yushinsky toward the kiln.
The second man, Shakhovsky, was also
put on the stand. He admitted that when
he was before the examining magistrate
and had made statements against Beiliss
he was under the influence of liquor. He
affirmed that he had been intimidated by
detectives to produce evidence against
Beiliss. He remained silent when question
ed by the anti-senate representative Shma-
koss by whom re had been instigated to
testify at that stage in favor of the pris-
oner.