Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-09-30
Frantic Effort Being Made to Fasten
Crime Of Murder on Hated Race
by Christians.
CLAIM IS MADE SLAYER
DRAINED BLOOD OF YOUTH
Theory of Government it Was Ritua,
Murder, and Other Nations Ridi-
cule Such View.
BY ED. /. KEEN.
GondOn Correspondent of the United
Press).

London, Sept. 30.-When the case
of Mendel Bells, Jew, is called in the
district court at Kieff on October 8,
the Russian government will in effect
place itself on trial before the world.
1t will be compelled to prove its blood
accusation or stand convicted of the
most heinous conspiracy attempted by
a nation against the Jewish race since
the days of the Pharaohs.
The charge is that Bells, either with
the connivance or with the actual CO.
operation of a band of Jews, slew a
Christian boy and drained his blood
for use in making passover bread. For
two yeprs and a half the government
has been working ON this so-called
ritual murder" case, which, as soon
as the crime was discovered was seized
upon by the Black Hundred and other
reactionary Russian organizations as
the basis for fierce campaign of per-
secution of the Jews throughout Rus
sia.
"Find the Jew," was the cry that
went up among the strongly anti-Sem-
itic, population of Kieff ON the morn
ing of April l, 1911, when the body of
twelve year old Andrei Yuschinsky,
bearing AZ stab wounds apparently
made by an awl or chisel, was discover
ed in an abandoned brick-kiln in q
yard on the outskirts of the city. Bells
was the foreman of the brickyard. Bel
lis was also jew. He was arrested.
Despite the reports of various detec,
tives that they could find no substan-
tial evidence that it was "ritual
murder" or Bells, the murderer, he
was indicted. M. Krassovsky chief of
the detective department of Kieff, was
peremptorily dismissed for ignoring
the lines Of search pointed out to him
by the Crown Prosecutor (which was
to "find the Jew55 Mictchouk, who
succeeded him and two of his assist.
ants were not only dismissed from
office but were tried and convicted OF
manufacturing false evidence" fav.
orable to the Jews and against band
of thieves to whom they believed they
had traced the crime. The three detec
tives were sentenced to a year hard
labor each.
Bells was, and is, really a minor fac
tor in the case. The authorities have
from the first devoted their energies
principally to the attempt to prove thai
the "ritual murder" is a recognized in
stitutiOn Of the Jewish faith. Wher
the Kieff detectives were on trial ev
idence was given showing that Prosecu
tor Brandorf refused to listen to any
other theory than that Of ritual murde
and repeatedly ordered the officers tt
drop all other clews. In order to es
tablish. the theory that the Jews sla.
Christian children and drain thei
blood, distributing it from synagogue
to synagogue, for the purpose of mix
ing it with passover bread, and tina
this rite " is prescribed by the Tai
mud-the Jewish bible-M. FenenkC
the examining magistrate, interrogatet
the Archimandrite Ambrosins, Vicar o
the Greek monastery at Kieff, VIII
claimed that the "rite" has been re
scribed to him byy two monks VIII
were formerly OF the Jewish talth
The wounds must be OF a certain Tx
ed number, about 40, - declared Am
brosius, land they must be inflicte
upon their testimony and that OF
is not bound 10 observe any rites o
iofms II ne mas 10 procure tne ploo'
under difficult conditions; but if ther
is no danger the blood is shed in com
fOrmity with the prescribed rltua