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Widespread Publicity.

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Widespread Publicity.
In order to strengthen its case,
the government caused widespread
publicity of the statement made to the
examining magistrate by the Arch
mandrite Ambrosius, vicar of the Or
thodox monastery at Kieff, to the effect
| that two monks, proselyted from the
Jewish faith, had infinitely described
to him the practice of ritual murder.
His testimony was supported by Prof.
| Sikorsky, of st. Vladimir University
at Kieff. who held that the nature of
Yuschinsky's woulds gave every IN
dication of ritual murder, that the
boy manifestly had been tortured be-
fore death and that several persons
were probably party to the crime. AS
further emphasizing the attitude OF the
government, the chief of the Odessa
school district, who openly disputed
Prof Sikorsky's contentious, was dis
missed from his post. In the mean-
time the case had attracted world
wide attention. Many prominent men
in England including the Archbishops
of Canterbury and York, Lord Rose
berry, Austen Chamberlain, A. }. Bal
four. and scores of university profes-
sors scientists. 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 re-
ports of the inquest on the murdered
bow were submitted to appropriated
boards of medico-legal experts VINO
united in declaring that he was not
tortured nor was the blood removed
from the body, as alleged. The Brit
ish committee, of which DR.. W. II.
Wilcox. chief expert of the Home Of
flee. was the leading member, asserted
that the evidence showed that the boy
was killed almost instantaneously by
two blows on the head that the num-
erous stabbings were merely inclden-
tai to a peculiarly fiendish crime, and
that there was no blood draining. AT
the last International Congress OF
Medicine in London the case was con-
sidered by the sections on forensic
Medicine and Psychiatry, and the opin-
ion was unanimously expressed that
it was mot a ritual murder, but the
act of some homicidal lunatic, which
had been seized upon by persons AMI
mated by racial antipathy to the
Jews to distort and mlsrepresent
facts for their own nefarious purposes.
BELLS himself was little better than
an ordinary day laborer, man OF
practically no education beyond that
IF his trade, and there is evidence that
he never had ally strong religious coll
yictions. Yuchinsky disappeared on
March 25, when he left home pre-
;umably to go to school. After his
BODY was found, it developed that IN
stead of going to school he had visited
/ boy friend named Eugene Cheberiak,
whose parents lived near the brick =:
rard where the lads frequently played. {
Evidence is Flimsy.
The direct evidence against Bells, .
o far as it has been disclosed, is OF
ather a flimsy character. First there
vas a statement by lampllghte1
AIMED Shakhhowsky, who declared
hat Eugene told him few days later
hat he and Yuchinsky had been driv- t
n from the brickworks by man with c
black beard. Shakhowsky's wife q
opposed that an acquaintance, Anna 9
told her that she saw
ellis seize Yuschinsky and drag him
,ward the brickyard kiln. Ann Yak
arovaya, however, fatty denies this,
assily Cheberiak, Eugene's father,
lated that week befre the murder,
is son told him that two Jews, wear
lg unusual garb, had taken up their
,c;dopno with RoiIic and. that he had :