The Washington herald., 1913-10-10
BLOOD libel"
STIRS Hebrews
Meeting Here Sunday to Pro-
test Against Beiliss Trial
at Kef.
MASSACRES ARE FEARED
Young Man Is Accused of Killing Boy
as Human Sacrifice During
Jewish Celebration.
MASSACRES ARE FEARED

Imminent danger of wholesale massa.
ores of Jews Throughout Russia by the
notorious Black Hundred, as the result
of renewed racial prejudice occasioned
by the now famous trial of Mendel
Bellies, a young Hebrew charged with
the murder of a boy, has led the Hebrews
of Washington to call a massmeeting for
Sunday evening at the Eighth Street
Temple to protest against the blood
libel of the Jewish race during the
trial.
BY attempting to lay the crime at the
door of the unfortunate Hebrew, who has
been in prison for the past two years,
on the ground that he killed the twelve
Near-old boy to obtain the victims blood
for ritual purposes connected with the
Feast of the Passover. the prosecutors
in charge of the case have brought racial
feeling throughout the country TO a
breaking point against the Jews.
Already the Black Hundred, alleged
agents of the government. who have
started other massacres of Jews in days
gone by, have circulated notices through
out the empire calling for a wholesale
slaughter of Beiliss' race should it be
proved that he is guilty of the murder
for the cause ascribed.
Panic Mt Kien.
in a panic. Rabbits in various parts of
Russia have called upon their congrega-
tons to fast and Prey to God TO avert
massaCres. Thousands Of the race in
other cities throughout the country are
fasting and praying.
Liberal students in kipf have Ia EN-
the risk Of being shot down in the streets
by ordering a One-day strike each week
against the continuation Of the Beiliss
trial
Baroness Won Sutner the great Euro
pean peace advocate has telegraphed the
Car protesting against the methods used
in the trial to arouse the pOpulaCe to
murder Hebrews.
The International Congress of Medicine
and Surgery, which convened in London.
also issued protest against the libel
Of the Jewish race during the trial Of the
case. Similar protests also were made b.
leading organizations in Vienna and Ber-
lin. from a medicO-legal standpoint
No Evidence OfNISe Of Blood.
Repeatedly the prosecution has failed
to gather evidence showing that the Jews
Use blood in the celebration Of their re-
ligiOus ceremonies.
Failing to obtain evidence that Jews
resort to blood in their ceremonies, the
prosecution has since declared that
Bellies is member of a certain Jewish
sect. known as Chasdi>im. which cult
uses human blood in its sacrifices. In
vestiEators Of this sect. who sought to
testify that there was no truth in the
blood libel Of the sect. were prevented
from giving testimony, and in several in
stances disappeared. presumably going
behind prison bars
Rabbi Ahram Simon will preside at the
mass meeting to be- held in this city
Similar meetings will he held in the other
large cities of the country, as the entire
Jewish people of the world are intensely
interested ia the case and intend doing
everything to prevent massaCres OF their
brethren i'm he land Of the Car.
Beside~ Or. Simon. number OF men
Of International rePute will be present at
the meeting.
Every Jewish paper in the country is
fun OF the trial and detailed accounts of
the crime for which Beiliss is held. The
victim Of the murder was "A hoy named
Andre NuStsChinsky. the son Of rObber
He was found stabbed To death in a
brickyard at kic". EXa ninatiun dis
closed that the body had thirty knife
wounds. Reilss was arrested on the cir
"umstantial evidence that he. as super
Inteudent "f the hrickyard, was the only
rersOn who could know of the boy IS
ieath.