New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-12
RUSSIAN SECRET POLICE
IN RITUAL MURDER CASE
Officials Cooperate in Attacks
on Jews - Prosecution
Makes Poor Showing.
IBy cable 10 The Tribune. !

st. Petersburg, oct. 11.-After thirty
months OF complicated intrigue, in
which periodically there have been
startling glimpses Of the workings OF
the Russian secret police on the re-
ligious fanaticism and political pas
sions Of a great part Of the population,
the issue OF what is called the ritual
murder case is at last being tried at
the Kieff assizes.
A Jew named Beiliss, thirty-nine
years old, is charged with numbering a
twelve-year- boy named Yushin-
sky. Bellies, who was arrested on Au-
gust 3. 1911, from the first protested
that he had known nothing about Yu-
shinsky, either dead or alive. and for
two years has been kept in Jail while a
battle of Jew-baiters. backed by the po-
lice, ragged against the bulk OF the in
dependent community.
When a remonstrance was signed.
pointing out the terrible danger OF en-
couraging the belief among the igno-
rant masses that a ritual murder ac-
tually had been committed by the
Jews, all the signatories who happened
to be lawyers received official repri-
mands for interfering with the course
Of justice.
The reacionary press. as might be
expected, is filled with articles insist
ing that ritual murders have been
proved against the Jews in the past,
disprove the allegations are being con-
fiscated.
Kieff. Oct 1L-Another scathing crit.
cism Of the indictment OF Mendel Bellies
for the murder OF the Christian boy Yu-
shinsky in March. 1910, was published to-
day by the anti-Semitic newspaper
"Kievlanin." which announces its inten.
ticn. I'm spite OF its suppression by the
government. Of continuing to express It's
opinion In any words II may consider suit
able.
Examining Magistrate Nashkevitch
who conducted the preliminary inquiry
into the case. arrived in Kieff and at
tended the court to-day
| Several policemen testified to the finding
of the body OF the murdered boy In the
cave but showed lack OF memory wher
/ pressed for details. or asked to reconcil,
their evidence with their statements
made at the preliminary examination. one
Of the policeman-Lestchinsko by name
was unable to Identify piece OF cloth
! eighteen inches by six. pierced In places
as though by sharp instrument, which
was produced among the exhibits as I'M
same cloth as that taken from the poke
! OF the boy when the body was round an'
later replaced therein.
Inspector Porgosky. a young oinclai
said that when he reached the cave abou
one hundred persons were gathered anou
the entrance At the preliminary exami
nation he estimated the number at ten o
| fifteen. He could not remember "hethe'
he had found a portion OF pillow case
which the prosecution alleges was discoV
cred in the pocket Of Yushinsky's jacket
or whether he found Yushinskys belt II
the cave. nor could he describe the cioth
Ing on the body.
Poreosky said he had been four years ir
the police service and had never heard o.
ritual murders being practised by th'
Jews. II don't remember was MS al
swer 10 many questions during the cross
examination. The president or the cour
ON one occasion reproved the pubic prose
cutor for putting answers IN the WIZ
ness's mouth.
AT the request OF the prosecution the
court ordered the production OF two rare
books ON Ritual Murder" from thC
library at Wilma. one published in 1913 and
| the other In lI02.
A newsnaper writer, Ordinsky, gave an
account of a meeting in restaurant De-
tween several newspaper men, torihe'
detective named Vigranon ana vera
Teheberiak. the alleged leader OF pano
of thieves who we're reported In some
quarters % have murdered Yushinsky Tor
the purpose Of causing pogrom IN hieh'
He heard Vera state that YushihsAy mao
been killed by relatives. mo one pres
emf" he said, "endeavored to persuade
Vera to assume the CUNT
The landlady of the lodging mouse whele
Alexandra Pridhiko, the murdered boy
mother. lived. rejected the possibility that
the murder might have been committed
there. Her house. she said was only Vi
one story, and any noise could Do heafa
from one end TO the other. The mother'
she asserted. was deeply affected BY the
boys death.