Intermountain Jewish news., 1926-07-22
JEWISH WITNESS IN
SCHWART zBARD TRIAL
MURDERED IN PARIS
Two Ukrairians Said to Be As
sassins-Victims had Valuable
Evidence
UKRAINIANS ASK FOR
FUNDS TO PROSECUTE
Apseal 70 CSt,atrymeu to Keep Pet.
lura's Name "Clean and Hsly-

Paris-(J. T. A.)-Another political
assassination In connection with the
UkrainIan anti-JewIsh pogroms and
the trial Of sholom Schwartzbard oc.
Cured here.
Peretx Stein. forty one years old. a
Jewish Immigrant from the UraIne. was
mortally wouAtied by the shots Of two
Ukrainians. The shooting occurred In
front Of the Jewish Shelter House. The
assassins escaped.
Stein. who arrived here recently
from the Ukraine and was at the Jew
lsh Shelter since May II, was scheduled
to appear a. a witness In the trInl of
Sh0lom Schwartzbard, the Ukrainian
Jew who killed Semion Petlura. leader
Of the pogrom bands In the Ukraine.
STEMS eight year old son, who was
with him when the murder was COM
mitted, declared that the two murder
ers exclaimed: DIRTY Jew, this Ia for
Schwartxbsrd.'
Several days ago Stein informed NJ.
Henri Torres, Schwartzbard's counsel,
that he Possesses evidence of the
Ukrainian pogrom period which would
be valuable In the trial.
STEMS wife was killed In a pogrom
in Rostov Don, where Stein was
wounded.
Aspeal Issued
An appeal to the Ukrainians Of Amer.
lea has beea issued by the Ukrainian
committee In Paris for assistance In
their effort to cssAte fsnd with which
to conduct their AgAt aGainst sho,om
Schwartxbard, who assassinatsd Pct
lura. the Ukrainlan pogrom leader.
Our enemies" the appeal of the
Ukrainian committee states, mot satis.
fed with having assassinated the lead.
Ing representative Of our people. are
spreading false information for the pur.
pose of besmirching the clean and holy
name Of Petlura and the whole Ukrain.
ian nation. Our enemies are collecting
large funds for the defense Of Schwartz
bard. In order to combat these lies
and also to inform the world Of the
truth regarding Petlura's role in
Ukrainia, 1t is necessary to create a
fund in America, Canada and in all
other countries where Ukrainlan immi.
grants are living" the appeal states.
Vicious Pogrom Article
warsaw-A vicious pogrom article
against the Jews nppearsin the Ukrain-
ian paper "NOva Zoria" ("The New
Starr. the organ of the Ukrainian
Christian party.
The article charges that the Jews
are the enemies OF the Ukrainian peO-
pie and declares: "What role did the
Jews play and are still playing among
us? Do we have to enumerate the
millions of Ukrainian townsmen who
were compelled to become beggars with
sacks on their backs because Of the
Jewish exploIters? Was 1t not because
Of the Jews that tens Of thousands OF
our innocent Ukrainians were hanged
during the war for the Jewish Aus
tria? Is 1t not known who 1t was that
murdered our priests, our peasants and
our scholars In Lemberg when they
were imprisoned by the Austrian gov
ernment and sent to distant internment
camps? And the role Of the Jews at
the time OF the Polish Ukrainlan war;
And the behavior Of the Jews in the
Ukraine at the time Of the war between
the Ukrainians and the Bolsheyiks? And
the Communist Cheka, which was en-
tirely controlled by the Jews?"