THE HUNGARY JEWS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume IV, Issue 1019, 11 August 1883, Page 4

THE HUNGARY JEWS.

Cable messages, published recently, contained a statement that the prosecution against some Austrian Jews, for rfhqving. murdered a Christian girl in order to have her blood for a Passover rite, had been abandoned, and that the acquittal df the accused had been demanded. , The Daily News on the igth-.May. published in a letter from its Vienna 5 Correspondent the following interesting particulars regarding this , most, extraordinary case: —The trial of L ' Jews accused of having murdered a Christian girl, which is to take place at Nyreghhaza, a small town in Hungary, promises to become a topic of great interest. The accused have now been in piiisoh dver a year, and there is very i! 'littld doubt that they will, all be acquitted' The details of the case are as ' ; follows About a year ago great alarm was expressed in the Hungarian Parliament at the immigration of a large number of Russian fugitive Jews into Hungary, and when the Premier, Merr Tisza, refused to ,take measures to prevent the Jews from immigrating, two deputies’ tried to spread the alarm among the Assembly by relating horrors Of all kinds committed by the Jews in days gone by, and when they were # ,! Cklled to order by the President, * Who declared that what they said would gain for the whole Assembly a reputation of barbarous Ignorance, one of them, Herr Puody, declared that, such things were not tot the past, but that they still every day. He then’ related iry of a girl of 14, one Esther iSSsy, who had been sent oh an' errand by her mother, a poor Christian woman of Tisza-Esslar, and who had , neyerreturned. She was seen to have \ l A‘ienfered .the Jewish butcher’s house, but -np/' one had seen her, afterwards, i Seventy-nine days after her mysterious - j her body was found in the River Tisza, and its condition was such that it could be easily supposed - she had- been thrown into the water nearly thtee months before. The de\„'.puty. .declared that the mother had '. ''been refused a hearing by the authorities, had been sent from pillar to post, .■s'V'Wad-that'it was firmly believed in the rissole town that the Jews had mur- - • dfer&rthe girl in the synagogue and p l f ijad afterwards paid the authorities to ’ ;hush,up the whole affair. The Premier .'floprpmisod to investigate the matter, and : ; imported on it afterwards. It appears ■ ' -that - the’only witness to the deed was th? butcher’s son, a boy five years old, ’' ' whd .had been decoyed from his father’s 1 house by the Catholic priest, and had testified; that, he had looked on .v: J: murder,^unperceived by his iis father, by peering through the key.hole. Upon the. testimony of this, child of five ( i ! 'thfe ttfytfref ’' wag; ‘ arrested and eight -the', boy declared’ jto 1f ini the synagogue while the deed . was . perpetrated. A -tenth •/.‘.-jpersooiowas arrested because he declared that the accused were with him at. the hour designated by the boy, and firhaly believed that the mur-*,-‘dfei' took'place, it was concluded that he also must have participated in it; A few weeks later the Premier, Herr ’received a letter which had every probability in its favor, but ‘-'wMcb turned but to be untrue. A gentleman in, a small provincial town service s girl answering to Esther Salo- ■ mossy’s description only a few days after the date of her disappearance. According to this statement the girl ; : had lost the money given her by her .. mpther to purchase oil-color, and not to return home without it, had run away, and sought service in another part of the colintry. This seemed a very satisfactory solution of the question, butrit proved fictitious ; for when 1 the writer of the letter was asked to produce the girl in question he gave no f ‘aidswef,' and could not be found afterwards.. Upon this the body of the girl ' found in tfie’rivet was exhumed, and the experts were of opinion that the age and size, as also the color of the hair, answered exactly to the - description Of the missing girl, but that too much time had elapsed since her death to admit of an absolute recognition., The Jews not only deny Jhayjing copamitted the crime imputed to them, but also any knowledge of a murder of this kind. The rabbis say ..tfintfrit, .is*.an. old superstition of the ignorant Christian folk in the country that the Jews require Christian blood., to mix with their Passover bread at &sl!eir ; ;find, indeed, there can be no Jpal A ' the whole question was raisedand' put before the Hungarian * Parliament to rouse feelings of distrust and hatred against the Jews. The indictmentl accuses four Jews of having - assisted- in the murder. These four are: —Solomon Schwarz, the orthodox butcher; Abraham Buxbaum, a schoolmastet>lXbbpold Braun, second orthodox butcher ;. and Herrman Vollmer, Jewish; laborer,:' Six more are accused i,of having aided the murderers. These ten. persons have been in prison one white the affair was being investicourt which is clearly discondemn the accused, while fthe imperial Councillor himself believes them to be innoceht. Five more pierserts are accused of. having tried to sisereen! the-alleged itfurderefs, but these iri prison. The number of witnesses who have been summoned to give evidence exceeds 200. The case will, therefore, . probably last several weeks. But ,tlie‘.; whole indictment is based upon the evidence of a little boy of five,, who mayhave been told what he believes' to seen.