IN A RUSSIAN PRISON.

Clutha Leader, Volume XL, Issue 45, 5 December 1913, Page 10

IN A RUSSIAN PRISON.

BEILISS' REVELATIONS. ''ST. PETERSBURG, Dec. 1. Beiliss, in an interview, made remarkable disclosures regarding hi* treatment in prison. Fearing poison, lie always induced the soldier guards to share iius food. His cell door was left open to invite him to escape. He peered through once and saw a man holding a revolver, who crept silently away. Ho states that he would undoubtedly have been shot if he had attempted to escape. The uight before the verdict was given a soldier visited ! lns ceil and ordered him to strip. He searched Beiliss' clothes and mouth and combed his beard. In reply to his remonstrances the soldier said, "Shut up, you devil! 1 have been told to kill you." Beiliss' cries brought the governor, to whom the soldier said, ".1 have been looking for poison." v Afterwards he was more kindly treated. W'hen mounting the staircase on the final morning ho passed two students who were wearing "Black Hundred" fa fanatical anti-Jewish society) buttons. One, shaking his list, said, '"They will teach you to kill Cristian children, vou dirty Jew!" * I Beiliss said he was greatly cheered at the presence of 100 journalists at the trial, knowing that all countries would he. made aware of the facts and that nothing would be hushed up. A Russian Jew named Mendel Beiliss was alleged to have murdered a little Christian boy named Tushinsky for the purpose of obtaining Christian'blood for use in Jewish sacrificial rites, but was acquitted.