Shocking Murder at Galicia.
Five Jews, name.l Moses Schneider, Meyer Breaker, Abraham Sohneir, and Moses Feldmann, have just been tried for the murder of Abraham Feldmann, son of the latter, at Tamopool, in Galicia. The deceased had made an olihr of marriage to a Christian girl, and she had accepted him on his promising to become a Christ an also. Having hoard of this promise, t;;e accused men assembled in the house of Moses Feldmann and warmly upbraided young Feldmann for his apnstacy. The latter, however, remained obstinate, and during the altercation the father threw a sling rope round Ids nook, and, along with tlie other men, pulled it until he-was dead. Hannah Feldmann, the mother of the deceased, who was absent at the time, showed much grief at the death of her son, hut was soon pacified by her husband representing the murder as a religious sacrifice, and passed the rest of the evening with him in prayer. The case was clearly proved against the prisoners ; and Moses Feldmann and Meyer Brecher wore sentenced to be hanged, and the, other three to ten years’ imprisonment with hard labor.
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Cromwell Argus, Volume I, Issue 21, 6 April 1870, Page 7
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189Shocking Murder at Galicia. Cromwell Argus, Volume I, Issue 21, 6 April 1870, Page 7
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