RELIGIOUS MURDER.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 36, 13 October 1913, Page 5

RELIGIOUS MURDER.

THE AUTHORITIES ASSAILED. .By Eleotrio Telegraph —Copyright (United Press r»BsociATioN.' (Received 9.55 a.m.) Kielf, October 10. ■ The Conservative anti-Semite newspaper violently assails the judicial authorities, especially the public prosecutor, and contends that the charge aominst Beils accuses a whole religioi of an infamous superstition, which, hqwevor advantageous and necessary from the party standpoint, proves the existence of ritual murders. Tlu prosecution was not entitled to undertake the task of supplying a living object. The accusations of ritual murder apparently arose in 1255, when a hoy, named Hugh of Lincoln, is alleged tc; have been crucified by the resident Jews in mockery of Christ’s death. It was also declared that the Jews desired to use the hoy’s blood in their paschal celebrations, a belief which, however absurd and ill-founded, prevailed all through the Middle Ages in all parts of Europe, and has persisted down to the present day among the ignorant peasants of Hungary and Russia.