"RITUAL" MURDER

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 40, 17 October 1913, Page 5

"RITUAL" MURDER

THE TRIAL OF BESUSS,

STARTLING EVIDENCE.

[By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. j j.umtkj/ press association.]

St. Petersburg, October 16

Detective Politchuk gave evidence that the accused ivrassvoesky, a former head of the Kieff detectives, poisoned Eugene Valentine and two or the children of Cheblyriak. The children were Tushinsky's playmates, and died of dysentery a few months after the murder. The mother previously, he declared, had been murdered by Jews.

TAKINC THE BLAME

(Received 9.5 a.m.) St. October 16

In the murder trial, Vera Cheberiak testified, that Brushkovsky, a journalist, urged her to assist in discovering the murderers, otherwise her husband would be dismissed from the postal service. He urged her to take the guilt'on her own shoulders,/ promising her a large sum to go abroad with. She accompanied Brushkovsky to Kharkoff, where Margolin and Garrister, two other men, offered her £IOOO to assume the guut in order to secure Beiliss' acquittal.

A JEWISH PROTEST.

New York, October 16

Prominent Jews throughout the United States are arranging public meetings to protest against the charge of ritual murder at Kieff as an aspersion on their faith, concocted with the object of damaging the Jews' interests throughout the world.

Details of the inquiry conducted into the Tushinsky ease at Kieff go to show that the boy was not the victim of a ritual order, but was killed as a suspected informer by a gang of thieves to which he had belonged. The "ritual murder" charge at Kieff had its origin in April, 1911, when a hennamed Tushinsky was found murdered and .mutilated at Kieff by some unknown hand. The local Black Hundred, supported by the "Novoe Yremya" and other anti-Semitic papers' of the capital, at once raised the cry that the murder had been committed by Jews for the "ritual" purpose of using his blood for Passover Bread. Thkcrevival, of the mediaeval legend

'''caught on," aha" _tlie Tvieff 'police, having at first ai'wSted Tushinsky's relatives, released-.them, and ai-rested instead a Jew named Beiliss; but, he, too, was set free' after a brief detention. The Blaek Hundred, however, continued the campaign with such energy that Beiliss was arrested once more, and remained in pris/m for several months." A fresh < .'deyelqp r ment occurred t \n February hist, when a Kiejf joiirnalist named Brushkovsky succeeded iri -getting, together ,i'large nlumbeV of dayuments proving that the real murderers were a gang of criminals, under a certain Mili'e, a Frenchman, living at Kieff, to which also belonged some members 'of.Tushinsky's family. The boy was killed because he knew of the "exploits of the gang, and* had threatened to report them to the police. In May a remarkable manifesto, protesting against the Russian Jews, had been signed by leading theologians, writers, scientists, and politicians of Russia, France, Germany, and Great Britain. The signatures included that of the Archbishop of Canterbury, Cardinal Bourne (Roman Catholic Archbishop of Westminster), Lord Rosebery, Lord Cromer, Mr A. J. Balfour, the Dominion High Commissioners, and the Agents-General. To this the reply was that the charge was levelled only at a secret sect, which carried the Talmudian teaching to the extreme of ritual murder.!