JEWS IN RUSSIA.

Press, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14523, 27 November 1912, Page 9

JEWS IN RUSSIA.

THE HUMAN SACRIFICE MYTH. ITnited Prc?s Association—By Electrio I Tei,_;ap-—Copyright. (Received November 20th, 11.15 p.m.) ST. PETERSBURG, November 26. M. Mistchuk, formerly head of the Kieff detectivo force, refused to accept tho theory that the murder of Andrei Yuschinsky was a ritual murder. M. Mistchuk was dismissed from offico and prosecuted on a chargo of fabricating cvidonco with tho object of disproving that tho murder was not a ritual one. M. Mistchuk and threeassistants wero acquitted. Somo months ago an English paper contained tho following reference to tho above caso:— A boy named Andrei Yuschinsky was murdered at Kieff, and on very slender ovidonco a Jew has been arrested and charged with tho murder. Tho enquiry is now in progress, but whether tho accused man is guilty or not is not the point. Tho crimo has been seized on by mob orators, who assort that tho boy -uschinsky was murdered by Jews in order that his blood might be taken and used for ritual purposes, in obedience to an alleged Jewish religious law, Tho best-known Russian scholars, authors, and arif-ts have mad 3 a vehement protest against tho spreading of this dangerous fiction, ami now the foremost Jewish peoplo throughout Europo have joined their protests to that of the Russian intellectuals.

It is not definitely known how tho S 'J™* °Wated, but it was in l-'-o tliat this idea, wh eh. had been propagated by Jew' haters for many years past resulted in the first mashwl m Ku J- opo - ,n this yww the blood accusation was raised at Fulda. a town m Hesse-Nassau, and 34 Jews and Jewesses wero massacred in consequence. Frederic 11. the German Emperor, had the affair investigated, and as a ro.sult of it exonerated tho Jews of Germany from all suspicion. In spito of this Imperial pronouncement however, and many more like it, including tho opinions of threo Popes tho "blood accusation" spread and increased m virulence. A murderer had only to select tho time immediately preceding Easter and tho feast of tho 1 assovor for the committal of his crime to bo sure of being ablo to fasten the guilt on to tho Jcivs of tho town. , t-- re . ncc " asat i o " now being mad_ at 1-ioff is a direct descendant of this medneval persecution, and in newspapers photographs of the murdered boy ?i/?-i 1 ? g s "own with tho legend:— Orthodox Russian peoplo, remember the name of tho youth. Andrei Yuschinsky, tortured by tho Jews! Christians, watch your children!"