RITUAL MURDER TRIAL.

Press, Volume XLIX, Issue 14822, 13 November 1913, Page 9

RITUAL MURDER TRIAL.

—*■■■ ■*» '*' DANGEROUS RIDER TO THE VERDICT.

i FEAR OF ''POGROMS." "'. *. Or CaW-,—Prm A-w-iatlon—Coprright) S-T- PETERSBURG, November 11. Members of Jewish families are Leaving Kieff, fearing pogroms. ,__ '-> Tbe poUoe aro using the most rigorous £ methods to maintain order. ?: __ The Minister, of tho Interior has r - warned the Governor that ho will hold • • him re-ponsiblo for acts of violence. *:_• The jury, while acquitting Beijiss, *". . fotrnd that the boy Yuehinsky was murdered at th© Zaitseff brickworks, belonging to tho Jewish Surgical Hospital, Jdso that forty-seven wounds were indieted and that five cups of blood wore ** taken. These decisions aro generally \y regarded as casting suspicion on tho .V* .entire Jewish community, and are held ',' - in many quarters to justify the ritual , ' murder charge*. During the jury's deliberations a mo- ">, mori-i service for Yushinsky wat. he.d .;" in the Russian Church of St. Sofia, in, the vicinity of the Court. The Bisbop target" the congregation to confirm tho Court's decision. - Lirge crowds awaited tbo verdict, but . ■- tie police dispersed the gathering. , -J" " Many agitators are inciting the mobs _ •-■ to enter upon "pogroms" of murder . and pillage. There .was an attendance of six hun- . «_**. at a banquet at Kieff to the pro- * ' (luting barrister- in the Beili__ case. . - The'saests included Yushinskv's mother -. - est! stepfather, and Bishop Nicodemus.