TREATMENT OF THE JEWS IN RUSSIA.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 238, 6 October 1881, Page 4

TREATMENT OF THE JEWS IN RUSSIA.

A corroeponcif-ci of ihe "Jewish Wf.-rh' " iilfi's a hour-reeding deacrip io:. of th- v?.*e«k ao.i demolition worked y th-.- ri;:i«r_j in Soi.tbi.rn Russia upon •rip Jtwicb quarters 0/ the cities and ij.-i: <:we-.._.£3. Pitsiog from (his _.-----!-tioa of i:is subject, ba enters into u-t-iia oi tha trtiißQ.-nt oi the Jews tkemaelves, which aro oi co horribly ■:*rue! a catu. . ag to be almost iccredible, but there can be co reason whatever uo docbt tbat they are aci .al occur•encee which he deacribcJ: How the poor Je~g themEelves were trebied can be conceived. The fright aod terror of women and children, the ircid of what would ncs; happen, may be imagiDed And the dread was not unfounded. Women were dragg-.d out, 'tripperj of their ciotbinf, flowed, and yen more br utally -ill-treated. One uofortuna.6 woman to whom I spoke 'c wifti or a Jew named Pikaraki obj a very piteous ttory. The mob hsving drutk and spilled the braDdy out of s*vtral ca.ka, made of the barrela a huge bofinre Th.n, dragging ihe helpless worn.c ouf, they msde ttfmpta to .brow her ie.o the flames. Oa thi» or-c*sion, however, th*- '• ispravnijik " (police furcnonnry") did ...descend 10 h.eve bid vodka ao-1 ex-po3-.uU_e. ,; It ig not ne.e.._ry," ha <*i(J, "is is cot nfcesiary to go so ftr." But allow she mob to scandaloGsly ill,Bo tba wonian, and to strip and flog b-.r ia addition, this he di.t; this he cocaidare-i " not" too much. I am li-.i.h bero t:> narrate n-aay of the storing I have heard of tbe utter iui'iAer.c- of the coiliUry during the iots; but one iostsuce I may -/ive, ac be woman posi'.ivnly asserts* - ! it was ?riif.. Her house hi, . been fired, aod she mob would not suffer Lier kcr.ily to ; t.v- the h\itt\\uz tenement. She came creaming to the aoaiai.ndr-r of a troop >' horse, who tszs netr. " H*lp, Herr Obent, help us !" " Wbtt do you 'V-ir.t me to do?' «toi:y ssfce . the officer, .Muling hia ajou!ctsi«he. "Help us !" oried the woontn; "they have act fire ;o cay bousi, and we shell be burnt to 'e*thS" '-Well," wsa the humane reply, 1 burn; it des^n't much mutter whether you rosst now or hereafter !" ft is Bef.rcfr.ly .possible to credit such stones. B-H after tbe assurances efiven me by na n like Dr Zuckermaor, Dr Mandr.-lststnm, and others here, ot ; c brutal manner in which many high r.fficia!B exprewd tbeir SBtisfaction u.h th*» proceedings oa ths 26th, all oubt as to the authenticity of the -loiement is rpmoved From the Predmaistye I drove to cother district, without the town imi.B, known ss Selomenta. This '■ VoratQdt " is notorious in connection **?iih ihe recent riots, us the scene of bree brutal scf3 of murder perper^ta- by the mob. . . . Here the -econd tcob from the Pool arri-ydd on Sunday evening-, nosddenad with driok no reckless. At once th,.y attacked c " Hubruk " bar, demolishing everyt_icg. Draggio-z out a poor Jew e.eied Psesakv.ff, tbey simply killed im outright. Tbe unfortunatß man

Ipavea a wife and eeven children. Rushing opstairp, the mob found an old tran sick in bed. For come royetenous reason he wes not killed then and there, bnt was so eff«c.oally ill-uapd tbat he died the following morning. And then was perpetrated tha prossrs*, the moat brutal and pitiful act of the whole tregedy — a crime tbat shows tta character of the drunken " Mujik.' ' On the approaoh of the mob the wife of the ten&ct, Mordechai Wienarski, fled to an attic, having gathered her children aDd taking them with her. One unfortunate little thing, a child three years old, was forgotten in the tenor arid excitement of the scene. Coming upsiairs the mob found the poor little creature cohering in a oornsr, trembling wiih fright. And what did the riogleaciers of this mob of inhuman wrttches do ? Seizing the child, they swung it by the legs, snd deliberately throw it cut of the window on to the ground below. It fell dead on the spot. And this oceured in sight of (he military. The poor woman recounted to me tbe liteoua gtoty wish tears in her eyes. And standing (hire ie the glowing sunlight, wi.h everything quiet and orderly, the laughter and chatter of the soldiers, loitering about end sitting on the window-sills, re-echo*- d across the Btreet, and trsado the tale more heart rendinj. I could scarcely understand that here in opea dsyl'ght, in view o' a barrack full oi soldiery and milijary in the streets, a poor child of three yeara should bave been so barbarously murdered. It was difficult to realise, too, that the woman addressing me composedly yet te-srfally w»s actually » mother whose off-spring had co pitifully scff red. **!!f^l9^^^Q^^n^^9Wtt^ir t *9B99K9~9*^9^~^^^B&H(^&*&l^&n9l*9~^nop9~~^ |