SHOCKING MASSACRE OF JEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XVI, Issue 5496, 28 June 1879, Page 7

SHOCKING MASSACRE OF JEWS.

A correspondent of the Swiss Gazette, writing from Zigididi, in the Government of the Caucasus, on the 4th of April, describes a shocking massacre of Jews, which occurred in the village of Satschoheri, in that neighbourhood. Iα the beginning of the month it appears that the body of a child was found in a wood, and seven Jews of the place were accused by the Christian villagers of having killed and secreted it for their Easter eaorifice. They were arrested and 1 taken before the district judge, but imme- ' diately dismissed, as it was testified by a medical witness that the child had died from natural causes, and that the wounds found ■ on the body were the work of wild animals. Rejoiced at the issue of their trial, the • Israelites of the village assembled at the 1 house of one of their number to celebrate ' the event by a dinner; but in the midst of 1 their feasting they were surprised by a party 1 of Christian villagers, who borat into the house, axe in hand, "killed sir of the inmates 1 on the spot, and grievously wounded many ' more. The narrator of the incident alleges ' that the prieat of the Greek Church of ' SatacbcbdH was the instigator of this act of ' ferocious fanaticism, i . •