PEASANT ARRESTED.
THE TASTOFF MURDER CASE
Press Association —Electric Teiesjraph— CopyrightST. PETERSBURG, Friday. A peasant has been arrested on a charge of murdering the boy Josef Pasgkoff, at Fastoff. There were thirteen puncture marks in the boy's neck, similar to those in the case of Tushinsky. The police- state the boy is a Christian, who was stolen and circumcised by Pasgkoff, who swears the body is that of his son. (A cable message published yesterday stated:—"Excitement has been caused at Fastoff, near Kieff. A Christian orphan, living with a Jewish family, was murdered in December and buried. Sinister rumours got about, and the body was exhumed An examination showed that thirteen wounds had been inflicted, and evidence of a certain Jewish rite performed shortly before death. ")
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WDT19140216.2.49
Bibliographic details
Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LXVI, Issue 11904, 16 February 1914, Page 6
Word Count
126PEASANT ARRESTED. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LXVI, Issue 11904, 16 February 1914, Page 6
Using This Item
National Media Ltd is the copyright owner for the Wairarapa Daily Times. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of National Media Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.