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Show Wholesale Murder of Infants. St." Petersburg, May 5. At Vilna yesterday yester-day fix. Jews and Jewesses were convicted of nutrdering babies entrusted to their care and Sentenced to from six to twenty years penal servitude. In many instances the murders were committed with the connivance conniv-ance of the mothers of the little victims. The fl rst clue to the murders was discovered in Agjril, 1S90, when the bodies of six small children were found in the cesspool of a wretahed hovel in Vilna. Further search led t the discovery of the remains of sixty-five sixty-five infants. Forty-five men and women werfr arrested and S50 witnesses summoned to testify. The dispatch does not state whether all the prisoners were tried and only 6ix convicted, but it is supposed only six were tried. The prisoners gained the col-loqual col-loqual name of "angel maker's." |