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Show II BE1LISS TRIAL MAY If BE HLTEDT HE If Minister of Justice to Inter-J Inter-J vene and Order Inquiry II Into Whole Matter. 1 1 JEWS LEAVING RUSSIA l Emigration Increases Three-jjfl Three-jjfl fold and Is Still Growing, According to Statistics. fUllI International News Service. Iffir ST- PETERSBURG, Oct. 20 Aa a HHIl result of representation!) mado to the ;701j jjovornment by many right-minded Hiis- SifllG eians, official action in reference to the : jjllfi Boilies trial is now ivithin sight. It is authoritatively stated that the ttflp minister of jnsttco intends to intervene JSf and order a suspension of tho no-w fljai famous case until nfter a Btrict inquiry 5 HI has been made into the circumstances, nSfi This ovidentlv means that tho police i StL'I method of working up tho case against l M Beiliss. including tho worse than third ijlf degree ordeals to which tho prisoner iil?.' has been subjected, will be officially ly examined. ,., Sjj&i A sensational story from Lodz credits JiPK a convict there with having confessed ; having murdered tho Yushinslcy boy. 83 This convict, Reagguirn by namo, is Ii serving a twelve-year sentence for an ShS offense against tho government at Kiev. $ He is reported to havo declared to icl- ffiffl low prisoners that it was he who Vfi' murdered the hoy with tho aid of nc- Wpi complices. Ho says they all received I Sjg payment ior the job. luE) An inquiry has been ordered in the matter of tho convict's statement, and tffn it is thought by somo that his story jllMj niay bo genuine. HI Exodus of Jews. I nM Thero has been a great exodus of .lews from southern and southwestern 'jfijjfi! I Russia since the week before the Boilisa P ( trial opened. Official statistics show Sjjlj that Jewish emigration increased three- jgffljf fold and is still growing, though mufti usually the emigration season closes Oc- ; earn I Arera Chebcryak was again prominent Jj in today's proceedings. She was con- uHg 1 , fronted by a little woman namod Gaevcsky who said that about the time 3fj of tho murder alio was a membor of tne Choberyak household. She workod wm I there, sho said, without pay, and dc- Mfiiil scribed a number of sinister occur- MjBQf! rences. Mysterious men, sho said, oanie JiilPwj to the flat and loft again disguised. krfliUtt Sometimes they arrived in uniform and Pftfill c' lresKe(l as artisans. rallU 'nc u'ness once overheard Vera ffiffljilfl Choberyak mention to two visitors that smjjHi some one ''was in tho way and must HttjHll be gotten rid of." alsjjj I T',c witness tostified that these oc- irsjj currences finally made her fo nervous It B ill that s'10 nut 'cave- III Woman's Explanation. MftSlt reDUtting the Gaevesky woman's ffTjfojl evidence, Vera Choberyak said that the rtMrti! former had been paid "a salary of $1.50 I'lrifl a moni an( uat' been dismissod from Mnifln rne household fr illtreating the chil- JflVII If dren. She explained her remark liKV quoted by the Gaevcsky woman by say- tOHsT 'nc at -no children wore very" noisy Xffinff '' a Chf'stmas party, and were sent Uljlln out of the TOom. A boy named Andrew Mastreuko was at the" party, and had I wffl been creating a disturbance, It was to ffiS this boy she had referred when sho $ m said that someone must be gotten rid I PD Another former inmate of tho t iVt Choberyak home, a workman bv the i fi name of Potroff, in giving testimonv said that he had met Vera Chebcryak . ?F8 in Jlav of 1911, and had gone to lodge ' at her flat. Vera, he said, introduced MM him to ex-Detective TJigranoff and a , . jftflll newspaper man, Brushkobsky. These 1 WJJI men, said tho witness, declared that I-WAh Beiliss was innocent, and that some- flfjwfil thing must be done to set him free. Declined to Take Part. mwl Pctroff ad ho declined to lake part tlul i" a conspiracy to implicate Vera Imm Chcberynh. Meanwhile the man who jjgjfiffl Is properly tho center figure of the trial CJpjj is . fociujj more and more neglected. IjHlsl Bcilisij is so hedged around by soldiers lyjjfijj that his own counsel can scarcelv an- fftsW proach him. yjjjffl ,luft prisoner, although gonerally self-poBsessod. betrays tho greatest fear. He looks pale and is very thin. The bones of his face aro very prominent prom-inent through his shrunken skin and his whole appearance reveals tho tremendous tre-mendous tortures he has suffered during dur-ing tho two years of his incarceration. Occasionally." when he 5b wounded by tho accusations of witnesses on the staud, Beiliss drops his head upon his knee, sighs so that ho may bo heard all over the room, and ofton sobs out in a shrill, broken voice. Brushkobsk', a newspaper man, was the next witness.. It was expected that ho would givo important testimony tending to clear up matters he having mixed himself in tho case with so much zeal, lie proved a disappointment, however. Said Beiliss Was Innocent. Ho said he had interviewed ox-Polico-. man Krasovsky after tho Beiliss arrest. ar-rest. He said that Krasovsky was furious, throw down his sword and1 tore his uniform, declaring that an in-noeent in-noeent .man had boon arrested. Xatcr, when leaving Kiov, Krasovsky had said to the witness: "I know nothing1 about it. It is all a great puzzlo. Vora holds a key. .to the enigma." Acting upon this hint Brushkobsky said he scraped up an acquaintance with tho Choberyak woman, but his testiinon' regarding her only tiorved to mystify the court still more". "Only one clear allegation stood out, namely, that. Vera told Brushkobsky that, tho Tushinsky murderers wore the boy's own mother and stepfather, whose namo is Prihodko, and ono of tho Mifle brothers. Sho said: "T am going go-ing to have my revenge. Tt was Marie Miflc who poisoned my son because I threw vitriol in tho eves of her son Paul." ' |
