Show A JEW ACCUSED OF BLASPHEMY the enemies and persecutors of the house of judah are not all found to be in the dominions of the czar or in the austrian and german empires E some of them are found in the land of the free and the home of the brave where we boast of enjoying more religious as well aa as political freedom than can be found elsewhere on the globe in ili newark new jersey lives a couple of fanatical christians who have recently trumped up a charge of blasphemy against a jew of the same city it appears that the charge was instigated for the pious purpose of f wreaking breaking wre aking revenge because the hebrew refused to be cinched cincher cin ched or defrauded of hla his goods by the christian the case was tried on the of may in court of quarter sessions iu paterson new jersey the complainants name is gottfried deutschle the defendants name is wolf hirsch cli the charge ia is blaspheming the name of jesus christ tho the new york sian of the of june has the following account of the subject gottfried deutschle testified that on the second tuesday in february the defendant blasphemed the name of christ in liis his deutschley Deutsch Deutsc lileo lea store in newark the witness described describe d the blasphemy aa as a EL reflection on christs paternity he ile said that there was a voice within him that told him aa as a good catholic lie ought not to allow the name of Jesus Christ to be abused and ho lie would not stand by as aalthe the jews did of old and hear christ and liia his mother blasphemed he Ile thought thou it his duty to bring thia this irreverent jew to punishment ho lie felt sure that as of old the jews would persecute him for this but even the fear fedr of that was overcome ie by the voice within him calling upon him to do hia bis duty had come into liia lils store and remarked on the num h a W wl millie blasphemy complained of F from rom the following we learn the character of the accuser which turns out to be of the same stripe as those who bore false witness against joseph smith and the mor wor mons and which culminated in the murder of hundreds of men women and children whose blood was spilt for the truths sake on cross examination deutschle admitted that he was once convicted of murder in the old country but added that he was was innocent and had been made to suffer for another r mans crime he ile bad had been in prison for some time before he came to this country his wife corroborated deutschley les testimony against but when she came to be cross examined ahe said she had asked defendant for credit for a quantity of furnishing goods and was refused this was after she had been so lao much shocked at hearing him use such language in relation to the tile savior she further stated that she did not know her husband was intending to bring the charge against the jew before the court several witnesses testified that mrs deutschle had told them that she did not hear the obnoxious language used at all it was also testified that the complainant had made numerous inquiries as to the wealth of the defendant the defendant himself testified that he had such a great regard for christ aa as a moral teacher that it would be impossible for him to use the language imputed to him he thought the accusation was made against him because lie refused deutschle any further credit for goods the latter having tried to defraud him out of a previous bill the trial resulted in the complete vindication of the hebrew samuel bansen in summing up for the defense said that the jewish people had great respect for jesus christ and that the jews felt nattered flat that one of their race should be venerated by the entire christian world the jury after being out only a few minutes returned with a verdict of not guilty |