OLDSMOBILES FOR LESS ignorance of the czarist- backed accusers. The ex- posures of the accusing legal staff who acted under czarist orders are interesting. It is worth noting at this point how the verdict of the jury was received upon the con- clusion of the trial: , \- •T \/= > As the jury retired to con- sider the verdict, the mood among Beilis' defenders was gloomy. The presiding judge's summation — glar- ingly prejudicial to Beilis — deepened their dismay. At 20 minutes to six, the foreman entered with un- usual solemnity, holding in his hand the text of two questions. He read out the first question: Has it been proved that on March 12, 1911, in one of the buildings of the Zaitsev brick factory . . . Andrey Yushchinsky was gagged, and wounds inflicted on him . . . and that when he had lost five glasses of blood, other wounds were inflicted on him . . . and that these wounds totaling 47 caused Yushchinsky agonizing pain and led to almost total loss of blood and to his death? Jury Foreman: Yes, it has been proved. Is the accused, Mendel Teviev Beilis, guilty of hav- ing entered into collusion with others, who have not been discovered in the in- vestigation in a premedi- tated plan prompted by religious fanaticism to murder the boy Andrey Yushchinsky, and did the accused in order to carry out his intentions, seize Yushchinsky . . . and drag him off to one of the buildings of the brick factory? Jury Foreman: No. Not guilty. The silence which envel- oped the public during the reading of the questions was shattered by prolong- ed cheers and applause when the verdict was announced. A requiem mass for Yushchinsky planned by the Union of the Russian People to coincide with the announcement of the ver- dict was called off. Crest- fallen, the anti-Semitic rab- ble dispersed silently. While Shcheglovitov and his cohorts suffered a crushing debacle, they soon recovered to claim victory. They rationalized that while Beilis was declared innocent of the crime, the religiously moti- vated ritual-murder accu- sation was not demolished by the verdict. The condemnations of the blood libel and the resorting to it as a worldwide legacy from the Russian- manufactured anti- Semitism was so widespread that it merits a special vol- ume of its own. The leading American and British newspapers and periodicals damned the stupidities. The czarist in- violvements were not ig- nored. Especially significant is the revealtion of the manner in which Czar Nicholas II was encouraging and honoring the pros- ecutors of Mr. Beilis. The czar selected his tools, judge, prosecutors and jurors. Ezekiel Leikin names them and the manner in which Czar Nicholas showered honors on them. The con- demnations of the schemes are in the following: Moreover, the govern- ment supporters in St. Petersburg threw a "vic- tory party," at which Minis- ter of Justice Shcheglovi- tov and prosecutor Vipper were the guests of honor. Zamislovski was rewarded with a gift of 25,000 rubles to write a book about the trial, and Boldyrev, the presiding judge, was pro- moted, as promised, and in addition received a gold watch from the czar. A large number of news- papers and academic jour- nals were confiscated for denouncing the spurious- ness of the trial. The liberal press had claimed from the very beginning that czarist officialdom knew all along who the murderers of the boy Yushchinsky were, and that the real culprits were being shielded from prosecution in order to "prove" the validity of the blood-libel accusation. 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