This is the summary of the 6th day of the Mendel Beilis
trial, which occurred on 30 September, 1913 on the Julian calendar, 13 October,
1913 on the Gregorian calendar.
This day occupies pages 200 through 218 of Volume I of the
transcript.
See the transcript translation for the sixth day. There is a map of the Zaitsev grounds and surroundings at the end.
Today and tomorrow Judge Boldyrev will commit a strategic
error that will come back to bite him on day 19.
Today the Black Hundreds member Golubev will further
discredit himself with bragging and falsehoods.
He will also argue with Fenenko’s official site survey, which is
illegal. But Boldyrev lets him
babble.
Why? Because Golubev
and Zamyslovsky are close allies, and Zamyslovsky is a powerful member of the
national Duma. The alliance is
demonstrated when Golubev contradicts himself, and in spite of that Zamyslovsky
will claim that his evidence is more reliable than Fenenko’s official site
survey.
But wait a minute – aren’t Zamyslovsky and Fenenko part of
the same government? Well, not
really. The prosecution has a task, at
this trial, of smearing every official who was in Kiev during the investigation,
but did not adopt the ritual murder theory, and Fenenko is one of them. Zamyslovsky began publishing on ritual murder
in May 1911, published a pamphlet on the 1853 Saratov blood libel case directly
connecting that to Andrey’s murder in August, 1911, and has been getting
under-the-table data feeds from Lyadov, vice-director of the police, to prepare
him for this trial.
About April 14, 1911, Golubev was awarded a meeting with
Lyadov, to try and prevent any pogroms ahead of a projected visit by the Tsar
to Kiev at the end of August and start of September, 1911; it was Lyadov’s
department that would have to clean up after a pogrom. Golubev agreed to quiet things down, showing
his influence.
In return, Golubev pointed Lyadov toward “Mendel,” a Jew who
worked at the Zaitsev factory, as sacrificial victim to the Black Hundreds in
Andrey’s murder. Lyadov told Kiev
Regional Prosecutor Chaplinsky, protégé of the Minister of Justice. Both of them reported this to the minister,
Shcheglovitov; a copy of Chaplinsky’s letter was found in the Tsarist archives
docketed with the remark that the minister had read it to the Tsar on May 18,
1911. Mendel Beilis was tried for
Andrey’s murder because of Golubev, not because of the evidence.
But Boldyrev should never let Golubev speak on this subject,
because without material proof that Golubev does not have, an official report
cannot be criticized or contradicted.
After reading Fenenko’s site survey, the entire court tours
the sites. The people there cheer for
Beilis.
Shmakov remarks that there is a direct line from the grotto
to the factory. There may be a crow’s
flight line, but there were three properties in between, all but one of them
with a fence. All of these fences were
repaired in spring 1911 but the report, done 6 weeks after the murder, doesn’t
say when or where. The holes in the
fences may not have lined up. The report
discusses ravines and hillocks and clumps of bushes and trees; if Beilis had
murdered Andrey on the factory grounds, he would have to drag the body not only
up and down the hills but also laterally to find the next hole.
In fact when you look at the map you will see that, as
Karabchevsky replied to Shmakov, the direct line of sight from the grotto to
the house where Vera lived was indeed shorter than to Beilis’ house inside the
Zaitsev factory fence, especially when to you take into account the holes in
the Zakharchenko property fence onto Nagornaya and the beaten dirt path leading
from that fence to Vera’s apartment that Malitskaya testifies about later.
Judge: Fyodor Boldyrev
Prosecution:
Criminal
Prosecutor, Oscar Vipper
Civil
Prosecutor Georgy Zamyslovsky
Private
Civil Prosecutor Aleksey Shmakov
Defense:
Oscar
Gruzenberg
Nikolay Karabchevsky
Dmitry Grigorevich-Barsky
Alexandr Zarudny
Vasily Maklakov
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Witness
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Notes
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Transcript
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Translation
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Statement
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Golubev
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Student, Black Hundreds leader
Fingered Beilis as Andrey’s murderer
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