This day occupies pages 1 through 44 of Volume II of
the transcript.
Now we hear Amzor Karaev’s deposition. The government has deliberately kept him in a
labor camp so that he cannot testify first-hand about Singaevsky’s confession
but, however, Makhalin’s testimony to first-hand knowledge about the confession
makes this useless. What’s more, having
kept him out of court, the government can’t cross-question him and rip him the
way they tried to rip Makhalin. This
would not have mattered if the case had gone the way the government wanted it
to, but the bulk of evidence for the last 12 days has tended to destroy the
government theory of the case and show that everybody who testified against
Beilis lied on the witness stand and in their depositions. So the prosecution had to present evidence
that supports the story about the confession, and can’t cross-question the
person who deposed to it.
Today the Malitskys come to the stand. Zinaida Malitskaya supposedly heard the murder take place -- but when? She told her husband it was in the morning, but that was in August, 1911 when he came home from his bee-keeping and buried his nose in the newspapers. In November, 1911, she tried to tell Fenenko that it was in the evening, and her husband was with her and made her change the story to agree with what she told him. The question is, when did the theory of a morning murder develop? Adele Ravich's story of the body rolled up in the carpet was urban legend. Vera's sister came over after Adele and never testified, so we don't know if she saw the carpet. Ekaterina (and, we now know, Ksenya) were in the house from noon to three. Singaevsky made Karaev think the murder happened after the Adamovich robbery. See Kirichenko's testimony tomorrow.
Vipper puts Balavin on the stand with a number of purposes
in mind. One is to support Vasily
Cheberyak’s contention that his children ate green pears and thus got
dysentery. The ones on the trees are not
green enough in August to cause dysentery.
Vipper tries to establish that the house on the Zakharchenko
property, like the Prikhodkos’ house, made it possible to hear everything and
so nobody could have been murdered there.
But on day 6 during the tour he tried to argue just the opposite.
Vipper tries to establish at the Zakharchenko property where
the Cheberyaks lived, what has already been proven at the Zaitsev property;
there were lots of people around who could hear what happened. The problems are two. One is that Beilis would have to be outside
to drag Andrey to the kiln, and that’s why all those people would have seen
him. The other is Vipper’s argument on
day 6 that nothing could be heard inside. Finally, he ignores the fact that the gag required for ritual murder, and represented by the bloody scrap in Andrey's jacket pocket, would have made it impossible for any sounds to be heard outside.
Vipper makes a point of bringing up the name of Nazar
Zarutsky, whom Vera tried to suborn to say he was at the pugger the day Andrey
was grabbed. If Nazar was probably in the
Zakharchenko court playing, he wasn’t on the Zaitsev property. This time it’s Vipper who is ruining Vera’s
credibility.
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
Transcript page
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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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Amzor Elmurzaevich Karaev
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Heard Pyotr Singaevsky confess to Andrey’s murder
Testified by deposition
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3
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1554
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3
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Makhalin
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Returns for more questioning
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9
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1566
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54
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Nikolay Aleksandrovich Krasovsky
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Returns for more questioning
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11
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1568
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127
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Aleksey Feofilaktov
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Letter to Karaev partly read in court
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15
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1584
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241
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Krakhmalyuk
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Very short testimony about Vera
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19
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1587
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279
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Balavin
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Neighbor of Vera
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19
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1587
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291
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Zinaida Malitskaya
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Origin of “morning murder” part of theory
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27
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1608
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749
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Malitsky
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Zinaida’s husband
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35
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1626
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1181
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Evgeny Kirichenko
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Krasovsky’s/Ivanov’s subordinate
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41
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1637
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1464
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© Patricia Jo Heil, 2013-2018
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