This day occupies pages 219 through 237 of Volume I of the
transcript.
Today the defense carries on where Vipper stupidly left off
on day 6, pursuing the relationship between Nikolay Andreevich Pavlovich and
the flyers distributed at Andrey’s funeral.
When Prokofy Yashchenko brought this up on day 5, the judge and
prosecution shut it down on the pretense that it wasn’t in the indictment. It wasn’t in the indictment because it
betrayed that ritual murder was part of the case from the beginning, even
before Golubev suggested to the authorities that they go after Beilis. Because Vipper brought it up yesterday, the
defense can address it today. This helps
prove that Beilis was never suspected of the murder, he was a victim of rumor
used to get the Black Hundreds their Jewish victim.
The deposition of Ivan Petrovich Kozachenko is read out in court. The government has helped him avoid testifying because it knows the defense would rip him to shreds on the stand and expose that he forged a letter over Beilis’ signature. Arsenicheslav Alexandrovich Pukhalsky also testifies only by deposition because he could discredit the letter, having written the actual letter that Beilis signed. Two prison officials manage to expose between them that the whole thing was a setup. On day 19, Lt. Col. Ivanov of the secret police will testify that Kozachenko was a police agent and the same information came out after the Beilis trial when Kozachenko was on trial for slander. The real letter from Beilis to his wife, after being read in court today, disappeared forever as far as I know. Mr. Jay Beilis did not know the text of it and did not say he had a copy of the Russian or Yiddish original, when I emailed a translation to him.
But it’s Boldyrev’s fault that the jail officials have the opportunity to reveal the forgery; he asks two questions which both reveal that the second letter was a forgery never meant to be delivered.
Gulko’s testimony proves that the things that detective
Mishchuk found on Yurkovsky Hill on August 25 were planted. He left his shvaiki behind at the end
of April and they were confiscated by Krasovsky on August 18 and given to
Fenenko. From Fenenko they got to people
who planted them with suspenders and pants that did not belong to Andrey. This was an excuse for cashiering Mishchuk, who
did not support Beilis’ guilt, and Girs helped him avoid testifying at
trial. The next part of this story will
be told on day 9. For now, understand
that a Jew who takes off work for Shabbat has no reason not to know who are
Mordechai, Esther and Haman because the book of Esther is read at night on
Purim and Gulko could go to work the next day if he was under pressure to be at
work. If he participated in the
Ashkenazic custom of getting drunk, and was hungover the next day, he would be
no different from other workers in Russia.
Also notice that Dubovik says Jews did not get Saturday off. That contradicts Gulko but shows why Beilis
had to work on Saturdays, like March 12.
I don’t believe Gulko was Jewish; his last name has a –ko ending typical
of Ukrainians (Prikhodko, Yashchenko, Gorbatko, Pashchenko, etc.).
Volkivna recants ever being on Kirillovskaya Street, from which, according to Mrs. Shakhovskaya, she said she saw a man with a black beard dragging Andrey. The problem is that Kirillovskaya is downhill from the kiln into which Andrey supposedly was thrown, and there are hangars between the Kirillovskaya gates and that kiln. She also couldn’t have seen this from the gates on Upper Yurkovskaya Street. In both cases she would have to go in through the gates and arrive at the kiln just in time to see Beilis dragging a kicking, screaming, 14 year old boy to it.
There’s a funny digression after Shneerson’s testimony. Apparently bar-keeper Aleksandr Dobzhansky
and two buddies were out on the Berner property tossing back a few and Golubev
and a friend of his walked up, and they got into it and said all kinds of
senseless things to each other. But one
thing was not so senseless; a claim that Andrey was murdered at Cheberyaks’ --
and the Cheberyaks are on deck to testify the day after this!
One of the issues in Shneerson’s testimony is the
excruciating effect of the Jewish Pale of Settlement. Here is a man who shed his blood for the empire,
and he is supposed to have the right of residence -- which Christians don’t
have to worry about -- in Kiev, but he has to roam around outside the city
proper, in Slobodka, because the government mucks around with his papers just
to torture him. And now he is taunted on
the stand because he tried not to violate the law, despite being pushed around
by the government.
Another example is the constant confusion of the term
“Beilis’ apartment” with some rooms at the stables. Beilis had the right of residence at the
house near Upper Yurkovskaya. When he
was arrested, his wife and their five children had to pack up their things and
move. The Zaitsevs let them go to these
rooms and live there, about 90 meters from their previous home. Then in October 1911 when somebody set the
stables on fire, the government tried to blame it on Mrs. Beilis.
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
To Day 8, "Vera"
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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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Black-Hundreds member
Called back to testify about Nikolay Pavlovich and flyers
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219
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467
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7
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Anna “Volkivna” Zakharova
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Recanted falsified testimony pointing at Beilis
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222
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473
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85
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Merder
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Grandstands about stopping building at the hospice which
was complete before he got involved
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223
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476
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176
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Autonom, Archimandrite
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Shmakov tries to sneak him in to give expert testimony
Boldyrev shuts him down
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227
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485
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301
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Panchuk
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Zaitsev janitor
Confirms Beilis would have been caught if he did it
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231
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501
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399
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Berko Gulko
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“harness maker” who left shvaiki where Krasovsky
could confiscate them for planting on Yurkovsky Hill
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237
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516
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723
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Bykhovets
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Zaitsev groom
Questioned about availability of horses and stable fire
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243
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532
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1111
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Emelyantsev
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Zaitsev groom
Questioned about fire
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246
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540
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1328
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Maxim Alekseev
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Zaitsev carpenter
Put up fence in 1910
Lived in basement apartment
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247
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543
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1414
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Zaslavsky
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Zaitsev resident
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249
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546
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1459
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Faivel “Pavel” Shneerson
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Registered at Zaitsev factory, not resident, not related
to Lubavitcher rebbe
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251
261
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553
580
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1628
2252
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Aleksandr Dobzhansky
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Back to explain about Antonov’s “Andrey rolled up in
carpet at Vera’s 3 days”
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256
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567
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1990
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Mordko Dubovik
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Brother of Zaitsev manager
Testifies to Beilis working on Saturday, etc.
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258
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560
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2073
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Barukh Zaitsev
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Testifies about Ettinger and Landau, hospice
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261
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569
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2263
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Ivan Kozachenko
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Police agent, forged letter over Beilis’ signature about
poisoning; by deposition
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264
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578
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2425
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Arsenicheslav Pukhalsky
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By deposition; reveals forged signature
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268
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595
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2488
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Krupsky
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Helps prove letter forgery
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269
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597
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2503
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Omelyansky
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Prison warden; helped with letter forgery
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270
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600
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2576
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