This day occupies pages 361 through 402 of Volume I of the
transcript.
Today harness maker Gorbatko shows that the shvaiki
found on Yurkovsky Hill August 25, were obtained
from the harness maker Berko Gulko, who left them at the factory in April, during a search by Krasovsky, Polishchuk
and Rapota conducted on August 18 at the stables to which Mrs. Beilis had
moved, four months after Berko Gulko left the Zaitsev factory for good. Krasovsky will testify that he showed them to the doctors who performed the autopsy and who gave him important information. They were not, however, the murder weapons.
On this day 11-year-old Nikolay Zarutsky helps demolish the prosecution case. At first he seems to uphold the prosecution theory that the kids including Andrey rode the pugger the week before Andrey’s body was found. A few statements later, he says it was the week before Andrey moved to Slobodka. Then Nikolay affirms that they only rode the pugger while the fence was broken. When Nikolay tells, minutes later, about Vera trying to get him to change his testimony, the prosecution theory and anything the Cheberyaks said becomes road kill.
Today the rest of the government’s story, retailed by Lyuda
Cheberyak on day 8, crashes and burns for two reasons. One is that two witnesses, non-Jews, show
that the Cheberyak children would not have gone to Beilis for milk in 1911
because he didn’t have a cow. Another is
that people in Lukyanovka believe that Vera murdered Andrey and rolled his body
up in a carpet. This supports the drunken
gossip of Kirill Antonov, told second hand a few days ago, that she kept it in
her apartment for three days. By the end
of day 16, this urban legend will be dead, but the idea of Vera as the
murderess will have substantially more support.
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
Page
|
||||
Witness
|
Notes
|
Transcript
|
Translation
|
Statement
|
M. and E. Kalinovskaya
|
Little girls from Slobodka
|
361
|
824
|
1
|
Stepan Kalinovsky
|
Andrey’s friend in Slobodka
|
361
|
824
|
15
|
Petrenko
|
Knew Andrey growing up
In Lukyanovka
|
361
|
825
|
63
|
M. Nakonechnaya
|
Mikhail Nakonechny’s wife
Supports daughter’s timing on playing at the factory
|
362
|
828
|
131
|
Nazary Zarutsky
|
Lives on Zakharchenko property. Supports actual timing of play at factory
Tells about Vera’s perjury attempt
|
363
|
830
|
199
|
Kucheryavy
|
In prison with Beilis
Discredits Kozachenko’s letter
|
368
|
843
|
490
|
Sinyaev
|
Reports Kozachenko was at stable fire at Zaitsev’s
|
370
|
847
|
547
|
Olimpiada Nezhinskaya
|
Andrey’s grandmother
Recalled about Shneerson
|
373
|
855
|
737
|
Faivel Shneerson
|
Recalled in attempt to prove contact with Andrey
|
374
|
857
|
779
|
Andrey Melnik
|
Supposed to testify about Beilis’ letter to his wife
|
376
|
861
|
859
|
Vera Cheberyak &
Viktor Ordynsky
|
Confrontation and bickering
|
376
|
862
|
920
|
Voitenko
|
Called about brick-hauling
|
380
|
872
|
1127
|
Gorbatko
|
Called about Berko Gulko’s shvaiki
|
381
|
875
|
1233
|
Chernyavsky
|
Testifies to rumors Vera killed Andrey
|
383
|
880
|
1363
|
Maxim Vorobev
|
Zaitsev worker put up the fence; testifies to receipts
|
384
|
883
|
1442
|
Sinyaev
|
Testifies about harness repair
|
387
|
889
|
1599
|
Dudman
|
Testifies about Kozachenko and his own synagogue
affiliation
|
387
|
889
|
1622
|
Zhuk
|
Co-congregationalist with Dudman; questioned about
Chassidism
|
390
|
896
|
1770
|
Chaim Dubovik
|
Zaitsev factory manager
Testifies about operations, receipts
|
392
|
899
|
1839
|
Kolbasov
|
Luka Prikhodko’s boss, deceased; testifies by deposition
|
398
|
915
|
2187
|
Vasilevsky
|
Co-worker of Luka, testifies by deposition
|
399
|
918
|
2200
|
Vasilevich
|
Lived on Zakharchenko property; spinner of slanderous
rumors
|
400
|
919
|
2208
|
No comments:
Post a Comment