Wednesday, October 16, 2013

Mendel Beilis -- Picking up the Pieces

This is the summary of the 9th day of the Mendel Beilis trial, which occurred on 3 October, 1913 on the Julian calendar, 16 October, 1913 on the Gregorian calendar.

This day occupies pages 321 through 359 of Volume I of the transcript.


See the transcript translation for the ninth day. 
 
 
After confirmation that the pants “belonging to Andrey” were planted by the government on Yurkovsky Hill – which nobody has admitted yet – the court goes back and finishes destroying Vasily Cheberyak’s testimony.

Yesterday he claimed that Zhenya told him two rabbis were involved in grabbing Andrey.  Vasily further claimed that Zhenya said it after Vasily gave both of his depositions.  But both of Vasily’s depositions date after Zhenya’s death, and neither one says anything about rabbis.  Not only has Lyuda’s story been discredited by a couple of dozen adults, Vasily has discredited his own story.

Lyuda’s story was invented by the government in July 1912.  Vasily’s story without the rabbis may represent an earlier story the government invented in 1911 for its judicial murder of Beilis, and he may have originally been chosen to tell it as a father of a family and low-ranking government official; he worked for the postal/telegraph department. 

He also tells the story of Shneerson chasing Zhenya -- all three Cheberyaks tell this, and all three know that the key word sutulovaty refers to Shneerson.  During a past job, I learned that consistent usage of unusual words like this tends to mark information made up by a source and propagated through communication channels.  The same term comes up in testimony by Galkin who claimed to be a founder of the Black Hundreds organization “Two-Headed Eagle.”  The story about the sutolovaty Jew was invented to show that all these Jews in this area were chasing down Christian boys.  It’s not a good story, however, because it “happened” in summer, and that does not coordinate with the Passover element of the blood libel.  So it was kept in the prosecution plans, but the “rabbis” version was the one emphasized at trial.  And ripped to shreds by the defense and their unwitting allies, the ordinary employees and day laborers from the Zaitsev factory.

Today Miller, an ordinary employee of Zaitsev, proves that there was no team of Ettinger and Landau involved in Andrey’s murder.  The Ettinger who was registered at the Zaitsev factory left the country January 27, 1911.  This means not only was he not around for Andrey’s murder, he was not around when the foundation was cleared and laid for the hospice.  Vipper gets upset and drops the whole subject.

In the latter part of today’s testimony, Zamyslovsky tries to get the court to accept Golubev’s self-contradictory testimony as correct and an official report as wrong.  The judge reminds him that official records cannot be questioned without material evidence of inaccuracy, which Golubev’s testimony doesn’t represent.  But he wouldn’t have to do that if he had not made a strategic mistake on day 6 by letting Golubev babble about this.  See also day 19.

Zamyslovsky misrepresents the contents of the official report in his argument.  He testifies that there was only one fence to carry the corpse through when the site survey only three days earlier showed otherwise. 

Zamyslovsky is hand-in-glove with Golubev’s Black Hundreds organization and of one mind with them in supporting the ritual murder charge.  It’s the only charge the government really hopes to win with.  The evidence is stacking up that the charges against Beilis are false and Zamyslovsky realizes without a Jewish murderer, ritual murder has to fall to the ground.  He has staked his future career on winning this case and he is desperate.

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 10, "The Murder Weapons?"

 
 
Page
 
Witness
Notes
Transcript
Translation
Statement
Moskalyukova
Andrey’s school seamstress
Testifies that pants are forged evidence
322
729
25
Pravdivy
Andrey’s school tailor
Testifies that pants are forged evidence
322
730
56
Evgeny Mishchuk
Kiev Chief of Detectives
Testified only by deposition
323
 
733
98
Vasily Cheberyak
Returns and falsifies his own testimony
327
740
152
Father Sinkevich
Black Hundreds leader
Gave Zhenya last rites
332
754
415
Galkin
Black Hundreds leader
Testifies to gossip and nonsense
336
762
565
Vera Cheberyak
More lies
339
769
693
Rozmitalsky
Black Hundreds member
Testifies to nonsense and gossip
342
779
894
Miller
Zaitsev employee
Arranged registration and other papers for Ettinger and Landau
346
788
1031
Poznyakov
Black Hundreds member
Testified to nonsense and gossip
347
792
1138
Aleksandr Dobzhansky
Brought back to respond to Poznyakov’s nonsense
349
797
1215
Pashchenko
Black Hundreds member
Testifies to nonsense and gossip
351
801
1295
Golubev
Brought back to support Pashchenko on fences
351
802
1324
Fenenko
Official record of fence investigation
353
807
1410
Podenkov
Zaitsev employee?
Testified about arson
357
814
1479
Samonov
Zaitsev employee
Testified about Beilis having no cow in 1911
358
817
1553
Tysovetsky
Zaitsev employee
Testified about fence
359
820
1648

 
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