This day occupies pages 650 through 696 of Volume I of the
transcript.
Today we hear from Makhalin about “the ministerial head” of
Rudzinsky. Krasovsky seemed to think it
had to do with his intelligence and that it was why Andrey was stabbed so many
times. Makhalin seems to think there
were lots of ways of getting rid of Andrey’s body, such as burning it up, but
Rudzinsky was the one who decided on planting it so that people would think the
Jews murdered him. So this was not a
compliment, rather it relates to the ministerial foulups of a bureaucracy,
including doing exactly what most risks ruin to a project.
Makhalin also heard first-hand when Pyotr Singaevsky
confessed that he, Rudzinsky and Latyshev were involved in the murder, although
Latyshev was no good at “wet work” and threw up.
Toward the start of the day Zamyslovsky makes a remark which
shows that all the witnesses were in the courtroom at the same time, until the
judge released them with the agreement of the parties. For example, a number of days ago the
Prikhodko clan was released, and today they have to telephone to the police
station there and get somebody to bring Aleksandra back to testify about the
pillowcases.
Today’s significance is that Ekaterina and Ksenya Dyakon
heard each other’s testimony. Yesterday
when questioned about what she told the investigator about her sister’s
activities, Ksenya said “I didn’t answer for my sister, I answered for me.”
Today Zamyslovsky asks her if she heard what her sister
testified to and she says yes.
So two witnesses to the same set of facts got to hear what
the other said. The one scheduled to
testify later was now under pressure to change her testimony to coordinate with
what the earlier witness said, depending on how badly the earlier witness was
treated on the stand. What’s more, the
calling back of Aleksandra shows that witnesses were retained in the courtroom
in case later testimony made it important to re-question them. So they had the chance in the
re-appearance to say what they thought the attorneys or judge wanted to hear.
It all depended on how seriously they took their oath to
tell the truth, and we know that some witnesses didn’t care about the
oath.
When you put this together with the power that investigators
had to leave things out of depositions, it makes nonsense out of challenging
in-court testimony compared to the depositions.
There’s also evidence of forged depositions or parts of depositions,
which may create situations when the in-court testimony doesn’t match the
deposition.
I want you to notice that the prosecution takes it upon
themselves to criticize Makhalin for “betraying” Singaevsky the criminal. In any other case, the prosecution would
reward somebody who gave up somebody who committed a crime. They were going to reward Vasily Cheberyak
for giving Beilis up to the law, when it was Vasily’s wife who committed the
crime.
Not only that but Zamyslovsky was contemptuous of the
non-crime for which Makhalin was jailed, at the very moment when Zamyslovsky
was doing all he could to please the Tsar by convicting Beilis of ritual
murder, a non-crime which had been removed from the statute books in 1906. This is a situation I call “the right half of
the brain is not talking to the left half of the brain.” Words are coming out of people’s mouths
without ever being analyzed through the logic center of the brain. It’s worse than hypocrisy, it’s mindless
verbalizing of a set of phrases that are supposed to mean something, but which
the situation contradicts.
When Zamyslovsky pounds Makhalin about who the shmari were
that Singaevsky referred to, it shows that the prosecution believed that Adele
and Ekaterina both were in Vera’s house on March 12. The only significance of those visits is that
Vera had to cover things up if Andrey was murdered in the morning as the
government theory states. In her
apartment. In other words the
prosecution tacitly accepts that Vera was involved in the murder, and over the
next three days more evidence will come out that they don’t really believe the
government theory they’re trying to defend, not even Vipper who came in without
any of the backstory.
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 "I could hear everything"
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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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Ksenya Afanasievna Dyakon
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Vera’s friend, identified her pillow and the murderers
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650
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1461
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14
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Ekaterina Afanasievna Dyakon
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More about the “papers with punctures”
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655
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1470
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189
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Gaevskaya
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Vera’s friend/servant
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656
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1472
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251
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Chernyakova
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Vera’s former friend
Testifies about the sleepover
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658
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1475
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303
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Sergey Makhalin
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Testifies to Singaevsky’s confession of murdering
Andrey at Vera’s
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666
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1493
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731
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Evgeniya Voloshchenko
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Lyuda’s little friend,
Tells the true “chase” story
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694
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1548
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1569
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Sofia Voloshcheenko
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Lyuda’s little friend
Too young to tell the story
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695
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1551
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1611
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Timofey Ignatyuk-Maistrenko
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Cab driver, father of Andrey’s friend Andrey Maistrenko
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695
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1552
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1648
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