Two young peasants were under arrest today for the murder of Ernst Blumenfeld, Talmud scholar and peddler of Hebrew books. Blumenfeld had mistakenly knocked at the door of a non-Jewish home in the village of Vaja, in Szabolcz district, when he was slain. He is survived by his widow and six children.
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